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[Robinsony]

Hi There,

 

Planning a build that will last me a long time and will deliver good performance.

 

Put this together:

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/8DWyFd

 

What do you think?

 

Thanks,

Sam

[Electronics Wizardy]

Id get a 240gb or bigger boot drive

[Mira Yurizaki]

I'd get an air cooler as well as a larger SSD.

[Robinsony]

Hi There,

 

Sorry, forgot to mention I already have a 480GB SSD and that I'd like to overclock so that's why I've gone for the water cooler.

 

[Robinsony]

Hi there,

 

I'm probably going to keep the 650 to leave room for upgrades, e.g. If I get another 1070. 

[HKZeroFive]

Blower style cards tend to provide mediocre cooling in comparison to aftermarket designs...

 

I'd also change out the power supply. The NEX/G1 series aren't good. Get the G2 instead.

[CookieMaster]

2 minutes ago, Sdvf said:

Hi there,

 

I'm probably going to keep the 650 to leave room for upgrades, e.g. If I get another 1070. 

That's what I would do

 

but I agree with thread with the next thing...

 

I think you should get an ssd over M.2.. SSD

 

120gb boot dirve is enough

 

I would get an sshd for my games and storage. its around the same price as that HDD, but faster. 

[Gonio]

Go with a NZXT Kraken x61 as cooler. better performer and can run more silent...

[Paytend01]

14 minutes ago, Thread212 said:

1.Its better to Buy SATA SSD.. as u wont be able to saturate all of those bandwidth on nvme.

2.I'd get 550w Supernova. 650 is too overkill for single Gpu.

The supernova PSU's arent great from what ive heard

[Paytend01]

From what ive heard the NEX power supplies arent great,maybe consider the EVGA Gs, or  G2

[Paytend01]

1 minute ago, Thread212 said:

Yep but not the G2 version.

The G1 is fine by the way..

Sorry, i meant to say the supernova NEX power supplies

[Zilar]

I'd choose for the 6600k and gtx 1080

 

[Robinsony]

Hi There,

 

Sorry for taking a while to reply, I went out for dinner.

 

Taken points into consideration and:

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/pwMh9W

 

FYI: I already have a 480GB and a 120GB SSD.

[Dackzy]

4 hours ago, Zilar said:

I'd choose for the 6600k and gtx 1080

 

Spoiler

 

1 hour ago, Sdvf said:

Hi There,

 

Sorry for taking a while to reply, I went out for dinner.

 

Taken points into consideration and:

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/pwMh9W

 

FYI: I already have a 480GB and a 120GB SSD.

that i5 is going to bottleneck the shit out of a 1080. I have posted this so many times now.

10% difference in GTA V when both are OCed and most of the time the i5 just catches up to the i7 when it is OCed to 4.5GHz, who says that you can get that OC? Also that is with maxwell Titan X, not Pascal, so this is basically a 1070. This graph is by digitalfoundry.
You might look at it and think oh that is nothing, well now think about the i7 giving you a more stable FPS, now think about that the i5 when running at 4.5GHz bearly gives the same FPS as a stock 6700k and what if you cannot get your i5 to that, now think about if your CPU goes up to 80-90% or over, then you might get some stuttering. Lastly think about the future 

and then you have this video that shows that at 1080p locked 60 FPS the 6600k at 4.5GHZ has a really hard time with a 1060. We even see 99% in witcher 3 and if you think it will get better in the furture then you are a fool, it will only get worse, when "next gen" games start hitting us in 2-3 years, then that i5 is fucked harder than it already is. Games are getting more and more CPU demanding.

 

Getting a GTX 1080 + 6600k is like getting a one way ticket to bottleneck city, while stopping my stuttering city. It is stupid. Those tests are done on what would be older games now. A i5 is already being pushed really hard with a 1060 and bottlenecks a 1070, now you want a 1080 with it, hah. If you even think about keeping this system for 2 years or more get a i7.

[Robinsony]

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/DpdkD8

[Guest]

4 hours ago, Sdvf said:

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/DpdkD8

What monitor do you have ? Unless it is 1440p/144Hz or 4K then the GTX 1080 is not needed.

 

I would get some faster Ram. A 3000MHz kit would be my suggestion.

 

Swap out the WD Black for a Seagate Barracuda.

 

 

[Robinsony]

Hi @lee32uk

 

ATM I have a 1080p monitor but will be getting one (maybe two) 1440p monitors.

 

RAM speeds don't make too much of a difference in gaming. Video About That.

 

I'm gonna keep the WD Black, it performs better than the Seagate. 

Video About That. Info at 3:39.

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, Sdvf said:

Hi @lee32uk

 

ATM I have a 1080p monitor but will be getting one (maybe two) 1440p monitors.

 

RAM speeds don't make too much of a difference in gaming. Video About That.

 

I'm gonna keep the WD Black, it performs better than the Seagate. 

Video About That. Info at 3:39.

Ram speeds can make a difference on Skylake:

 

http://www.techspot.com/article/1171-ddr4-4000-mhz-performance/

 

You don't need better performance though if it is just a storage drive. If you want things to load quick that is what the SSD is for.

[Robinsony]

Hi @lee32uk

 

Yes, seeing those graphs I will change to a high speed kit. I will however stay with the WD Black as my SSD capacity is for os and games, there are other applications like video editing and virtual disks (multiple ones being accessed simultaneously) which can benefit from increased speeds.

 

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/tfWg3F