Gaming pc build * need help*

[Ordinarytom]

So i'm looking to build/buy a new gaming pc. I already have ssd's and hdd's, and windows operating system.

I would like 1080 ti - which ever you think is best for its buck. If theres only a minor difference to the best one then id choose the cheaper one. but if its noticable i would like the better one.

CPU - I5 8600 coffee lake.

The rest is up to debate, im not bothered about a fancy case. i do want to overclock my gpu and cpu if not already done so cooling will need to be good too.

And RAM should be no more than 16gb, and i dont know if 2400 / 3200 really has an effect on intel cpu's like it does with Amd Razen.

Just to be clear, i am willing to go to AMD cpu or kaby/skylake cpu if there isnt much difference in performance. I dont want to be spending 2k for a gaming build if a 1.3-1.5k build is almost as good.

 

[Ordinarytom]

Acer Predator XB321HK 32 - bought separetly.

 

[Ordinarytom]

why have you both gone for Ryzen? is there a reason im missing? or is it just that its much cheaper yet only a little less in performance?

 

[Ordinarytom]

Believe it's £50-80 for OCUK to do nasic build, don't ask for Windows licence S you can get a Key for £25 odd .

Spoiler: Ryzen 2600x

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 2600X 4.20GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £194.99
• 1 x Gigabyte X470 Aorus Gaming 5 Wifi AMD X470 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £174.95
• 1 x Team Group Dark Pro "8Pack Edition" 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C14 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/= £218.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Aorus GeForce GTX 1080TI 11264MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card= £799.99
• 1 x Phanteks Eclipse P300 Glass Midi Tower Case - Black= £54.95
• 1 x Bitfenix Formula Series 650W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply= £74.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 1TB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £199.99
• 1 x Two Fan Bundle - Phanteks PH-F140MP PWM 140mm Fan - Radiator Performance= £16.26

Total: £1,748.31 (includes shipping: £13.20)
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Just so you know , i went for this build minus the 1TB ssd card. i got a 256gb m.2 card instead, as i alreadyy have a few ssd 500gb cards. Thanks for the help

 

[Ordinarytom]

i go the cooler from the other build , so should be okay.

 

[Ordinarytom]

yeh i built it and it all works fine except this : Samsung PM961 Polaris 256GB M.2-2280 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive . the bios cant find it and also it doesnt appear as a drive on the windows operating system(which is installed on one of my ssd's.

 

[Ordinarytom]

• 1 x Gigabyte X470 Aorus Gaming 5 Wifi AMD X470 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £174.95

Just to clarify i can use the drive (after formatting it in disk management) but it wont show up in the BIOS and also samsung magician doesnt recognise the card(but can still to a performance test on it)

I was basically trying to clone my SSD drive with windows on it, to transfer it to this M.2 card and run windows from that instead, but obviously it wont boot from the M.2 drive as the Bios doesn't even recognise it.

Also , it's installed into the primary m.2 slot , there is two slots. its the one right next to the PCI x16 slot.

And the SSD drive is installed into the SATA 1 port

 

[Ordinarytom]

I installed the Samsung nvme drivers(which were a massive ball ache to find. But this didn't help with the bios recognising it.

 

[Ordinarytom]

I know it point up at an angle , which usually means its in. I did try again and used abit of force so it must be in.

 

[Ordinarytom]

ahh i will have to try that slot then.. annoying thing is its underneath my GPU . so such a pain to take off again lols.

 

[Ordinarytom]

i just put windows on a usb and booted it up, it recognised there was a nvme card there. So i installed it on the drive and its all good now.