New to PC Building, Help with ~£900 Spec

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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 :D

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)
 
i dont know that case, or how good airflow/space it has got, but for my experience i bought a 30£ case, bitfenix nova windowed black, does the job, space for cable management is really hard and the location of hard drive bays cuts a bit the airflow from front case to the back, bear this in mind with some cases :D
wish i had invested 50-70 pounds on a better case..
like a aerocool p7-c1
enthoo pro m glass
Nzxt s340
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £879.87
(includes shipping: £0.00)




You can get windows 10 for around £25
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Avoid the V300 SSD. Get the newest KabyLake i5-K and a Z270 board. Change that XT PSU to something a bit better. RX 480 doing better than 1060 across a wide variety of games. Don't buy into 3GB only.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,007.82
(includes shipping: £0.00)



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Are we allowed to share content from pcpart picker or etc???im trying to find the forum rules but unable to find them until now...thanks
 
TidusPrG said:
Are we allowed to share content from pcpart picker or etc???im trying to find the forum rules but unable to find them until now...thanks
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No, use the OCUK store. Cant use competitor sites or sites that advertise competitor sites.

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Thanks for the replies guys.
I've adjusted the CPU, graphics and power supply, they seemed like much better options:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £954.82
(includes shipping: £0.00)

I have a few questions with some of the other parts.
I was really happy with the cosmetics of the case, is the airflow more important + will the components fit comfortably?
Both replies recommended the 250gb ssd, what will it do for the extra £50?
I went for the 2x8gb Ram over 4x4gb because i heard it was more reliable, does it matter too much?

Also i have absolutely no clue about differences between motherboards, so a little more on them would be useful

Sorry for the long-winded post, all advice is really appreciated though :)



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Theres no point in going for a non Z motherboard with an Unlocked Intel CPU, a K CPU allows overclocking but you need a motherboard capable of overclocking to do it. The case is really down to you, airflow is very important, you dont want it to be hot in the case but it shouldnt be a problem for the case you picked.

I wouldnt go for a 120gb SSD, you will fill it up pretty quick and end up playing games from the Toshiba drive, you ideally want a bigger SSD where and run a few of your most common games from it. The read/write speeds of the Kingson SSD Now are around 450MB/s i think but if you spend more on something like a Samsung PM961 you will be looking at reads of 3000MB/s and writes of over 1000MB/s, which you wont get using a SATA SSD. And for a 1k max budget you I wouldnt skimp on anything less than a PCI-e NVMe.

For RAM I would probably go for the faster memory Danny picked but theres nothing wrong with the RAM you picked out really.
 
Couple of points:

If you want to overclock the 7600K (I presume so otherwise go for the non-K and save some money on the CPU as well as no additional cooler required), then you need a Z270 motherboard.

Case will house everything no problem, and 3 included fans will be good for airflow.

The ram is red which might not fit your colour scheme too well...? For another £10 you can get this 3000mhz kit that will match.

A 120gb SSD would be too small for me, hell I could even do with more than 250gb, but anyway, 120gb isn't that good value in gb/£ either, and the V300 is a very low end SSD. The Samsung below is great and better value for money.

I also threw in the 4pin splitter as you'll need 3x 4 pin connections for the fans and this motherboard has 2.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £331.46
(includes shipping: £10.50)



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From what i've looked into i5k at safe overclocking is more than enough for me, i7 seems like overkill

For some context i'm playing games like league of legends, SWTOR, subnautica, fallout etc. and just want to run them consistently well in 1920x1080 (and i tend to have way too many tabs open, reason for 16gbram)


My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,004.81
(includes shipping: £0.00)

You guys sold me on the SSD, seems well worth it rather than the kingston
Went with the suggestion by daveeeeeee on RAM, 2x8gb and fits the colour scheme well
Motherboard has been adjusted, thanks for the heads up on that

Looking like very near the final spec i'd like. Price sort of scares me, but at the same time, reassured by all of the advice. If you have any more, keep it coming, you guys are really helpful. :D
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