Dedicating myself to an all out build!

[Narukin]

Greetings LTT community!

Just joined here cause Linus says you guys are awesome at offering advice =P

 

Been saving up to replace an old build which recently died due to a mobo failure from not turning it on for a long time due to being overseas (Seriously why does that happen =.=)

 

The idea for this build is liquid cooling which I've always wanted to try. Thou I won't be going all the way with hard pipes, custom tubes etc, I do want a clean cool aesthetic.

Also, I want it to be VR ready and up-gradable.

 

Abit of background of my usage:

I play more CPU intensive games such as Civ 5, City Skylines etc.

I do plan to get back into WoW, Skyrim, Minecraft and a good GFX will be helpful.

Streaming/Recording games is on the list of things to do. Probably not live streaming but capture and editing.

I have dabbled in Overclocking so that's a want in my builds.

 

Here's what I have planned:

i7-6700k

ASUS Ranger

Kingston HyperX 2666Mhz Dual Channel 16Gb

EVGA GTX 980Ti Hybrid

Corsair H100i GTX Liquid Cooler

Samsung 950 Pro M.2 256GB

2X WD Black 3TB in Raid 0

CM Mastercase Pro 5

NZXT Hue+

 

The burning questions I have now:

Reviewers/Benchmarkers have been saying 2666 does give an advantage over a 2133 ram. Will this still hold true in this build?

GTX 1080s are coming out soon but it seems without the much awaited HBM. Should I just get a 970 for interim till HBM cards come out in the near future?

Pretty sure Corsair's not the only liquid cooling solution here. Does anyone have other recommendations?

 

Any other input/insights are well appreciated! Cheers!

[Majestic]

2 minutes ago, Narukin said:

Reviewers/Benchmarkers have been saying 2666 does give an advantage over a 2133 ram. Will this still hold true in this build?

Yes Skylake scales really good with memory, 3ghs is the sweetspot.

[themctipers]

Looks solid. Make sure the ram is DDR4 and not DDR3 because skylake does not support DDR3 thats not low voltage.

 

[Narukin]

Missed out the PSU haha

 

-Corsair Hx850i

Keeping in mind up-gradability. Guess that's fine for a VR build