Building new PC in a month or 2.
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Looking forward to seeing the difference it can make to be honest. Get the feeling the stock fans really aren't able to suck much clean air in through the filtered front, the phanteks look to have really good pressure ratings (not necessarily as high as the industrials, but quieter than anything else that can reach it, which isn't much).
Update time, and why not 
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It's been doing me proud. I work in a small garden office, got a 5.1 speaker setup in there too.
Monitor is big enough to sit back on the small sofa and watch TV/Films on with the missus, and is very nice for work, allowing 2 browsers side by side and fitting plenty of info on both.
Doubt I've come close to really pushing the system, except perhaps gaming on the GPU. Just recently upgraded the GPU to a 1070ti, which gets closer to being able to max out the monitor in the witcher 3, still won't come close in more modern titles I suppose (and obviously not ray tracing!).
Small sense of satisfaction when looking over the advice I didn't take on reddit buildapc. Had someone recommend a z370 board and an intel 8600k, worse ram, and then just basically a better graphics card for another £100 on top of my budget. Yes, a 1070ti earlier would have been better for gaming, but a budget is sort of there for a reason. Funniest thing is that he said that by buying the bundle of the x370, I'd be buying an obselete chipset and that the 8600k can do everything I need, but likely better. Had another get a bit aggressive over that as well as I was deciding to stick with the 2700x bundle. Now I look at which of the 2 boards can still run the latest generation of chips, and it's not the intel, and it'd also be the 6C/6T chip that would need replacing soonest as games start to utilise more and more cores/threads effectively (already seeing that).
So a big thank you to you guys for pointing me in the right direction, that was actually more future proof.
.It's been doing me proud. I work in a small garden office, got a 5.1 speaker setup in there too.
Monitor is big enough to sit back on the small sofa and watch TV/Films on with the missus, and is very nice for work, allowing 2 browsers side by side and fitting plenty of info on both.
Doubt I've come close to really pushing the system, except perhaps gaming on the GPU. Just recently upgraded the GPU to a 1070ti, which gets closer to being able to max out the monitor in the witcher 3, still won't come close in more modern titles I suppose (and obviously not ray tracing!).
Small sense of satisfaction when looking over the advice I didn't take on reddit buildapc. Had someone recommend a z370 board and an intel 8600k, worse ram, and then just basically a better graphics card for another £100 on top of my budget. Yes, a 1070ti earlier would have been better for gaming, but a budget is sort of there for a reason. Funniest thing is that he said that by buying the bundle of the x370, I'd be buying an obselete chipset and that the 8600k can do everything I need, but likely better. Had another get a bit aggressive over that as well as I was deciding to stick with the 2700x bundle. Now I look at which of the 2 boards can still run the latest generation of chips, and it's not the intel, and it'd also be the 6C/6T chip that would need replacing soonest as games start to utilise more and more cores/threads effectively (already seeing that).
So a big thank you to you guys for pointing me in the right direction, that was actually more future proof
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