Quick component check

maloflora

maloflora

maloflora

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Hi all,


I’ve just upgraded to a GTX 1080ti and I might now be looking to upgrade the rest of the PC around it. This is partly because there are some instability issues on bootup which I think are because of the power supply or motherboard, but also because I want to do justice to the graphics card. I mainly do VR gaming on the Vive.


Current:

Gigabyte Z97x Gaming 7 mobo

Intel i7 4790k

Enthoo Primo case

H110i cooler


Plus the 1080ti

And a five year old 650W PSU



Proposed:

O/C bundle with Gigabyte Ultra Gaming Z370, i7-8700k, 16Gb Ram:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/defc...4.70ghz-gaming-bundle-bu-0a7-og.html#t=a1b1c5


Corsair 850W Gold PSU – not sure what the different variants do?
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...lar-power-supply-cp-9020180-uk-ca-23v-cs.html


Is the Asetek AIO cooler in the bundle good enough, or should I go for a 240mm AIO cooler like this one?
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cool...ressable-rgb-cpu-cooler-240mnm-hs-07v-cm.html


All advice very gratefully received! Overall budget, excluding graphics card, ideally below £800-£900.
 
Thanks for the reply. I'm not overclocking anything at the moment as I'm having trouble booting up quite often and have to reset the bios every time. Hence the upgrade. But if it's not going to make much of a performance difference I might just try and replace the power supply only. That's about 7 years old and might be the problem.
 
I'm afraid I have no spare psu and have tried the bios update as well! F8 is what's currently running.

Is the advice there wouldn't be much of an upgrade from moving from my current cpu? If so I'll do my best to repair rather than upgrade.
 
About 1 time in 2, it POSTs, shows MoBo screen, then shows Windows logo and immediately powers off. I can always get into BIOS with Del, but it's unpredictable whether it goes from BIOS to Windows (10) without powering off. Once it does, there are no problems at all.
 
Hi all,

I've decided to bite the bullet and give myself a nice future-proofed Christmas present by upgrading. I'm going to keep the Enthoo Primo and obviously the 1080 TI and my pre-existing drives. Can I just do a check on these components and make sure they'll play nicely together?

Thanks!

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,091.05 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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