Tips on my planned build

[BerkeleyT]

So I'm going to be spending a lot of money on this build, I already have come to terms with it and I've been dreaming about doing it for so long so don't judge me on that. However, please feel free to help me find more powerful/better parts if what I list isn't that great. Any assistance is appreciated!! I plan on using this build for HARDCORE gaming/some YouTube  recording.

TLDR: judge build, give advice

 

Acer Predator X34 G-Sync

 

EVGA 1600W power supply 

 

Blue yeti USB mic silver

 

G.skillz tridentZ series 32gb ddr43733 (4x8gb)

 

Samsung 850 ssd data 3 (2 terrabytes)

 

Siberia 800 wireless gaming headset

 

Corsair's gaming k95 rgb

 

Logitech g900 chaos spectrum mouse

 

(GIGABYTE G1 Gaming GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 Intel Motherboard)

 

Intel core i7-6700k Skylar quad core

 

2 geforce 1080s both founder edition(I might just settle for one but I have the money to spend and I like the idea of it)

 

CASE: Deep cool genome with integrated liquid cooling

 

That's my long list! Judge it and give me advice! Also if you know any good cases, I'm willing to also purchase liquid cooling separately  and set it up manually.

[Oshino Shinobu]

First thing that sticks out to me is the PSU. It's WAAAAAAAAAAY too much for this build. It's too large to the point where it will have a negative effect on the efficiency of the PSU. 650W is enough for a build like this, but you have more than double that. 

[BerkeleyT]

3 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

First thing that sticks out to me is the PSU. It's WAAAAAAAAAAY too much for this build. It's too large to the point where it will have a negative effect on the efficiency of the PSU. 650W is enough for a build like this, but you have more than double that. 

How does it affect it negatively? It won't overload anything will it?

[y_unit265]

Just now, BerkeleyT said:

How does it affect it negatively? It won't overload anything will it?

Power supplies usually operate at their peak performance around 80%. Going higher or a lot lower will result in wasting energy.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, BerkeleyT said:

How does it affect it negatively? It won't overload anything will it?

PSUs work more efficiently at certain loads. The load on the PSU is going to be so small in relation to the PSU that it's going to be less efficient than a smaller PSU. 

It won't have any negative impact on components, but the PSU will pull more power from the wall than a smaller PSU, and will actually generate more heat (power lost due to inefficiency is lost in the form of heat)

[DioOmicida]

As was already pointed out, that's a huge, unnecessary PSU.
That's going to be an expensive build. 

[positivePXL]

+1 for @Oshino Shinobu That is waaaaay too much PSU.

 

The other things I have to say about this build, 

1) You really don't need that much SSD, use a good old, budget friendly HDD for mass storage, and a smaller, maybe 500gb SSD for game and OS storage, really, it's just killed you right now.

 

2) Don't get Founders Edition cards, really it's not worth it, its just a $100 premium on a product without improving the performance. Just get a custom cooled card when MSI, EVGA, ad the others finally release their custom coolers.  Just saw what case went with, see point #6 for rant.

 

3) Ultra-wide monitor's aren't great for gaming, I'd recommend going with either a dual or triple monitor set-up instead. 

 

4) There are cheaper 32gb sets of RAM on the market that won't take away from your performance, just, do yourself a favor, get like Corsair Vengeance LPX or something. 

 

5) I have a beef with that case, but, if you want it, then I guess it's all the more power to you. Also, why the hell are you getting Founders Edition GPU's if you're gunna watercool them anyways?! The PCB's for the FE cards are the exact same one's in the reference cards! It's the same waterblock! EK already said they are releasing 1080 reference waterblocks! WHY U DO DIS?!

 

Okay, rant over. YW

positivePXL [+PXL]

 

[BerkeleyT]

39 minutes ago, positivePXL said:

+1 for @Oshino Shinobu That is waaaaay too much PSU.

 

The other things I have to say about this build, 

1) You really don't need that much SSD, use a good old, budget friendly HDD for mass storage, and a smaller, maybe 500gb SSD for game and OS storage, really, it's just killed you right now.

 

2) Don't get Founders Edition cards, really it's not worth it, its just a $100 premium on a product without improving the performance. Just get a custom cooled card when MSI, EVGA, ad the others finally release their custom coolers.  Just saw what case went with, see point #6 for rant.

 

3) Ultra-wide monitor's aren't great for gaming, I'd recommend going with either a dual or triple monitor set-up instead. 

 

4) There are cheaper 32gb sets of RAM on the market that won't take away from your performance, just, do yourself a favor, get like Corsair Vengeance LPX or something. 

 

5) I have a beef with that case, but, if you want it, then I guess it's all the more power to you. Also, why the hell are you getting Founders Edition GPU's if you're gunna watercool them anyways?! The PCB's for the FE cards are the exact same one's in the reference cards! It's the same waterblock! EK already said they are releasing 1080 reference waterblocks! WHY U DO DIS?!

 

Okay, rant over. YW

positivePXL [+PXL]

 

I shall change the PSU, and I asked for help with the case,i know it was probably bad what might you recommend cooling wise for CPU/case. Also what case might be good for all this? I'll  look into cheaper storage/ram solutions as well

[positivePXL]

Fractal Design Define S would be a good case for water-cooling, they also have a white solution for the Define S, in case you wanted to stick with that theme. For cooling, you can leave the GPU's to air-cool themselves and run the CPU on an AiO, but because you will be doing SLI, breathing room for at least one of the cards will be restricted, so I would recommend doing a full custom water-cooling loop. I'd recommend just spending some time watching some of JayzTwoCents' watercooling build logs, and then some time looking through the EK catalog. 

 

For storage, you can get a cheap 2tb HDD, preferably a WD blue/black. I personally went with 2 Seagate 1tb drives, but only because they were SUPER cheap in a NewEgg deal I grabbed. 

[BerkeleyT]

2 minutes ago, positivePXL said:

Fractal Design Define S would be a good case for water-cooling, they also have a white solution for the Define S, in case you wanted to stick with that theme. For cooling, you can leave the GPU's to air-cool themselves and run the CPU on an AiO, but because you will be doing SLI, breathing room for at least one of the cards will be restricted, so I would recommend doing a full custom water-cooling loop. I'd recommend just spending some time watching some of JayzTwoCents' watercooling build logs, and then some time looking through the EK catalog. 

 

For storage, you can get a cheap 2tb HDD, preferably a WD blue/black. I personally went with 2 Seagate 1tb drives, but only because they were SUPER cheap in a NewEgg deal I grabbed. 

Noob question: what is an AiO, and someone on Reddit  recommended the same case so I'm going with it

[positivePXL]

All-in-One Watercooling Loop. Instead of buying individual blocks, and radiators, and fittings, etc., you can buy a whole, precompleted kit from Corsair (And other brands, but we don't talk about them ) for $100. But, its usually just a kit that only water-cools the CPU. Some AiO's are expandable, EK's Predator series in particular, but if you're going for a full loop anyways, it's best to just get the parts yourself.