New build advice please

Ollie83

Ollie83

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Hi folks, I am currently trying to decide on a system for my next build. It has been 6 years since my last build and things have moved on some what! I have some kit that I wish to reuse. These are as follows,

Corsair 750D case
Corsair HX1000 PSU
Crucial 512 MX100 SSD for steam
R290X GPU until the next batch of GPU's are released or price drops on the current crop are announced.

So what I'd like is a 6700k based system (pre-overclocked would be nice) with 16GB of speedy ram and a decent motherboard with support for a NVMe SSD for the OS.

I plan on running Windows 10 as the OS on the NVMe so I assume 256GB would be sufficient? I also will be using ethernet most of the time but sometimes I need to use wifi at friends house etc. so a motherboard that has this would be good or spec me a suitable wifi card too please.

Lastly I'd like to run a water cooled cooler, one like the Corsair H100i bearing in mind the size of the 750D. If I have missed something obvious or any other suggestions for kit I should get let me know. Cheers.
 
It would be really helpful and appreciated if you guys could lend me a hand and impart with some of your knowledge :)
 
Hi

I personally wouldn't bother with an M.2 SSD unless you are doing a workstation build.
For a gaming pc you won't really notice any difference between say a Samsung 950 pro and a Samsung 850 EVO for boot times/load times.

Also an i5 is still fine for a pure gaming pc. If you are doing things like rendering/editing etc then an i7 6700K or even an i7 5820K would be better depending on your budget.

The Antec Kuhler H1200 is pretty good value for a 240mm AIO.

I would buy a separate wifi card so that it doesn't restrict your choices of motherboard.


So for a purely gaming pc....


My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £513.94
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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There is an overclocking guide for the Gigabyte board on here that I will post when I find it.
 
Excellent lad. That's exactly what I was needing. You've just saved me some cash there I think. It is 99% for gaming so an i5 would probably be bang on.

I'll be sure to check out that link Lee32uk, cheers.
 
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I feel I should share my recent experience of being in similar position to yourself. I purchased a new rig in February and after taking similar advice being given here in relation to the i5 and gaming I purchased the i5 6600K over the i7 6700K. However, since then there have been benchmarks showing the increase in performance of having more cores/threads with DX12 and the difference between 4 core and 4 threads (i5) and 4 cores with 8 threads (i7) is quite substantial - we're talking 10 -15 FPS. If I'd have know that at the time I would have went for the i7. For that reason, and, that the GPU usage when playing Rise of The Tomb Raider was peaking at 98% (and this with it overclocked to 4.4Ghz) I replaced my 2 months old i5 6600K with an i7 6700K a few weeks back. Yes, that was a bit rash but it was the only thing I was unhappy with in my new rig so I just stuck it on the credit card.

Right now, the difference in performance in most games between the i5 and I7 is less than 1 frame per second - but that isn't going to be the case over the next 1-2 years so if you want to be a bit more future proof and you can spare the extra £100...
 
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Thanks for that honest information. I am fortunate enough to be able to spend a great deal on my rig but I've done this in the past and for the difference in price it was unjustifiable. £100 is neither here nor there when it comes to a machine/rig that will cost around 1500 in total. Cheers.
 
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