New PC Build advise

[Bazadar]

Hi All,

 

Hope you can give some advise, Looking to replace my PC and the other halfs as they are aged.

 

So I've put together the following PC: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/FTVgD3

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£219.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H60 54.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£74.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON ATX LGA1151 Motherboard 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£73.69 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Storage: Samsung SM951 128GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  (£83.69 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 960 4GB Video Card  (£209.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case  (£56.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Power Supply: be quiet! 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£74.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Total: £792.33
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-21 13:28 GMT+0000

 

Both PC are for gaming, While my other half she does some photo editing, Also will be adding in an SSD which resides in both of our current PC's at the moment. 

 

Any advise if i should change anything or its fine as it is

 

Thanks

 

Barry

 

 

[TheGhzGuy]

3 minutes ago, DarkShadowUK said:

Hi All,

 

Hope you can give some advise, Looking to replace my PC and the other halfs as they are aged.

 

So I've put together the following PC: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/FTVgD3

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£219.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H60 54.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£74.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON ATX LGA1151 Motherboard 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£73.69 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Storage: Samsung SM951 128GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  (£83.69 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 960 4GB Video Card  (£209.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case  (£56.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Power Supply: be quiet! 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£74.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Total: £792.33
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-21 13:28 GMT+0000

 

Both PC are for gaming, While my other half she does some photo editing, Also will be adding in an SSD which resides in both of our current PC's at the moment. 

 

Any advise if i should change anything or its fine as it is

 

Thanks

 

Barry

 

 

I think a Hyper 212 EVO can do the H60's job. Also, switch that 960 out for a 380X

[Guest]

16GB RAM is overkill

GTX 960 is not good enough

PCMASTERRACE is angry

[Vezzeract]

2 hours ago, ChickenNugget said:

16GB RAM is overkill

GTX 960 is not good enough

PCMASTERRACE is angry

16 Gigabytes of RAM is making room for later.

The 960 is fine, the 950 it too. But an upgrade to a 970 will be worth it.

 

[givegomezthegun]

Looks good... but if you want to push any kind of maximum overclock I would look into a better cpu cooler.

[Aytex]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£199.96 @ More Computers)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler  (£26.49 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£123.47 @ Dabs)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£68.70 @ More Computers)
Storage: Samsung SM951 128GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  (£70.16 @ Dabs)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£37.98 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 380 4GB NITRO Dual-X OC Video Card  (£169.98 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case  (£41.99 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: SeaSonic EVO Edition 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£77.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £816.72
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-21 13:53 GMT+0000

 

H60 is a waste of money when cheaper air coolers are better

Changed gpu to r9 380 since your only gaming so you get more preformance

[TheGhzGuy]

5 minutes ago, Vezzeract said:

16 Gigabytes of RAM is making room for later.

The 960 is fine, the 950 it too. But an upgrade to a 970 will be worth it.

 

But the 380X is beter

[Vezzeract]

2 hours ago, TheGhzGuy said:

But the 380X is beter

Most likely, but less reliable and most games are built on the NVIDIA architecture.

[Aytex]

8 minutes ago, Vezzeract said:

Most likely, but less reliable and most games are built on the NVIDIA architecture.

LOL!, Your kidding right?

Troll or nah?

 

edit: by NVidia architecture you mean GeForce experience right? because I highly doubt 90% of games are built from the ground up from Maxwell, Pascal, kepler, ect.

[TheGhzGuy]

7 minutes ago, Vezzeract said:

Most likely, but less reliable and most games are built on the NVIDIA architecture.

Such as?

[Vezzeract]

2 hours ago, Aytex said:

LOL!, Your kidding right?

Troll or nah?

No Joke... Depending on the game NVIDIA is usaully behind it. Most BatMan games are built using the NVIDIA architecture with AMD losing performance if not super high end.

[Aytex]

1 minute ago, Vezzeract said:

No Joke... Depending on the game NVIDIA is usaully behind it. Most BatMan games are built using the NVIDIA architecture with AMD losing performance if not super high end.

You sir, need to get your self some AMD cards and run benchmarks, or look at some.

[Vezzeract]

2 hours ago, Aytex said:

You sir, need to get your self some AMD cards and run benchmarks, or look at some.

I have ripped apart some cards before, obviously I tested them before.

 

I have 2 290s and 3 390X's.

[Aereldor]

You're spending too much on your CPU, storage, RAM, and motherboard, and not nearly enough on your GPU. If this is to be a gaming build, you need to reconsider the balance of your system. I'd recommend starting a new thread stating your budget and the purpose of the build, and letting users on the forum help you through the process of putting a better-optimized build together. 

[durzat]

You can get a 650w evga g2 for £75 on amazon when its back in stock

[Aytex]

5 minutes ago, Vezzeract said:

I have ripped apart some cards before, obviously I tested them before.

 

I have 2 290s and 3 390X's.

Okay but it doesn't change the fact that the 380 beats the 960, Its just facts. which is the main argument correct?

Or is it that all NVidia GPU's run better because "Most" (all) games are made to run for Nvidia

[Bazadar]

Thanks so far guys, Ill swap the 960 then for R9 380 Also prefered AMD Card to NVIDIA.  

 

Also regards to CPU Cooler, Ill be doing some OC nothing OTT tho  Would Air cooled be efficient ? 

[Aereldor]

Here's a build which is much better-suited towards gaming, and it balances out your expenses more. The R9 390 blows the GTX 960 out of the water, and even handily beats its older brother; the GTX 970. There's also more more, faster, and more reliable mass-storage, as well as an SSD with twice the capacity of your initial choice, and a power supply from a much more reputable manufacturer.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£166.27 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI H110M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£45.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£25.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£67.98 @ Novatech) 
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£99.49 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 390 8GB Double Dissipation Video Card  (£255.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case  (£41.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£59.32 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £763.02
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-21 14:13 GMT+0000

[Aereldor]

24 minutes ago, Vezzeract said:

Most likely, but less reliable and most games are built on the NVIDIA architecture.

This is false. Games aren't built from the ground up for specific GPU microarchitecture, else AMD cards wouldn't even be able to run them. It's true that some games feature things like excessive, unnecessary use of gameworks and PhysX which might just be around to sabotage performance on AMD cards. However, when you disable the aforementioned gimmicks (which results in little loss in visual quality), AMD's midrange cards pull ahead in almost every situation. 

 

True, NVidia has more at the low-end with the 750 Ti, although that's changing with the 4GB-touting R7 370s, and while they do sit comfortably on the high-end with the GTX 980 Ti, AMD presents better value with their Fury, Fury X, and Nano GPUs.