Spec me a pure gaming rig

md99

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I think its high time I got myself a new PC. The last time I made a substantial upgrade was whenever it was AMD released the 5000 series radeon cards. I've been looking at Rise Of The Tomb Raider this past week and I'm green with envy that I can't play it. To be honest, its pretty much for ROTTR and Doom 4 I want to upgrade.

I need a new cpu, either a blazing fast i5 or a number crunching i7, whichever is best for gaming.

Also need a new GPU, naturally. I've been very happy with AMD/Radeon cards over the years and I have no real urge to change that. Was thinking of maybe an AMD 390, the 8gb of vram sounds appealing, especially when games like the aforementioned Tomb Raider use up to 6gb of it. But I wouldn't discount nVidia either.

Ram, was thinking 16gb unless there is a reason I should go for 32? Again, whatever is best for gaming. DDR3, DDR4, etc?

Finally a mainboard to plop it all into. Something as future-proof as future proof in this game can be. Upgradeable to 32gb of ram of course. Maybe compatible with ddr3 & 4 if such a thing exists? Plenty of iputs for extra hard drives (I have five) and tall he usual others (hdmi, usb3 inputs, etc)

I'm keeping my case (atx form factor) & monitor so no need for anything like that. Will be running it all on Win 10 btw. I'm pretty sure I have an 800w Cosrair psu in there so I'm not after a new one either.

My budget is £750, give or take. Basically something that will run this years games at very high settings.

So that's a cpu, ram, mainboard & graphics card. I tried it myself but ran everything though a compatibility checker and I can't quite get 100% compatibility. I've been out of this game for too long :D

Thanks for your time.
 
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Oops. Forgot to mention, no, have an ssd as a primary hd. I'd probably cool the cpu too, have an ancient LGA775 cooler which I gather is completely incompatible with modern mainboards?

Resolution wise, 1920 x 1200

Lets bump the budget up to £800
 
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I'll be housing it all in my beloved Coolermaster 932.

Thanks for the suggestions so far folks, seems the i5 6600 is the go-to cpu for gaming, yes?

Re: ram, gaming is going to be the most intensive task that the build will handle. I'm not going to be running Photoshop, video editors or Chrome with 100 tabs open all at the same time so 16gb of the stuff should really be enough? Are we talking a good few years yet before we start needing more?

Keep 'em coming, suggestions really are appreciated. Gives me an excuse do do my own follow-up research too.
 
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That looks a sweet deal. I could opt for a 390 and save quite a few quid too. Hmmm.

Edit: bah, 8gb of ram. Thought I was well in there for a moment :D

These multi-packages look good mind, Overclockers weren't doing them when I last ordered here.
 
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