New Gaming/Workstation Build

[Adaaam]

Hey guys, long time lurker of LTT Forums but this is my first post!

 

Anyways, im looking at building a new rig in october time which is primarily going to be used for gaming, editing and general work use, below is what i have come up with so far, the build will be fully watercooled with a custom hard tubing loop and parts from EKWB and Alphacool. My budget is around the £2k mark but can be increased if needed.

 

The CPU must be able to be overclocked, to a decent standard, this is a minimum requirement for my build.

 

The case will be a EVGA DG-87 for definite as i already have this on pre-order.

 

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

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£293.88 @ Aria PC) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£25.22 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£187.98 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£102.89 @ More Computers) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£74.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£93.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 8GB G1 Gaming Video Card  (£416.28 @ Aria PC) 
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£99.98 @ Novatech) 
Total: £1295.21
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-23 14:05 BST+0100

[Bananasplit_00]

if you are going to do full water cooling why bother getting the Hyper 212? other then that it looks good, a bit to big powersupply tho, you can use a 650W SuperNova G2 instead  

[SeanAngelo]

3 minutes ago, Adaaam said:

Hey guys, long time lurker of LTT Forums but this is my first post!

 

Anyways, im looking at building a new rig in october time which is primarily going to be used for gaming, editing and general work use, below is what i have come up with so far, the build will be fully watercooled with a custom hard tubing loop and parts from EKWB and Alphacool. My budget is around the £2k mark but can be increased if needed.

 

The CPU must be able to be overclocked, to a decent standard, this is a minimum requirement for my build.

 

The case will be a EVGA DG-87 for definite as i already have this on pre-order.

 

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

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£293.88 @ Aria PC) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£25.22 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£187.98 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£102.89 @ More Computers) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£74.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£93.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 8GB G1 Gaming Video Card  (£416.28 @ Aria PC) 
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£99.98 @ Novatech) 
Total: £1295.21
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-23 14:05 BST+0100

if you're watercooling, why do you have a 212 evo?

 

and it looks good to me!  might wanna increase your SSD capacity or get an m.2 SSD.

[Adaaam]

1 minute ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

if you are going to do full water cooling why bother getting the Hyper 212? other then that it looks good, a bit to big powersupply tho, you can use a 650W SuperNova G2 instead  

I'm going to get that cooler just to start with as my pc at the moment is becoming abit redundant, and as I will need this pc up and running from day one I will add the custom loop at a later date, I chose that power supply for future proofing reasons, I'll take a look at the 650w you have suggested, thanks for the info!

[Bananasplit_00]

Just now, Adaaam said:

I'm going to get that cooler just to start with as my pc at the moment is becoming abit redundant, and as I will need this pc up and running from day one I will add the custom loop at a later date, I chose that power supply for future proofing reasons, I'll take a look at the 650w you have suggested, thanks for the info!

no problem, its always a plesure to help  

[Adaaam]

2 minutes ago, SeanAngelo said:

if you're watercooling, why do you have a 212 evo?

 

and it looks good to me!  might wanna increase your SSD capacity or get an m.2 SSD.

Yeah I was thinking that as well, as I already have a home NAS unit with plenty of storage I was just going to use this ssd as the boot drive and the wd black for items which I need on the rig. I haven't really looked into the benefits of m.2 yet but where I live they are damn more expensive 

[Lethal Seraph]

Why not get a 5820k for a workstation?

[DarkBlade2117]

The M9i from Cryorig should be cheaper.

Also, no need for Dominator Plats, or such a expensive mobo. I'd get different RAM, they all perform similar along as specs are similar. Mobo doesn't effect performance also.

After this you might be able to get a GTX 1080 or a bigger SSD.

[Adaaam]

6 minutes ago, Lethal Seraph said:

Why not get a 5820k for a workstation?

Not really a fan of the X99 platform as a few of my buddy's have them and for what I want it wouldn't suit me

5 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

The M9i from Cryorig should be cheaper.

Also, no need for Dominator Plats, or such a expensive mobo. I'd get different RAM, they all perform similar along as specs are similar. Mobo doesn't effect performance also.

After this you might be able to get a GTX 1080 or a bigger SSD.

I will take that into consideration, would you recommend hyper X ram instead?

[Lethal Seraph]

1 minute ago, Adaaam said:

Not really a fan of the X99 platform as a few of my buddy's have them and for what I want it wouldn't suit me

It really depends if you can get it cheaper. If you couldn't then it's not worth it. I think a 5820k would be the bottom-line for a true workstation.

[iiNNeX]

6700k masterace yo

 

Also dom plats look boss:

 

[Adaaam]

1 hour ago, iiNNeX said:

6700k masterace yo

 

Also dom plats look boss:

 

Looks pretty nice if you ask me, what sort of results are you seeing?

[Adaaam]

1 hour ago, Lethal Seraph said:

It really depends if you can get it cheaper. If you couldn't then it's not worth it. I think a 5820k would be the bottom-line for a true workstation.

Price isn't really a problem, even though it would be nice, I will look into the 5820k though thanks for the input

[DarkBlade2117]

2 hours ago, iiNNeX said:

6700k masterace yo

 

Also dom plats look boss:

 

Just paint the ( Vengeance Pros I think they are ) fucking chrome and bam, a heck of a lot cheaper.

[iiNNeX]

On 23/08/2016 at 4:37 PM, DarkBlade2117 said:

Just paint the ( Vengeance Pros I think they are ) fucking chrome and bam, a heck of a lot cheaper.

Price difference is like £30-£40 i think, nothing compared to what the total build cost so why not just go for the better product

On 23/08/2016 at 4:00 PM, Adaaam said:

Looks pretty nice if you ask me, what sort of results are you seeing?

Currently at 4.7ghz on CPU at 1.39v and both GPUs run at 2100mhz in SLI on most benchmarks, however in games they go down to 2076mhz. 

 

Water temp = highest I saw was 44C and that was after 3 hours of RealBench with fully OC'ed system.

 

CPU: 72C with that OC mentioned above at 100% load in Aida64 and Realbench. In games i see no more than 60-62C

GPU: max temp on both cards was 51C at 100% load. In games its usually no more than 44C

 

Runs anything I throw at it at way over 100fps on Ultra @1440p. Makes good use of the 165hz on my PG279Q.

[DarkBlade2117]

5 minutes ago, iiNNeX said:

Price difference is like £30-£40 i think, nothing compared to what the total build cost so why not just go for the better product

Currently at 4.7ghz on CPU at 1.39v and both GPUs run at 2100mhz in SLI on most benchmarks, however in games they go down to 2076mhz. 

 

Water temp = highest I saw was 44C and that was after 3 hours of RealBench with fully OC'ed system.

 

CPU: 72C with that OC mentioned above at 100% load in Aida64 and Realbench. In games i see no more than 60-62C

GPU: max temp on both cards was 51C at 100% load. In games its usually no more than 44C

 

Runs anything I throw at it at way over 100fps on Ultra @1440p. Makes good use of the 165hz on my PG279Q.

Because that's to much just for a fancy heat sink.

Could get double the ram and paint it.

[iiNNeX]

Just now, DarkBlade2117 said:

Because that's to much just for a fancy heat sink.

Could get double the ram and paint it.

It's pocket change when the rig and peripherals going on it are over £5k lol