PC build - Gaming

[Carrion_]

Components:

MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X 

Intel i7-7700K

MSI Z270 Gaming M5 LGA1151

Corsair CMK16GX4M2B2800C14 Vengeance LPX Series 16GB (2x 8GB) 2800MHz DDR4 CL14 1.35V Desktop Memory

Phanteks PH-TC14PE_BK 140mm PWM Aluminium & Copper Dual-Fan 

Samsung MZ-75E500BW 850 EVO 500GB 3D V-NAND 2.5" Solid State Drive

Western-Digital WD10EZEX Blue 1TB 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive

Phanteks PH-ES515ETG_BK Enthoo Evolv Tempered Glass Windowed Black E-ATX Mid Tower Desktop Chassis

EVGA 220-G2-0750-XR SuperNOVA 750 G2 750W 80 Plus Gold Certified Fully Modular Desktop Power Supply

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Windows 10 Home 64bit

Asus USB-AC56 Dual-Band Wireless-AC1200 USB 3.0 Wi-Fi Adapter

Western Digital WDBU6Y0020BBK Elements 2.5" 2TB USB3.0 Black External Hard Drive

Kingston HyperX Cloud II 7.1

Corsair CH-9101012 K70 Lux RGB Backlit LED Cherry MX Brown Mechanical Keyboard

LG 24GM77-B 24" 144Hz Monitor

Dell S2440L 24" Monitor

Razer Naga Hex

Possibly surround sound speakers

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This build is aimed at being a powerful gaming rig, with work in 3D animation/other aspects of video game development in the relatively near future.

I live in Cape Town, South Africa - and therefore there are some parts which are annoying to source (Noctua NH-D15 for example). 

Planning on ordering this build today/tomorrow - Are there any important notes/changes anyone could offer? 

Particularly:

• RAM - I settled on this choice as it seemed like a good balance between speed (2800MHz) and latency (CL14). Appropriate choice?
• CPU Cooler - Should this CPU cooler be sufficient for most reasonable cases of overclocking?

And then any other comments/suggestions/advice?

I have posted questions about my psu before and many people say that a 650W should be enough - however The price difference is incredibly minor and

the efficiency curves that I looked at for the EVGA SuperNOVA 650W and 750W g2's didn't really seem to imply that I would be much better off with a 650W - 

It seemed to favour the 650W by ~1% efficiency at low loads of ~40-100W and then favoured the 750W by ~1% at levels above that. And both curves seemed 

to be most efficient at ~50% load -  by https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator it seems like my rig will be at around ~490W under high load which seems 

more appropriate for the 750W psu?

Thank you very much for the help!

[Xx_MadJack_xX]

Can you Change the Colour of the Font to White or Something Cause tis Practically invisible

 

[Carrion_]

Just now, Xx_MadJack_xX said:

Can you Change the Colour of the Font to White or Something Cause tis Practically invisible

 

What is the issue? A black background? I can't see it

[Xx_MadJack_xX]

Just now, Carrion_ said:

What is the issue? A black background? I can't see it

The Text Color

[Xx_MadJack_xX]

that's Better

 

[Carrion_]

Just now, Xx_MadJack_xX said:

The Text Color

It was black for me - But I reset it as black. Please let me know if that fixed it.

[Xx_MadJack_xX]

Just now, Carrion_ said:

It was black for me - But I reset it as black. Please let me know if that fixed it.

it did

 

[Carrion_]

Just now, Xx_MadJack_xX said:

it did

 

Cool - thanks! 

 

[Guest]

Those parts looks good. For gaming only I would not change anything.

[Xx_MadJack_xX]

The Ram Is a good Set and See no Reason to Change it

 

The CPU Cooler Should be More than good Enough for a Decent overclock and High Work Loads

 

And the PSU 650w is more than  Enough However if you ever wanted to SLI and 1080TI I Would Recommend a 850w to Be on the Safe Side

 

overall a Kickass Gaming PC go Right ahead m8

[RuLeZ]

Looks good, this is the only situation in which I recommend a i7 7700K, if you are doing only gaming AND are using 144HZ.