New Rig, build/sanity check?

[jwink86]

Hi All,

Can someone have a quick look over the above build and confirm its all good? I had a concern over the ram but I guess I just enable XMP 2.0 and off I go?

I've already got most stuff, KB,Mouse, OS, Case but I am looking for a half decent PSU to power all these goodies, can anyone provide any recommendations? Would like fully modular if poss with either gold or platinum rating and under/around the £100 mark. Could possibly spend a little more if were talking about a real gamechanger PSU. Worth noting that ill also be installing a 1070Ti when the crazy prices drop. Other than that just a few RGB fans and Strip lights! PSU calc is coming out to below 500w mark but would like a little more in case I add a few things at a later date.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Team Group Dark Pro "8Pack Edition" 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C14 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/= £199.99
• 1 x Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £329.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 5 Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £204.95
• 1 x Samsung 960 EVO Polaris 250GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £128.99

Total: £863.92 (includes shipping: £0.00)​

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Cheers

Jwink86

 

[BongoHunter]

Ive found the Corsair RM series PSUs to be good - you can get the RMx 650 in budget I think.

Might by worth considering a larger m2 drive - I found my 250 disappeared extremely quickly with the size stuff seems to be getting now, and ended up having to add extra SSDs to cope with modern games

 

[Danny75]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 550W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £79.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £89.99

Total: £181.08 (includes shipping: £11.10)​

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The 650W is in case you change your mind and get a 1080Ti instead. Otherwise 550W will do nicely. These have a ten year warranty.

New Nvidia cards should be due April, so best wait unless you need a card ASAP.

Do you already have a good CPU cooler for that 8700K?

 

[jwink86]

Thanks for the replys guys.

I will look at both the PSU's suggested, i see the Seasonic ones get mentioned a lot and with a 10yr warranty they must be good.

For my games and content I've got a 4tb secondary drive so I was hoping that would be enough...Maybe

I had considered a 1080 before mining pushed the prices up, I'll be happy to wait until April as I have a card I can use. What's the specs of the new cards looking like, where will they fit in the current range?

Can anyone confirm this RAM will work?

Cheers

 

[Danny75]

I had considered a 1080 before mining pushed the prices up, I'll be happy to wait until April as I have a card I can use. What's the specs of the new cards looking like, where will they fit in the current range?

Two "ifs": If they do release new cards, and if they follow the recent pattern, the new XX70 would be similar to 1080Ti, and the new XX80 20% or so faster than XX70. i.e. 970 was similar to 780Ti, 1070 was similar to 980Ti. Things this time around could be a bit different though, with memory prices high, and not much competition from AMD.

Can anyone confirm this RAM will work?

Cheers

Good RAM, price has gone up though.