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I'm planning on building a 4K gaming build i have a budget of around $1800. This is my first time making a PC and so need some help with some of the parts, currently this is what i am thinking of getting:


CPU: Intel - Core i7-7700K 
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

Motherboard:
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory
Storage: Corsair - Force MP500 120GB M.2-2280 SSD
               Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Graphics Card: Asus - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Founders Edition 

Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+

 

I have no clue on which mother board to purchase and if I am missing any parts, for the case i was considering the Corsair - Air 540 ATX Mid Tower Case and for OS i will be running windows 10.

Any suggestions are welcome, i haven't purchased anything yet.

 



 

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any motherboard that has the features you want, and Z270 chipset. H270 cant overclock.

 

you might want to wait for vega RX and volta, vega RX should come out later this month and volta will be announced in september or october. basically, more performance if you wait a bit longer, or the same performance but for cheaper. 

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138 is a good number.

 

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4 minutes ago, themctipers said:

any motherboard that has the features you want, and Z270 chipset. H270 cant overclock.

 

you might want to wait for vega RX and volta, vega RX should come out later this month and volta will be announced in september or october. basically, more performance if you wait a bit longer, or the same performance but for cheaper. 

It's rumoured for Volta isn't becoming a consumer card we have to wait and see but RX Vega sounds like it's not going to be that expensive but up there and a 1060 6gb is fine for 4K gaming if you don't mind low settings

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Don't buy Founders cards. Those with aftermarket coolers are better.

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Just now, Billy_Mays said:

It's rumoured for Volta isn't becoming a consumer card we have to wait and see but RX Vega sounds like it's not going to be that expensive but up there and a 1060 6gb is fine for 4K gaming if you don't mind low settings

haha

1060 6gb is fine for ultra low settings at 4k :P

 

well nvidia has to release something this september/october. volta is just the codename for their next generation of gpus, like skylake and baby lake, i mean kaby lake.

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Get Ryzen R5 with dual 1080ti

what gaimz will you play at 4K?

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11 minutes ago, themctipers said:

haha

1060 6gb is fine for ultra low settings at 4k :P

 

well nvidia has to release something this september/october. volta is just the codename for their next generation of gpus, like skylake and baby lake, i mean kaby lake.

Nope a 980 can to BF1 (i7 6700, 16gb of ram, 980 reference) medium settings, and I said "Rumoured" so take it with a grain of salt 

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Just now, DXMember said:

Get Ryzen R5 with dual 1080ti

what gaimz will you play at 4K?

You don't need dual 1080TIs at all you can do 4k gaming with a 1060 and you're really misinformed about 4k gaming

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Just now, Billy_Mays said:

Nope a 980 can to BF1 (i7 6700, 16gb of ram, 980 reference) medium settings, and I said "Rumoured" so take it with a grain of salt 

i seriously cant even play minecraft at 4k (modded) with a 3770k and 32gb of ram.

with a 1070.

 

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Just now, Billy_Mays said:

You don't need dual 1080TIs at all you can do 4k gaming with a 1060 and you're really misinformed about 4k gaming

he wants to do ultra

 

you can play shit at 4k on almost any card, but it wont be fun.

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138 is a good number.

 

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Just now, themctipers said:

he wants to do ultra

 

you can play shit at 4k on almost any card, but it wont be fun.

Yeah looks good but expensive 

 

1 minute ago, themctipers said:

i seriously cant even play minecraft at 4k (modded) with a 3770k and 32gb of ram.

with a 1070.

 

Yeah but modded minecraft is an odd type of game most mod packs are unplayable for me right now due to me having a shitty laptop (in signature) 

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My Laptop #1: i3-5020U, 8gb of DDR3, Intel HD 5500

 

 

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Just now, Billy_Mays said:

Yeah looks good but expensive 

 

Yeah but modded minecraft is an odd type of game most mod packs are unplayable for me right now due to me having a shitty laptop (in signature) 

yea..

 

 

why are you encouraging OP to not play at ultra when he has the budget to do so, and is aiming for that anyways? 

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138 is a good number.

 

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1 minute ago, themctipers said:

yea..

