New to PC Building, Help with ~£900 Spec

[Wpod]

Hey guys. I'm looking to get my first custom PC and was recommended to post on here for some help. I'm looking at a max budget of £1000.

Based on my needs i'm looking for i5k, 16gb RAM and a graphics card to run games in 1920x1080 smoothly.

I spent awhile putting together a spec and came up with this. I don't know if there's anything glaringly wrong, but if there's anything you guys would change, let me know - i need as much advice as i can get

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-6600K 3.9GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £229.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2A24= £109.99
• 1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/= £55.99
• 1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler= £24.95
• 1 x MSI H270 PC Mate Intel H270 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £103.99
• 1 x Kolink Aviator Midi Tower Gaming Case - Blue= £44.99
• 1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 1060 "Reference Design" 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £179.99
• 1 x Toshiba P300 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD120UZSVA)= £68.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £89.95
• 1 x XFX XT Series 600W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £47.99

Total: £956.82
(includes shipping: £0.00)



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[itschance]

-Knock down your RAM to 8GB (https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...annel-kit-black-cmk8gx4m2a2400-my-437-cs.html), you really don't need 16GB.
-Get rid of the CPU cooler, you also really don't need that tbh.

That's nearly £70 saved that you can put towards peripherals or other areas of the PC.

 

[sergiup]

Here's an AMD-based option; it's only a personal opinion, but I reckon that in the long term more cores will be better rather than better apparent gaming performance right now. It's obviously your choice
The cooler that comes with the R1700 is pretty decent, no need to replace it.
Personally I also think that the RX480 is a better choice than the GTX1060.
You may be able to find Windows 10 for less.
EVGA vs XFX for PSU is a personal preference again, up to you.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 Eight Core 1700 3.70GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £329.99
• 1 x Asus Prime B350-Plus AMD B350 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £98.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK8GX4M2A2400= £65.99
• 1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/= £55.99
• 1 x Kolink Aviator Midi Tower Gaming Case - Blue= £44.99
• 1 x Asus Radeon RX 480 Dual OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £179.99
• 1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (DT01ACA200)= £64.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £89.95
• 1 x EVGA 600W 80 Plus Power Supply (100-W1-0600-K3)= £48.95

Total: £979.83
(includes shipping: £0.00)



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[HACO]

Hey guys. I'm looking to get my first custom PC and was recommended to post on here for some help. I'm looking at a max budget of £1000.

Based on my needs i'm looking for i5k, 16gb RAM and a graphics card to run games in 1920x1080 smoothly.

I spent awhile putting together a spec and came up with this. I don't know if there's anything glaringly wrong, but if there's anything you guys would change, let me know - i need as much advice as i can get

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-6600K 3.9GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £229.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2A24= £109.99
• 1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/= £55.99
• 1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler= £24.95
• 1 x MSI H270 PC Mate Intel H270 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £103.99
• 1 x Kolink Aviator Midi Tower Gaming Case - Blue= £44.99
• 1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 1060 "Reference Design" 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £179.99
• 1 x Toshiba P300 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD120UZSVA)= £68.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £89.95
• 1 x XFX XT Series 600W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £47.99

Total: £956.82
(includes shipping: £0.00)


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Get a graphics card with better cooling. I'd only suggest a blower if your case doesn't have much cooling by itself.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-331-ms.html