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SconChild

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Hi all,

This will be my 1st build in about 6yrs! So I'm a little out of practice and I'd appreciate peoples thoughts on the following parts list... This is the highest in price I can go - Ideally, I wanted to keep it sub £1200. Its for Video Editing and casual gaming.

Will it work with an 'Enermax Liberty ELT620AWT PSU'? Its about 6yrs old but still works flawlessly.

Does it all work well together?
Any better suggestions?
Do I need anything else?

I have sound card, hard drives etc.

Many many thanks!

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,260.09
(includes shipping: £13.20)
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I would look at X99 if you are mainly doing Video Editing.

The Fractal Design S is a nice case if you want to save a bit of money. It doesn't have an optical drive bay though.

Alpenfohn Matterhorn Black will perform as well as the H60.

Your psu should be fine to reuse.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,189.05
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I agree, X99 is far more suitable than Skylake for editing and casual gaming. If it were gaming and casual editing it would make more sense to stick with Skylake and keep costs down, but you will see a lot of performance increase with the extra cores in video editing/rendering with not real gaming downside, just a bit more cash.

Other than that I think it is good, the KFA2 might be a better choice for 970, both it and the ASUS turn fans off to save power and noise at idle, but the KFA2 has a higher boost clock and costs less. That is kind of personal preference though.

The PSU should be fine if it's been kept relatively clean. Maybe give it a canned air blast if you haven't already :p
 
Thanks for this guys. Has made me rethink things...

For what seems to be only a small price increase, going for the X99 feels like a no brainer!?? Would that be fair to say?

However, contrary to how I made it sound, I'm just as casual at editing (albeit on a professional level) as I am at gaming, and coming from a Q6600, 8GBs Ram & an ATI HD4800, I'm imagining that both systems will have a massive improvement on my current performance!

Looking at benchmark tests, should I be concerned about the power consumption of the 5820k over the Skylake or are we talking pennies?

And I'm surprised that the Alpenfohn cooler performs the same as a liquid cooler at nearly half the price! What kind of money d'you have to spend then on a liquid cooler for it to really outshine the bog standard units and justify the cost difference?
 
The i7 5820K is a bit more power hungry than the i7 6700K but it isn't going to make that much difference on your electricity bill. The system might use about an extra 60W when under load.


If you wanted a high end water cooler then you would be looking at something like the Corsair H110i GT (280mm) or H105 (240mm). A high end air cooler would be something like a Noctua D15 or Phanteks PH-TC14PE.

For a smaller 120mm water cooler such as the H60 then a mid range air cooler (Such as the Alpenfohn) will perform around the same.
 
Think of X99 an extension on the performance of Skylake (with at bit of an overlap), but instead of extending gaming performance it extends highly threaded application performance. For your use I do still believe that the 5820 would be of greater use than the 6700. Your PSU is still plenty, a CPU upgrade is not going to push you over the edge. For almost any single GPU setup 500W is enough.

On the subjects of CPUs, coolers and power all at the same time, do you intend to overclock at all?

I got a 120mm Cooler Master AIO water cooler for testing purposes and its not fantastic. The AIO coolers tend to be quieter than some price equivalent air coolers, but won't necessarily perform better. Until you get to the high end like the Corsair H110, but they can be very pricey.
 
Ok, cos increased electricity bills would make the decision for me...

I guess a better question to have asked would have been which is going to keep me going another 6yrs, like my current one has!

In regards to OCing, probably not. I notice the X99 board does have an OC Genie so I could be tempted to dabble with that, but not at the cost of an expensive cooler. So would the Alpenfohn be the ideal choice with either setup?

I'm also thinking that 32gb maybe slightly excessive at this stage, and in the interest of keeping costs down, maybe 16gb is the way to go... Any 16GB kit recommendations for both setups?

Thanks again.
 
In theory the i7 5820K should last longer due to it having an extra 2 cores.


Here is a 4 x 4GB kit of the Crucial Ram for the X99 setup.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £88.69
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For Skylake any of these 2 x 8GB kits:


My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £248.67
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You would still have room for an extra 16GB on either setup.
 
OC Genie tools have gotten a lot better on the latest chipsets so if you do want to push your CPU a bit further it's not a bad way to go to save you lots of hassle. In terms of which will last you longer I'd say 5820k just because more cores and cache, the 6700k really only has a higher core clock.

The Matterhorn Black will allow a decent overclock on a 5820k, OCUK actually have a prebuilt machine with a 5820k OCed to 4.2GHz with this cooler which I'd describe as a decent overclock.

That 4x4Gb kit of RAM is a good choice and if you want to upgrade later you can just buy another of the same kit and install it since X99 motherboards have 8 DIMM slots :)
 
So this is currently where I'm at....

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,289.97
(includes shipping: £14.10)
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To go with my old Enermax Liberty 620 power supply, OCZ agility 3 SSD, 2TB Seagate HD and Samsung 32" 2560x1440 monitor.

Peoples thoughts? Am I missing anything?

I may have another £100/150 to throw at this.... Any suggestions on where I should invest that money? Upgrade a particular part? Bearing in mind editing, casual gaming and to keep me going for the next 7years!

Many thanks.
 
I didn't realise your momnitor was 2560x1440, a 970 might have a bit of trouble to play some games at that resolution on it's own. You'll be fine in most cases, but after a while youn will need to upgrade.

As for upgrading, a 980 is not very cost effective and a 980Ti is proably out of your budget, so I'd either go with the 970 and SLI it with another down the road when it becomes a pain, or get an R9 390X now.

Maybe look at some 970 benchmarks for your favourite games to see what the FPS will likely be?
 
Thanks Frank but I think I'll stick with the 970. From looking at benchmarks, it'll be more than fine for me, and as you say I can always double up in future.
 
They are both nice PSUs, but I'm not convinced they are worth spending for the upgrade they will give.

I'd get a semi-passive one like the Corsair RMi series or the EVGA G2 supplies, 750W or 850W.

They cost a bit more than the ones you linked, but you get silence most of the time and a lot more efficiency. I think these would last you for another several years :p

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pc-components/power-supplies/semi-passive
 
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