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Hi LTT-Community!

I've decided to finally build a gaming PC myself. After doing some research and choosing some parts, I decided that I need some help. I used logicalincrements.com for parts recommendations and picked some parts from different builds. I came up with this setup:
 

Those are German amazon links, I hope this won't cause problems. 

 

I already have a few HDD's, so i chose to not buy a new one and save some money there. All in all these parts should cost around 1000€, which is already more than I was planning to spend. 

I have a few concerns with these parts, so here are my questions:

  • Is a 520 Watt PSU enough for the parts i chose? The power consumption of the GPU, CPU and Cooler add up to around 220 Watts, which would leave around 300 Watts for the mainboard, RAM, HDD, SSD and various USB devices. I wasn't able to find out how much the mainboard itself would consume.
  • Are there any parts that would interfere with each other?
  • I'm not planning to do serious overclocking, so I picked a rather cheap cooler. Is the one I chose good enough to cool the 6600k?

Thanks in advance,

Leo :-)

 

English isn't my main language, so please excuse any misused words or grammatical errors. It would be nice if you could point those out. Also it's my first time posting here, I hope I didn't disobey any community guidelines or rules.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, leo26299 said:

Hi LTT-Community!

I've decided to finally build a gaming PC myself. After doing some research and choosing some parts, I decided that I need some help. I used logicalincrements.com for parts recommendations and picked some parts from different builds. I came up with this setup:
 

Those are german amazon links, I hope this won't cause problems. 

 

I already have a few HDD's, so i chose to not buy a new one and save some money there. All in all these parts should cost around 1000€, which is already more than I was planning to spend. 

I have a few concerns with these parts, so here are my questions:

  • Is a 520 Watt PSU enough for the parts i chose? The power consumption of the GPU, CPU and Cooler add up to around 220 Watts, which would leave around 300 Watts for the mainboard, RAM, HDD, SSD and various USB devices. I wasn't able to find out how much the mainboard itself would consume.
  • Are there any parts that would interfere with each other?
  • I'm not planning to do serious overclocking, so I picked a rather cheap cooler. Is the one I chose good enough to cool the 6600k?

Thanks in advance,

Leo :-)

 

English isn't my main language, so please excuse any misused words or grammatical errors. It would be nice if you could point those out. Also it's my first time posting here, I hope I didn't disobey any community guidelines or rules.

 

 

Defitnely wait for Zen. Kaby Lake is also out, but it has no performance improvement over Skylake. Would recommend the RX 480 8Gb, since it's better than the 1060 (Take 1060 if it is cheaper, take 480 when the 1060 is more expensive). Your build will run on even a 450W PSU, 520 is plenty.

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9 minutes ago, leo26299 said:

Hi LTT-Community!

I've decided to finally build a gaming PC myself. After doing some research and choosing some parts, I decided that I need some help. I used logicalincrements.com for parts recommendations and picked some parts from different builds. I came up with this setup:
 

Those are german amazon links, I hope this won't cause problems. 

 

I already have a few HDD's, so i chose to not buy a new one and save some money there. All in all these parts should cost around 1000€, which is already more than I was planning to spend. 

I have a few concerns with these parts, so here are my questions:

  • Is a 520 Watt PSU enough for the parts i chose? The power consumption of the GPU, CPU and Cooler add up to around 220 Watts, which would leave around 300 Watts for the mainboard, RAM, HDD, SSD and various USB devices. I wasn't able to find out how much the mainboard itself would consume.
  • Are there any parts that would interfere with each other?
  • I'm not planning to do serious overclocking, so I picked a rather cheap cooler. Is the one I chose good enough to cool the 6600k?

Thanks in advance,

Leo :-)

 

English isn't my main language, so please excuse any misused words or grammatical errors. It would be nice if you could point those out. Also it's my first time posting here, I hope I didn't disobey any community guidelines or rules.

 

 

Oh and I see that you are from germany, check out the retailer mindfactory.de I bought all my parts from there.

Edit: Use de.pcpartpicker.com for a part list

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8 minutes ago, FTL said:

Defitnely wait for Zen. Kaby Lake is also out, but it has no performance improvement over Skylake. Would recommend the RX 480 8Gb, since it's better than the 1060 (Take 1060 if it is cheaper, take 480 when the 1060 is more expensive). Your build will run on even a 450W PSU, 520 is plenty.

I've checked those out, but the Kaby Lake CPU's are too expensive at the moment. But I will consider waiting for Zen, thanks!

 

6 minutes ago, FTL said:

Oh and I see that you are from germany, check out the retailer mindfactory.de I bought all my parts from there.

Edit: Use de.pcpartpicker.com for a part list

I didn't plan to buy all parts from Amazon anyways. Mindfactory has some good deals on a few parts. 

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The Phanteks P400 is a better, cheaper case IMHO.

 

Also, their customer support is on point. Just some food for thought.

Better dead than Red.

 

Pheonix

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CPU: i5 2500k @ 4.6ghz Mobo: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 RAM: G.Skill 16gb of DDR3 @ 1600mhz GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6gb Extreme Gaming PSU: EVGA 700B Storage: 480GB SP SSD and a 960GB Ultra II Sandisk. Cooler: Cryorig H7 Case: Phanteks P400. 

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So now I'm deciding on a GPU. How would the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1060 Mini compare to the XFX RX-480 8GB? I think the RX 480 looks a lot better and has 2 GB more GDDR5. But it does have a lower base clock of 1266MHz vs 1506MHz or 1708MHz (with boost). I don't how much overclocking the larger Card and the extra fan on the RX-480 would allow.

 

Edit: I think the difference in speed would be quite small, so I guess I will choose by personal preference.

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11 minutes ago, Cvet76 said:

@leo26299

Since you're from germany, here are a couple of sites that helped me get my components on the cheaper side:
The two main ones I use are these

http://www.idealo.de/

https://geizhals.at/

And the rest I have bookmarked

https://www.computeruniverse.net

https://www.notebooksbilliger.de/

http://www.billiger.de

https://www.alternate.de/

Thanks, I'll check those out. 

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