Planned Skylake Build

[BennettWHU]

I'm going to start building my new PC in January and I'm trying to figure out what components I should go with. The PC will primarily be used for gaming and web browsing. I don't intend to upgrade this PC for quite some time as I've tried the 'save money' approach before and find myself having to upgrade or re-build sooner than I'd like. I want something that's high-end, but not Titan X high-end lol

I've listed my planned parts so far below. Any advice would be much appreciated. I was thinking of an Nvidia 980 for the GPU or maybe their 980ti. As for RAM and the PSU, I'm lost. I did ask about PSU's in the relevant forum and got some decent advice so I might go with something in the 1200w range because I might decide to go SLI. That all depends on what can fit into my budget, GPU wise.

BUDGET: £800 - £1000 (prefer to stay under £1000 as much as possible)


CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K
Motherboard: Asus Maximus VIII Gene Intel Z170
RAM:
GPU:
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB
SSD:
PSU:

 

[stulid]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI - Intel Core i5 6600K Bundle **£20 Saving**= £303.97
• 1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £68.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX426C15FBK2/8)= £44.99
• 1 x Inno3D GeForce GTX 980Ti Herculez OC 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (N98TV-1SDN-N5HNX)= £499.99
• 1 x Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Midi Tower Case with Window - Black= £59.99
• 1 x Raijintek Themis Black Heatpipe CPU Cooler PWM - 120mm= £19.99
• 1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache HDD - OEM (DT01ACA100)= £32.39
• 1 x SuperFlower FX 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - Black= £49.99

Total: £1,094.40
(includes shipping: £14.10)
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As you can see, even with some scrimping here and there its over £1K with a 980Ti.

 

[BennettWHU]

I forgot to mention that I'm going mATX because I've already got a decent PC case, Corsair 350D.

 

[stulid]

Oh now you tell me

 

[BennettWHU]

Oh now you tell me

Sorry lol

 

[stulid]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £68.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX426C15FBK2/8)= £44.99
• 1 x Inno3D GeForce GTX 980Ti Herculez OC 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (N98TV-1SDN-N5HNX)= £499.99
• 1 x Raijintek Themis Black Heatpipe CPU Cooler PWM - 120mm= £19.99
• 1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache HDD - OEM (DT01ACA100)= £32.39
• 1 x SuperFlower FX 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - Black= £49.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming-5 Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £136.99
• 1 x Intel Core i5-6600K 3.9GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM= £194.99

Total: £1,060.02
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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Still over a grand.

 

[BennettWHU]

Both of those have a 550w PSU. Why so low? I thought higher end systems required 800w+?

 

[RJC]

Only if your looking to add a second card

550w is fine, I think you would be pulling 359w under load.

 

[stulid]

Its fine for a single card, go for 850W if you need SLI.

 

[BennettWHU]

Even if I was to overclock the GPU and CPU?

 

[stulid]

Yeah, its not a pants PSU, its amps on the 12V rail is what you would expect, its just lacking the modular cable feature of a more expensive unit.

 

[RJC]

Yep, my system which had a 290x overclocked and a 4770k overclocked with several drives and custom water pulled around 400w from the mains under full load.