£700 Gaming PC no peripherals

[Daaaveee]

Hi all,

Looking to sell my laptop, for which I would hope to get £600-700 (Asus ROG G750JZ) and build a gaming rig for my wife. We already have peripherals and an Acer Predator 1080p 144hz G Sync monitor for it, so I was looking at something like this, any thoughts/comments?


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 Mini 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £233.99
• 1 x Intel Core i5-6400 2.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £179.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Mini ITX Motherboard= £116.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 PC4-17000C14 2133MHz Single Channel Module - Black (HX421C14FB2= £32.99
• 1 x Kingston 240GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/2= £59.99
• 1 x Fractal Design Core 1000 & XFX 430W 80+ Bronze PSU Bundle= £47.99
• 1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler= £12.95

Total: £684.89
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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Anyone know if this motherboard is capable of BCLK overclocking non-k SKUs?

 

[sweols]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x 8Pack Approved - Intel Core i3 6100 @ 4.5GHz Overclocked Dual Core Gaming Bundle = £300.94
  • Memory:Kingston Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX426C15FBK2/8)
  • CPU Cooler:Alpenföhn Brocken 2 CPU Cooler
• 1 x Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (SHFS37A/240G)= £68.99
• 1 x Bitfenix Nova Midi Tower Case - Black= £25.99
• 1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £55.99
• 1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 OC 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £239.99

Total: £691.90
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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Z170 board, so if you want to upgrade to 6600k or 6700k later you can. You could do with a mechanical HDD

 

[Daaaveee]

Thanks for your reply. Not fussed about paying the premium for a bundle though so long as it is possible to DIY the BCLK OC? I'll do some digging about overclocking the 6400.

 

[Daaaveee]

Hmm reading up on it some more I should probably just stick to the 6600K and up my budget to £720

 

[sweols]

Excellent choice. Things to consider if you're on a tight budget. Make your life easier in future when upgrading.

Decent case with good airflow
Highly rated PSU preferably gold standard+. 450-550w is ample.
Decent motherboard with OC functionality.
CPU.

Might be worth investing in a slightly better case than I recommended, P400 from phantek is an excellent choice although it'll break your budget by about £35

 

[Daaaveee]

The case is likely to change once my wife has her input on that! It may also then dictate mobo choice so I'll post up another spec once she's had a look.

At least with another 6600K if I get a better chip than mine I can always swap and she won't know

 

[sweols]

What wife don't know won't hurt her! 6400 is still a very good chip and most likely more than ample for her needs. K just give you that extra few yrs..

 

[Daaaveee]

Yep her Q6600 has done well but its starting to struggle these days. From the naming a 6600K is the logical choice!

 

[lee32uk]

Yep her Q6600 has done well but its starting to struggle these days. From the naming a 6600K is the logical choice!

Yeah you are better going with the 'k' if you want to overclock. Intel have an update in the Gigabyte Bios (And other manufacturers) which disables overclocking, unless you stick with the initial bios release.


https://www.techpowerup.com/219923/...hich-cripples-overclocking-non-k-skylake-cpus

 

[ExoMale]

how in to gaming is your wife?

i know this is boys with their toys and i used to try get the best for my missus, but i have also learnt not spending over the odds or buying things that are more of interest to me than her .


the q6600 could probably be overclocked if you havent already and what is the rest of her current computer spec?

 

[Daaaveee]

Q6600 was overclocked to 3.2ghz but couldn't hack Overwatch alongside 7850. Rest of the computer is well past it really. The 7850 was fine in my rig so much have been CPU bottleneck.

She games as much as me, BF4, Overwatch, WoW, GTA V. It will be worth it I think

 

[Daaaveee]

Well we've blown the budget a bit but nevermind! She likes the slim case which will go nicely on the desk. Building inside it will be cramped but fun I hope

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Silverstone Raven RVZ02-W Mini-ITX HTPC Case- Black Window (SST-RVZ02B-W)= £84.95
• 1 x Intel Core i5-6600K 3.9GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM= £215.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Mini ITX Motherboard= £116.99
• 1 x Team Group Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TPKD48GM2400HC16DC0= £29.99
• 1 x MSI GeForce GTX 1060 GT OC 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £238.99
• 1 x Samsung 500GB 750 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive= £119.99
• 1 x Noctua NH-L9x65 Low Profile Performance CPU Cooler= £42.95
• 1 x Corsair SF Series 450W 80 Plus Gold Modular SFX Power Supply (CP-9020104-UK)= £82.99

Total: £932.84
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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Any thoughts? Not sure if 500gb SSD is a bit much but her current 256gb only has 10gb free with the games she plays so might be worthwhile and I can raid the old one with mine.

 

[Daaaveee]

Looks like the CPU cooler doesn't fit, plus overclocking on such a small cooler isn't going to go that well, might look at a non K chip and not Z170?

 

[sweols]

Hi m8,

Personally I use SSD for a few main games and operating system. 250gb is ample. The rest goes on a mechanical HDD. You won't see any improvements ingame fps wise, just loading times will be a lot faster.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Fractal Design Define S Midi Tower - Black= £73.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3 - Intel Core i5 6600K Bundle **£10 Saving**= £319.94
• 1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £55.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK8GX4M2B3000= £55.99
• 1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212X CPU Cooler= £28.99
• 1 x Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (SHFS37A/240G)= £68.99
• 1 x Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)= £42.95
• 1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 Mini 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £238.99

Total: £885.83
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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[Daaaveee]

Yeah I think you're right about the SSD, will stick to 250gb, save a bit of cash as the Raven case has blown the budget as well as a decent SFX PSU.

 

[sweols]

Tbh, i wouldn't even consider the raven.. Is there nothing else she likes?? Corsair is good... Evga/Superflower is great

 

[Daaaveee]

Tbh, i wouldn't even consider the raven.. Is there nothing else she likes?? Corsair is good... Evga/Superflower is great

Yeah its expensive and will compromise performance I think. I'll have a word

 

[JanxSpirit]

You could buy a fast 64GB SSD and use it to accelerate a big cheap 5400RPM spinner with Intel Rapid Storage Technology (Google is your friend). You get roughly 90% of the performance you'd get with just a large expensive SSD after it's run stuff the once to cache it.

IRST works brilliantly for the OS and games. I don't think she'd notice the difference apart from having oodles of storage space for sensible money.

 

[Daaaveee]

No finding any other cases that she likes that are small enough to go on the desk so looks like the build will look like this:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-6600K 3.9GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM= £215.99
• 1 x Team Group Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TPKD48GM2400HC16DC0= £29.99
• 1 x Samsung 250GB 750 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive= £65.99
• 1 x Palit GeForce GTX 1060 Dual 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £249.95
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Mini ITX Motherboard= £116.99
• 1 x Silverstone SFX-L V2.0 500W '80 Plus Gold' Fully Modular Power Supply= £80.99
• 1 x Silverstone Raven RVZ02 Mini-ITX HTPC Case - Black (SST-RVZ02B)= £79.99

Total: £839.89
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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+ a Zalman CNPS8900 which should allow a mild OC

 

[Daaaveee]

You could buy a fast 64GB SSD and use it to accelerate a big cheap 5400RPM spinner with Intel Rapid Storage Technology (Google is your friend). You get roughly 90% of the performance you'd get with just a large expensive SSD after it's run stuff the once to cache it.

IRST works brilliantly for the OS and games. I don't think she'd notice the difference apart from having oodles of storage space for sensible money.

Interesting I'll look in to that