Skylake System

[Starfish]

I was considering an x99 system.. but, for gaming, it seems expensive for the performance gains... so .. socket 1151 Skylake?

Can anyone recommend a nice Motherboard, the RAM will be the blitz red with the LED's.

Single nvidia 1080 or 1070, and an SSD in the M2 socket.

The reason i ask, is this business about lanes, and shared resources.. which just confuzes me.....

The chip needs to o/c to 4.5 - i'm presuming the one to go for is i7-6700k

ideally, the theme is orange/red and black

 

[Starfish]

Hi.. thanks for the reply..

No kb mouse needed, but will be buying a monitor. am looking at the g-sync 1440p 165mhz one. (£600)

SSD im looking at is the upcoming sm961 samsung 512mb, at around £250

Overall budget, is around 2.5k

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 G1 Gaming Water Cooled Graphics Card = £786.98
  • Block:EK Water Blocks EK-FC1080 GTX G1 - Nickel + Plexi
• 1 x Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £329.99
• 1 x Acer Predator XB271HU 27" 2560x1440 IPS G-Sync 165Hz Gaming Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red= £599.99
• 1 x Avexir Blitz Original Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C17 3600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit - Red Light= £139.99
• 1 x Samsung SM961 Polaris 1TB M.2-2880 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £449.99

Total: £2,319.24
(includes shipping: £12.30)
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[Starfish]

ahh yes.. thanks.. i did wonder about that.. the OEM version of the drive v the retail..

Its the motherboard i didnt really have a clue about. ie,, if any z150 motherboard offered anything above another one.

many thanks