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Hi all,

How's this build look to you guys, anything you would change?

My budget is £1-1.5K and it's going to be used for gaming and some light VM work, I have a 1TB WD Green at home that I'm going to slip in also...

Thanks.

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti Superclocked ACX 2.0+ 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (06G-P4-4993-KR) **OcUK Exclusive** £539.99
1 x Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM £319.99
1 x Das Keyboard 3 Cherry MX Red & Zowie FK1 Gaming Mouse Bundle £146.99
1 x Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3 Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard £122.99
1 x EVGA Supernova P2 750W '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply £99.95
1 x Fractal Design Define R5 Midi Tower Case - Blackout Edition £84.95
1 x Samsung SM951 128GB M.2 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive (MZVPV128HDGM-00000) £71.99
1 x Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 CPU Cooler £65.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK8GX4M2B3200C16) £59.99
Total : £1,527.82 (includes shipping : £12.50 Ex.VAT).

 
Depending on how many VMs you'll be running you might want to consider the 5820K and X99. You might better off with the extra cores.
 
rodt99 said:
Depending on how many VMs you'll be running you might want to consider the 5820K and X99. You might better off with the extra cores.
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Already overbudget, can't afford the mobo increase.

OP - IMO the Skylake i7 is a rip-off. There are a couple of i5-6600K bundles over £160 cheaper that would be fine for gaming and "light" VM work.
 
How about an X99 build ?

Noctua coolers have a far better mounting system than BeQuiet. I have a BeQuiet cooler and they are a pain to install.

The MSI card has zero fan mode so it will be silent under low load.

If you only plan on running a single GTX 980 ti then the EVGA G2 650W is enough.


YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 980Ti Gaming 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GTX 980 Ti Gaming 6G) £539.99
1 x Gigabyte X99-SLI - Intel Core i7 5820K Six Core CPU & Motherboard Bundle ***50 Saving*** £429.98
1 x Das Keyboard 3 Cherry MX Red & Zowie FK1 Gaming Mouse Bundle £146.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Quad Channel Kit - Red (TLRED416G3000HC16AQC01) £99.95
1 x Fractal Design Define R5 Midi Tower Case - Blackout Edition £84.95
1 x EVGA Supernova G2 650W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £74.99
1 x Samsung SM951 128GB M.2 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive (MZVPV128HDGM-00000) £71.99
1 x Noctua NH-D15S Dual Radiator Quiet CPU Cooler £65.99
Total : £1,529.82 (includes shipping : £12.50 Ex.VAT).

 
joeyjojo said:
OP - IMO the Skylake i7 is a rip-off. There are a couple of i5-6600K bundles over £160 cheaper that would be fine for gaming and "light" VM work.
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Thanks, it has been troubling me deciding between i5 and i7.

Would the i5 handle all of today games? Would it not bottleneck my system, especially if I chose to go SLI + 4K in the future?
 
A PCIe SSD may prevent you from going SLI in the future. Just get an ordinary SATA SSD. And I think the SSD is on the small side - you should go for 240 GB.

If you're going for light VM work you might consider going straight for 16 GB RAM.
 
Quartz said:
A PCIe SSD may prevent you from going SLI in the future. Just get an ordinary SATA SSD. And I think the SSD is on the small side - you should go for 240 GB.

If you're going for light VM work you might consider going straight for 16 GB RAM.
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I think the pci-e ssd is handled by the chipset on Z170 so it shouldn't be an issue. On X99 it definitely isn't an issue.
 
Correct. The m.2 isn't any SLI issue for the Z170 UD3 / Gaming 3. And again, i7-6700K = pointless. The i5 will handle gaming just fine, there's literally no benefit whatsoever to getting the Skylake i7. However the 5820K (as mentioned ^^ above by lee32uk) is a valud next step-up after i5-6600K. You won't need it for gaming though (unless going above dual-SLI cards). Which is out of your budget it seems.
 
Thanks all, great help.

I eventually tweaked it slightly with changes to the original build below.

EVGA Supernova G2 650W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (down from 750W)
Samsung SM951 256GB M.2 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive (up from 128GB)
Phanteks PH-TC14PE CPU Cooler - Black (changed from the out of stock Be Quiet!)

Arriving today! Shiny things!

Edit: We'll see how the VM's go, won't be running any more than 4 at any given time, basically for certification work so just light usage/tinkering. If needs be I'll have to part with another £50 and up it to 16GB.
 
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