Was this a good purchase?

haradrim · 19 Sep 2017 at 07:47

I recently purchased a second hand tower from a well known second hand game shop.

anyway these are the specs,

pc specialist cyclone 3 i5-6400 / 8gb dd4/ 2tb hdd, zotec gtx 1070 8gb / dvd-rw / w 10 / cooler master 350 case, some corsair budget 550w psu.,

I paid £570.00

given how expensive the gtx 1070 is, I reckon - £300 for the gpu, which leaves £270 for the remaining parts.

With all this talk of new intel chips next month and I5 4 cores becoming obsolete, was I silly to buy this?

p.s I found a asrock z170 board for £50 on amazon so Ive already upgraded the h110 thing and should get £30 for that,

My new board does allow overclocking of the non k chips, I got 4.0ghz @ 1.3v, ram @ 2660

My tasks are light gaming, running 2x screen i.e gaming starcraft2 and watching a film etc. Also some basic photo editing

Doogles · 19 Sep 2017 at 07:52

I'd say you got a decent setup there for the price, I'd want to replace the PSU for something decent, wouldn't worry about upgrading the motherboard considering you have a locked chip. With a GTX 1070 that system is good enough although you will want to upgrade before getting more GPU power under it.

haradrim · 19 Sep 2017 at 08:02

infact my asrock z170 k6 mother does allow overclocking of skylake NON K chips, which I know sounds strange, but give it a google.

Glanza · 19 Sep 2017 at 08:47

Not a bad spec, would look at putting a SSD in to make it quicker.

mikedigitales · 19 Sep 2017 at 08:55

haradrim said:
infact my asrock z170 k6 mother does allow overclocking of skylake NON K chips, which I know sounds strange, but give it a google.

Might depend on the bios on the board.

haradrim · 19 Sep 2017 at 09:09

mikedigitales said:
Might depend on the bios on the board.

worked streight out the box, on booting it says hit D to enable "skyOC"

Cpuz bench 1544 single tread and 6126 muti tread (temps 30-40), then OC'd to 4.0, 1990 single and 7720 multi, temps about 50-60.

Please note, ive never overclocked before and watch a youtube video. haha.

AlexTrickle · 19 Sep 2017 at 11:49

I'd say the GTX1070 makes it a good purchase as even second hand the going rate for these are ~£280-350 depending on exact make and model and then effectively £300 for a decent core system isn't bad.

As above; an SSD would be the only thing I'd add. But no, not a silly purchase seems like a good deal to me.

haradrim · 19 Sep 2017 at 12:10

Thanks, need to look for a bargain SSD, it is worth paying the extra for one of those NVMe drives.

RDCorporation · 19 Sep 2017 at 13:17

I was looking into NVME M.2 Storage but as far as I understood after a long research is that although on paper the number are way higher than normal SSD, in real life applications you won't notice much different between a normal SSD drive. If you want to save few notes I would with Samsung EVO SSD or something similar.

I guess it depends on your budget, we always want the best though don't we