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Rage474

Rage474

Rage474

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Hey folks,

I'm in need of a new gaming PC with my current one packing it in. It's been a while but I've put together the following spec which I think looks good:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,225.51 (includes shipping: £12.60)​
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Is there anything glaringly obvious I've missed in terms of compatibility or choices I've made?

Also I'm sure you get this a lot, but in terms of Black Friday - which components is it worth waiting to pull the trigger one based on what usually gets the biggest reductions? Hoping to take advantage of sales to bring the price down a little.

Thanks a mil!
 
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I'd say almost exclusively for gaming. Minor productivity work and light development - nothing overly taxing.

Currently gaming at 1080p, but looking to move to a 1440p 144Hz monitor next year potentially.

I've opted for Intel/Nvidia mainly because that is what I've had most experience with, in terms of single clock speed Intel still seems to be ahead there which would affect games the most? I'm open to ideas though :)
 
better board, cooler chip , cheaper ram and better cooler for equal cash all around

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £506.42 (includes shipping: £10.50)​
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Thanks, that's really helpful! For some reason I hadn't considered the latest gen chips.

Just wondering - what makes a motherboard better than another?

Also, if that one only supports up to 2666MHz memory speeds, is the 3000MHz RAM wasted or incompatible?
 
Rage474 said:
Thanks, that's really helpful! For some reason I hadn't considered the latest gen chips.

Just wondering - what makes a motherboard better than another?

Also, if that one only supports up to 2666MHz memory speeds, is the 3000MHz RAM wasted or incompatible?
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just official specs , anything faster then 2666hz is considered an 'overclock'. ou'll have to enable XMP on all ram as they run at default 2133hz speed.

z390 mobo is vasty better built! by a very long way! gigabyte didnt have the beast z370 boards and made up with the z390 by a good shot
 
Thanks for the feedback guys, helped a lot! I went ahead and ordered what orbitalwalsh had linked above, and put it together with the other components in my OP. Looking forward to the delivery now! :D

One thing I'm not 100% on - is it worth changing my order to one of the gaming gigabyte z390 models like the ones below, is there any major difference? I'm happy with the one you suggested, but more for my understanding than anything!

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £579.62 (includes shipping: £11.70)
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Cheers!
 
Rage474 said:
Thanks for the feedback guys, helped a lot! I went ahead and ordered what orbitalwalsh had linked above, and put it together with the other components in my OP. Looking forward to the delivery now! :D

One thing I'm not 100% on - is it worth changing my order to one of the gaming gigabyte z390 models like the ones below, is there any major difference? I'm happy with the one you suggested, but more for my understanding than anything!

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £579.62 (includes shipping: £11.70)
​

Cheers!
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That 1st board is a micro ATX so it will look a bit small in an ATX case. The Gaming X I think is pretty much the same VRM as the Z390 UD. The Elite has a better VRM but obviously costs more. It should handle a 9900K though whereas the others might thermal throttle. That is of course if you ever decide to go with that cpu in the future. For the i5 then any of them are fine.
 
Gigabyte are 10+2 phase if i can recall, Aorus are 12+1 and Master is 12+2 with Xtreme being 16+2

ALL boards can handle AVX loads at stock speeds for about 24 hours without throttling , unlike other expensive boards . this is due to 2 reasons , VRM amount and quality or that they are running higher state speeds then Intel official boost specs .

Gigabyte and Aorus boards through is a lot of basic Mosfets to a keep the costs down, but allow a lot of Amps to the CPU (more so then Master) but have a lot of them to spread the heat . Aorus having more and commanding a higher price tag.

Master, xtreme and ITX feature a lot better Mosfet units so regardless of their number or less amps, they deliver cleaner power and lower temps- also linked with better vrm heat sink

you'll be fine on the mATX to enable MCE if you dont want to manually overclock and game 24/7
 
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