Helping Out A Friend Building There New PC

[Supposed To Be Working]

Good Morning To You All,

 

Yes i am supposed to be working at this current time but instead i am trying to help a close friend off mine build his new gaming machine. 

 

He currently has nothing this is a complete new build due to he recently sold his old workstation.

 

Purpose of the machine will be to play the latest games BF, COD BO3, GTA V & WOW .

 

He wants to start gaming in 4k Res and wants the color scheme of Black & Red

 

Part Already Picked:

 

Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard

 

Asus GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB STRIX Video Card

 

Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor

 

Part Picker Link:

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/FtDYK8

 

All i am asking from you guys is to fill in the blanks with what you thinks best performance & budget is not a issue for the moment.

[Kirky2k15]

Have you already got some parts or is this a start from scratch thing?

[Supposed To Be Working]

Have you already got some parts or is this a start from scratch thing?

 

Start From Scratch Sorry should have mentioned

[Morgan MLGman]

Good Morning To You All,

 

Yes i am supposed to be working at this current time but instead i am trying to help a close friend off mine build his new gaming machine. 

 

He currently has nothing this is a complete new build due to he recently sold his old workstation.

 

Purpose of the machine will be to play the latest games BF, COD BO3, GTA V & WOW .

 

He wants to start gaming in 4k Res and wants the color scheme of Black & Red

 

Part Already Picked:

 

Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard

 

Asus GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB STRIX Video Card

 

Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor

 

Part Picker Link:

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/FtDYK8

 

All i am asking from you guys is to fill in the blanks with what you thinks best performance & budget is not a issue for the moment.

Here you go: You did not specify your budget but oh well this should be great. Personally I'd pick an 850 EVO SSD from Samsung but you wanted black&red and the HyperX Savage is also a decent ssd.

I simply filled your blanks, I would recommend getting mobo + gpu from MSI for best black&red & more swag

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£239.94 @ Aria PC)

CPU Cooler: RAIJINTEK TRITON 100.5 CFM Sleeve Bearing Liquid CPU Cooler  (£72.90 @ CCL Computers)

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£165.01 @ Dabs)

Memory: G.Skill Trident X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-2400 Memory  (£100.00 @ Aria PC)

Storage: Kingston Savage 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£76.85 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£38.98 @ CCL Computers)

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB STRIX Video Card  (£599.29 @ Aria PC)

Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£88.98 @ Novatech)

Power Supply: be quiet! POWER ZONE 850W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£97.95 @ Amazon UK)

Total: £1479.90

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-21 11:04 BST+0100

[Bastian]

You won't get far with 4k gaming at the time, but my suggestions:

SSD: Samsung Evo 250

HDD: WD Black 1TB

RAM: 16GB (2x 8GB Kit)

Case: idk choose what you want

PSU: at least 700W

[Kirky2k15]

Here's what I'd get for a lot less than above:

 

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/kirky2k2/saved/Z2NH99

[Bob Jim]

Here's what I'd get for a lot less than above:

 

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/kirky2k2/saved/Z2NH99

R9 390 for 4K? LMAO

[Morgan MLGman]

Here's what I'd get for a lot less than above:

 

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/kirky2k2/saved/Z2NH99

Three things:

1. This cooler will not be able to cool this CPU properly. I bought it for my dad, after overclocking even the Dark Rock Pro 3 has issues. It has 140W TDP. 15W more than 8 cored FX-8350

2. I would get RAM with radiators for possible overclocking. A better quality one.

3. This GPU for 4K? Besides the VRAM amount it'd be crap.

[Kirky2k15]

R9 390 for 4K? LMAO

So just swap for 980 ti still less than £1400

[Bob Jim]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (£290.99 @ Dabs)

CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 106.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£102.98 @ Novatech)

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£176.97 @ Dabs)

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£114.29 @ Aria PC)

Storage: Kingston Predator 480GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£334.58 @ Scan.co.uk)

Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£99.79 @ Amazon UK)

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB STRIX Video Card (2-Way SLI) (£599.29 @ Aria PC)

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB STRIX Video Card (2-Way SLI) (£599.29 @ Aria PC)

Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case (£88.98 @ Novatech)

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 P2 1000W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£151.92 @ Amazon UK)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) (£75.19 @ CCL Computers)

Keyboard: Corsair K95 RGB UK Wired Gaming Keyboard (£139.99 @ Scan.co.uk)

Mouse: Corsair Sabre Wired Optical Mouse (£36.79 @ Scan.co.uk)

Headphones: Kingston HyperX Cloud II 7.1 Channel Headset (£71.04 @ Amazon UK)

Total: £2882.09

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-21 11:10 BST+0100

NOTE: THIS IS EXTREMELY OVERKILL, BUT IF YOU HAVE THE MONEY YOU MAY AS WELL. A lot of people will disagree on the CPU, and say to go for an I7 5820K, but unless you get a very good overclocker, you will have troubles reaching the same clock speeds as the 6700k, and single threaded is more important if you are just gaming. 2 980Tis is pretty much the best you can get for 4K. All Red and Black. The M.2 SSD is extremely fast, and a normal 2.5" SSD would suffice if you wanted to save money. I own the keyboard and mouse and can assure you they are AMAZING.

