New Build feedback <£1500 - no peripherals

CrysAk

CrysAk

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So... although my current PC (8 years strong now with only 2 GPU upgrades) is still holding strong(ish) for most games, with the release of The Division, it's finally had the dreaded "PC specs below minimum" message and as such... it's probably time to retire the old girl...

So.. new build and lots of daunting numbers and specs to re-familiarize myself with ...

Goal of Build:
  • sub £1500
  • Gaming
  • Game Development
  • Media
  • Super Quiet
  • No OS, Storage or Peripherals required

Unfortunately that means i need a beefy PC, and what with my current one sounding like an aircraft on idle i want to go quiet this time!

Current spec list:

  • * No competitors **
  • CPU: i7 6700k 4.0
  • CPU Cooler: Dark Rock Pro 3
  • Board: z170X Gaming 7
  • RAM: LPX 16GB 3200MHZ
  • GPU: 980 GTX TI STRIX
  • Case: Base 800
  • PSU: Dark Power Pro 11 650W

** edited - pricing not of OCUK

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Am i going overboard with the TI, CPU and board, cutting back to a lesser version saves about £300 but sacrifices future proofing a bit, and the cost to catch up on future proofing will probably be more than that £300 so my thinking is that i just take the hit now

Another option is to keep my current 960 GTX until the new cards are announced ....
 
postponing the GPU (and also the PSU) brings the total down to £688, running this setup for a few months should allow me to see how the newgen of GPUs fair and to make a more informed decision at that time for the 2 new components ...
 
I wouldnt recommend the Dark rock 3 with skylake. It is big and beefy, screwing it on etc can be a right pain at times, and skylake is physically more fragile then previous gens. Great cooler tho, I got one :P , if you do just take it easy.


I'ld take the Supernova P2 650W 80 Plus Platinum over the Proo 11, cheaper..better review 10 years warranty.


Would wait on GPU until the new ones are out.
 
Threepwood said:
I wouldnt recommend the Dark rock 3 with skylake. It is big and beefy, screwing it on etc can be a right pain at times, and skylake is physically more fragile then previous gens. Great cooler tho, I got one :P , if you do just take it easy.


I'ld take the Supernova P2 650W 80 Plus Platinum over the Proo 11, cheaper..better review 10 years warranty.


Would wait on GPU until the new ones are out.
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can anyone recommend another big cooler that i could go passive on?

thanks for the PSU, that does perform better!
 
my system is weaker than yours and under the minimum pretty much and i play on high/ultra with 28-50fps range, mostly sits round the 30-40 though and very playable, hell i played the first 8 or 9 levels with a weaker gpu at 15-25fps range with only minor stutter and thats on high preset.

so unless you want to max every option in high or ultra preset i dont see how your current system will even struggle.


edit: what is you current spec as your op post is little misleading.
 
ExoMale said:
my system is weaker than yours and under the minimum pretty much and i play on high/ultra with 28-50fps range, mostly sits round the 30-40 though and very playable, hell i played the first 8 or 9 levels with a weaker gpu at 15-25fps range with only minor stutter and thats on high preset.

so unless you want to max every option in high or ultra preset i dont see how your current system will even struggle.


edit: what is you current spec as your op post is little misleading.
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current spec is 2.4 Q6600 CPU on and Nvidia EVGA 680i board and 4GB ram with the 680 GTX STRIX and a Corsair 670 W PSU. thing is loud as ****!!!! can't wait for a quiet system, arrives tomorrow morning :)

plays everything OK except the division with some massively strange bugs happening.

RE: steam account, yes, same name :)
 
aha well the quad is still decent, better if you overclock it, i run a haswell i3 so it acts like a quad, not sure if its better than the old q6600, i had one for 2nd gaming pc, but didnt play games lol and then sold it as quad systems still fetch a bit.

i suspect your 680 to be 2gb vram, my 270x has used 1.8gb in the division so far, so you okay with that, but i suspect the 4gb ram and the stock quad to be your downfall, but then it depends what your views are as i first got the division with a 1gb gtx 560 superclock installed and was running the game quite well with 15-25fps, i do have 16gb ram and a total of 4gb total system memory.


anyways as others have said, change the psu for the better one and you have one good system that should run the division very well.
 
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