Looking for a PC build please

[orbitalwalsh]

Ah the £400 was ref to the £1000 build. At £1450 I am still under my £1500 budget/preference. Not enough for 1080 Ti and doubt I really need it

Appreciating the time input although I'm not quite at 5,000+ posts yet haha

Haha no worries, if your got the budget , go for it

@tamzzy was for 3D Geo mapping ... Basically i9 and Geforce beats thread ripper and Xeon along with Quadro cards...
And NVMe is a must , pc really needs to be in a server room ! Haha

Helps if your running high FPS and card can't hold max refresh rate constantly and then you get screen tears... In a loose word

 

[tamzzy]

So I could still use the monitors we discussed at the start of this thread?

yes. just that you won't have adaptive sync (gsync/freesync)
personally im using a 1080ti with a freesync monitor lol...not a big issue.

how adaptive sync works

basically it's more relevant if you have a midrange card driving lots of pixels (be it 4k/60hz or 1440p/144hz)

 

[Geordie1881]

Ok, cheers. I think that's set then

Appreciate the help, advice and patience from you all.

Cheers

 

[tamzzy]

Ok, cheers. I think that's set then

post your final decision for a once through

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Pics ! I just like the pretty pics !

 

[Geordie1881]

Here goes... I'll fire this off to OCUK shortly unless there's anything missing?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Kolink Stronghold Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black Tempered Glass Side Window= £35.99
• 1 x WD 1TB Blue 7200rpm Internal Hard Drive (WD10EZEX)= £39.95
• 1 x Samsung 500GB 860 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 64 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-76E500B/EU)= £134.99
• 1 x Cooler Master MasterLiquid Lite 240 AIO CPU Cooler= £49.99
• 1 x Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £308.99
• 1 x Asrock Z370 Extreme 4 Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £142.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070Ti Gaming 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £469.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £79.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TLGD= £155.99

Total: £1,418.87 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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[tamzzy]

yeah that looks fine...oh wait lemme think...

 

[Geordie1881]

yeah that looks fine...oh wait lemme think...

You're thinking dual GPU SLI and maybe 32GB RAM...

Thanks for having the final check over. I'll fire to OCUK now.

 

[tamzzy]

I'll fire to OCUK now.

if ocuk are building it for you, ask them not to throw away any unused parts, and send you the component boxes with the extra parts too.
that way when you come to upgrade +/- sell the components in the future, they'd be worth that bit more

 

[orbitalwalsh]

So hard to find cheap case that can take 360 AIO

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM= £299.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070Ti Gaming 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £469.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G24= £139.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 1TB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £199.99
• 1 x Asrock Z370 Killer SLI Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £128.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 550W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £73.99
• 1 x Antec P8 Midi-Tower Gaming Case - Black Glass Window= £69.95
• 1 x Alphacool Eisbaer LT360 CPU AIO Water Cooling Unit - 240mm (11446)= £99.95
• 1 x Thermal Grizzly Hydronaut High Performance Thermal Paste - 1g= £3.95

Total: £1,499.39 (includes shipping: £12.60)


Least then , can see if the chip can hit 4.9ghz and above .​

 

[southernorth]

If you wanted to save a bit of money, whilst only losing a very small amount of performance (and gaining some silence)

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070Ti Gaming 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £469.99
• 1 x Intel Core i7-8700 3.2GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM= £248.99
• 1 x MSI Z370-A Pro Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £89.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 550W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £73.99
• 1 x Alpenfohn Brocken 3 CPU Cooler - 140mm= £37.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 480GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £98.99
• 1 x WD 1TB Blue 7200rpm Internal Hard Drive (WD10EZEX)= £39.95
• 1 x Fractal Design Define C Midi Tower Case - Black= £79.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TLGD= £155.99

Total: £1,308.47 (includes shipping: £12.60)



In either case, the existing spec you've chosen (with 8700k) is great too - overclocking the 8700k will definitely add some longevity and you've chosen a very solid motherboard.​

 

[Geordie1881]

