Building my first custom PC (with a friend)

caszillah

caszillah

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Hi guys,

After using my current gaming PC for 6 years and only upgrading the graphics card, I am currently looking into building a gaming PC of my own with the help of a friend who has built several PCs before and knows what he is doing (unlike me).

We have made a list of components to get and I have picked a case I would like to use.
I was wondering if someone would perhaps know if the components named below would fit in the case mentioned below or that there would be a problem with that.

Case: Corsair - Carbide 400C ATX Mid Tower Case
CPU: Intel - Core i5 - 8600K 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Motherboard: ASUS - ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory: Kingston - HyperX Fury 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5'' Solid State Drive
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
OS: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit

Apart from this he also adviced me to get a CD Drive and a M.2 ssd but I am not sure what would be a good pick, so any advice on that would also be greatly appreciated.

If anyone would be able to help me out with my questions or has some general advice based on the components listed above, that would all be very much appreciated.

Thank you guys.
 
caszillah said:
Hi guys,

After using my current gaming PC for 6 years and only upgrading the graphics card, I am currently looking into building a gaming PC of my own with the help of a friend who has built several PCs before and knows what he is doing (unlike me).

We have made a list of components to get and I have picked a case I would like to use.
I was wondering if someone would perhaps know if the components named below would fit in the case mentioned below or that there would be a problem with that.

Case: Corsair - Carbide 400C ATX Mid Tower Case
CPU: Intel - Core i5 - 8600K 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Motherboard: ASUS - ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory: Kingston - HyperX Fury 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5'' Solid State Drive
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
OS: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit

Apart from this he also adviced me to get a CD Drive and a M.2 ssd but I am not sure what would be a good pick, so any advice on that would also be greatly appreciated.

If anyone would be able to help me out with my questions or has some general advice based on the components listed above, that would all be very much appreciated.

Thank you guys.
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whats your current GPU and budget along with screen resolution and hz ?

guessing your happy to stick with asus strix series ?
 
orbitalwalsh said:
slap a list away
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lol

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,060.52 (includes shipping: £12.60)​
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^^^ case tamz has picked out pretty much comes from OEM that makes the 400c but has HDD cage mounted solidly and cant be removed - which doesn't allow 360 aio or 140mm fans but is a damn good price for 4 rgb fans and a glass case!

just so you can get a free copy of FarCry 5


B CODE
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £943.54 (includes shipping: £11.70)​
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Hi Guys,

Thank you for all the suggestions.

First of all, I won't need a free copy of FarCry5 as I literally bought the game this week :P

Apart from that, current GPU is GeForce GTX 970 and I personally don't feel like that needs to be upgraded at this time.
Budget is between 1 and 1.2k, preferably not over 1.2k.
Current screen resolution is 1920 x 1200 and I am currently using a single monitor, although I am thinking of upgrading to two monitors in the future.

As for the OS license, I did not even know there is a possibility of transferring that! Wonder how you do that? The license on this one is originally windows 7 I believe which they upgraded to windows 10, I am not sure if that would be a problem for this either? I dont mind buying a new OS but obviously if it is not necessary I'd rather transfer the license ;).

I like tamz's build and getting a 8700k build instead would be great tbh, although I am not personally a big fan of the way the suggested case looks, wonder if there is any other ones that would work just as well?
 
caszillah said:
As for the OS license, I did not even know there is a possibility of transferring that! Wonder how you do that? The license on this one is originally windows 7 I believe which they upgraded to windows 10,
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https://www.howtogeek.com/226510/how-to-use-your-free-windows-10-license-after-changing-your-pc’s-hardware/ (newer way)
https://www.groovypost.com/howto/transfer-windows-10-license-new-pc/
if it is an OEM key, you could try cheekily calling them up and telling them you don't remember the licence key and you just changed motherboard and (most of the times) they'll give you a new win 10 licence key.

caszillah said:
Apart from that, current GPU is GeForce GTX 970 and I personally don't feel like that needs to be upgraded at this time.
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you are right. it's still very decent for 1080p (or in your case 1200p) gaming :)

caszillah said:
Budget is between 1 and 1.2k, preferably not over 1.2k.
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caszillah said:
I like tamz's build and getting a 8700k build instead would be great tbh
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well now, just look at my build above, less the windows licence and it's well below budget (with a 8700k too)! :p

caszillah said:
although I am not personally a big fan of the way the suggested case looks
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case is subjective thing, could tell us what you want from a case to point us in a general direction?
small/big
windowed side panel or no
silence over temps
or lots of fans
need bling bling or a black box?
 
Swap for the strong hold version, just the 400c with a glass window instead of door :)
Though 400c does allow 360 AIO which is recommended with 8700k of your overclocking.
If not , standard non K 8700... Still a beast of a chip! Boost to 4.3ghz on all 6 cores

Board tamz choose is just a Strix with different colour and a nice saving :) the core PCB is the same :)
 
Had a look at the strong hold version and that looks fine to me tbh, although I do like the bit of lights of the 400c :P
Wouldn't want the case to be too big, just need to make sure all the parts fit haha. The windowed side panel is nice and I'd like that. Apart from that not too loud and decent temps, but nothing extremely high end is needed I think.
Since I'd like to go for 8700k if thats possible which it seems it is, I think going with whatever is required for that would be the smartest idea.
 
caszillah said:
Had a look at the strong hold version and that looks fine to me tbh, although I do like the bit of lights of the 400c :p
Wouldn't want the case to be too big, just need to make sure all the parts fit haha. The windowed side panel is nice and I'd like that. Apart from that not too loud and decent temps, but nothing extremely high end is needed I think.
Since I'd like to go for 8700k if thats possible which it seems it is, I think going with whatever is required for that would be the smartest idea.
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Check out in win 303 white. Slap Eisbaer Lt 360 uptop
 
 
Quite like the Phanteks case, the in win 303 looks quite nice too but would prefer a black case to be honest (picky I know). Build mentioned above seems quite good to me, may need to add the OS on top of that if I cant get the license thing to work but even then it should still be well within budget to be honest.
 
caszillah said:
may need to add the OS on top of that if I cant get the license thing to work
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just call up MS support if you can't get it working. they're pretty helpful
on the off chance you definitely can't get it working, then get win 10 from somewhere else. ocuk are extremely uncompetitive with their windows pricing.
1/10 would not recommend getting windows 10 from ocuk
 
caszillah said:
Sounds like its worth a try!
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definitely. and speaking from experience too :)
i couldn't get windows to activate after changing motherboards and called up MS support.
didn't have my win 7 licence key to hand since its that old...they just ran through a few questions and gave me a new win 10 key
 
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