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Hi folks,
Haven't built a PC in about 8/9 years, which was a Q6600 rig and served me very well, however I strayed into Mac territory for general computing and returned to consoles for gaming.
However I'm now ready to ditch that trend and come back to the fold. I have a 1440p monitor so I'm speccing for 60FPS gaming (hopefully much higher) at that resolution. Budget isn't an issue, I had up to £2,000 to build a rig, which would have been a 1080TI/7700K build, however that seems overkill for my needs and I doubt I'll move up to 4K/VR for years to come.
So I'm looking for the right balance between performance and value for money. I'm open to an i5 variant (not interested in AMD for CPU or GFX) and prefer good quality products to cheaper alternatives.
A few things I'm absolute on;
- Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX Mid Tower Case (£153.95)
- 2 x small SSDs (one for boot, one for games), + 1 HDD for general storage
- AIO cooling (NZXT X52/62 Kraken, or Corsair H100i V2
No Optical drive required, but will need a WIFI solution as I don't have direct ethernet access to my router.
Any suggestions welcome, cheers.
Haven't built a PC in about 8/9 years, which was a Q6600 rig and served me very well, however I strayed into Mac territory for general computing and returned to consoles for gaming.
However I'm now ready to ditch that trend and come back to the fold. I have a 1440p monitor so I'm speccing for 60FPS gaming (hopefully much higher) at that resolution. Budget isn't an issue, I had up to £2,000 to build a rig, which would have been a 1080TI/7700K build, however that seems overkill for my needs and I doubt I'll move up to 4K/VR for years to come.
So I'm looking for the right balance between performance and value for money. I'm open to an i5 variant (not interested in AMD for CPU or GFX) and prefer good quality products to cheaper alternatives.
A few things I'm absolute on;
- Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX Mid Tower Case (£153.95)
- 2 x small SSDs (one for boot, one for games), + 1 HDD for general storage
- AIO cooling (NZXT X52/62 Kraken, or Corsair H100i V2
No Optical drive required, but will need a WIFI solution as I don't have direct ethernet access to my router.
Any suggestions welcome, cheers.