Help with £2000 Gaming build

[Joe P]

Hi Guys, its new pc time again and I couldn't be more excited. I've spent the past few months reading reviews, watching youtube vids and trawling forums. Iv been looking into various configurations of components to keep the price roughly £2000 and so far this is what iv came up with.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x In-Win 805 Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black= £139.99
• 1 x Super Flower Leadex GOLD 850W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £128.99
• 1 x Asus Z170 Maximus VIII Hero - Skylake Core i7 6700K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£20 Saving**= £529.98
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B30= £109.99
• 1 x Asus GeForce GTX 1080 DirectCU III Strix OC Gaming Aura RGB 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card= £799.99
• 1 x Intel 600P 512GB M.2-2880 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe 3D NAND Solid State Drive (SSDPEKKW512G7X1)= £169.99
• 1 x Corsair Hydro Series H100i v2 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060025-WW)= £99.95
• 1 x Corsair Gaming M65 PRO RGB FPS Gaming Mouse, Backlit RGB LED, 12000 DPI, Optical, Black (CH-9300011-= £59.99
• 1 x Corsair Gaming STRAFE RGB Cherry MX Red Mechanical Gaming Keyboard (CH-9000227-UK)= £119.99

Total: £2,174.16
(includes shipping: £15.30)
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The PC will be used primarily for gaming, mainly Arma 3, BF1, Total war, stuff like that.

At present I don't require a monitor, I'm currently using an AOC 24" 1080p 144hz. I know this build is way OTT for this monitor but I don't plan on using it for very long. I've had my heart set on an Acer Predator X34 superwide but unfortunately I can't afford it yet so I'll be maxing out 1080p for a few months.

In the future I would like to have the option of adding another 1080 GPU and another 16bg of ram.

If you have the time, id be grateful if you could share your thoughts particularly on the case, motherboard and SSD.

Also I have a few questions...

Would you guys change any of the components I have chosen?
Are there any components in there that aren't really compatible with each other?
Is there anything you can see that I have overlooked?

Thanks for taking the time to read this

 

[Joe P]

Hello bud,

Most of what you have picked is good, I see no reason to change it.

However that GPU is extremely overpriced, all for a small factory overclock which you can do yourself. Get this one instead if it has to be a Strix card: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...dr5x-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-405-as.html

Other than that, rest seems fine as you say though change that monitor to make full use of the system

Good to hear cheers matey. I love the look of the strix cards. It's £800 at Overclockers I can get it for a out £730 elsewhere, I was hoping overclockers would give me a price match on a few of their products I'm just yet to phone them and ask. If I shop around I can reduce the price of the whole build by about £150.

The main reason behind choosing this card over the "cheaper" (less expensive, as there's nothing cheap about the 1080's) card is iv read somewhere that that Asus hand pick the better chips and use them for the cards with a higher factory clock.

It would be great if someone could confirm this either way.

 

[Joe P]

£800 for a 1080..

I know haha, don't tell our lass she'll hit the roof

 

[Joe P]

Thanks for the reply Stulid, is there any reason why you chose the Team Group RAM over the corsair, I'm not very clued up when it comes to RAM.

Also, what is the difference between the gold and platinum PSU's?

I looked at the Gigabyte GPU but the aesthetics put me off.

 

[Joe P]

sorry guys I was gutted that I missed that titan x build.

Iv got all the bits now, ready to build on Saturday. Might have went a bit overboard haha



My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Asus Maximus VIII Hero Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £189.95
• 1 x Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail *FREE GAMES*= £308.99
• 1 x Corsair RM Series RM850X '80+ Gold' 850W Modular Power Supply (CP-9020093-UK)= £129.95
• 1 x MSI GeForce GTX 1080 SEA HAWK X 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card= £799.99
• 1 x Samsung SM961 Polaris 512GB M.2-2880 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £259.99
• 1 x Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX Glass Mid Tower Case - Black= £169.99
• 1 x Corsair Hydro Series H115i Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060027-WW)= £134.99
• 1 x Razer BlackWidow X Chroma - RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard= £149.99
• 1 x Razer Mamba Chroma Tournament Edition Professional Gaming Mouse= £89.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B30= £109.99

Total: £2,366.92
(includes shipping: £23.10)
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[Joe P]

Again, why are you spending so much on a GTX 1080?

+1

And £90 for a mouse ?..they must have seen you coming lol.

you will be able to afford the x34 much faster if you dont waste the money on things like an £800 gpu and expensive pointless peripherals . could shave quite a few hundred off that for no loss in performance.

I only bought the case from Overclockers, that's just the easiest way of showing the list parts. Pretty much everything I bought was on offer at some point over the past week. You can knock £300 off that subtotal.

I can confirm the 1080 sea hawk is one amazing card!

I'm glad to here that, I was torn between that and the Gigabyte AIO 1080 with the PSU that orbitalwalsh mentioned but I really didn't like the look of it. The Sea hawk looks really smart.

Good luck with the build, have fun, take your time and enjoy the finished product. Should be a beast of a system

Thanks Honeybadger, If I get the time ill take a load of pics and put a build thread up. The only things that is concerning me is installing windows 10 on that hard drive, iv heard it can be quite tricky but ill cross that bridge when I get there.

Also I think the Razer KB and Mouse look the nuts