Second Opinions on my upgrade please.

[SteelerRob]

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
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Team Group Xtreem "8Pack Edition" 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 PC4-32000C18 4000MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black
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Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)
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Noctua NH-D15 Dual Radiator Quiet CPU Cooler with two NH-A15 Fans
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Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming 2.0 Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
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Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080Ti Gaming OC 11264MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card
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Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower Case - Black (CC-9011035-WW)
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[SteelerRob]

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

 

[SteelerRob]

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.

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