£700 Gaming PC no peripherals

Daaaveee

Daaaveee

Daaaveee

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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?


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Anyone know if this motherboard is capable of BCLK overclocking non-k SKUs?
 
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.
 
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 :D
 
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 :)
 
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 :)

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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.
 
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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?
 
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.
 
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:

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+ a Zalman CNPS8900 which should allow a mild OC :)
 
JanxSpirit said:
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.
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Interesting I'll look in to that :)
 
Daaaveee said:
Will have a better look at that Aerocool case, similar and a lot cheaper!
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Looks like the Aerocool CS101 only takes half height cards :(

I think I'll stick to the Raven to be honest, its expensive but I like the design. The Zalman CNPS8900 cooler is good for the size and so long as I don't crank the volts it will handle a decent OC on the 6600K. The 1060 is a pretty cool running card too and has quite a bit of ventilation up in the top by itself so it should be happy. The passive nature might suit better too with it being on the desk so more audible.
 
Thanks both for the help, much appreciated :)

Yes will swap the RAM out, to dual channel. I was thinking of a single 8gb to give an easy upgrade in the future but in reality its probably a compromise too far and I should just spend the little extra.
 
Pulled the budget back in a bit and swapped to this now:

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Total: £686.93
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Looking at benchmarks the i3 will be fine for her at 1080p. Should be a fun weekend building :)
 
Thanks for the input.

The performance drop from 6600K to 6100 is quite a bit, but considering the cost of the Z170 board too its also double the cost. Even the 6400 is getting on for double the price of the 6100.

I'm happy to compromise to the i3 considering the price to performance like shown on JanxSpirit's link. With the case being so limiting I may as well just forget over clocking as it won't be worth the hassle of noise and temps for the limited gain. 8gb ram might be a mistake but it shouldn't be too expensive to rectify if needed so will take the chance on that :)

Fingers crossed the build goes smoothly!
 
Had to go elsewhere for the PSU but happy with the choice as it is reviewed well.

If it were fully up to me I would have gone for the Fractal Core 1000 with decent PSU and spent the money on the 6600K and Z170 board but this build wasn't just about as much FPS as possible, sometimes form does dictate function. Just a shame the budget doesn't allow both!
 
Build complete and booted, just waiting on Windows now. Went together really nice, love the case too well built and thought out. Only issue to far is that one of the fans on the Palit 1060 sounds like its catching on something but its not, just like its grinding on something. Spins freely so must just be the fan motor or something inside, will keep an eye on it!
 
iJoe said:
Just had the same issue with a NZXT H440 I just assembled. Turned out to be a fan blade had a hairline crack where it meets the motor body. Took a while to figure out.
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Same Palit 1060? Any ideas what you will do about it? I'm going to try it out for a bit as I believe it has a zero fan mode for normal idle and browsing, so it shouldn't be a problem then. And during games I will have to test.
 
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