thoughts on this build

[Hynam199]

this build has a high chance of me purchasing. all components from PC Case Gear (australia) and total is $1,352 aud.

-ASRock B250M-Pro4 Motherboard

-Be Quiet! System Power 8 500W Power Supply

-Cooler Master Masterkeys Lite L Combo

-Phanteks Eclipse P400 Window Anthracite Grey

-Seagate Barracuda 1TB ST1000DM010

-Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB SSD

-Generic Mouse Pad - Black Cloth

-Intel Core i5 6500

-Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Evo CPU Cooler

-TP-Link WN725N 150Mbps Wireless N Nano USB Adapter

-Corsair Vengeance LPX CMK8GX4M2A2400C16 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 Black

-MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Armor OC 6GB

[grimreeper132]

unless you need it with in the next month, wait for zen

[A Silver]

Seems very good. Are you planning on overclocking your CPU? If you are maybe get a hyper 212 evo and if you are going to have a lot of games maybe get a 2tb HDD but that is up to you.

[Mr.Meerkat]

No real point in a B250 motherboard with a skylake CPU

Intel's stock cooler is fine for a locked i5

That PSU is a real meh, I mean it's not the worst quality ever but I'm sure you can get something like a Corsair CX450M or a Seasonic S12II for similar monies

 

1 minute ago, A Silver said:

Seems very good. Are you planning on overclocking your CPU? If you are maybe get a hyper 212 evo and if you are going to have a lot of games maybe get a 2tb HDD but that is up to you.

Ah yes, overclocking with a locked CPU, sounds like that's totally gonna happen  

[grimreeper132]

apart from t

Just now, A Silver said:

Seems very good. Are you planning on overclocking your CPU? If you are maybe get a hyper 212 evo and if you are going to have a lot of games maybe get a 2tb HDD but that is up to you.

not a k series or a chipset you can overclock on, so you won't be able to overclock it much, if at al so it should be fine

[A Silver]

Just now, Mr.Meerkat said:

No real point in a B250 motherboard with a skylake CPU

Intel's stock cooler is fine for a locked i5

That PSU is a real meh, I mean it's not the worst quality ever but I'm sure you can get something like a Corsair CX450M or a Seasonic S12II for similar monies

 

Ah yes, overclocking with a locked CPU, sounds like that's totally gonna happen  

Ha, i misread it!

[Hynam199]

1 minute ago, A Silver said:

Seems very good. Are you planning on overclocking your CPU? If you are maybe get a hyper 212 evo and if you are going to have a lot of games maybe get a 2tb HDD but that is up to you.

wont do much oc cause its locked and cant get much (cooler is for better looks than stock) and i might just wait then get a 2-3tb HDD

[Droidbot]

ssd is low end. get a 480 8gb over 1060 6gb. not sure about that PSU.

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

No real point in a B250 motherboard with a skylake CPU

Intel's stock cooler is fine for a locked i5

That PSU is a real meh, I mean it's not the worst quality ever but I'm sure you can get something like a Corsair CX450M or a Seasonic S12II for similar monies

 

Ah yes, overclocking with a locked CPU, sounds like that's totally gonna happen  

CX450 maybe, S12II isn't generally available in AU

[Mr.Meerkat]

2 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

CX450 maybe, S12II isn't generally available in AU

In that case, how about the XFX TS? I mean there's a lot of em on PCPP AU so....  

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

In that case, how about the XFX TS? I mean there's a lot of em on PCPP AU so....  

I've used that PSU in my 'Recommended AU' builds in my signature - check em out. 

It's pretty much a Seasonic unit from what I've heard. Tier 3. 

[Hynam199]

2 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

I've used that PSU in my 'Recommended AU' builds in my signature - check em out. 

It's pretty much a Seasonic unit from what I've heard. Tier 3. 

no seasonic on pccg but do have xfx so will go with that

[Mr.Meerkat]

2 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

It's pretty much a Seasonic unit from what I've heard. Tier 3. 

All XFX PSUs (except the XT line) are designed and manufactured by seasonic where all XFX does is slap a new casing and labels on them  

The XT line is designed by SS but outsourced thus they're shitty  

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

All XFX PSUs (except the XT line) are designed and manufactured by seasonic where all XFX does is slap a new casing and labels on them  

The XT line is designed by SS but outsourced thus they're shitty  

It's Tier 3 on Bronze and Tier 2 on Gold, so it's not a bad PSU by any means. I'm pretty sure SeaSonic was like 'we need a new PSU for XFX. fuck it, we'll outsource it to some chinese student team and see what they come back with'

[Mr.Meerkat]

4 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

I'm pretty sure SeaSonic was like 'we need a new PSU for XFX. fuck it, we'll outsource it to some chinese student team and see what they come back with'

More like:

XFX "Seasonic, we need something that competes against corsair's CX and EVGA's 80+ white PSUs"

Seasonic "How about this, we design it and then outsource it so we can use real shitty parts so it's dirt cheap while it doesn't ruin our name"

XFX "Sounds like a plan" 

 

7 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

It's Tier 3 on Bronze and Tier 2 on Gold, so it's not a bad PSU by any means.

Indeed, considering the price of the TS PSUs (cheaper than XTs sometimes in the UK), they're an absolute steal with it's Rubycon 105C rated caps  

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

More like:

XFX "Seasonic, we need something that competes against corsair's CX and EVGA's 80+ white PSUs"

Seasonic "How about this, we design it and then outsource it so we can use real shitty parts so it's dirt cheap while it doesn't ruin our name"

XFX "Sounds like a plan" 

 

Indeed, considering the price of the TS PSUs (cheaper than XTs sometimes in the UK), they're an absolute steal with it's Rubycon 105C rated caps  

They don't sell G2 or GS, pretty much every good EVGA PSU isn't sold here (we get 600B and NEX, woo) so the XFX PSUs and some Corsair units (overpriced af)  are all we got that's good for high end machines