New media pc

[Flykilla]

Hi Folks,

My last PC (Media ) from overclockers is now nearing the end of its life after 8 hassle free years of use. Still surprised to see it handling modern games so well.

I need a new PC which will preferably sit on top of my AMP under the stairs, so it need to be able to sit on its side, like my old media machine or possible a cube.

Moderate video editing
Some gaming (WoW) which I would like to run on full settings.
Lots of listening to music and watching HD films BluRay and downloads)

I would like 16gb ram and 4mb graphics if poss.

No operating system or antivirus

Budget £800-900

Looking for something that rocks that will last another 8 years.

Can someone spec me up a machine plz.

Ps. I have external hard drives for storage, so thinking I need an SSD for main Hard drive?

Thanks Brad.

 

[mickyflinn]

Do you need a blu ray player ?

 

[Flykilla]

Yes please.

 

[mickyflinn]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-6600K 3.9GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £199.99
• 1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)= £129.95
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Mini ITX Motherboard= £109.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FB2K2/1= £59.99
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Power 9 600W 80 Plus Silver Modular Power Supply - *** SPECIAL OFFER PRICE TILL 1ST M= £64.99
• 1 x BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Cube Case - Midnight Black= £64.99
• 1 x HIS Radeon R9 380X IceQ X2 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H380XQM4CR)= £188.99
• 1 x LG UH12NS30 12x Blu-Ray Combo Drive SATA (OEM)= £37.99
• 1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler= £29.99

Total: £886.87
(includes shipping: £0.00)

 

[Flykilla]

Thanks for putting this together for me so quickly. Looks good.
I can see where you are going with the graphics card, but could stretch the budget if there is a non AMD alternative, thats better?

 

[Flykilla]

GeForce GTX 970 G1 Gaming 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

or

GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent "Infin8 Black Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **World

 

[Flykilla]

Will this come build and ready for me just to install the operating system?

 

[lsg1r]

How bigs the amp? You could consider using a 'htpc' style case instead, there's plenty to choose from here

That builds a diy job although I'm sure if you were to speak to OCUK they'd likely build one for you (will cost extra obviously) or you could look through their pre built options for something similar

 

[mistersprinkles]

Will this come build and ready for me just to install the operating system?

lol no

 

[Flykilla]

The amp is an onkyo TX-NR609, but I am happy with the above cube case as my previous HTPC case limited what graphics card I could use due to space. I am happy with the Mickeys spec, even with the graphics card as it seems to be geared towards good sound quality, just had a bad experience with an Radeon card years ago.

I will give the guys at OCUK a call to see if they will build it for me.

Would be interesting to know if the GTX 970 OC would be any better though.

 

[mickyflinn]

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Would be interesting to know if the GTX 970 OC would be any better though.

Yes it would be better than the 380x, the 970 is eqivalant to the AMD 390.

Nvidia is due to releae Pascal gpu's in june but if you cant wait then the 970 uses less power and has 4gb of vram . The 390 is consider a tad faster with 8gb of vram which is more beneficial above 1080p.


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-amd-radeon-r9-390-8gb-review

 

[Flykilla]

Thanks Micky great help thanks.