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[stconquest]

One more thing: I should be OK with a stock cooler shouldn't I? I've heard they're good enough unless you do serious overclocking.

 

Yeah, I ran my 3570K on stock cooling for a good while.

 

The PSU, the fans and the wireless are different here (added 16GB of RAM too):

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£155.00 @ Amazon UK)

Motherboard: MSI Z170A PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£71.39 @ Amazon UK)

Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£89.99 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£55.76 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£37.96 @ Amazon UK)

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro M ATX Mid Tower Case  (£57.95 @ Amazon UK)

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£67.41 @ Amazon UK)

Wireless Network Adapter: Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I 802.11a/b/g/n/ac PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  (£28.95 @ Amazon UK)

Case Fan: Fractal Design SSR3-140-WT 56.1 CFM 140mm  Fan  (£7.99 @ Amazon UK)

Case Fan: Fractal Design SSR3-140-WT 56.1 CFM 140mm  Fan  (£7.99 @ Amazon UK)

Total: £580.39

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-30 18:17 GMT+0000

 

If you are okay with not having a GPU for a little while fine, but if you want it all in one shot... it is do-able:

 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£155.00 @ Amazon UK)

Motherboard: ASRock H110M-HDV Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£56.51 @ Amazon UK)

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£38.80 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£55.71 @ Amazon UK)

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card  (£184.99 @ Amazon UK)

Case: Thermaltake Versa H24 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£28.98 @ Amazon UK)

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£67.41 @ Amazon UK)

Wireless Network Adapter: Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I 802.11a/b/g/n/ac PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  (£28.95 @ Amazon UK)

Case Fan: ARCTIC Arctic F12 74.0 CFM 120mm  Fan  (£3.29 @ Amazon UK)

Case Fan: ARCTIC Arctic F12 74.0 CFM 120mm  Fan  (£3.29 @ Amazon UK)

Total: £622.93

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-30 18:56 GMT+0000

 

[Armadillito]

Yeah, I ran my 3570K on stock cooling for a good while.

 

The PSU, the fans and the wireless are different here (added 16GB of RAM too):

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£155.00 @ Amazon UK)

Motherboard: MSI Z170A PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£71.39 @ Amazon UK)

Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£89.99 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£55.76 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£37.96 @ Amazon UK)

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro M ATX Mid Tower Case  (£57.95 @ Amazon UK)

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£67.41 @ Amazon UK)

Wireless Network Adapter: Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I 802.11a/b/g/n/ac PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  (£28.95 @ Amazon UK)

Case Fan: Fractal Design SSR3-140-WT 56.1 CFM 140mm  Fan  (£7.99 @ Amazon UK)

Case Fan: Fractal Design SSR3-140-WT 56.1 CFM 140mm  Fan  (£7.99 @ Amazon UK)

Total: £580.39

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-30 18:17 GMT+0000

 

If you are okay with not having a GPU for a little while fine, but if you want it all in one shot... it is do-able:

 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£155.00 @ Amazon UK)

Motherboard: ASRock H110M-HDV Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£56.51 @ Amazon UK)

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£38.80 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£55.71 @ Amazon UK)

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card  (£184.99 @ Amazon UK)

Case: Thermaltake Versa H24 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£28.98 @ Amazon UK)

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£67.41 @ Amazon UK)

Wireless Network Adapter: Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I 802.11a/b/g/n/ac PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  (£28.95 @ Amazon UK)

Case Fan: ARCTIC Arctic F12 74.0 CFM 120mm  Fan  (£3.29 @ Amazon UK)

Case Fan: ARCTIC Arctic F12 74.0 CFM 120mm  Fan  (£3.29 @ Amazon UK)

Total: £622.93

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-30 18:56 GMT+0000

 

Thanks, 8gb is fine though.

[stconquest]

Thanks, 8gb is fine though.

 

You see the fully modular PSU for a few quid more, right?

[Armadillito]

You see the fully modular PSU for a few quid more, right?

Yeah! I'll read a few reviews though, added for now.

[stconquest]

Yeah! I'll read a few reviews though, added for now.

 

It is a Seasonic, like the XFX, just modular.

[Armadillito]

It is a Seasonic, like the XFX, just modular.

Seasonic make the better EVGA ones too?

[stconquest]

Seasonic make the better EVGA ones too?

 

Yeah, G2 and PS.  Superflower make the B2, GS and PS.  FSP make the B1, G1, and GQ.

 

Oops, correction... G2, B2, P2 are Superflower (good OEM BTW), the GS and PS are Seasonic.

 

...too much wine, mixing up the numbers =P

[Armadillito]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£155.00 @ Amazon UK) 

Motherboard: MSI Z170A PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£71.39 @ Amazon UK) 

Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£42.56 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£55.71 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£37.96 @ Amazon UK) 

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro M ATX Mid Tower Case  (£57.95 @ Amazon UK) 

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£74.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  (£24.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Other: BeQuiet Shadow Wings 140mm PWM case fan (£11.27)

Other: BeQuiet Shadow Wings 140mm PWM case fan (£11.27)

Total: £543.09

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-31 08:18 GMT+0000

 

I think a little more headroom for a few pounds more would be better and quieter. 550w is fine for now but would not be quite enough for some AMD GPUs particularly it seems.