Help with a Gaming Desktop PLEASE!

tylerjp

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Hi...

So i'm pretty much a total novice when it comes to specs.

I want a new desktop that can run games at max settings with high FPS at up to 4K.
I also want something that is going to is going to last a few years which can be upgraded.

What do you think of this?

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...-pc-intel-core-i7-8700k-4.9ghz-fs-1bw-og.html

Is there anything I can change to decrease the price without it making much difference to performance?

Thanks in advance, any advice is much appreciated!
 
 
4K8KW10 said:
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Hi, thanks for that!

I maybe want to keep the
Intel Core i7 8700K @ 4.9GHz

as its the newest generation and will be able to keep up to date longer. Having said that. Would it be good to keep everything else you have suggested? And would this run games at 4K in highest quality?
 
tylerjp said:
Hi...

So i'm pretty much a total novice when it comes to specs.

I want a new desktop that can run games at max settings with high FPS at up to 4K.
I also want something that is going to is going to last a few years which can be upgraded.

What do you think of this?

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...-pc-intel-core-i7-8700k-4.9ghz-fs-1bw-og.html

Is there anything I can change to decrease the price without it making much difference to performance?

Thanks in advance, any advice is much appreciated!
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Hi welcome to the Forum :)

What is your budget for this pc ?

Are you able to build it yourself ?

Also do you need a 4K Monitor included in the price ?
 
tylerjp said:
Hi, thanks for that!

I maybe want to keep the
Intel Core i7 8700K @ 4.9GHz

as its the newest generation and will be able to keep up to date longer. Having said that. Would it be good to keep everything else you have suggested? And would this run games at 4K in highest quality?
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The i7 8700K contradicts to your previous requirement about the system being upgradeable.
If you want to further upgrade that machine, you will have to change the motherboard too.

Also, for 4K gaming, you don't need an OC processor because the games become GPU bound.
 
lee32uk said:
Hi welcome to the Forum :)

What is your budget for this pc ?

Are you able to build it yourself ?

Also do you need a 4K Monitor included in the price ?
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I'm looking to spend around £2000. I'd prefer not to build myself, to make life easier and have warranty. I currently use a TV for gaming, but am looking at also purchasing a 4K monitor.

Thankyou!
 
4K8KW10 said:
The i7 8700K contradicts to your previous requirement about the system being upgradeable.
If you want to further upgrade that machine, you will have to change the motherboard too.

Also, for 4K gaming, you don't need an OC processor because the games become GPU bound.
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So the i7 8700K cannot be upgraded without upgrading the motherboard?

I've heard MMO's in particular use processing power..... is that true?
 
tylerjp said:
Hi...

So i'm pretty much a total novice when it comes to specs.

I want a new desktop that can run games at max settings with high FPS at up to 4K.
I also want something that is going to is going to last a few years which can be upgraded.

What do you think of this?

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...-pc-intel-core-i7-8700k-4.9ghz-fs-1bw-og.html

Is there anything I can change to decrease the price without it making much difference to performance?

Thanks in advance, any advice is much appreciated!
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Core components - add storage as you wish
Aorus 7 boards features best audio on the z370 platform and pretty much all first reviews for 8700k used an Aorus board . 8 Pack ram which you can OC highly and zoatc amp is a beast of a card and price

Binned and de-lid chip- firstly it'll be in stock quicker, secondly the chip runs hot

Epic case that you can have the layout how you want it

And entry step into watercooling :)

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £2,299.79
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*** And as I out this together I saw your budget after putting it together . :(
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tylerjp said:
So the i7 8700K cannot be upgraded without upgrading the motherboard?

I've heard MMO's in particular use processing power..... is that true?
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You will be fine with a 6 core cpu. I would actually suggest the i5 8600K if going with Intel as it is pretty evenly matched to the 8700K from what I have seen. Also at 4K the gpu is more important.

You should also consider Ryzen as a good alternative. An R5 1600 and SLI ready X370 board should work out a bit cheaper.


i5 8600K spec

You would need to change a couple of things with Customer Services.

The Motherboard make/model isn't stated so you would need to know if it is SLI ready. Also you will need a higher wattage psu of around 750W/850W for SLI. The one in the spec is listed as 650W.


My basket at Overclockers UK:
  • 1 x OcUK Gaming Gallium Overclocked Gaming PC - Intel Core i5 8600K @ 4.8GHz = £1,947.00
    • Memory:Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G30
    • Graphics Card:*Build Stock* Asus GeForce GTX 1080Ti ROG Strix OC 11264MB Graphics Card
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    • Solid State Drive (Secondary):Unwanted
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    • Operating System:Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)
    • Security Software:Bullguard Anti-Virus 2017 - 1 PC 1 Year **Offer Price**
    • Case Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Glass Midi Tower Case - Black
    • Lighting:Unwanted

Total: £1,961.10
(includes shipping: £14.10)






Here is a Ryzen R5 1600 spec.

This has an 850W psu and an SLI ready board.


