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Drop the overpriced Samsung drive in favour of a Crucial P1 or Sabrent Rocket.

 

Also get rid of the Seagate drive and replace it with a SATA SSD.

 

Lastly, get a better power supply. A Corsair TXM or Be Quiet Pure Power Gold.

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Could've probably fit a 3700X in there but it wouldn't really bring much of any benefit strictly for 4K gaming. If you do any other productivity tasks though that might be something to consider.

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G502 Lightspeed Review

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i5-6400

GIGABYTE GA-H110M-DS2

CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX 2X4 DDR4-2666MHz

ASUS ROG STRIX-GTX 1060-O6G

SEAGATE 2TB HDD

FUJISTU F300 240GB SSD

CORSAIR CX750M

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Logitech M330

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12 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

Drop the overpriced Samsung drive in favour of a Crucial P1 or Sabrent Rocket.

 

Also get rid of the Seagate drive and replace it with a SATA SSD.

 

Lastly, get a better power supply. A Corsair TXM or Be Quiet Pure Power Gold.

100$ for 1 tb ssd storage is ok but 100$ for 500 gb not

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7 minutes ago, Oswin said:

you can get windows on 3rd party sites for chea

Yup Windows 10 pro Can be bought for as low as 30€ but be aware of suspicious sites

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12 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

Drop the overpriced Samsung drive in favour of a Crucial P1 or Sabrent Rocket.

 

Also get rid of the Seagate drive and replace it with a SATA SSD.

 

Lastly, get a better power supply. A Corsair TXM or Be Quiet Pure Power Gold.

Those will increase the price by a lot 

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5 minutes ago, Floyo1 said:

To me, all those cheap windows keys are suspicious. So I’m not gonna buy one of those

Well then at what price would you call a Windows key not suspicious?

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2 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

You prefer powering the system with a fire hazard?

I agree. PSU is a part you should not underspend your money

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Just now, 5x5 said:

You prefer powering the system with a fire hazard?

First of all, evga makes great power supplies and this one has enough wattage. Mabye I could switch it out for an mwe or something If this power supply actually isn’t good enough, but replacing the 2tb hdd with a 2tb sata ssd is 4x the price, although I do agree with changing the m.2 to a p1 or something.

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37 minutes ago, Floyo1 said:

 

9 minutes ago, Floyo1 said:

If it’s not bought from Microsoft then is suspicious

Buying oem keys doesn’t seem like the most unshady thing to do either

not that I say you never should buy oem keys

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8 minutes ago, Floyo1 said:

First of all, evga makes great power supplies and this one has enough wattage. Mabye I could switch it out for an mwe or something If this power supply actually isn’t good enough, but replacing the 2tb hdd with a 2tb sata ssd is 4x the price, although I do agree with changing the m.2 to a p1 or something.

take a look at the PSU tier list

 

then make a decision

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SEAGATE 2TB HDD

FUJISTU F300 240GB SSD

CORSAIR CX750M

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Rexus Legionare MX5.1 (Content Browns)

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Logitech M330

Headset:

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1 minute ago, Floyo1 said:

How? It’s literally from Microsoft themselves.

It’s a key for Microsoft Windows but sold by otherworldcomputing

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5 minutes ago, Floyo1 said:

Bruh that’s just what pcpartpicker defaulted to because it was the cheapest or something, it’s the same price on amazon or newegg

As you might know you can install Windows first for free and buy a key later

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19 minutes ago, Floyo1 said:

First of all, evga makes great power supplies and this one has enough wattage. Mabye I could switch it out for an mwe or something If this power supply actually isn’t good enough, but replacing the 2tb hdd with a 2tb sata ssd is 4x the price, although I do agree with changing the m.2 to a p1 or something.

Don't buy based on brand. We literally had an EVGA W1 model destroy a system yesterday. It's on the forums here in the troubleshooting sections. Buy a quality unit, not a cheap crap one just because it says EVGA on the box.

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Here is just an example ( for cheaper Windows keys on other sites it can get even cheaper )

https://skinflint.co.uk/?sort=p&v=e&cat=ossoft&xf=400_Windows+10&hloc=at&hloc=pl&hloc=uk

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2 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

Don't buy based on brand. We literally had an EVGA W1 model destroy a system yesterday. It's on the forums here in the troubleshooting sections. Buy a quality unit, not a cheap crap one just because it says EVGA on the box.

I have never heard of an evga w series psu.

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2 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

Don't buy based on brand. We literally had an EVGA W1 model destroy a system yesterday. It's on the forums here in the troubleshooting sections. Buy a quality unit, not a cheap crap one just because it says EVGA on the box.

Modularity and a certain brand alone don’t  make a good psu

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2 minutes ago, Drama Lama said:

Here is just an example ( for cheaper Windows keys on other sites it can get even cheaper )

https://skinflint.co.uk/?sort=p&v=e&cat=ossoft&xf=400_Windows+10&hloc=at&hloc=pl&hloc=uk

Bruh I don’t care if it’s free, I can probably just buy it from Microsoft’s website. Plus I am in the US so I don’t use euros

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