Second Opinions on my upgrade please.

SteelerRob

SteelerRob

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Hi all,

Can some of you please offer any advice on my upgrade? I already have a BD Drive, 500GB 960SSD and a 2TB Spinny that will go in to this build.

I haven't built for a long time, is there anything I am missing / could do better with? Budget is around £2k, I'm not wanting to go in to water-cooling but would consider a OCUK pre de-lid job.

Many Thanks

Rob

Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail
£359.99*
Team Group Xtreem "8Pack Edition" 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 PC4-32000C18 4000MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black
£449.99*
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)
£6.49*
Noctua NH-D15 Dual Radiator Quiet CPU Cooler with two NH-A15 Fans
£84.95*
Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming 2.0 Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
£158.99*
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080Ti Gaming OC 11264MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card
£719.99*

Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower Case - Black (CC-9011035-WW)
£139.99*
Corsair CX750 750W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (CP-9020123-UK)
£92.99*

Total order value
£2,013.38*
 
Personally I wouldnt spend that much on the RAM. Maybe if I was to buy a 5ghz delidded 8700k that would go with the faster RAM but I would rather buy a cheaper set of 32gb possibly 3000mhz and use the extra money and get a 2080 or 2080ti. The cost difference between 3000mhz or even 3200mhz and 4000mhz would not be beneficial for me in extra gaming FPS. I also wouldnt buy a brand new 1080ti for that money now too. Be really sick in a couple of months if it plunges to around £500. For the budget and just because I'd have the cash I would def go with the new gen and would build the PC round that.

Also just noticed the price of the 8700k two weeks ago it was £329. (although I got mine for £289! :) )
 
Personally i would wait to build right now, the 2080 is less than 20 days away and the 2070 is just under 2 months away which i am waiting for.
Also prices are slowly coming down on 10 series cards, i mean slowly but they are dropping.
 
What are you going to be doing with it? If you're just playing games then just get 16 GB RAM, and there's little point in getting a 1080 Ti when the 2080 is - allegedly - just a bit faster and a similar price. If your use case favours multiple cores, you might consider going AMD.
 
I can get the 8700K for £329 but its OEM, m not sure how that affects warranty? or if it makes any difference anymore as they don't come with heat-syncs?

Ive dropped the RAM to 3000Mhz and changed the card for a 2080Ti, it come out at about £180 more which is fine :)

Is now a bad time to be upgrading? I hear Intel is about to push (another!) a new chip out in October?

Thanks

Rob
 
Quartz said:
What are you going to be doing with it? If you're just playing games then just get 16 GB RAM, and there's little point in getting a 1080 Ti when the 2080 is - allegedly - just a bit faster and a similar price. If your use case favours multiple cores, you might consider going AMD.
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Gaming will be a certainty :) I have a VIVE that has cooked my current 770GTX to the point I expect it to fail completely any time now, would 16GB RAM really cut it now?

Thanks

Rob
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £2,228.89 (includes shipping: £0.00)​
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But week 40 will see the coming of z390 and 8 core intel along with rtx 2070 which will drop price of older gens or fall between 1080ti and 1080 is which I'm guessing .

Food for thought, ryzen build and board comes with leading g WiFi

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £2,193.05 (includes shipping: £13.20)​
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Have selected 750w tier one PSU for both , and 2.5slot 2080ti as heard it runs a little warm :)
 
Quartz said:
Absolutely. I've heard, though, that Star Citizen will make use of more.
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Think the only one I've played that I can hit 24GB is cities skylines but way back when it first came out and so many mod add one that ate into it, until developers used mod ideas with source coding and no need for most of mods :D
 
SteelerRob said:
I can get the 8700K for £329 but its OEM, m not sure how that affects warranty? or if it makes any difference anymore as they don't come with heat-syncs?

Ive dropped the RAM to 3000Mhz and changed the card for a 2080Ti, it come out at about £180 more which is fine :)

Is now a bad time to be upgrading? I hear Intel is about to push (another!) a new chip out in October?

Thanks

Rob
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I just upgraded my whole PC to the one in the sig and I got some good bargains. Felt it was the right time to upgrade, summer months, pc hardware sales slow down so companies bring out some offers.

OEM has 1 yr warranty and retail has 3 yr according to OCUK. Just doesnt come with a box. Retail doesnt come with a cooler anyway as you say.
 
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