First build* Sleeper style

[Halfblood11]

1. Budget & Location

Budget: around £1000-1200

Location: UK

Don’t mind pushing the budget a little however, may well try to resist

 

2. Aim

Main aim for the Build is a sort of entertainment centre, gaming, films, tv (mostly at the same time) ect. Currently my most played game is Runescape however I do have a growing library of other games that I am hoping to start playing more which I can’t with my current setup, it would also be nice to get into a little streaming / recording, even if it is just to dabble with no serious intent as yet

 

3. Monitors

I am planning on running 2 monitors + at times my tv all 1080 and possibly in the future a projector / other tv

 

4. Peripherals

Currently have all the prehiperials I need, looking to upgrade eventually, but not at the same time as I do the main build

Mouse- Logitech m720

Keyboard –Logitech  k350

Speakers – Logitech z523

Headphones – audio technica MSR7’s with modmic 4.0

 

I will be looking to get a copy of windows 10 pro

 

5. Why are you upgrading?

Looking to upgrade from my laptop which has lived on my desk for the past 4 years, finally having saved enough to build a desktop, also having slowly accumulated a few games, which I am now properly wanting to play, and I’m finding that 20 fps on minimum just not good enough (picture attached)

 

6. Planned hardware

CPU – 1700 (X?)

Motherboard – MSI Mortar B350

GPU – 1070 (brand / style to be decided, probably a blower style)

PSU – Corsair SF 600

Ram – 16GB (corsair LPX?)

Optical – blue ray drive (eventually)

Storage – Samsung 960 Evo 500Gb (long term HDD will be bought and added)

Case - bit of a special case to me, the first case I was given when I started my apprenticeship, but ill save that for the build log 

 

*while it is my first build, I maintain upwards of 400 pc's at work 

[cj09beira]

on the ram look for team group's dark pro, 3200 cl14, its very fast memory at great prices, try to get a better board, you cant forget that is still a 8 core cpu  

[Halfblood11]

spent a long time looking at boards but am constrained by needing an mATX AM4 board with the top slot being a 16x for the GPU which left me looking at the Mortar , any suggestions? 

[Nocte]

Something along these lines?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor  (£229.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus - TUF B350M-PLUS GAMING Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£91.90 @ More Computers)
Memory: Team - Dark Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (£188.88 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Storage: Kingston - A400 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£59.93 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£34.79 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Palit - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Super JetStream Video Card  (£478.97 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£81.01 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £1165.47
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-11-28 18:54 GMT+0000

 

Just swap the 1080 out if you want to save money with the 1070...

[Halfblood11]

it does make me happy to see that build listed with a 1080 and a 550 w psu, the corsair SF600 is another constraint due to sizes, I have bought the components, 

1700x (which also leads me onto which aio to get limited to a 120mm ) - £240

corsair SF600 £90

samsung 960 evo 500  £207

corsair vengance LPX 3000 (2 x 8gb) £180

which have arrived

 

still waiting on the motherboard and GPU   

MSI Aero 1070TI - £420

and MSI b350 Mortar - £78

but can return  

[PETRGangKing]

14 minutes ago, Halfblood11 said:

it does make me happy to see that build listed with a 1080 and a 550 w psu, the corsair SF600 is another constraint due to sizes, I have bought the components, 

1700x (which also leads me onto which aio to get limited to a 120mm ) - £240

corsair SF600 £90

samsung 960 evo 500  £207

corsair vengance LPX 3000 (2 x 8gb) £180

which have arrived

 

still waiting on the motherboard and GPU   

MSI Aero 1070TI - £420

and MSI b350 Mortar - £78

but can return  

I would return that board and get a better one, especially if you plan on overclocking. Your VRM temps will likely get way hotter than safe operable temps with an R7 CPU, especially if overclocked. Why are you limited to 120mm AIO? if that is really what you are limited to, I would skip the AIO and get a good air cooler. A quality air cooler will out perform a 120mm AIO.

[Halfblood11]

limited on the space for the cooler, was heavily considering an air cooler but there is also the problem of the CPU being nearly directly under where the optical drive sits, also thought it might be useful to have movement of air directly over the VRM's