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Mach234 (or similar).

Mach234 (or similar).

Mach234 (or similar).

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Hi Guys,

Looking at putting together a new rig, this is the shopping list so far.. Any comments would be great. I'll be using it for some heavy number crunching as well as gaming..

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £974.15
(includes shipping: £12.60)
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Plus could anyone recommend a good 24"-28" monitor, I'll also be using it for graphics editing, so if possible should ideally have a good flat colour gradient across the viewing angle (have a Samsung Syncmaster 2333 at the moment and colours are slightly darker above eye level than below, it's not usually noticeable but when editing it can make a noticeable difference)..

Thanks,
Mach45
 
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If you overclock it yourself you can get some nicer stuff for the money.

Enter BIOS, click XMP for memory, click to increase the four CPU turbo multipliers, click to increase Ring/Cache ratio (100-300MHz behind the CPU), save and exit. Job done. You only need to tinker more if you are trying for beyond say 4.6/4.7GHz.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £974.64
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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BluRay comes with better firm/software (so I hear).

PSU is better quality and 7 year warranty.

The Antec H600 is more than sufficient to cool an i7-6700K. Got 60C max in Realbench and Cinebench runs with a 4.7GHz overclock. Comes with thermal paste in a tube. Green fan to replace stock and go with your motherboard.

850 EVO has free shipping which makes up the cost difference between it and the Crucial.

What video card will you be using?

Ask about the monitor in the monitor section where the monitor gurus are.
 
Hey,

Thanks for spec list, looks really good. So for the OC are there any specific values I need to enter for the CPU multipliers and ring/cache ratios for the 4.5GHz?

Never tried water cooling before, does the fan just attach to the top case vent, I guess it'll say in it's install flyer. Was tempted by the Cougar power supply as its got power usage diagnostics but not a big thing, the EVGA does look pretty cool.. Lol on the green fan, might even be tempted :) Get a two-tone blue and green thing happening :)

At the moment I've got a Gainward Phantom GTX 760 gfx card that I can port and a fairly decent older one I can put in my current pc, so was thinking of waiting a few months for a new GPU til I knew if I wanted VR support..
 
Doc PC said:
Hey,

Thanks for spec list, looks really good. So for the OC are there any specific values I need to enter for the CPU multipliers and ring/cache ratios for the 4.5GHz?
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You just highlight the row and type in 45 for each core and enter, and 44 for ring and enter. Then save and exit. Then try going higher if you want, but just by 100MHz at a time from then on.

Doc PC said:
Never tried water cooling before, does the fan just attach to the top case vent, I guess it'll say in it's install flyer.
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That's probably the best spot, at the top, beside the rear fan. You attach the radiator to the top case vent. So that its fan exhausts out through the rad. Installation of it can be a bit tricky, and if an extra pair of hands is around just for a minute to help you, that would be good.


Doc PC said:
Was tempted by the Cougar power supply as its got power usage diagnostics but not a big thing, the EVGA does look pretty cool..
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It does. Switch on the ECO mode and you have a fanless PSU (till a certain load).


Doc PC said:
At the moment I've got a Gainward Phantom GTX 760 gfx card that I can port and a fairly decent older one I can put in my current pc, so was thinking of waiting a few months for a new GPU til I knew if I wanted VR support..
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Cool. There'll be new GPUs around June it seems.


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Uncore/cache/ring same thing.
 
Noob question - whats the substantive difference between the Skylake 6700K and the Haswell 5820K? Basically are the two cores worth the price difference for a gaming computer vs the speed difference? Im still in a bit of a panic about DX12 and the possibility im going to miss out in a year, but this looks really easy to OC, something ive always had an issue with.
 
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Hi,

Not sure, I seem to remember they come out pretty close to each other on most benchmark reviews, but seem to remember 5280k came out slightly on top ~10% for most number crunching, but 6700K came out slightly on top ~10% for most games. Did have a really good benchmark results link (see below), but just google benchmark/tests for either/both of the processors for other info..

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/skylake-intel-core-i7-6700k-core-i5-6600k,review-33276.html

I also went for the 6700K as it's part of the main Intel 6th Gen stream so thought it would give me more options and be better future-proofed .. Wouldn't know where to start OCing a 5820K though.. :) !
 
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