Spec Up, £3,000 Budget

gradyhawks

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Hi Chaps,

Have another friend wanting to join the master race and needs a full build with a budget of £3,000. This needs to include everything apart from a mouse, w10 licence and speakers, he has asked for the following to be considered:

- Almost exclusively for gaming but wants to do some sound editing and such with it as well eventually.
- Needs a good pair of headphones (soundcard?) for gaming (so need a mic) as well as sound work.
- Plenty of storage for games and other stuff.
- Keyboard has to be a K95 RGB (so maybe just -£200 off the budget)
- Needs a monitor as well, potentially a 144hz 1440p job.

Wondering what you can come up with. Thoughts on a PCI SSD like the 950, or better off with bigger 850's? Is there a need for a sound card with some of the higher end Motherboards?

I know this is close to the net lot of GPUs, but need to get this PC sooner rather than later.

Cheers,

Grady
 
Oh i love big budget builds.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £2,848.74
(includes shipping: £23.10)
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This board has creative sound chip and fancy capacitors etc,no need for a separate sound card.
 
stulid said:
Oh i love big budget builds.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £2,848.74
(includes shipping: £23.10)
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This board has creative sound chip and fancy capacitors etc,no need for a separate sound card.
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A nice build, however I would question that motherboard choice and lack of M.2 SSD.

The problem is that board M.2 only supports up to 10GB/PS - If I were doing a 3K PC I'd want an M.2 SSD with a 32GB/PS M.2 port to take full advantage both now and in the future.
 
OracIe said:
A nice build, however I would question that motherboard choice and lack of M.2 SSD.

The problem is that board M.2 only supports up to 10GB/PS - If I were doing a 3K PC I'd want an M.2 SSD with a 32GB/PS M.2 port to take full advantage both now and in the future.
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Thats why I went for a larger 850SSD, cheaper and in the real world still plenty quick enough.

This coming from someone who has had fast SATAIII SSDs and m.2 nvme SSDs.
 
Ive had,

Samsung 840
Corsair Force GT
Hyper X (in RAID 0)
Intel 520
Intel 750 (pcie nvme)
Samsung 951 (current)

For just games and regular use a quick SATAIII is fine.
 
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stulid said:
Ive had,

Samsung 840
Corsair Force GT
Hyper X (in RAID 0)
Intel 710
Intel 750 (pcie nvme)
Samsung 951 (current)

For just games and regular use a quick SATAIII is fine.
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Well ultimately it's the OP's choice, the motherboard is not what I would consider future proof purely because of the m.2 slot being slow and only having 1 SATA Express port, its basically restricting the OP to pretty much SATA3 speeds for the lifetime of the PC/board with only one option for SE to use in the future.

SATA3 maybe fine for the here and now (just), but moving forward it's going to seriously show up any weak areas in the rest of the system over the next year+.

My point is that spending 3k, I'd expect something a bit more future proof.

But hey, what do I know.

Crack on ;)
 
OracIe said:
Well ultimately it's the OP's choice, the motherboard is not what I would consider future proof purely because of the m.2 slot being slow and only having 1 SATA Express port, its basically restricting the OP to pretty much SATA3 speeds for the lifetime of the PC/board with only one option for SE to use in the future.

SATA3 maybe fine for the here and now (just), but moving forward it's going to seriously show up any weak areas in the rest of the system over the next year+.

My point is that spending 3k, I'd expect something a bit more future proof.

But hey, what do I know.

Crack on ;)
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m.2 32gb the current revision found on Z170 will be yesterdays old news when something significantly better comes out.
 
stulid said:
m.2 32gb the current revision found on Z170 will be yesterdays old news when something significantly better comes out.
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32GB is on X99 too - as for something better, well that will always be the case. For the here and now, and immediate future, your build above will age badly. (In terms of mobo choice - the rest is great)
 
It won't age badly at all, broadwell-E support in the future.

Buy for now not what may come in the future.

Like I said I've had many ssds and apart from asssd or crystaldisk benchmark results there's not a standout gain in everyday tasks..especially gaming.
 
IanB001 said:
Just curious; what's wrong with Skylake? :confused:
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Nothing, its just that he can afford X99+5820K instead of a Z170+6700K, so gains more cores, less clock speed (but can be overclocked to remove this deficit).

There is no cheap X99 alternative to a Z170+6600K so thats a fine choice.
 
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