Is this a good gaming setup?

nothintoulouse · 19 Jun 2016 at 09:08

ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII Ranger (Intel Z170)

Intel i5 6600K - 4 x 3.9 GHZ - Skylake
-With Corsair Hydro Series H75 (Advanced Liquid Cooling) CPU Heatsink
-Standard CPU Compound supplied with Heatsink

Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 - 4 GB - (MSI) Twin Frozr V - (PCI-E)

Corsair 16 Gb Vengeance LPX 3000 MHz (2x8Gb) (DDR4) Lifetime Warranty

#1: 240 GB Mushkin SSD SATA-III, Read 560MB/s, Write 515MB/s

#2: 1 TB Seagate SATA-III HDD 7200 RPM 64MB Cache

Corsair RMx 750W (Modular) PSU

Motherboard Integrated Wired Networking and Sound Card

All in the Corsair Spec Alpha Case

I have considered the Hyper 212 Evo Air Cooler, but according to Google, the H75 has a better performance and competitor doesn't give me the 212 Evo choice.

It costs £1123

Mrs Seabiscuit · 19 Jun 2016 at 09:10

Flagged to be moved as this is GD you may get less than helpful comments.
Welcome to the forums.

Haze · 19 Jun 2016 at 09:11

yeah the internet is complicated place

nothintoulouse · 19 Jun 2016 at 09:12

so where could I get an answer?

stulid · 19 Jun 2016 at 09:16

Here.

Is this some sort of pre-built system?

Also read the forum rules regarding competitors.

nothintoulouse · 19 Jun 2016 at 09:21

no i chose everything myself, but the website only gives me certain choices

stulid · 19 Jun 2016 at 09:24

If you know how to build a PC then buy from here.

Can you maybe tell me your budget and what you need to include such as,

Case
SSD+HDD
GFX card
CPU
Board
RAM
Monitor
OS
Keyboard+Mouse

etc

Hedge · 19 Jun 2016 at 09:28

Everything looks pretty good except the 970 to me.

MikeB · 19 Jun 2016 at 10:42

In two weeks the amd 480 is out, the 970 is old tech, see what the 480 reviews like

nothintoulouse · 19 Jun 2016 at 11:35

Why can't I just take out the graphics card?

I think that overall overclockers have a better price than computerplanet, but why can't I just order it without the GPU?

lee32uk · 19 Jun 2016 at 12:14

nothintoulouse said:
Why can't I just take out the graphics card?

I think that overall overclockers have a better price than ***********, but why can't I just order it without the GPU?

You need to stop mentioning competitors

You can use the onboard graphics if you are going to wait for the RX 480.

nothintoulouse · 19 Jun 2016 at 12:37

no thats the thing....there is no ''not wanted'' option like on all the other stuff, nor an ''integrated graphics'' option

lee32uk · 19 Jun 2016 at 12:47

nothintoulouse said:
no thats the thing....there is no ''not wanted'' option like on all the other stuff, nor an ''integrated graphics'' option

Overclockers can build you the pc if you choose the parts from here. You can also ask them to leave out the gpu.

If you reply to Stulids question in post #7 then we can help you out.

Five.Stars · 19 Jun 2016 at 12:53

Whilst the web based ordering system may not offer choice for no gpu - I am pretty certain if you called up with the required hardware spec and asked for a quote on system minus gpu, the staff would sort you out.

ExoMale · 19 Jun 2016 at 14:10

Mighty struggle with minecraft

ultralaser · 19 Jun 2016 at 17:14

nothintoulouse said:
Why can't I just take out the graphics card?

I think that overall overclockers have a better price than *********, but why can't I just order it without the GPU?

you might want to edit out the competitor in your post :eek:

Hedge · 19 Jun 2016 at 20:31

Just order the parts you need and build it yourself. Putting a pc together is simple. Just follow a YouTube guide and you're good to go.

Angilion · 20 Jun 2016 at 03:34

If you buy a prebuilt system, you will be limited to whatever options the supplier decides to give you for whatever reason they decide and if you do it online you'll be further limited to whatever options were entered into the options list. That will be true anywhere. You could try phoning and asking. A person might be able to arrange things that aren't an option on a form on a website. If you phone OcUK in office hours, you will get a person.

OcUK will custom build a PC from any compatible collection of components bought from them, but they will charge you for doing so (as would anywhere else, presumably, if they would do it at all).

You could also build it yourself. It can be fiddly and irritating and a mistake can be very expensive (e.g. dropping a screwdriver onto a motherboard is very unlikely to be covered by the warranty), but it's not very difficult. It's just expensive Meccano

It's not like the old days when you could very easily connect power cables incorrectly and instantly fry your kit. On the other hand, modern CPU coolers are generally more difficult to fit simply because they're so much bigger and heavier.

I suggest choosing the components you want, phoning and asking OcUK how much they'd charge for building it and deciding if you think it's worth paying that for the convenience of having someone else build it for you.

Or if your component choice is very close to an OcUK configurable system, try phoning and asking if it can be varied a little to fit what you want even though it's not on the options list. The worst that can happen is that you waste a few minutes.

Come to think of it, I'm in the same boat. I could get the OcUK Kinetic Z1 configurable to almost what I want apart from the fact that I don't want a graphics card in it because I already have one I'll be using at least until I can see what's what with the nvidia 10xx and AMD 4xx series of cards.. Some of the configurable systems have a "not needed" option for graphics card, but the Z1 doesn't.