[Bob Jim]

So just swap for 980 ti still less than £1400

This build has so many things wrong with it... The memory is trash, and why would you get 2 1x8 kits when you can get a 4x4 kit for quad channel speeds... The case is junk, you cheated out far too much, not sure about the power supply. Why you would get a 256Gb SSD and no HDD is beyond me.

[Morgan MLGman]

@Bob Jim Are you aware that with a good cooler you can reach 4,4 gHz easily with this CPU? And 4,4 gHz on a single single core on an enthusiast grade i7 is enough for gaming believe me. It's way better than Skylake one. Especially that you get two cores and four threads more.

[Guest]

All i am asking from you guys is to fill in the blanks with what you thinks best performance & budget is not a issue for the moment.

What is the max budget?

[Kirky2k15]

This build has so many things wrong with it... The memory is trash, and why would you get 2 1x8 kits when you can get a 4x4 kit for quad channel speeds... The case is junk, you cheated out far too much, not sure about the power supply. Why you would get a 256Gb SSD and no HDD is beyond me.

Memory is trash - I went for cheapest dude, who cares about aesthetics anyway right? Case is junk again cheapest, nothing wrong with PSU, plus he can just mod the build to add a HDD if he wants.. just my Two Cents worth lol

[Bob Jim]

@Bob Jim Are you aware that with a good cooler you can reach 4,4 gHz easily with this CPU? And 4,4 gHz on a single single core on an enthusiast grade i7 is enough for gaming believe me. It's way better than Skylake one. Especially that you get two cores and four threads more.

Compared to the 4.6-8 (lottery) you can get on the 6700k. 2 more cores and 4 threads don't make too much difference when gaming. Not to mention that skylake has cheaper motherboards, and more features such as USB 3.1 Type-C (only supported on high end X99 boards). Also has a rumoured massive advantage in single threaded applications, and the ability to wake up your computer from sleep via Cortana, as of a future windows 10 update.

[Bob Jim]

Memory is trash - I went for cheapest dude, who cares about aesthetics anyway right? Case is junk again cheapest, nothing wrong with PSU, plus he just mod the build to add a HDD if he wants.. just my Two Cents worth lol

He specifically said 'budget doesn't matter' '4k res' and 'red and black'. So you give him a build that cannot get 60fps on 1440p in most games, non colour matched, a bad cooler for such a high end system, and cheaper out on a few components. Please put more thought into builds next time.

[Morgan MLGman]

Compared to the 4.6-8 (lottery) you can get on the 6700k. 2 more cores and 4 threads don't make too much difference when gaming. Not to mention that skylake has cheaper motherboards, and more features such as USB 3.1 Type-C (only supported on high end X99 boards). Also has a rumoured massive advantage in single threaded applications, and the ability to wake up your computer from sleep via Cortana, as of a future windows 10 update.

The X99 platform is a higher-end platform than Z170 for a reason. It's an enthusiast grade platform and it is better, the issue is it's also not the chapest one. i7-5820k > i7-6700k and anyone saying otherwise doesn't know what he's talking about. The difference in multi-threaded tasks is bigger than the little difference (if any) the 6700k might have over 5820k in single-threaded tasks.

[Supposed To Be Working]

What is the max budget?

 

Max budget would be £3000!

[Guest]

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3yTG4D
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3yTG4D/by_merchant/

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£239.94 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£24.95 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£165.01 @ Dabs)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£44.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate  2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive  (£68.34 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB STRIX Video Card  (£599.29 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£55.90 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX PRO Black Edition 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£89.99 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £1288.41
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-21 11:47 BST+0100

 

The best build tied in with the components you gave us (i7 and 980)

You don't need to overclock your CPU thus the hyper 212 evo and for gaming tasks more than 8gbs of ram is not needed, but you can upgrade down the road if you want to do more intensive tasks.

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[Morgan MLGman]

Max budget would be £3000!

WHAT? 3000 pounds?

Here's one for 2500 then. It'll be killer-looking. Red & Black as you wanted. You need to use red pain for the coolant that's included with the CPU cooler cause it has multiple ones. It's awesome.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  (£293.94 @ Aria PC)

CPU Cooler: RAIJINTEK TRITON 100.5 CFM Sleeve Bearing Liquid CPU Cooler  (£72.90 @ CCL Computers)

Motherboard: MSI X99A GAMING 7 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  (£208.79 @ Scan.co.uk)

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£187.43 @ More Computers)

Storage: Intel 730 Series 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£232.65 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£126.24 @ Aria PC)

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  (£559.00 @ Aria PC)

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  (£559.00 @ Aria PC)

Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£88.98 @ Novatech)

Power Supply: Corsair Professional 1200W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£184.98 @ Novatech)

Total: £2513.91

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-21 11:56 BST+0100

Of course you could throw in a PCI SSD or an M2 SSD instead, or go for bigger capacity, you could buy a more expensive case but why would you. This will both  perform & look freakin amazing.

