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Ok i am pretty new to this and have tried to put some things together for my build. I would like to play games and possibly get and OR for VR in the next month or so.

I have a keyboard, mouse and windows license but I do want a monitor added to this. I would like to keep it below £2000 if possible but could go a very small amount over if its a big difference. I wonder if some of you can go over what I have selected and let me know of different or better options

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Ok i am pretty new to this and have tried to put some things together for my build. I would like to play games and possibly get and OR for VR in the next month or so.

I have a keyboard, mouse and windows license but I do want a monitor added to this. I would like to keep it below £2000 if possible but could go a very small amount over if its a big difference. I wonder if some of you can go over what I have selected and let me know of different or better options

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Or alternatively, a slightly cheaper build:

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Case choice is quite subjective, but the two chosen are well reviewed. You could also think about a faster (NVMe) SSD, but these cost more £ per GB than conventional SATA.​
 
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I need to get a monitor in this bundle as well so not sure I can go up to those prices for a build
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If you wanted it to be definitely under 2k, swap the 1080 for a 1070ti (there isn't much performance difference if you overclock the 1070ti).

One of these:

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Thrown into the mix .
Aorus cards have VR ports on the card PCB, have you have a Front 5.3" bay can hook up a VR panel . Recommended it a few time on here. Case and cooler can be switched to suit your personal taste.
Aorus GTX 1080 11Gbps version can be found for £530 , cheaper then the above Aorus 1080 10Gbps. I have mine clocked with ram at 12Gbps, gtx 1070 ti can match these cards with 2.1ghz at the core and 12gbps at the ram


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Front vr panel in action . If you don't need to unplug and plug your headset , get cheaper card or even 1070ti as suggested

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/31120954/


Your Aorus Ti build was cracking , but now price has gone up :(
Save even more cash, i5 8400- handles 1440p + gaming and there's no bottlenecks . Boost to 3.8ghz across all cores .
Leaves the option to drop in i7 K in the future

Ryzen

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That Ryzen build looks interesting, I have to admit I haven't really looked at Ryzen as I don't know anything about them. How do they compare to the i5 and i7 CPU's
 

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Before coffee lake, was hands down Ryzen, cheaper and performed just under i7 in gaming and workstation loads smashed it.
Now with coffeelake it's close , well until pieces shot up. I5 8400 was £170 and could outperform Ryzen for gaming but now it's £220 + putting it way over Ryzen 1600, which is all you need.
Having those extra 2 cores makes a huge difference for Intel and is about time !
Ryzen will help you push gtx 1080 Ti which is just hands down the best GPU. Pair that with 5k Pimax vr headset.... Damn !
Could drop doing to Gigabyte Gaming 3 on sale for £86 which saves £80 and brings you into budget or 27" 1440p 144hz screen which would be the better choice over 24"
 

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I have been doing some research on monitors and while that one linked seems to be a very nice monitor i would like a slightly larger one at least 27" i think. I have been looking at cheaper options as I will be doing other things apart from playing games and i'm not sure if i really need the 166hz. I don't really play that much in the way of fast paced things like cod or battlefield, maybe a little overwatch but just for fun.

Would i be able to get away with a 60hz cheaper option VR is probably where I will spend a fair bit of my gaming time. I found this monitor

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if i got that monitor plus the build I linked in the first post that would be under the £2000 and seems like a pretty decent system
 

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That's sound logic wanting to spend the cash on VR rather then screen, that 1080ti will be quite powerful for 1440p 60hz . And I would still go AOC 32" freesync VA 75hz screen for £200 due to the screen panel and 75hz .

Would personally go 4k 60hz - non G-sync to save cash, Ti isn't quite 4k card but should run most games 40-50hz and least your not wasting that ti on 60hz 1440p, and bring you to just under £2000

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Have a read up on i7 8700k overclocked and see the heat out out .

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-coffee-lake-i7-8700k-cpu,5252-12.html

And that's using phased . Will be using dark rock TF in my itx build and still thinking that will be having fans blasting 100% if I don't Delid, that has same 220w ability as cooler you've selected .
Worth checking out what other owners are using and fairing with the i7 8700k overclocked .
About to try stock with a shadow rock slim 130w to see how the chip fairs haha
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ok i'm not that great with the technical stuff (trying to get better) I read through the article you linked. You think I will need better cooling than the fan i linked?
Should I look into water cooling, never really considered it as I always thought putting water into a computer seemed like a crazy idea.


Been checking out the overclocking page and seems some people are using the dark rock 3 with an 8700
 
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ok i'm not that great with the technical stuff (trying to get better) I read through the article you linked. You think I will need better cooling than the fan i linked?
Should I look into water cooling, never really considered it as I always thought putting water into a computer seemed like a crazy idea.


Been checking out the overclocking page and seems some people are using the dark rock 3 with an 8700
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Not not so much better cooler, as the main fault is Intel ! The heatspreader is aweful . If your going to push a high overclock, and you need more volts the chip will run hot regardless !
Try the cooler, but if you see your running hotter then you like, can move to a good AIO

Main cure is, Delid and redo the paste with liquid metal :(
 

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Just to get a sanity check and to make sure there are no issues this will be my build

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Just to get a sanity check and to make sure there are no issues this will be my build

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If you were sticking to be quiet! for looks/silence, get the Dark Rock Pro 3 instead of Dark Rock 3 - will give better temps and more overclocking headroom on the 8700k.

£62.99 really isn't a good price for a single tower air cooler; you can get different models for £20-£25 less that outperform the Dark Rock 3 in every way.


For monitors, there are 2 IPS 27in 4k monitors available for £349.99, these offer much better colour accuracy than the existing TN. Even if you don't game much, web-browsing, videos and images will look much better on these monitors.


You're also missing RAM in this build - do you already have some?


Finally, you could go for a 650w PSU instead - less % load on PSU means fan doesn't need to spin so fast = quieter system.
 
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Just to get a sanity check and to make sure there are no issues this will be my build

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Big one , the standard Gigabyte card doesn't have internal HDMI connectors . Only the Aorus version does

£30 more and does a lot better job, triple 100mm fans and much better heatsink design

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And this is why i wanted to check it over, cant believe i forgot the RAM, ok will have to go back to the drawing board because the ram will add another £200 or so, so I am going to have to lower some stuff down
 

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And this is why i wanted to check it over, cant believe i forgot the RAM, ok will have to go back to the drawing board because the ram will add another £200 or so, so I am going to have to lower some stuff down
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Might just be over still, i5 coffeelake is still some.sweious bit of kit !!!​
 

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I will take a look at the monitors and see if i can squeeze a little more for my budget.

Currently i am here

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No front panel VR connector, but you can just turn your PC around so the HDMI ports face the back.

The PSU is made by Seasonic, based on the Focus Plus:
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/what-kind-of-car-does-an-electrician-drive.18796188/

Could save a bit going for the cheaper Gigabyte 1080ti, but it doesn't look to have a backplate, so wouldn't look nice in a windowed case imo.​
 
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I will take a look at the monitors and see if i can squeeze a little more for my budget.

Currently i am here

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Save £100 if you go for AOC 32" freesync 1440p 75hz screen. Can't use freesync but can drive the 75hz as another option.
4k and 1080 is pushing it without g-, sync
Upscale games to 4k :D 32" screen make a difference as DPI isn't to high

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Or dropping VR support


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