Help PC Build please £900 - £1000 Budget

[MFelis]

Hi people, this seemed like the best place to post to get help on building my next PC. I genuinely don't know what stuff to bundle together to be cost effective and have a functional machine but I do know enough to assemble it (if needed)

Now I need a new PC as I've just started Uni and would love to have a personal computer to do work at home as well. So I need a PC capable enough to use
for game development - the art side of it (3D modelling, scultping).

Has to be able to use UDK, Zbrush, Substance, 3DSMax, Adobe photoshop/aftereffects (everything similar pretty much)

Just asking for a tower build bundles or parts, no monitors or peripherals.
Hopefully this is enough £££ or i'm going to have to sell some stuff.

Thank you ^_^

 

[Danny75]

Hi people, this seemed like the best place to post to get help on building my next PC. I genuinely don't know what stuff to bundle together to be cost effective and have a functional machine but I do know enough to assemble it (if needed)

Now I need a new PC as I've just started Uni and would love to have a personal computer to do work at home as well. So I need a PC capable enough to use
for game development - the art side of it (3D modelling, scultping).

Has to be able to use UDK, Zbrush, Substance, 3DSMax, Adobe photoshop/aftereffects (everything similar pretty much)

Just asking for a tower build bundles or parts, no monitors or peripherals.
Hopefully this is enough £££ or i'm going to have to sell some stuff.

Thank you ^_^

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Inno3D GeForce GTX 1060 Twin X2 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £249.95
• 1 x Intel Core i7-6700 3.40GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £299.99
• 1 x Crucial 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 PC4-17000C16 2133MHz Quad Channel Kit (CT4K8G4DFD8213)= £99.95
• 1 x Asus B150M-A/M.2 Intel B150 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £69.95
• 1 x Corsair Carbide Series 88R Micro-ATX Case - Black (CC-9011086-WW)= £46.99
• 1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black= £18.95
• 1 x EVGA 450B 450W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £34.99
• 1 x Crucial MX300 275GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 3D Nand 7mm Solid State Drive (CT275MX300SSD1)= £68.99
• 1 x Toshiba P300 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD120UZSVA)= £58.99

Total: £948.75
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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Let me know how that is looking, and whether storage setup (275GB + 2TB) is okay to begin with (think about backup - would you like an additional internal mechanical drive, or external drive, or are you going with Cloud backup), and if you need a DVD drive etc.

The motherboard has an M.2 slot so you could add on a fast M.2 SSD later on to use as cache/scratch for your work programs and speed things up more.

You should be able to get Windows through your Uni, cheaper, unless things have changed in that regard recently.

Based on your feedback, changes/additions can be made - better PSU, possibly the 6700K chip. Also, it might be an idea to begin with 16GB RAM and monitor memory usage, see if an additional 16GB would be worthwhile or not. The upside to getting 32GB rightaway is that all four sticks are a matched set and factory-guaranteed to be compatible. Then again, most times you can use different kits without issues.

Prices are all over the place right now. This is the cheapest 2x8GB set of DDR4, so weigh that against the price for 32GB, as well:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Team Group Elite 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TPKD416GM2400HC16D= £79.99

Total: £79.99

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[stulid]

I have had to delete that post do to it breaking forum rules.

 

[MFelis]

Is this acceptable? No idea where the rules are posted.

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC12LS_BK 53.3 CFM CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150-HD3P ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card
Case: Cooler Master MasterBox 5 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

 

[stulid]

thats fine,

Spec is ok to, maybe a normal cooler which is vertical rather than flat? so it clears the ram for sure.

 

[MFelis]

Something like this then: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Cooler ?

 

[mickyflinn]

Something like this then: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Cooler ?

Yes

 

[MFelis]

thats fine,

Spec is ok to, maybe a normal cooler which is vertical rather than flat? so it clears the ram for sure.

Yes

This is the build i'm going with so far. Any final suggestions on this? (anything you think I have wrong)

Motherboard: Gigabyte G1. Sniper B7 Realtek ALC1150
Memory: Corsair CMK16GX4M2A2133C13 Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 2133Mhz CL13 XMP 2.0 High Performance Desktop Memory Kit, Black
CPU: Intel Core i7 Quad-Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Processor CPU
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler "RR-212E-16PK-R1, 4 Heatpipe, 1x 120mm PWM Fan, Intel / AMD"
PSU: Corsair CP-9020090-UK RM550X 550 W ATX/EPS Fully Modular Power Supply Unit
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1070 ARMOR 8G OC. 1920 Cuda Core PCIE 3.0 8 GB GDDR5 256-Bit Graphics Card - Black
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB 2.5 inch Solid State Drive - Black,
WD Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch