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For just gaming an i5 would have been fine, you dont need an i7. And TBH it doesnt matter all that much between a 6600k and a 7600k. Get whichever one is easier to get and cheaper (though with that said if they are a few pounds apart get the 7600k for sure)

As for everything else... something along these line :3? Since you are going with 2nd hand parts too alot of these price should go down, but I have no idea what u can get for how much so this is just some suggestion base on your budget

 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel - Core i5-7600K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£0.00) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£26.32 @ Novatech) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-Z270XP-SLI ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£119.94 @ Aria PC) 
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£119.50 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Storage: Crucial - MX300 525GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£129.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£36.79 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB AMP Edition Video Card  (£579.45 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: NZXT - H440 (Matte Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£94.99 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - EVO Edition 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£68.67 @ Alza) 
Total: £1174.66
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-31 22:15 BST+0100

I will also tell you this: these are probably way too overkill for whatever you want to do, and you probably need mouse, keyboard, monitor and speaker/headphone too, so you could drop the 1080Ti for a 1070 or smt, get a cheaper case and Ram. You shouldnt buy HDD and PSU secondhand, but everything else should be fine

Around this I guess? 

 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  ($289.00 @ Shopping Express) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($124.00 @ Umart) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($97.90 @ Umart) 
Storage: Kingston - SSDNow UV400 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($75.00 @ Shopping Express) 
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($62.00 @ Shopping Express) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB GAMING Video Card  ($299.00 @ Umart) 
Case: BitFenix - Comrade ATX Mid Tower Case  ($47.00 @ Umart) 
Power Supply: Fractal Design - Integra M 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($95.99 @ Mwave Australia) 
Total: $1089.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-05 23:15 AEST+1000

Not sure how Vega's pricing will be, if you want to wait for it it's up to you, but I think you should have around $300 to spend on GPU, so I set a 1060 as place holder for now (it's also pretty good card for that price, with AMD card price hike due to bitcoin ATM)

These 2 maybe? You can pretty much keep these 2 even if you plan to upgrade CPU/Mobo etc in the future

 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($19.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: BitFenix - Comrade ATX Mid Tower Case  ($51.02 @ Amazon) 
Total: $71.01
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-05 10:00 EDT-0400

Ryzen is a pretty good choice at the moment, there's no need to go with something like 5820k if you are just gaming. You can also look into some 2nd hand option (for me I got my 4790k on ebay for like $300 CAD if I remember correctly, or this one for $200 https://www.kijiji.ca/v-computer-components/gatineau/intel-core-i5-4690k/1282555557?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true ), since you also need a new motherboard it might be a good idea to look for someone selling a combo of those, or depend on your luck, CPU and then get a mobo on amazon or smt. Dont worry too much about overclock, it's nice to have and you'd probably do it once, and then just leave it like that all the time. 

DDR3 is fine for now, it doesnt matter all that much for games anyway.

Amazon Canada $150 CAD discount on HTC Vive:

https://www.amazon.ca/HTC-VIVE-Virtual-Reality-System/dp/B00VF5NT4I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499743214&sr=8-1&keywords=HTC+Vive

1) is the psu good enough? 
Yes. 
2)will that motherboard work well? i was between this one and the msi B350M Gaming pro
Yes. IMO if you have the option, dont go with a Micro ATX board and go with a ATX board like the B350. Apart from having more RAM slot should you plan to upgrade later, it also support Crossfire while the B350M dont. Also on that note, if you want to upgrade to 16GB RAM later on, I suggest just go with 1x8GB Ram instead of 2x4, but well... either way if you go with the B350 you have 4 Ram slot anyway, so it doesnt really matter all that much
3)should i go for that gigabyte rx580 8gb or the Sapphire rx580 8gb pulse?
It's up to you. They are both respectable GPU manufacturer, depend on where you are the warranty policies may be better on one side or another though
4)maybe and incompatibilities i havent noticed?
Not really. Your system required arouind 350W to run, so a 450W give enough headroom already, but should you choose to go for crossfire later then you'd need a 600W PSU, but well... I wont recommend crossfire eitherway, so it's fine
5)and maybe if you think there is a better case around that money pls say so
Case is really depend on user taste so... You can just go to your local computer shop and find one if you want, as long as it support ATX mobo it should be ok

While it will not bottleneck, it's way overkill to use that CPU cooler with that CPU. You will do just fine with any cheaper air cooler, since you cant overclock that CPU anyway.

So after a few week bugging the locale shop here every single day asking if they have it in stock, I finally able to get my hand on 1 today and escape the life of only using iGPU... So as any "real gamer" out there, the first thing I do after taking a bunch of picture, boast about it on Facebook to my friends and installed it into my computer... is to spend 2+ hours trying to OC and benchmark this thing.

So first thing first, the Gaming app. It have 3 mode: Gaming Mode, OC mode and the no-one-use-it mode. By default it set to Gaming Mode, and with all the controversy abt the different review bios and stuff, I decided to turn on the OC Mode right away before doing anything. It promted me to restart the computer (BTW the Gaming App stay in Japanese language because I set locale of my desktop to Japan to play Visual novel... kinda annoying) so I restart it... and it crashed upon reboot. After a while I found out that since I use the MSI Z87 G45 Gaming Mobo, somehow the OC mode of the Gaming App also affect the Mobo's OC Genie, and the weirder things is that it automatically ram my CPU to 40x - 4GHz. My poor i7 4770k can do at best 3.8GHz as I have tried before, so ofc with that auto 4GHz it crashed. And I cant figure out how to tune it down to 3.8 without disable the OC mode in the gaming app all together, so I just stop using the Gaming App. Gaming App also let u customize the LED on the card, but given that the card is already Red Black theme there isnt much sense changing the color to anything else.

On to the manual OCing (I say manual but GPU Boost 3.0 kick in automatically anyway right?) After a while I figure out my card's limit is around 130Mhz Core Clock with 650 Memory Clock (to be fair I still new to OCing so I dont really understand why do we have to OC the memory and how do it affect things) without messing with the voltage and only set the Power Limit to 126% and Temp Limit to 92 Degree Celsius. And here's the result using Heaven benchmark (since it's free :D) In this benchmark however I only run at +120MHz Core Clock since this will probably be where I left it to play normally. 






It's a bit strange that the Heaven Benchmark say that the core clock of the 1070 is 2100Mhz, but the MSI Afterburner said that the core clock is stable at 2063MHz (it start at 2075Mhz but dip to 2063 right away and stay there till the end). The card run super cool at top 60 degree Celsius and average at around 55 degree, in the room with around 27-28 degree temperature. I try to set custom fan curve but it seem a bit weird so I just left to auto, and at ~ 60 degree the fans run at around 70% (I do feel like my custom, more aggressive fan curve do affect it, but I'm not sure). It didnt really make any audible noise sitting in my case.

So overall... not a bad experience. I do quite enjoy my current OC and I think with some additional voltage change I can bump it in to the magical 2.1Ghz number, but I'd rather let it run stable at this clock and temp. Feel free to tell me if I did something wrong and if needed I will post additional benchmark after fixing what I did wrong  

SSD is quite cheap now, with some 480GB one go for as low as $120. I myself bought one for $150 CAD just a month ago on Amazon

It really isnt worth going with a H100i with just an i5, so going down to a 212 Evo (I have one ATM, super silent) and put that money somewhere else might be better. You dont necessary need an i7. BTW if you buy a H100i You need some aftermarket fan too, the default fan of that one is noisy, I have one before.
 

You need water cooler if you are going to the higher end of the OC field, for example running at +500mhz clock 24/7. If you just do some minor tweak/OC, a good CPU cooler like the 212 Evo is perfect.

CPU are not huge, CPU is tiny. The 212 Evo itself can actually be quite big, but most if not all mid size ATX or larger case should be able to handle it. Do note that if you have a very tall ram it could not fit under the 212 Evo, but Corsair vengeance should be fine.

I suggest you take everything to PcPartPicker, it will even help check compability of your stuff for you. 

It still make me feel like I'm being tricked everytime I buy anything cause I forgot to add the tax in... 

... No.
 
Why would you want a 980 in this day and age? And when we're talking about the newer 1070 and 1080, they dont support 3 ways or more SLI anymore, 2 is the top you can get.
 
If you dont plan on rending heavy video like every single day there's no point spending that much money on the i7 6850k, just get an 7700k and it would crush every single thing you do daily including gaming for 4-5 years without any problem. Get it with an Z270 Mobo with M2 support, most of them do now anyway

As I said before because 2 ways is the max you can get now, 1200W PSU make no sense whatsoever. You dont need that much power. for 2 ways SLI along with a 770k even a 650-700W PSU would do you just fine. Get a good rating PSU though.
 
You said you like The Punisher, ok. do you plan to mod your case with actual modding? I mean getting metal/wood and other material and actually cut it, glue it, welding them together? Or just simple sticker work fine for you? If so I'd suggest a H440 Case or something similar instead, those case have most of their surface flat, so you can easily go to a print shop that print on sticky paper and then cover your whole case in whatever theme you like. Would make it truly your own without too much effort isnt it?

Well... just remember that whatever CPU Cooler you use it must be small enough to not only fit in an ITX Case but to also dont take up all Fan slot cause you want the Hybrid GPU which come with it's own 120mm radiator/fan. For example should you mount it in the Nano S and you want to mount the GPU radiator up top the cooler must be something really small like those Linus show in his video recently, or you have to take out the fan on the front 

My advice is... dont bother. Just wait until you do a big upgrade all at once. Buying something you already dont plan to stick with is literally throwing money away, cause I can bet you that you wont be able to sell it again for much.

My advice is... dont bother. Just wait until you do a big upgrade all at once. Buying something you already dont plan to stick with is literally throwing money away, cause I can bet you that you wont be able to sell it again for much.

Dude, u got an i3 7300, there's no need for fancy extra stuff like a fan controller with such a system. There's also no need to go for a mobo cost almost the same as your CPU like that. If you dont trust those place to get Windows key how about ebay? review the seller info before u buy.

 
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($260.83 @ Vuugo) 
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-DGS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($43.50 @ Vuugo) 
Memory: Team Elite Plus 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($59.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Storage: Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($89.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($59.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB GAMING Video Card  ($254.98 @ DirectCanada) 
Case: Deepcool KENDOMEN Red ATX Mid Tower Case  ($59.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($56.98 @ NCIX) 
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer  ($19.95 @ Vuugo) 
Monitor: AOC E2425SWD 24.0" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor  ($139.99 @ Newegg Canada) 
Total: $1046.19
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-24 22:12 EST-0500


If you are still want to buy a Windows key then sure, 120 more to that, bring it to $1200 as you want. Also you probably know this better than me but remember the HST tax, that's 13% on top of the price u got from PcPartPicker, and shipping etc too. 

My advice is... dont bother. Just wait until you do a big upgrade all at once. Buying something you already dont plan to stick with is literally throwing money away, cause I can bet you that you wont be able to sell it again for much.

I think the desktop would need some upgrade before you can get a good deal out of it. 

So... I finally made it into Windsor, and realized a few mistake...
 
I didnt know Windsor Airport would be that small, and so I totally forgot to buy a sim card in toronto thinking wait till i got to windsor is fine. Need to go to mall tomorrow
 
Most of the electric plug in Canada if not all is the flat one, a few of my stuff have round plug is screwed. I did bring a converter but its in the check in luggage, one I wont open until i got in a house
 
Taxi is expensive here... do we have Uber or Grab etc in canada?
 
Other than that everything is fine so far.. well given that I spend all the time so far in airport and hotel it doesnt really say much, but hey, least got a roof over my head ATM

Some of my note and thought as I watch the event.

 
-SPen can be use under water LOL. Why?
- Geh, honestly if you have a new product name it something different. We already have 3 version of the Gear VR, dont name your next Gear VR Gear VR too =.=
- USB Type C for Note 7. Neat
- Start at 64GB version is really nice. Given that VR content took alot of space. and MICROSD! Finally!
- 3500mAh battery... I still want more
- Android 6.0? Not 6.1?
- Geh, it only have the edge version... I dont like edge 
- Gif maker is nice
- 'Unlike "some" company' :3
- Oh, the stage design is really nice :3 Love it
- QuadHD~ well kinda need it for VR~
- Oh yeah Vulkan. Havent seen much of it on mobile still
- Adapter from microUSB to USB type C? for free? GOD DAMN IT APPLE LOOK AT THIS
- Also that Audio jack jab at Apple LOL
- Samsung Cloud is a good idea~
- I vaguely recall some problem with Knox and Root...
- Wait, Iris Scanner is a "camera" on the top? how do GearVR use it? or am I missing something?
- "Secure Folder" ... come on you all know what you are going to store in it :3
- Release starting August 19~
- I do love the translate function though
- Kinda dont like the back design?
- Hmm... for some reason I feel kinda uncomfortable seeing the "cow chase" event thingy... didnt someone just die recently because of that?
- well... all this talk about VR is nice... but I already have a Vive and Gear VR modded for Note 4 so...
- .... Wep, Samsung really DO know how to make a good presentation. Unlike Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, AMD... Even their "product show case" and "showfloor preparing" is absolutely stunning
That's it for the Note 7 event. Well I did plan to buy it before. But since I happen to got a Vive... I wont be getting it anymore~ And IMO Note 4 is still the best Note they ever made to date.

That's a really hard question to answer... they provided almost completely different experience. iPhone is kinda basic, alot of accessory (like case and stuff), have tons of app, hard to customize or put anything in (for example movie)

S7 on the other hand run android, compatible with GearVR, alot more customization, copy stuff is easy, have SD card slot.

So it's up to you either way. I'd vote for android over iOS any time, but also remember if you decided to go with S7 the Note 7 will come in like 2 weeks, with some freebies as well (I heard it will be free GearVR or Gear Fit 2 or 256GB SD card)

That's a really hard question to answer... they provided almost completely different experience. iPhone is kinda basic, alot of accessory (like case and stuff), have tons of app, hard to customize or put anything in (for example movie)

S7 on the other hand run android, compatible with GearVR, alot more customization, copy stuff is easy, have SD card slot.

So it's up to you either way. I'd vote for android over iOS any time, but also remember if you decided to go with S7 the Note 7 will come in like 2 weeks, with some freebies as well (I heard it will be free GearVR or Gear Fit 2 or 256GB SD card)

I'm not too familiar with the current offerings, so I'm not really able to answer your first two questions. However, I can tell you what I find I use my smartwatch for (Moto 360 1st gen).
 
I primarily used it for checking if I need to respond to a text/email and managing my music (particularly when driving. Much safer to swipe on your wrist than pick up your phone or look for a button on the radio). Other than that, I didn't use it for much other than checking the time. I haven't worn it much since I got a small collection of older watches in my late grandfather's will, so I've been wearing those instead. I find I mostly wear it when I know I'm going to be listening to music for a lot of the day. 

That's a really hard question to answer... they provided almost completely different experience. iPhone is kinda basic, alot of accessory (like case and stuff), have tons of app, hard to customize or put anything in (for example movie)

S7 on the other hand run android, compatible with GearVR, alot more customization, copy stuff is easy, have SD card slot.

So it's up to you either way. I'd vote for android over iOS any time, but also remember if you decided to go with S7 the Note 7 will come in like 2 weeks, with some freebies as well (I heard it will be free GearVR or Gear Fit 2 or 256GB SD card)

Of those 3 "step", I only slightly agree with the 3rd one. most PC game recommend spec is still a few years old cards or 2-3 gens back. We(or atleast me) usually upgrade because it's fun, not because it's necessary 

As for the 1st "step", no, you need a computer anyway to work, and I would argue to death with anyone who think tablets or smartphone alone is enough for those (at least in their current form), with the Surface being the closest thing that can bridge the gap between the 2. And that's not to mention those who actually work infront of one every single day.

As for "step" 2, again no, unless "around 1 hour asking in this forum" and "around 2 hours at best building it" is "unreasonable amount of time"

But yeah, I have a hardtime decided whether he is really dumb or writing this to "attract" viewer. But still, the site is call "Motherboard" for crying out loud