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[philmeixner]

This is my very first custom gaming pc. After a month digging through forums and carefully selecting and ditching compenents, I came to the following setup:

 

CPU: Skylake i5-6500 4x 3.20 Ghz

Grafics: Gigabyte GTX 960 WF2OC 4GB

Mobo: Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H

RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport Kit 8GB DDR4-2400

PSU: Seasonic M12II-520 EVO 520W

Case: Cooler Master Silencio 352M

Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo

Fans: 3x Arctic Cooling F12 PWM PST

 

I already got an 3TB HDD and an 256GB SSD.

 

My budget is 800€ (875 usd). This pc should be able to play games like Fallout 4, Just Cause 3 and Cities:Skylines well over 30 FPS on 1080p. 

 

Criticism is welcome!

[kameshss]

R9 380 > GTX 960.

[Kaspertechgeek]

I would go with the R9 380 4GB instead of the Geforce.

[kameshss]

Go for the Z170 motherboard from Asus or AsRock ones.

 

You can OC non K CPUs with those motherboards.

[Aytex]

Go for the Z170 motherboard from Asus or AsRock ones.

 

You can OC non K CPUs with those motherboards.

you can still overclock on H series, just not recommended/stable

unless your a techwiz you will be able to gain a OC

[kameshss]

you can still overclock on H series, just not recommended/stable

unless your a techwiz you will be able to gain a OC

But worth getting a Z170 series and it can do stable OCs, useful for future upgrades.

[Aytex]

But worth getting a Z170 series and it can do stable OCs, useful for future upgrades.

yea i know, im just saying that you saying OCing on a H series is not obsolete and that its possible

[GDRRiley]

get a asus mobo not a gigabyte board.

[kameshss]

get a asus mobo not a gigabyte board.

Any particular reason?

[Guest]

First of all, you don't need a 212 if you're not going to overclock. You'll be perfectly fine with stock cooler. This changes if you go for 6600k, then your Evo 212 gets useful.

 

Second - R9 380 will be better than 960

[GDRRiley]

Any particular reason?

asus mobo even for H or B series are made with better composts and have nice features like good fan controllers.

[GDRRiley]

First of all, you don't need a 212 if you're not going to overclock. You'll be perfectly fine with stock cooler. This changes if you go for 6600k, then your Evo 212 gets useful.

 

 

no a non K skew CPU can be overclocked on certain mobos.

[kameshss]

asus mobo even for H or B series are made with better composts and have nice features like good fan controllers.

So Gigabyte doesn't have fan controllers?

[GDRRiley]

So Gigabyte doesn't have fan controllers?

they do they are just not as nice. 

[kameshss]

they do they are just not as nice. 

explain more.

 

What you see more on Asus?

 

What are you missing on Gigabyte?

[Kaspertechgeek]

explain more.

 

What you see more on Asus?

 

What are you missing on Gigabyte?

The are both very good but I choose ASUS because they have overall top quality parts.

[kameshss]

The are both very good but I choose ASUS because they have overall top quality parts.

Gigabyte also a good choice for any motherboards.

 

They're as good as any other in the market.

[philmeixner]

AFAIK overclocking non-K Skylake CPUs is highly experimental and disables a lot of features on the mainboard currently.

 

How would a Z170 help with my setup? Isn´t a H170 enough when I am not doing any OC?

 

Thanks for all the replies!

[philmeixner]

First of all, you don't need a 212 if you're not going to overclock. You'll be perfectly fine with stock cooler. This changes if you go for 6600k, then your Evo 212 gets useful.

 

Second - R9 380 will be better than 960

 

 

I thought I would go with the Hyper 212 because the stock cooler is very loud. Sadly a 6600K would go beyond my budget  

[philmeixner]

Alright, I changed the GA-H170M-D3H for an ASUS Z170M-Plus. 

 

I will stick with the GTX 960 because I like Nvidia better, sorry. 

 

Any more suggestions? 

[GDRRiley]

explain more.

 

What you see more on Asus?

 

What are you missing on Gigabyte?

[kameshss]

Not really.

 

People are happy with Gigabyte boards.

 

They're one of the best motherboard makers on the market. Just like Asus.

 

Just because Fan controllers in BIOS is not really good, doesn't make that Gigabyte is bad.

[GDRRiley]

Not really.

 

People are happy with Gigabyte boards.

 

They're one of the best motherboard makers on the market. Just like Asus.

 

Just because Fan controllers in BIOS is not really good, doesn't make that Gigabyte is bad.

I am not saying there bad I just recommend ASUS boards. 

[kameshss]

I am not saying there bad I just recommend ASUS boards. 

kay.

 

Then please don't tell people "get a asus mobo not a gigabyte board."

 

Please tell why you are recommending the Asus board, and why not a Gigabyte motherboard.