My basket at Overclockers UK:
  • 1 x OcUK Tech Labs AMD Ryzen Pro Gaming PC Configurator = £1,873.88
    • Case Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Midi Tower Case with Window - Black
    • Mechanical Hard Drive 1:Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST2000DM006)
    • Mechanical Hard Drive 2:Unwanted
    • Optical Drive **Please Check Chassis Support**:Unwanted
    • Case Lighting:Unwanted
    • Operating System:Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)
    • Build Time:Standard Build Systems - Dispatched within 7 working days
    • Motherboard:Asus Prime X370-Pro AMD X370 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
    • Processor:AMD Ryzen 5 Six Core 1600 3.60GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail
    • CPU Cooler:Alpenfohn Brocken ECO CPU Cooler - 120 mm
    • Memory:Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G30
    • Keyboard:Unwanted
    • Mouse:Unwanted
    • Speakers:Unwanted
    • Monitor:Unwanted
    • Gaming Chair:Unwanted
    • Soundcard:Unwanted
    • Network Adapter:Unwanted
    • Power Supply:Seasonic Prime Gold 850W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply
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    • Headset:Unwanted
    • M.2 Solid State Drive **For Operating System If Selected**:Unwanted
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    • Solid State Drive 2:Unwanted
    • Graphics Card:Asus GeForce GTX 1080Ti ROG Strix 11264MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card
    • Graphics Card (Crossfire/SLI):Unwanted

Total: £1,887.98
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4K8KW10 said:
Hi!

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,878.09
(includes shipping: £13.20)



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If he is not doing any streaming or video editing etc then the R5 1600 is a better choice as it will perform the same as the R7 when gaming.

Why 32GB Ram ? That is totally unnecessary for a gaming pc.

The 960 EVO is a bit of a luxury as well. Won't do any harm to leave it in but it isn't going to make a night and day difference over a SATA SSD.

That case burns my eyes out. Also it is a bit cheap and plastic looking for a £2K build.

You can get a far better psu than that Corsair CX. A Bitfenix Whisper for example is only an extra £4.
 
lee32uk said:
If he is not doing any streaming or video editing etc then the R5 1600 is a better choice as it will perform the same as the R7 when gaming.

Why 32GB Ram ? That is totally unnecessary for a gaming pc.

The 960 EVO is a bit of a luxury as well. Won't do any harm to leave it in but it isn't going to make a night and day difference over a SATA SSD.

That case burns my eyes out. Also it is a bit cheap and plastic looking for a £2K build.

You can get a far better psu than that Corsair CX. A Bitfenix Whisper for example is only an extra £4.
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The case is with a very beautiful design, eye catching and so on.
2000 but 700 of it go for the graphics card alone? Perfectly fine case for 50. There are also cheaper.

32 GB, upto says his original link at https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...-pc-intel-core-i7-8700k-4.9ghz-fs-1bw-og.html
Just wanted to show him how much more he can take for less money.

Also, if OCUK offer to send the components not individually but as a whole ready configuration, then let him use this option too.
 
4K8KW10 said:
The case is with a very beautiful design, eye catching and so on.
2000 but 700 of it go for the graphics card alone? Perfectly fine case for 50. There are also cheaper.

32 GB, upto says his original link at https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...-pc-intel-core-i7-8700k-4.9ghz-fs-1bw-og.html
Just wanted to show him how much more he can take for less money.

Also, if OCUK offer to send the components not individually but as a whole ready configuration, then let him use this option too.
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The case looks like something a 12 year old kid would choose, but each to their own.

Well if he is going to be gaming at 4K what other gpu is going to cut it ? A GTX 1080 ti will just about fit in the budget.

Just because it says up to 32GB Ram doesn't mean he needs it. A 2 x 8GB Kit is fine.
 
Thanks so much for all your replies. But just clarify i would like to keep the costs down as much as possible. So for instance, the case doesn't matter to me visually, so if a case that's uglier is cheaper then that's fine by me. Noise reduction however is quite important!

I also don't want any changes to MASSIVELY affect performance. maybe by a few FPS but thats all.

As I explained earlier, I am a total novice with these thing, but all of the suggestions mentioned are really helpful.

Also, this PC will have to last me the next few years.... I just want to be able to upgrade the odd part every couple of years to keep it up to date. Having said this, do all of these suggestions still stand?

Thanks again!
 
dont know if your after a self build, a build for pay someone to put together or simply a prebuilt, but i went with the self build option for now.

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its nice to see the i3 now comes in a quad so should be decent, but went with the i3 as it kicks starts you off with the new coffee lake tech to try out, gives you an upgrade path to the i7 and simply the i7 are out of stock or pre-order, dont know how lower than that prebuilt you linked us to, but put in the cheapest in stock 1080ti going, which makes much cheaper, obviously if you want to keep it under £1500 or around £1000 then the 1080ti is out the question, but will last you a good few years.

oh and had i went for a mech drive even of 2tb for secondary, it wouldve saved you nearly £200.
 
oh just read up and noticed your budget and not to build yourself, so how about one of these?

