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1. Don't get an i3, it will bottleneck your 980Ti

2. Get an i5 6600k with an aftermarket cooler (something cheap like 212 Evo will do)

3. i3 7100 will not work with your motherboard without BIOS update. Also Z170 are meant for overclocking, but it requires a K cpu and i3 7100 doesn't allow it

4. You don't need NVME SSD,  there is no difference in speed increase at all

5. 450w is small for a quite power hungry card like a 980 ti

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no way on earth a 980ti will run on that cheap PSU...i was using a good highly rated XFX XTR 550W gold PSU (seasonic) with my 980ti and that was having a hard time to keep up and the fan would go bunkers all the time while playing BF1...upgraded to EVGA 750W G2 now and it's fine...i strongly recommend a good quality 650W+ PSU for a 980ti.

 

Also you should look for a 2x8GB kit for your RAM...that way you can upgrade to more RAM in the future if needed...and it's easier to get stable at higher clockspeed when you only have 2 dimms to deal with...less chance of hardware failure...more energy efficient...less stress on the CPU's inegrated memory controler etc.

| CPU: Core i7-8700K @ 4.89ghz - 1.21v  |  Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING  |  CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i V2 |
| GPU: MSI RTX 3080Ti Ventus 3X OC  |  RAM: 32GB T-Force Delta RGB 3066mhz |
| Displays: Acer Predator XB270HU 1440p Gsync 144hz IPS Gaming monitor | Oculus Quest 3 VR

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2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

1. Don't get an i3, it will bottleneck your 980Ti

2. Get an i5 6600k with an aftermarket cooler (something cheap like 212 Evo will do)

3. i3 7100 will not work with your motherboard without BIOS update. Also Z170 are meant for overclocking, but it requires a K cpu and i3 7100 doesn't allow it

4. You don't need NVME SSD,  there is no difference in speed increase at all

5. 450w is bit small for a quite power hungry card like a 980 ti

Completely agree with the above statement too

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I would caution not to go chasing bottlenecks, you'll never catch them all in MMOs. Guild Wars 2 in particular cannot be brute-forced into GPU-bound performance, that game will be CPU limited at times no matter what hardware you have.

 

That said, it would be nice to squeeze in an i5-7400 or something similar if possible. i3's don't have the flexibility for other games that i5's do.

 

I'm unsure what pricing is like in the Netherlands, but NVMe tends to carry a price premium. There is a big performance difference between NVMe and SATA, but it's a difference you may not see very often in consumer workloads. If you can get, for instance, a Samsung 850 EVO for much cheaper, do it.

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10 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

1. Don't get an i3, it will bottleneck your 980Ti

2. Get an i5 6600k with an aftermarket cooler (something cheap like 212 Evo will do)

3. i3 7100 will not work with your motherboard without BIOS update. Also Z170 are meant for overclocking, but it requires a K cpu and i3 7100 doesn't allow it

4. You don't need NVME SSD,  there is no difference in speed increase at all

5. 450w is small for a quite power hungry card like a 980 ti

I thought the board supported both 6th and 7th gen?

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-Z270-PC-MATE-Motherboard/dp/B01N4KIUWM/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1489082597&sr=1-1&keywords=MSI+Z270+PC+Mate

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gonna drop in a quick suggestion: i've found that using german pcpartpicker, keeping about a 10-20ish % headroom in price, is a pretty good tool to use without sending people to tweakers :P

 

beyond that, if i understand correctly, you're only gonna be re-using the GPU right? everything else new?

(besides, welcome to the forum, please follow your own topics if you want to get notificatilons when people reply)

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1 minute ago, NajTrebla said:

Holy balls i've never thought i'd get this many replies in such a short spawn of time, i'm currently re-building the entire build from scratch 

 

So far i've decided on the 7600K for the CPU and now i'm looking for a good quality 650W PSU

 

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6 minutes ago, manikyath said:

gonna drop in a quick suggestion: i've found that using german pcpartpicker, keeping about a 10-20ish % headroom in price, is a pretty good tool to use without sending people to tweakers :P

 

beyond that, if i understand correctly, you're only gonna be re-using the GPU right? everything else new?

(besides, welcome to the forum, please follow your own topics if you want to get notificatilons when people reply)

Haha, I didnt know I could follow my own posts! Im new here too thanks for the tip!

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2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

EVGA G2/GQ/GS/G3

Corsair RMx/RM

 

this side of the pond will probably be corsair RMx, because even if evga exists here, it's appareantly got terrible warranty.

 

EVGA is great in 'murica, it's mediocre here.

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Just now, manikyath said:

this side of the pond will probably be corsair RMx, because even if evga exists here, it's appareantly got terrible warranty.

 

EVGA is great in 'murica, it's mediocre here.

In NA Corsair RMx usually costs more but in EU they seem to be the opposite lol

https://nl.hardware.info/product/322511/corsair-rm650x

https://nl.hardware.info/product/313763/evga-supernova-g2-650w

 

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