~1,000 Euro build for a friend

[ShaunOfNintendo]

Here's what I put together so far:

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/rsYL2R

£918.12 which would be roughly 1092.85 Euro

 

Changes and suggestions welcome.

Primarily gaming focused. He has a monitor and peripherals.

FYI about the case, I only chose that as an excuse to build in that case since I've wanted to for a while now lol. Feel free to change that if you'd like to though.

Also I have Windows 10 for him already, so that doesn't need to be included.

[roylapoutre]

I would go for a better PSU than this one personally. 

 

You said he has a monitor already. What res/refresh rate ?

[ShaunOfNintendo]

Just now, roylapoutre said:

I would go for a better PSU than this one personally. 

 

You said he has a monitor already. What res/refresh rate ?

Alrighty. Any suggestions? I wanted to go for a fully modular one to make it look nicer but going to a non-modular one would be fine.

 

Not sure. He mentioned to be that be might just use his TV for a while until he has enough money for a more decent monitor so that's why I stuck the 1070 in there.

[Mr.Meerkat]

2 very simple things,

1. Cheaper case (go for a micro atx if you want as smaller PC case=win win situation unless you want to watercool* or add lots of drives or something)

2. Cheaper SSD, the 850 evo is pretty dang old and there are similar performing drives for less

 

one final thing, the price of the PSU isn't included in the parts list so...

 

4 minutes ago, ShaunOfNintendo said:

Alrighty. Any suggestions? I wanted to go for a fully modular one to make it look nicer but going to a non-modular one would be fine.

 

Not sure. He mentioned to be that be might just use his TV for a while until he has enough money for a more decent monitor so that's why I stuck the 1070 in there.

Anything Seasonic/XFX (but not XT, it's not a budget build so shouldn't even matter), EVGA G2/T2/P2, super flower stuff, Corsair RMi/RMx/HXi/AX/AXi  

 

edit: I totally know the difference between watercooling and OCing...

[Michael.O.W]

I personally would go for a better PSU. For example the BeQuiet Straight Power 10 CM 600W 80+ Gold. 

And maybe spend a few bugs more for a Z170 Board for 20 Pcie lanes instead of 16. Yes it's not an overclockable CPU but you can buy in the future a Pcie X4 SSD and link the GPU still with 16 lanes.

 

[roylapoutre]

1 minute ago, ShaunOfNintendo said:

Alrighty. Any suggestions? I wanted to go for a fully modular one to make it look nicer but going to a non-modular one would be fine.

 

Not sure. He mentioned to be that be might just use his TV for a while until he has enough money for a more decent monitor so that's why I stuck the 1070 in there.

A cooler master V550 or EVGA supernova 550 G2 would be better, but pricier too.

 

Depending on the TV, it might be horrible to use it as a gaming monitor. The 1070 may be overkill depending on the resolution he will be playing at in the future

[ShaunOfNintendo]

3 minutes ago, roylapoutre said:

A cooler master V550 or EVGA supernova 550 G2 would be better, but pricier too.

 

Depending on the TV, it might be horrible to use it as a gaming monitor. The 1070 may be overkill depending on the resolution he will be playing at in the future

Okay. So he just told me what kind of games he was actually going to be playing.

This includes Football Manager, Civilization and some RTS games.

Soooo yeah...I don't think he's going to need a GTX 1070 lol

[ShaunOfNintendo]

Build update!

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone!

My friend told me that he's mainly going to be playing Football Manager, Civilization and some RTS games.

Switched out the GTX 1070 for a RX 480 instead.

On that note, I'm thinking it might be worth waiting for the GTX1060, but we'll see what happens.

I'm going to keep the same case for now, but that's still subject to change so don't worry about that.

Lastly switched the SSD to an Intel 730 series one instead.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/mmgzNN

 

EDIT: I just noticed the power supply is not included in the price and I have no idea why

[Dresta]

2 minutes ago, ShaunOfNintendo said:

 

On that note, I'm thinking it might be worth waiting for the GTX1060, but we'll see what happens

The 1060 is already out

[ShaunOfNintendo]

2 minutes ago, Dresta said:

The 1060 is already out

Oh...so it is. Don't know why I didn't see it on the site lol

[Mr.Meerkat]

9 minutes ago, ShaunOfNintendo said:

Oh...so it is. Don't know why I didn't see it on the site lol

Not updated, gotta manually look at all RX480 and 1060 cards on OCUK, Scan, Ebuyer ect. 

[Michael.O.W]

On 27.7.2016 at 0:27 PM, ShaunOfNintendo said:

 

Lastly switched the SSD to an Intel 730 series one instead.

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/mmgzNN

 

 

For the price you could get a Samsung 850 Evo 500 GB SSD . In my opinion the Intel SSD is too expensive here and not really better.