 

[Supposed To Be Working]

WHAT? 3000 pounds?

Here's one for 2500 then. It'll be killer-looking. Red & Black as you wanted. You need to use red pain for the coolant that's included with the CPU cooler cause it has multiple ones. It's awesome.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  (£293.94 @ Aria PC)

CPU Cooler: RAIJINTEK TRITON 100.5 CFM Sleeve Bearing Liquid CPU Cooler  (£72.90 @ CCL Computers)

Motherboard: MSI X99A GAMING 7 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  (£208.79 @ Scan.co.uk)

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£187.43 @ More Computers)

Storage: Intel 730 Series 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£232.65 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£126.24 @ Aria PC)

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  (£559.00 @ Aria PC)

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  (£559.00 @ Aria PC)

Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£88.98 @ Novatech)

Power Supply: Corsair Professional 1200W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£184.98 @ Novatech)

 

WHAT? 3000 pounds?

Here's one for 2500 then. It'll be killer-looking. Red & Black as you wanted. You need to use red pain for the coolant that's included with the CPU cooler cause it has multiple ones. It's awesome.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  (£293.94 @ Aria PC)

CPU Cooler: RAIJINTEK TRITON 100.5 CFM Sleeve Bearing Liquid CPU Cooler  (£72.90 @ CCL Computers)

Motherboard: MSI X99A GAMING 7 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  (£208.79 @ Scan.co.uk)

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£187.43 @ More Computers)

Storage: Intel 730 Series 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£232.65 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£126.24 @ Aria PC)

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  (£559.00 @ Aria PC)

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (2-Way SLI)  (£559.00 @ Aria PC)

Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£88.98 @ Novatech)

Power Supply: Corsair Professional 1200W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£184.98 @ Novatech)

Total: £2513.91

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-21 11:56 BST+0100

Of course you could throw in a PCI SSD or an M2 SSD instead, or go for bigger capacity, you could buy a more expensive case but why would you. This will both  perform & look freakin amazing.

 

 

Total: £2513.91

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-21 11:56 BST+0100

Of course you could throw in a PCI SSD or an M2 SSD instead, or go for bigger capacity, you could buy a more expensive case but why would you. This will both  perform & look freakin amazing.

 

 

Thank you for this build!

Thinks its the one my friend is going to go with

 

And all the above have also helped explaining about USB 3.1 and the windows 10 features which were mentioned

[Morgan MLGman]

Thank you for this build!

Thinks its the one my friend is going to go with

 

And all the above have also helped explaining about USB 3.1 and the windows 10 features which were mentioned

You're welcome! Glad to help. Don't forget to post pictures of it after you put it together in this thread, I want to see how awesome it'll look!

[prime_1990]

Hi all the build was for me, still debating over the 6700k or the one mentioned above

[prime_1990]

Also can't find a 6700k in stock yet when are they due do people reckon

[prime_1990]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (£290.99 @ Dabs)

CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 106.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£102.98 @ Novatech)

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£176.97 @ Dabs)

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£114.29 @ Aria PC)

Storage: Kingston Predator 480GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£334.58 @ Scan.co.uk)

Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£99.79 @ Amazon UK)

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB STRIX Video Card (2-Way SLI) (£599.29 @ Aria PC)

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB STRIX Video Card (2-Way SLI) (£599.29 @ Aria PC)

Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case (£88.98 @ Novatech)

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 P2 1000W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£151.92 @ Amazon UK)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) (£75.19 @ CCL Computers)

Keyboard: Corsair K95 RGB UK Wired Gaming Keyboard (£139.99 @ Scan.co.uk)

Mouse: Corsair Sabre Wired Optical Mouse (£36.79 @ Scan.co.uk)

Headphones: Kingston HyperX Cloud II 7.1 Channel Headset (£71.04 @ Amazon UK)

Total: £2882.09

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-21 11:10 BST+0100

NOTE: THIS IS EXTREMELY OVERKILL, BUT IF YOU HAVE THE MONEY YOU MAY AS WELL. A lot of people will disagree on the CPU, and say to go for an I7 5820K, but unless you get a very good overclocker, you will have troubles reaching the same clock speeds as the 6700k, and single threaded is more important if you are just gaming. 2 980Tis is pretty much the best you can get for 4K. All Red and Black. The M.2 SSD is extremely fast, and a normal 2.5" SSD would suffice if you wanted to save money. I own the keyboard and mouse and can assure you they are AMAZING.