First build confused!

Skilzo · 4 Dec 2015 at 23:29

Hi I have been away from PC gaming and PCs really for about 10 years but since consoles are boring me now decided to get rid and build my first gaming PC. The bit I'm confused with is what I should get I have read a lot of people saying old off till next year and others saying just buy what you can so this is where I am confused I don't really have a budget in mind, what do I do buy one that will do me the now or go all out? Any help would be great thank you

FloppyPoppy · 4 Dec 2015 at 23:58

The "wait until next year" argument is mainly due to the upcoming Nvidia graphics cards. But you will find a lot of people who say wait until next year never upgrade because when next year comes they know something better will be available next year and wait again....

Build now don't look back enjoy what you get

Snookums · 5 Dec 2015 at 00:00

There will always be better tech "Just around the corner" so build now, if you a determined to stick to the curve try and buy futureproof. You say you don't have a budget but you can literally spend anything on a PC so let us know a budget and either myself or another lovely member can whack you together a nice spec

Skilzo · 5 Dec 2015 at 00:01

Been looking at the 980ti but there's that many now it's hard to pick one

Skilzo · 5 Dec 2015 at 00:02

I've got a budget of about £1500-2000 for the PC by itself

Snookums · 5 Dec 2015 at 00:05

So thats 1500-2000 for just the tower, no peripherals, no monitor, do you need windows?

MooMoo444 · 5 Dec 2015 at 00:05

Being away from PC's for 10 years, I guess you will need the whole shebang? Monitor(s), mouse, keyboard etc?

FloppyPoppy · 5 Dec 2015 at 00:07

Something like this will be perfect.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti Superclocked ACX 2.0+ 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (06G-P4-4993-KR)= £529.99

Total: £539.89
(includes shipping: £9.90)

I prefer EVGA for the warranty

Also one thing to note is that a SSD is a must have!

Bickaxe · 5 Dec 2015 at 00:10

Is the PC to be purely for gaming and Internetting?
Will you be photo editing, 3D modelling and other jigger pokery?
Do you want to watercool it with a custom loop?
Try you hand at overclocking?
1 monitor or 2? (or 3?)

Skilzo · 5 Dec 2015 at 00:29

Yeah will need everything but have a mouse, 500gb Samsung ssd, 1000w corsair psu and getting the keyboard as part of the Christmas so the monitor isn't really included in that price

Skilzo · 5 Dec 2015 at 00:30

I would like to do more than just gaming but that's where I'll be starting off

Snookums · 5 Dec 2015 at 00:31

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Full Tower Case - Black= £119.99
1 x XFX 1050W Black Edition Pro 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply - Black= £99.95
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (06G-P4-4995-KR= £539.99
1 x Asus Z170 Maximus VIII Hero - Skylake Core i7 6700K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£30 Saving**= £489.98
1 x Avexir Core Red Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (AVD4UZ124001608G-2CI= £89.99
1 x Noctua NH-D15 Dual Radiator Quiet CPU Cooler with two NH-A15 Fans= £77.99
1 x Samsung 1.0TB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E1T0B/EU)= £275.99

Total: £1,709.78
(includes shipping: £15.90)

Got about £300 left, if you need a monitor you can use that to grab one, if you don't need a monitor you can maybe grab the 5930k bundle instead.

The cooler is out of stock atm but it'll be back in no time I reckon.

Also if you don't have windows you'll have to source it. I'd recommend finding windows 7 or 8 else where and using the free upgrade to windows 10 instead of paying like £80 for it.

Skilzo · 5 Dec 2015 at 00:32

Bickaxe said:
Is the PC to be purely for gaming and Internetting?
Will you be photo editing, 3D modelling and other jigger pokery?
Do you want to watercool it with a custom loop?
Try you hand at overclocking?
1 monitor or 2? (or 3?)

I would like to do most of this my plan is to get one monitor the now then get another at some point

Snookums · 5 Dec 2015 at 00:34

Just seen the rest of the stuff you've got. Drop the PSU out the spec then and maybe swap the 1tb SSD for another 500gb if you need the storage. Then defo grab the 5930k bundle if you want to do more than game.

Seeing as you're better of getting the 5930k and want to do more than game I'd also recommend get a quad channel kit of RAM 32gb would be excessive really so get 4x4gb

Would you really want to watercool? You want an AIO or custom? If you want an AIO I'd recommend going air instead, a DH-15 is better and quieter.

lee32uk · 5 Dec 2015 at 04:44

Snookums said:
Just seen the rest of the stuff you've got. Drop the PSU out the spec then and maybe swap the 1tb SSD for another 500gb if you need the storage. Then defo grab the 5930k bundle if you want to do more than game.

Seeing as you're better of getting the 5930k and want to do more than game I'd also recommend get a quad channel kit of RAM 32gb would be excessive really so get 4x4gb

Would you really want to watercool? You want an AIO or custom? If you want an AIO I'd recommend going air instead, a DH-15 is better and quieter.

The 5930K isn't worth the extra money over the 5820K unless He plans on using 40 pci-e lanes.

FloppyPoppy · 5 Dec 2015 at 05:18

lee32uk said:
The 5930K isn't worth the extra money over the 5820K unless He plans on using 40 pci-e lanes.

^ this they are essentially identical in all other aspects so unless you going multi gpu - pci storage it's not needed. The next logical step would be a 5960x

Skilzo · 5 Dec 2015 at 09:51

At most just now I would run two gpus but would probably just leave that till next year and see what happens

Skilzo · 5 Dec 2015 at 16:25

Does it matter what 980ti I get? There's that many I'm not sure which one is best to go with

lee32uk · 5 Dec 2015 at 17:29

Skilzo said:
Does it matter what 980ti I get? There's that many I'm not sure which one is best to go with

The Zotac GTX 980 ti is a good card which comes with a 5 year warranty after you register it.

Here is an X99 build. You still have money left over for a good monitor.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Fractal Design Define R5 Midi Tower Case - Blackout Edition Window= £94.99
1 x Zotac GeForce GTX 980Ti AMP Edition 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-90503-10P)= £509.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Red 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM WD20EFRX= £74.99
1 x Gigabyte X99-SLI - Intel Core i7 5820K Six Core CPU & Motherboard Bundle ***£50 Saving***= £429.98
1 x Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M4A2400C1= £99.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H110i GT 280mm Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060019-WW)= £91.99

Total: £1,314.49
(includes shipping: £12.60)

Snookums · 5 Dec 2015 at 17:59

Skilzo said:
Does it matter what 980ti I get? There's that many I'm not sure which one is best to go with

It doesn't particlual matter, some have better stock coolers on them letting them run cooler, others have higher stock clocks, others have custom PCB's with a higher power phase allowing greater potential to overclock.

Personally I always stick with EVGA cards, they have an amazing customer service team and i believe a 3 year warranty.