If you wanted to save a bit of money, whilst only losing a very small amount of performance (and gaining some silence)

Thanks, nice option but I'm going to stick with the 8700k

 

[Geordie1881]

So hard to find cheap case that can take 360 AIO

• 1 x Antec P8 Midi-Tower Gaming Case - Black Glass Window= £69.95
• 1 x Alphacool Eisbaer LT360 CPU AIO Water Cooling Unit - 240mm (11446)= £99.95

Least then , can see if the chip can hit 4.9ghz and above .​

Thanks Orbitalwalsh, is the 240 AIO (https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cooler-master-masterliquid-lite-240-aio-cpu-cooler-hs-07l-cm.html) going to prove insufficient when overclocking? or is just a preference thing?

Cheers

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Thanks Orbitalwalsh, is the 240 AIO (https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cooler-master-masterliquid-lite-240-aio-cpu-cooler-hs-07l-cm.html) going to prove insufficient when overclocking? or is just a preference thing?

Cheers

depends how much you want to push the i7 8700k core
gaming it sound't to be bad but it will be loud . More fans , cooler and quieter running etc . You can cool a 8700k at 5ghz with a thin air cooler but you'd need a 50mm thick 3000rpm monster supplying the air over it haha

 

[Geordie1881]

thanks, I'll speak to OCUK about tweaking the case and cooler once I've had their quote.

 

[Geordie1881]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x WD 1TB Blue 7200rpm Internal Hard Drive (WD10EZEX)= £39.95
• 1 x Samsung 500GB 860 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 64 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-76E500B/EU)= £134.99
• 1 x Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £308.99
• 1 x Asrock Z370 Extreme 4 Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £142.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070Ti Gaming 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £469.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £79.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TLGD= £155.99
• 1 x Alphacool Eisbaer LT360 CPU AIO Water Cooling Unit - 240mm (11446)= £99.95
• 1 x Antec P8 Midi-Tower Gaming Case - Black Glass Window= £69.95
• 1 x Thermal Grizzly Hydronaut High Performance Thermal Paste - 1g= £3.95

Total: £1,506.74 (includes shipping: £0.00)​

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Differences from Orbitalwalsh build (#109):
Retail 8700k for the 3 year warranty (for £9)
3200MHz DDR4 over 2400MHz (£16)
650W PSU instead of 550W (£6)
Asrock Extreme 4 instead of Killer (£14)
500GB SSD instead of 1GB SSD (-£65)
1TB HDD instead of no HDD (£39.95)
removed shipping for comparison purposes (-£12.60)

This increases that build from £1,499.39 to £1,506.74

Changes from initial build (#105) are:
Antec case replacing Kolink case (£33.96)
Alphacool replacing Cool Master (£49.96)
Adding Thermal Grizzly (£3.95)

This increases baseline from £1,418.87 to £1,506.74

 

[lee32uk]

Here is another cheapish case that lists 360mm rad support if you like RGB.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x CoolerMaster MasterBox Lite 5 RGB Midi Tower Case - Black Tempered Glass= £57.95

Total: £69.05 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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[orbitalwalsh]

Looks good, if you get a good chip, should hit 5ghz and over

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....-eisbaer-lt-360-cpu-liquid-cooler-review/amp/

 

[tamzzy]

Looks good (at work, can't post more lol)

 

[Geordie1881]

yes. just that you won't have adaptive sync (gsync/freesync)
personally im using a 1080ti with a freesync monitor lol...not a big issue.

how adaptive sync works

basically it's more relevant if you have a midrange card driving lots of pixels (be it 4k/60hz or 1440p/144hz)

Tamzzy, just got round to watching this and it's really helpful, thanks

In my mind, might be wrong or oversimplifying it, G-Sync is a variable-FPS display so matches the variable NVidia GPU. This makes sense in my mind at least.

The good news is that I really don't see this being a problem for me. My monitor at present isn't the greatest (in fact it's rubbish) and I've not noticed anything that is too painful. If G-Sync comes down in price at any point I might consider it then.

Cheers for the info yet again!