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Jimbo63

Jimbo63

Jimbo63

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Hello all, I'm new to this forum so don't 100% know the etiquette required sorry if I have gone about this incorrectly but this looked like where I should post. I am doing a new build and going over the spec at the moment. I have done rebuilds previously, but nothing from scratch. I would just like some advice on this build. I am going with a black, white and blue theme. Here is what i have got so far:

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This will be upgraded as I go hence the large PC case, custom loop water cooling is on the cards for a future project. Any advice what so ever will be of use. Thanks Jimbo :)

oh and ps £2500 budget
 
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I am sorry for posting the competitor link I didn't even think twice about it sorry :L. Thanks for the spec Stu ill look into it some more.
 
As mentioned above, what is the pc being used for ?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 G1 Gaming 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £479.99
1 x Intel 5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - Retail (BX80648I75820K) £325.99
1 x MSI X99S SLI Krait Edition (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard £199.99
1 x G.Skill Ripjaws 4 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit - Blue (F4-2400C15Q-16GRB) £185.99
1 x SK Hynix 512GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (HFS512G32MNB-2202A) £154.99
1 x Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Full Tower Case - White £109.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £94.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 240mm Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £89.99
1 x CableMod E-Series G2 & P2 Cable Kit - Black / Blue £69.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £66.98
Total : £1,795.36 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
My PC will be used for a bit of everything, I love gaming, but I am involved in a lot of work as a controls engineer which ranges from AutoCAD to VMs so hard to say exactly what I will use it for.
 
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Jimbo63 said:
My PC will be used for a bit of everything, I love gaming, but I am involved in a lot of work as a controls engineer which ranges from AutoCAD to VMs so had to say exactly what I will use it for.
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In that case X99 seems perfect. If it was just a gaming pc then Z97 would have been a better (Cheaper) option.

If you want to post a spec of your own, then you can use the shopping cart plugin found here - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18371076&highlight=browser
 
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Here is the spec I'm looking at now:

YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 980 "Hall of Fame V2 Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (98NQH6DND2UZ) £529.99
1 x Intel 5930K 3.50GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - Retail (BX80648I75930K) £469.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-23000C16 2800MHz Quad Channel Kit - Blue (CMK16GX4M4A2800C16B) £239.99
1 x Corsair Graphite 780T Full Tower Case - White (CC-9011059-WW) £159.95
1 x Crucial BX100 500GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT500BX100SSD1) £144.98
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 850W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - White £119.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 240mm Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £89.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £66.98
Total : £1,839.56 (includes shipping : £14.75).



The motherboard would be a ASRock X99 Extreme6/ac ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard I could not see this on the website. Its approx £200 so an overall total of £2,039.56 ish. Anyone know if the 980 water blocks being made at the moment fit with this graphics card?
Thanks Jimbo:)
 
If you are set on watercooling the graphics card, then why not just go for a cheaper one such as the EVGA GTX 980 ACX 2.0 ? I am pretty certain you can remove the cooler on EVGA cards without voiding your warranty.


You would be better sticking with the 5820K cpu. The 5930K would only benefit if you planned on 3 or 4 way SLI. Even for 3 way it probably wouldn't make a huge difference.


The G.Skill Ram I specced is cheaper, and looks nicer imo. It is also good Ram for Overclocking.
 
lee32uk said:
If you are set on watercooling the graphics card, then why not just go for a cheaper one such as the EVGA GTX 980 ACX 2.0 ? I am pretty certain you can remove the cooler on EVGA cards without voiding your warranty.


You would be better sticking with the 5820K cpu. The 5930K would only benefit if you planned on 3 or 4 way SLI. Even for 3 way it probably wouldn't make a huge difference.


The G.Skill Ram I specced is cheaper, and looks nicer imo. It is also good Ram for Overclocking.
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The water cooling is a future project, which I would do in a year or two so I was worried about the cooling that comes with the cheaper graphics cards. Wouldn't want to come a year later and find its burnt out :eek:.

3 or 4 way SLI would come with the water cooling which is why I chose the 5930 plus from what I've heard you might as well go with the 4930 if you are going to downgrade. Lucky I'll be getting a pay rise to pay for all this next year :D.

I will be honest I don't know much about RAM and what I chose was on my original spec. If the G.Skill is better I'll go for that.

Thanks for the advice Jimbo :)
 
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