A little advice on my Titan Bayonet purchase?

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Titan Bayonet Overclocked Gaming PC - Intel Core i5 7600K @ 4.8GHz Kabylake

Case: NZXT Phantom 410 Enthusiast Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal
CPU: Intel Core i5-7600K 3.8GHz (Kaby Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM (Overclocked to 4.8GHz)
Graphics Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Edition 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card
Audio 7.1: High Definition Audio
Motherboard: Asus Prime Z270-K (Socket 1151) ATX Motherboard
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black
Primary Solid State Drive / Hard Drive: Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive
Storage Mechanical Hard Drive: Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM
Optical Drive: OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Power Supply: SuperFlower Leadex 550W 80+ Gold Rated PSU
Cooler: Alpenfohn Brocken 2 120mm Tower CPU Cooler
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM
WIFI: TP-Link 450Mbps Wireless N Dual Band PCI Express Adapter
Lighting: BitFenix Alchemy 2.0 Magnetic Connect 15 LED-Strip 30cm - Green

Order Total (Inc. Vat): £1,642.92

Forgive me if this is the wrong place to post this. But I was just looking for a little advice from the community. I wanted a good gaming rig that would last me a while without having to upgrade too much in the near future. I'm a tech novice, from what I have read, this seems to be the best system I could have gotten for the price and job I was looking for (without building the system myself). Anyway, the above pre-built system is the one that I have customised and purchased. But a friend has told me that I might have some trouble with it. Especially with over-heating? As he isn't too sure that I'd get enough power from the PSU and more importantly, adequate cooling? Apparently I should get some kind of liquid cooling? As I will be playing demanding games for long periods of time? Will the above customised system be fine as it is? Or was my more knowledgable friend right? My budget was £1,500, so I am already well over! And from what I can gather, Liquid cooling is quite pricey?

Is it a good system for gaming on as it is? Will it last me quite a good while without having to upgrade? Should I have gone with a better psu and cooling?

Many thanks in advance.
 
Your computer won't go near 550W, it is common for people to hugely overspec the PSU wattage but not necessary. There are reasons but running properly isn't one of them.

Liquid cooling could be an AIO which is much the same as a regular cpu cooler and since that build comes with a regular cooler it's not a great use of money. Could also be custom water cooling is extremely expensive and needs a good bit of time and fiddling.
 
You will no overheating issues and the PSU is a excellent unit, you be lucky to pull half of what the PSU can handle.
 
What resolution are you going to be gaming at ? The i5 is probably going to bottleneck that GTX 1080 if you are playing at 1080p res.

Have you considered a Ryzen build ? The R5 cpu's have just released so you should be able to get a 6 core R5 1600 for the same sort of price.
 
Webzta said:
Your friend is incorrect, the above is a very nice system that will be good for years to come.
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Thanks Webzta! That's great news! Exactly what I wanted to hear! :)

Hotwired said:
Your computer won't go near 550W, it is common for people to hugely overspec the PSU wattage but not necessary. There are reasons but running properly isn't one of them.

Liquid cooling could be an AIO which is much the same as a regular cpu cooler and since that build comes with a regular cooler it's not a great use of money. Could also be custom water cooling is extremely expensive and needs a good bit of time and fiddling.
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Thank you Hotwired! I am pretty dumb with these kind of things, but figured water cooling would be extremely expensive! Which is something I couldn't afford right now. I was just a little worried about over-heating things (especially the graphics card), and blowing them up! Glad to hear this won't be the case and that the psu will be ample!

RJC said:
You will no overheating issues and the PSU is a excellent unit, you be lucky to pull half of what the PSU can handle.
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Thanks RJC! Awesome stuff! That's a relief! :)

lee32uk said:
What resolution are you going to be gaming at ? The i5 is probably going to bottleneck that GTX 1080 if you are playing at 1080p res.

Have you considered a Ryzen build ? The R5 cpu's have just released so you should be able to get a 6 core R5 1600 for the same sort of price.
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Oh no Lee! Don't say that! The comments were all going well, now you have me worried again! Although, I am not 100% sure what "bottlenecking" is! (it really doesn't sound good though!) :P I bought the 'ASUS VG248QE' monitor and plan on playing at 144Ghz 1080p resolution. It's not very often I will be playing with graphic settings up full tho. A lot will be turned down as I will be playing a lot of fps games and prefer functionality and performance over looks of the game. I'm terrible at the games as it is, so anything that will give me an edge! :) Will the I5 definitely still bottleneck the GTX 1080 even though the cpu is overclocked to 4.8Ghz? I did consider the Ryzen build, maybe it's wrong, but I really wanted to go with Intel this time. Thank you for the advice!
 
If the cpu can't keep up with the gpu then that is bottlenecking. It also works the other way round of course i.e If you put a high end cpu with a low end gpu.

If you were gaming on a 4K monitor then it would be less of an issue as the gpu has to work harder at higher resolutions. I think a good compromise would be to go with an i7 7700K if you are sticking with Intel and switch the gpu to a GTX 1070 as it will easily handle 1080p and even 1440p if you ever decide to upgrade the monitor.
 
When you're moving down to an i5, a Ryzen build probably makes more sense. An 8 core 1700 Ryzen CPU is going to last you a lot longer than a quad core i5 for around the same amount of money.
 
I think some people are missing the point, OP has already purchased the system and it would make no sense to change the CPU / graphics now that he owns it.

Just enjoy the build and being able to throw everything at it without any issues for a while to come.

You've also got nice scope for when you buy a larger monitor :)
 
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Webzta said:
I think some people are missing the point, OP has already purchased the system and it would make no sense to change the CPU / graphics now that he owns it.

Just enjoy the build and being able to throw everything at it without any issues for a while to come.
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Yup I didn't notice that as I just looked at the thread title and assumed he was looking to buy the system.
 
Your friend sounds completely clueless, I would disregard anything further he says on this subject... :p

PC sounds good, great spec. If it does what you want it to do then don't worry, just enjoy it!
 
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