Help building my 1st PC

ianandmurphy

ianandmurphy

ianandmurphy

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I have never built a PC before but have experience of electronics. My budget is £3000 as I don't plan to do it again for a few years. I know some parts I want but need help with suggestions with the rest. My parts are as follow.

Skylake 6700 i7
Titan X GPU ( with room to add another 2 possibly at a later date)
platinum PSU (really don't know any good brands on this side at all)
4DDR memory 16GB
And the rest I am really stuck with.

Please help with other suggestion for the build.
 
Hi,

Welcome and that's a nice size budget to have!

What is your PC going to be used for, you have your options open here?
Will you be requiring the full suite i.e. monitor, speakers (headphones), mouse, keyboard?
Do you have a OS?
Interested in water cooling at all, you have the budget to create a custom loop?!

Do you want to use up all the budget now, I see you mention you want to add further GPU's?

X99 will be a better place for your build, better support for multi-GPU and more grunt over Skylake and the cost is quite close.
 
Apart from the main system do u need a monitor as well and also what are u using the pc for ? So we can work whats best for you
 
No Reaper the budget does not include monitor, keyboard etc. The budget is for the PC build only. I am trying to build a PC that will be for Gaming mainly, but also some multi-tasking as well. Just want a really fast setup, that should cope well now and be upgradeable for the future as GPU technology improves the 4k gaming experience and achieve really good benchmark score as well. Yes a custom loop is something I would like to include.
 
Also the Skylake is not better for gaming yet, but I believe with the extra pci lanes, I think the GPU companies will work with this to improve GPU technology in the near future and Dave the processor is too slow, I am looking for 4.4-4.8 GHz area.
 
ianandmurphy said:
Also the Skylake is not better for gaming yet, but I believe with the extra pci lanes, I think the GPU companies will work with this to improve GPU technology in the near future and Dave the processor is too slow, I am looking for 4.4-4.8 GHz area.
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Ah okay. Well set aside a whole day and take your time building the thing, try not to get too ****ed off or you'll make mistakes. Leave the power supply lead in the case but turn of the power socket, this will ground your case. Read the manual specifically how to install the cpu.

Also, get a big case as these cards graphics cards are massive.

Be warned, once you've been bitten by the addiction of "building your own PC" you'll get hooked.
 
For gaming, you don't really need to go for the best of the best, you can get extremely good results from picking the right parts. Costing more doesn't mean it will perform much better, £400 can only gain you 3 fps (extreme example).
 
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are you looking for an actual spec from us or do you have a full idea of what parts you want and would it be a choice saving some penny's and getting 2 or 3 980ti's
 
first some items are personal preference ie case and colour scheme so if you could choose a full tower you like an colour scheme we could take it from there with you original spec :)
 
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