PC builds for Mate and My Brother ~ £1000

locrieth · 6 Nov 2015 at 13:23

Hi All,

Been looking at skylake builds for both my brother and a mate both have about £1000 to spend on the PC alone, no peripherals (Mouse, keyboard, Monitor)

My Mates PC will be a complete new build, no additional parts to be scavenged from old PCs.

My Brother has an old first Gen i3 which he'll be reusing a new SSD and his HDD, Case, I suspect he'll need a new PSU.

So for both i was looking at:

Intel Core i5-6600K 3.9GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail
Stock Code CP-579-IN

£224.99*

Asus Z170 Pro Gaming Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard

£119.99*

Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C16 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2A26

£89.99*

Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)

£74.99*

Sapphire Radeon R9 Tri-X 390X 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11241-00-20G)

£319.99*

Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD2003FZEX)

£99.95*

SuperFlower Leadex Platinum 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Platinum" Power Supply - Black

£112.99*

Totalling £1,053.99

Any Thoughts? Does the CPU come with a HSF? Think I read somewhere they don't on retail, can anyone confirm? The mate is looking at a Phantek Enthoo - Titanium Green case as well. Anywhere I can trim some £ but still get similar performance?

Cheers Team

mickyflinn · 6 Nov 2015 at 13:27

What case exactly is it ? pro or pro-m

locrieth · 6 Nov 2015 at 13:37

The midi one, think its the pro-m

locrieth · 6 Nov 2015 at 13:39

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/phanteks-enthoo-pro-mid-tower-case-with-window-titanium-green-ca-032-pt.html

stulid · 6 Nov 2015 at 13:47

CPU+board bundle deal - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...-6600k-bundle-20-pounds-saving-bu-021-gi.html

Then heres my guide how to overclock it - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18690667

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If you need 16Gb RAM theres also,

This board - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...cket-1151-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-527-gi.html

Includes a single 8GB stick of Corsair DDR4 RAM.

But for an extra £35 you can add a 2nd stick making a total of 16GB and making best use of the dual channel memory controller.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard = £187.98
- Additional Memory:Gigabyte Promo - Corsair 1x 8GB 2666MHz LPX DDR4 Red

Total: £198.48
(includes shipping: £10.50)

locrieth · 6 Nov 2015 at 13:57

Cheers Stulid, That looks like it'll shave me a Tenner off each, would you recommend that board over the Asus Z170 Pro Gaming? Is the rest of the spec ok?

stulid · 6 Nov 2015 at 13:59

I have no problems recommending them over asus, they both support SLI+Crossfire, the gaming 5 has a 4yr warranty.

As for the other parts,

2TB Black, not worth it, get a Red/Blue/green/Seagate etc.

EVGA G2 and P2 750/850W PSU are made by Superflower too, but look and you will see they have huge warranties.

locrieth · 6 Nov 2015 at 14:02

Right I'll have a scan through them too, didn't realise EVGA were made by Superflower, thanks for the heads up. The Second HDD is going to be mainly for storing games, so Blue?

stulid · 6 Nov 2015 at 14:03

RED.

Safe as houses.

locrieth · 7 Nov 2015 at 12:31

sorry for the delay in response got stuck in a load of meeting on friday. Hmm surprised you said Red for gaming drive, thought they were slower 5900rpm drives?

ExRayTed · 7 Nov 2015 at 12:36

Yup they are but the real-world difference is negligible during loading. I have all my seldom played games on a 4tb Red drive and they load and play just fine

locrieth · 7 Nov 2015 at 13:26

Do you store your regularly played games on SSD?

locrieth · 7 Nov 2015 at 15:16

Also does the i5 retail come with HSF? If not any recommendations?

stulid · 7 Nov 2015 at 16:10

Fit what ever amount of games as you can on the SSD.

Retail Skylake "K" CPUs do not include a heatsink.