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This will be my first PC build after having owned PC for years. I have watched many hours of build videos (I think I am hearing Linus in my sleep :) reading forum posts and looking at other peoples builds. What I am wanting to achieve is a PC that will serve me for about 5 years and play current AAA titles. Budget has always been around £1000 GBP and I need a monitor and windows key. So after a lot of checking rechecking I have decided to pull the trigger on this build.
 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£182.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Motherboard: Asus H170 PRO GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£109.37 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£66.92 @ More Computers) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£128.28 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£43.98 @ Ebuyer) 
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 480 8GB Video Card  (£236.14 @ CCL Computers) 
Case: Aerocool Aero-800 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£41.49 @ Ebuyer) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£70.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home Full 32/64-bit  (£84.01 @ More Computers) 
Monitor: Asus MX239H 23.0" Monitor  (£169.36 @ More Computers) 
Total: £1133.51
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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If anyone can I would really appreciate a review of my build and see if there are any potential problems. Thanks very much for reading. 

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7 minutes ago, JohnGM said:

This will be my first PC build after having owned PC for years. I have watched many hours of build videos (I think I am hearing Linus in my sleep :) reading forum posts and looking at other peoples builds. What I am wanting to achieve is a PC that will serve me for about 5 years and play current AAA titles. Budget has always been around £1000 GBP and I need a monitor and windows key. So after a lot of checking rechecking I have decided to pull the trigger on this build.
 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£182.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Motherboard: Asus H170 PRO GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£109.37 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£66.92 @ More Computers) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£128.28 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£43.98 @ Ebuyer) 
Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 480 8GB Video Card  (£236.14 @ CCL Computers) 
Case: Aerocool Aero-800 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£41.49 @ Ebuyer) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£70.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home Full 32/64-bit  (£84.01 @ More Computers) 
Monitor: Asus MX239H 23.0" Monitor  (£169.36 @ More Computers) 
Total: £1133.51
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-15 11:12 BST+0100


If anyone can I would really appreciate a review of my build and see if there are any potential problems. Thanks very much for reading. 

No issues with the build, should all work fine. Dont think its going to last 5 years though (At least not at high settings).  

Please quote our replys so we get a notification and can reply easily. Never cheap out on a PSU, or I will come to watch the fireworks. 

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My specs

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PC:

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K @4.8GHz
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U14S 
Motherboard:  ASUS Maximus VIII Hero 
GPU: Zotac AMP Extreme 1070 @ 2114Mhz
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
Case: Cooler Master MasterCase Pro 5 
Power Supply: EVGA 750W G2

 

Peripherals 

Keyboard: Corsair K70 LUX Browns
Mouse: Logitech G502 
Headphones: Kingston HyperX Cloud Revolver 

Monitor: U2713M @ 75Hz

 

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Thanks rn8686,  I know what you mean about the games my 5 year idea is because I have never upgraded very often and it has taken a while to save enough, so if it can last me through Uni and finding a job that would be great. Davidp1122 I never realised I could get key for that price so that is brilliant cheers. If you don't mind, am I able to download windows 10 from Microsoft and just use the key to activate it once it is installed on the new system?

 

Cheers 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, JohnGM said:

Thanks rn8686,  I know what you mean about the games my 5 year idea is because I have never upgraded very often and it has taken a while to save enough, so if it can last me through Uni and finding a job that would be great. Davidp1122 I never realised I could get key for that price so that is brilliant cheers. If you don't mind, I am able to download windows 10 from Microsoft and just use the key to activate it once it is installed on the new system?

 

Cheers 

 

 

You may not need a key at all. You can just skip entering the key when installing windows and it will never force you to buy one. It will only prevent you from changing your background though the control panel and you can still get around this by clicking on an image and setting it to be your background. 

Please quote our replys so we get a notification and can reply easily. Never cheap out on a PSU, or I will come to watch the fireworks. 

PSU Tier List

 

My specs

Spoiler

PC:

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K @4.8GHz
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U14S 
Motherboard:  ASUS Maximus VIII Hero 
GPU: Zotac AMP Extreme 1070 @ 2114Mhz
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
Case: Cooler Master MasterCase Pro 5 
Power Supply: EVGA 750W G2

 

Peripherals 

Keyboard: Corsair K70 LUX Browns
Mouse: Logitech G502 
Headphones: Kingston HyperX Cloud Revolver 

Monitor: U2713M @ 75Hz

 

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