 

 

why are you encouraging OP to not play at ultra when he has the budget to do so, and is aiming for that anyways? 

Oh yeah sometimes a I don't pay attention that well so it's fine the way it is @KDot

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OP get rid of the M.2 ssd and get a 250gb sata one instead, M.2 doesn't actually improve boot times or app launch times over sata. You'd be better off with more space. 

22 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

It's rumoured for Volta isn't becoming a consumer card we have to wait and see but RX Vega sounds like it's not going to be that expensive but up there and a 1060 6gb is fine for 4K gaming if you don't mind low settings

Of course there's gonna be consumer volta gpus, they just aren't gonna be based off gv100. And Vega isn't gonna beat the 1080 ti so not worth waiting for. 

 

Yeah well guess what? Low settings looks like crap. 

7 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

Nope a 980 can to BF1 (i7 6700, 16gb of ram, 980 reference) medium settings, and I said "Rumoured" so take it with a grain of salt 

What resolution though? 

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28 minutes ago, themctipers said:

any motherboard that has the features you want, and Z270 chipset. H270 cant overclock.

 

you might want to wait for vega RX and volta, vega RX should come out later this month and volta will be announced in september or october. basically, more performance if you wait a bit longer, or the same performance but for cheaper. 

I don't mind waiting a couple months to do this build so would it be worth the wait to get one of those GPUs 

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Just now, DocSwag said:

OP get rid of the M.2 ssd and get a 250gb sata one instead, M.2 doesn't actually improve boot times or app launch times over sata. You'd be better off with more space. 

Of course there's gonna be consumer volta gpus, they just aren't gonna be based off gv100. And Vega isn't gonna beat the 1080 ti so not worth waiting for. 

 

Yeah well guess what? Low settings looks like crap. 

What resolution though? 

4k and I don't care what settings I play at I just care that I play them 

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My Build: Xeon 2630L V, RX 560 2gb, 8gb ddr4 1866, EVGA 450BV 

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Just now, KDot said:

I don't mind waiting a couple months to do this build so would it be worth the wait to get one of those GPUs 

It's hard to say wait or go now because of the mining boom with the mid range cards and we know that AMDs cards are great for Etheruim but we don't know of RX Vega if it's going to be good or not

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Just now, Billy_Mays said:

It's hard to say wait or go now because of the mining boom with the mid range cards and we know that AMDs cards are great for Etheruim but we don't know of RX Vega if it's going to be good or not

It won't be, they use HBM2 which is crap for mining. Performance in gaming is still unknown though.

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Also most games i'm going to play can utilize multi-core processors so would it be better to get a processor with more than 4 cores 

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24 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

You don't need dual 1080TIs at all you can do 4k gaming with a 1060 and you're really misinformed about 4k gaming

is that so?

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2 minutes ago, DXMember said:

is that so?

Yeah I'm not joking 

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looks pretty good, any Z270 motherboard should be good so get one that fitts your needs for I/O, internal headers and that optionaly looks good. i dont care much about the last part but a lot of people do

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22 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

Yeah I'm not joking 

You're not joking, but @DXMember is.

 

A 1060 is not fine for 4K 60FPS using Medium/High/Ultra. If the OP can afford a 1080 Ti, why should he not get it?

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4 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

You're not joking, but @DXMember is. A 1060 is not fine for 4K 60FPS using Medium/High/Ultra. If the OP can afford a 1080 Ti, why should he not get it?

I would not settle for anything less than GTA V @ ultra above 80FPS, the more FPS you have in GTA V the faster your cars are, but it doesn't matter how fast your cars are if they look bad

so I just play it at 1440p above 100 fps

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29 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

You're not joking, but @DXMember is.

 

A 1060 is not fine for 4K 60FPS using Medium/High/Ultra. If the OP can afford a 1080 Ti, why should he not get it?

Yeah and I said it's fine 

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My Build: Xeon 2630L V, RX 560 2gb, 8gb ddr4 1866, EVGA 450BV 

My Laptop #1: i3-5020U, 8gb of DDR3, Intel HD 5500

 

 

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