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Hi all,
I’m thinking of buying the following pre-built from the Overclockers website https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-125-OG. It’s called the “Titan Gladius” and the whole thing will cost around £1375, inclusive of operating system. The specs are as follows:
- Case: Cooler Master HAF X Gaming Tower Case
- Power Supply: SuperFlower Leadex 750W 80+ Gold Rated PSU
- CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K Quad Core Skylake Processor overclocked to 4.5GHz
- Motherboard: Asus Z170 Pro Gaming (Socket 1151) ATX Motherboard
- Cooler: OcUK Techlabs 240mm AIO Liquid Cooler with Noiseblocker Fans
- RAM: 16GB DDR4 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit
- Primary Hard Drive: Samsung 250GB 850 Evo Series Solid State Drive
- Secondary Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200 RPM Hard Drive
- Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 4GB Graphics Card
- Sound: 7.1 Channel Sound (On-Board)
- Optical Drive: OcUK DVD+/-RW SATA Drive
- Operating System: Windows 10.0 64 bit
I’ve got a few questions that I could really do with help on though so I’d be obliged if any of you more knowledgeable heads could point me in the right direction. I want something that’ll be future-proofed for the next 4-5 years. I’ll mainly be playing WoW, in 20-30 man raids, and want something that has high FPS whilst on Ultra settings, which isn’t anything I can do on my current PC. I’m also planning on maybe getting into The Witcher 3 and so again would want something that can handle Ultra settings.
1. I get that it’d be cheaper if I built it myself, but I have no idea how to overclock and build PCs in general, so I’m more than happy to live with paying out for the peace of mind of having something that works (and has a warranty) as it’s a considerable financial investment for me and not one I want to practice PC-building on. That said, is this reasonable (I’m assuming it’s about £100 above buying the individual parts cost, which I’m pretty fine with).
2. RAM – I’m planning on getting 16GB rather than 8GB, but I don’t understand the difference between 2400, 2666 and 3000 Mhz types. Which do I get? Is it a marginal increase in performance, or is it for things like streaming or using multiple GPUs, which I don’t intend to do. Do I even really need 16GB – I just assumed why not, considering from a future-proof point of view.
3. The graphics card should be fine for what I’m after – is that right?
4. The case is a decent one isn’t it – there are a few others to choose from in the drop-down for this pre-built, but I read good things about this one and thought it looked pretty cool.
5. Am I over-speccing considering what I want to use the PC for?
6. Am I right in thinking I want to put my games (as well as operating system of course) on the SSD, then anything else, e.g music, films, etc on the secondary drive?
7. Is there any reason to hold out in purchasing this? As Skylake is so new I’m assuming that the CPU and MOBO aren’t going to get cheaper anytime soon, so was thinking waiting for Black Friday, for example, might be a bit pointless. Any other reason not to go ahead at this moment in time?
All insights are very gratefully received – apologies for being a novice. Cheers guys!
I’m thinking of buying the following pre-built from the Overclockers website https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-125-OG. It’s called the “Titan Gladius” and the whole thing will cost around £1375, inclusive of operating system. The specs are as follows:
- Case: Cooler Master HAF X Gaming Tower Case
- Power Supply: SuperFlower Leadex 750W 80+ Gold Rated PSU
- CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K Quad Core Skylake Processor overclocked to 4.5GHz
- Motherboard: Asus Z170 Pro Gaming (Socket 1151) ATX Motherboard
- Cooler: OcUK Techlabs 240mm AIO Liquid Cooler with Noiseblocker Fans
- RAM: 16GB DDR4 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit
- Primary Hard Drive: Samsung 250GB 850 Evo Series Solid State Drive
- Secondary Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200 RPM Hard Drive
- Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 4GB Graphics Card
- Sound: 7.1 Channel Sound (On-Board)
- Optical Drive: OcUK DVD+/-RW SATA Drive
- Operating System: Windows 10.0 64 bit
I’ve got a few questions that I could really do with help on though so I’d be obliged if any of you more knowledgeable heads could point me in the right direction. I want something that’ll be future-proofed for the next 4-5 years. I’ll mainly be playing WoW, in 20-30 man raids, and want something that has high FPS whilst on Ultra settings, which isn’t anything I can do on my current PC. I’m also planning on maybe getting into The Witcher 3 and so again would want something that can handle Ultra settings.
1. I get that it’d be cheaper if I built it myself, but I have no idea how to overclock and build PCs in general, so I’m more than happy to live with paying out for the peace of mind of having something that works (and has a warranty) as it’s a considerable financial investment for me and not one I want to practice PC-building on. That said, is this reasonable (I’m assuming it’s about £100 above buying the individual parts cost, which I’m pretty fine with).
2. RAM – I’m planning on getting 16GB rather than 8GB, but I don’t understand the difference between 2400, 2666 and 3000 Mhz types. Which do I get? Is it a marginal increase in performance, or is it for things like streaming or using multiple GPUs, which I don’t intend to do. Do I even really need 16GB – I just assumed why not, considering from a future-proof point of view.
3. The graphics card should be fine for what I’m after – is that right?
4. The case is a decent one isn’t it – there are a few others to choose from in the drop-down for this pre-built, but I read good things about this one and thought it looked pretty cool.
5. Am I over-speccing considering what I want to use the PC for?
6. Am I right in thinking I want to put my games (as well as operating system of course) on the SSD, then anything else, e.g music, films, etc on the secondary drive?
7. Is there any reason to hold out in purchasing this? As Skylake is so new I’m assuming that the CPU and MOBO aren’t going to get cheaper anytime soon, so was thinking waiting for Black Friday, for example, might be a bit pointless. Any other reason not to go ahead at this moment in time?
All insights are very gratefully received – apologies for being a novice. Cheers guys!