PC Rig Recommendations

[Sir Snuffy]

I am building a new PC in the £700 - £800 price range that would be mainly used for gaming, with some coding and other stuff on the side. I already have a monitor, mouse/keyboard and Windows 10 - so all of that is covered. I would do some light - medium overclocking on it, so nothing too fancy. Currently, the build is as follows from pcpartpicker:

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/JxVMvV
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/JxVMvV/by_merchant/

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£210.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte G1.Sniper B7 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£70.33 @ Aria PC) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£37.14 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: PNY CS1311 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£34.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£56.28 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB G1 Gaming Video Card  (£268.47 @ BT Shop) 
Case: Aerocool Aero-800 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£41.49 @ Ebuyer) 
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£50.51 @ CCL Computers) 
Other: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Cooler (£29.99)
Total: £799.20
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-21 21:59 BST+0100

 

Prices will probably go down due to black friday sales and whatnot, as I will probably be building the PC by christmas. I want this rig to play pretty much any game you throw at it at full settings 60fps+. I grabbed the 1060 as I saw it worked very well in multiple videos. I want this to last for quite a long time, so any input on if I should find a different case, different PSU/GPU etc. would be greatly appreciated ^-^

 

Thanks.

[Hello Sir]

do you really need the 2tb? if not i would get some more ram

[Sir Snuffy]

Just now, Hello Sir said:

do you really need the 2tb? if not i would get some more ram

Mostly to just get some extra space. 1TB to 2TB isn't really that expensive, so I went with it anyway. Why get more RAM?

[radiosnakes]

Just now, Hello Sir said:

do you really need the 2tb? if not i would get some more ram

Yeah I was gonna post about that because some people told me that the AAA games from 2015/2016 run better with higher amounts of RAM.

[Hello Sir]

as radiosnakes said, AAA games use about 7gb of ram nowadays

[radiosnakes]

1 minute ago, Hello Sir said:

as radiosnakes said, AAA games use about 7gb of ram nowadays

But keep in mind some games vary in the amount of memory they use. It all depends on what kinds of games you'll play.

[Hello Sir]

you do have less chance of frame drops and your avg. fps will slightly increase

[Sir Snuffy]

Yeah. That would be something to look at. As I said, I want this rig to last quite a bit, so if the newer games will need more memory then I can grab it.

 

Any other changes? I was unsure of the power supply as my knowledge in that area is more limited.

[Hello Sir]

you should be just fine 

[radiosnakes]

Just now, Hello Sir said:

you should be just fine 

@Sir Snuffy Space might be a tight squeeze. Just a thought

[Guest]

Might get a Corsair or EVGA but XFX will be fine for that price. 

[PRTI]

Go for this

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£210.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI Z170-A PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£87.60 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£35.49 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: PNY CS1311 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£34.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£56.28 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 6GB AMP! Edition Video Card  (£252.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Aerocool Aero-800 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£41.49 @ Ebuyer) 
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£50.51 @ CCL Computers) 
Other: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Cooler (£29.99)
Total: £799.34
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-21 22:17 BST+0100

 

Changed the Gigabyte GTX 1060 to a Zotac one,since gigabyte sucks with customer support

Changed the motherboard to a Z170 one for overclocking

The PSU is Tier 3 which means its decent and for 50 its a great deal

Instead of 2x4gb sticks i picked a 1x8gb stick since 2x4gb will take up more space in those ram slots 

I advise if you can go a little over budget to get a 240-256gb SSD

 

[PRTI]

Also i would suggest if you could go a little over budget to pick a Cryorig H7 as it is better and offers better performance 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cryorig-H7-alle-Sockel/dp/B00S7YA5FQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471813880&sr=8-1&keywords=Cryorig+H7

[radiosnakes]

4 minutes ago, keNNySOC said:

Go for this

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£210.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI Z170-A PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£87.60 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£35.49 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: PNY CS1311 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£34.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£56.28 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 6GB AMP! Edition Video Card  (£252.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Aerocool Aero-800 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£41.49 @ Ebuyer) 
Power Supply: XFX 650W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£50.51 @ CCL Computers) 
Other: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Cooler (£29.99)
Total: £799.34
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-21 22:17 BST+0100

 

Changed the Gigabyte GTX 1060 to a Zotac one,since gigabyte sucks with customer support

Changed the motherboard to a Z170 one for overclocking

The PSU is Tier 3 which means its decent and for 50 its a great deal

Instead of 2x4gb sticks i picked a 1x8gb stick since 2x4gb will take up more space in those ram slots 

I advise if you can go a little over budget to get a 240-256gb SSD

 

 

That pretty much covers all of it.

 

[Hello Sir]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-Performance-Liquid-Cooler-Radiator/dp/B009VV56TY instead of Cryorig H7

[Sir Snuffy]

Thanks! I couldn't find the H7 around here anywhere, do they not sell in the UK?

 

I was kind of cutting corners with the cooling  So the H55 was one of the options.

[Sir Snuffy]

11 minutes ago, radiosnakes said:

@Sir Snuffy Space might be a tight squeeze. Just a thought

You mean in the case?

[radiosnakes]

Just now, Sir Snuffy said:

You mean in the case?

Yeah

 

[PRTI]

5 minutes ago, Hello Sir said:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-Performance-Liquid-Cooler-Radiator/dp/B009VV56TY instead of Cryorig H7

 

1 minute ago, Sir Snuffy said:

Thanks! I couldn't find the H7 around here anywhere, do they not sell in the UK?

 

I was kind of cutting corners with the cooling  So the H55 was one of the options.

The H55 is poor,don't go with a 120mm watercooler as they are really poor in terms of cooling,only 240mm and 360mm

 

There's a post above to the link to the H7

[Hello Sir]

1 minute ago, Sir Snuffy said:

the H55 was one of the options

it also looks nice

[Sir Snuffy]

4 minutes ago, radiosnakes said:

Yeah

 

Which one do you suggest I get? Had a bunch of problems picking one too  takes ages. Didn't want a really expensive one.

[PRTI]

1 minute ago, Hello Sir said:

it also looks nice

As i said,its poor in terms of cooling

 

Never go with a 120mm water cooler,only 240mm,280mmand 360mm

 

Because you can get much more performance out of a Aircooler like Noctua 

[Hello Sir]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B013WAY9UQ/ref=s9_simh_gw_g147_i5_r?ie=UTF8&fpl=fresh&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=&pf_rd_r=0Q27Y9KTSDHRN4XHJW4F&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=026d359a-cb34-4790-9249-ec9f152ee8e2&pf_rd_i=desktop

[PRTI]

If you have the money for a good cooler,here's what i recommend,The Noctua NH-D14

 

Even tho its a Aircooler its dead silent and performs very very well 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/NH-D14-Processor-LGA1366-LGA1156-LGA1155/dp/B002VKVZ1A/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1471815337&sr=1-1&keywords=noctua+nh-d14

[Sir Snuffy]

So with water cooling its either go big or go air? I did read that the H7 was quite nice but I could not find a UK store that had it ._. Thanks for the link.

 

Yeah the H55 looks cool