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My basket at Overclockers UK:
  • 1 x OcUK Gaming Neon Overclocked Gaming PC - Intel Core i7 8700K @ 4.9GHz = £1,999.99
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    • Solid State Drive (Secondary):Unwanted
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My basket at Overclockers UK:
  • 1 x OcUK Gaming Oxygen Overclocked Gaming PC - Intel Core i5 8600K @ 4.8GHz = £1,838.03
    • Case:Raijintek Asterion Classic Aluminium Midi Tower Case - Black Window
    • Memory:Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G24
    • Solid State Drive (Primary):Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)
    • Solid State Drive (Secondary):Unwanted
    • Storage Drive:Samsung 1.0TB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E1T0B/EU)
    • Lighting:Bitfenix Alchemy 2.0 Magnetic RGB LED Strip - 30cm
    • Operating System:Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)
    • Security Software:Bullguard Anti-Virus 2017 - 1 PC 1 Year **Offer Price**
    • Graphics Card:Sapphire Radeon RX VEGA 64 8GB HBM2 PCI-Express Graphics Card - Black Pack

Total: £1,852.13
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    • CPU:AMD Ryzen 7 1700X With Free Nitro Concepts Gaming Chair
    • Memory:Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G24
    • Primary Solid State Drive / Hard Drive:Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)
    • Secondary Solid State Drive / Hard Drive:Unwanted
    • Storage Mechanical Hard Drive:Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST2000DM006)
    • Optical Drive **Please Check Case Support**:Unwanted
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    • Build Time:Standard Build Systems - Dispatched within 7 working days
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free nitro gaming chair with this 1700x and this build fits in a 1080 aswell.


or if you want to list with possibly the very few to own one, then maybe forget a desktop and get a Ryzen run laptop

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I5 8600k ore built from OCUK will do you fine. Games wise it'll beat Ryzen 1600/700 mostly and you don't have to bump up prices to get 3000/3200hz ram as intels core design is better- although getting nice timings does help !
And if you like games like Arma... Core speed is everything !

I5 8600k + 16GB + 1080 Ti or even Vega 64 pre-built will do you fine.. freesync screens are much much much much much cheaper. And if you planning a build, with that kind of performance , you'd want an amd freesync or Nvidia G-sync monitor with it
If not be like driving a Lamborghini in 20moh zone with speed bumps
 
orbitalwalsh said:
I5 8600k ore built from OCUK will do you fine. Games wise it'll beat Ryzen 1600/700 mostly
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No, it won't. There are so many hard evidence that with Intel processors with low-cores count, you get microstuttering in games, quite annoying stops of the game play. Which with Ryzen are not present.
 
4K8KW10 said:
No, it won't. There are so many hard evidence that with Intel processors with low-cores count, you get microstuttering in games, quite annoying stops of the game play. Which with Ryzen are not present.
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Low core count ? 6 cores..... Six Intel cores.... Don't get me wrong I routed for AMD and I'm so pleased for them. Although Vega was a nightmare and asking partners to take lower then expected profits is just plain wrong !
Plus more people buying into 8400 instead of K version of 8600 and 8700 will slowly change Intel practises . 8400 and Ryzen 1600 chips are stonking CPU! And the b350 boards, wow, only thing that's a let down for 8400 is having to use a z370 board. We're a few more boards at £109 range which then got raised about an hour in :/

There's plenty of reviews of 8400 Vs Ryzen Vs K versions out there. Do some googling

I've got 1600 and 8400 builds on order :)

And at 4k most modern games are optimised for Intel i5s (4 cores) and have less stress on them - again through reviews you can see amd working with studios to optimise Ryzen cpus with games
 
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orbitalwalsh said:
Low core count ? 6 cores..... Six Intel cores.... Don't get me wrong I routed for AMD and I'm so pleased for them.
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6 Intel threads vs 16 AMD threads. Don't get me wrong but only a BLIND Intel supporter would recommend that crap.
There are enough YouTube videos explaining the poor microstutter on i7-7700K which has even more threads - up to 8 compared to the 8600K with its 6.

And another post proving it:

Gibbo said:
Guys to help you out a little:

1600X is fastest out the box, boost to 3.9-4.0GHz and will even do this in a lower cost mainboard like B350, so for a little more outlay on CPU, you can save big time on motherboard.
1600 is essentially identical to 1600X, but it is 65W vs 95W which gives it a thermal edge and sometimes overclocking edge as well, but to get best OC results you need a 370 mainboard.

Of course to get the best performance from the CPU's you need the memory running around 3000MHz, even 3200MHz if possible and the 370 mainboards offer much better memory overclocking ability at the moment compared to 350. :)


I'd personally buy a 1600 or 1700 + CH6 and a 3000/3200 memory kit. This is what I'd personally buy and yes I would now buy AMD over Intel, I simply see Ryzen as the far more future proof CPU and the Ryzen CPU also makes games appear smoother irrelevant of what the FPS score is showing and smoothness is everything.

For me the perfect solution is:
R5 1600 + RX 480 (580 soon if rumours to be true ;) ) + 8G/16G 3000MHz RAM + 370 series mainboard. For the money especially with a FREESYNC monitor you get a totally awesome gaming experience.
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