R6 Blackout Build

Phizix · May 14, 2018

Hi all,

First post so be gentle. :-)

So over the next week I'm going to be building a new gaming PC and plan to do a build log of it all in pictures (haven't got the linus-esk film making skills under my belt yet). Was wondering what you guys think in terms of the parts and whether there is anything I should alter before I go buy everything.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor

CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler

Motherboard: Asus - ROG MAXIMUS X HERO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard

Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory

Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive

Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB SC2 Video Card

Case: Fractal Design - Define R6 Blackout TG ATX Mid Tower Case

Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit

Sound Card: Creative Labs - Sound Blaster Z 30SB150200000 OEM 24-bit 192 KHz Sound Card

Wired Network Adapter: *TP-Link - TG-3468 PCI-Express x1 10/100/1000 Mbps Network Adapter

Case Fan: EK - Furious Vardar EVO 120 107.0 CFM 120mm Fan

Keyboard: Das Keyboard - 4 Ultimate Wired Standard Keyboard

Mouse: Razer - DeathAdder Elite Wired Optical Mouse

Speakers: Creative Labs - Sound BlasterX Katana 0W 2.1ch Speakers

In terms of the CPU I'll be delidding her and running her at either 4.8 or 5.0Ghz.

Some of the parts I have already and have come from a previous build, those being soundcard, keyboard & network card.

Phizix

brob · May 14, 2018

Knowing how the system will be used would make it easier to comment on the appropriateness of the build.

Why six 42dB industrial fans? A waste of money and defeats the purposed of getting a quiet case. The three stock fans should be more than sufficient to set up decent airflow for the build.

No need for a sound card.

The motherboard has a LAN port, no need for a USB LAN adapter.

Windows 10 OEM license does not permit use in DIY builds. Unless one needs particular features of the Pro version, (such as bitlocker), the Home version is quite sufficient.

The hardly noticeable performance improvement of an NVMe drive does not strike me as worth the significant price premium.

A be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 cpu cooler is as good or better than the Noctua NH-D15 and to my eyes will look much better.

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor (£285.54 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! - Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler (£69.13 @ More Computers)
Motherboard: Asus - ROG MAXIMUS X HERO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£229.99 @ Box Limited)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£161.99 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£59.58 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB SC2 Video Card (£805.28 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design - Define R6 Blackout TG ATX Mid Tower Case (£125.14 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£91.99 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home Full 32/64-bit (£102.19 @ PC World Business)
Keyboard: Das Keyboard - 4 Ultimate Wired Standard Keyboard
Mouse: Razer - DeathAdder Elite Wired Optical Mouse (£59.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Speakers: Creative Labs - Sound BlasterX Katana 0W 2.1ch Speakers (£239.96 @ More Computers)
Total: £2230.78
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Phizix · May 14, 2018

20 minutes ago, brob said:

Knowing how the system will be used would make it easier to comment on the appropriateness of the build.

Why six 42dB industrial fans? A waste of money and defeats the purposed of getting a quiet case. The three stock fans should be more than sufficient to set up decent airflow for the build.

No need for a sound card.

The motherboard has a LAN port, no need for a USB LAN adapter.

Windows 10 OEM license does not permit use in DIY builds. Unless one needs particular features of the Pro version, (such as bitlocker), the Home version is quite sufficient.

The hardly noticeable performance improvement of an NVMe drive does not strike me as worth the significant price premium.

A be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 cpu cooler is as good or better than the Noctua NH-D15 and to my eyes will look much better.

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor (£285.54 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! - Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler (£69.13 @ More Computers)
Motherboard: Asus - ROG MAXIMUS X HERO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£229.99 @ Box Limited)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£161.99 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£59.58 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB SC2 Video Card (£805.28 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design - Define R6 Blackout TG ATX Mid Tower Case (£125.14 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£91.99 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home Full 32/64-bit (£102.19 @ PC World Business)
Keyboard: Das Keyboard - 4 Ultimate Wired Standard Keyboard
Mouse: Razer - DeathAdder Elite Wired Optical Mouse (£59.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Speakers: Creative Labs - Sound BlasterX Katana 0W 2.1ch Speakers (£239.96 @ More Computers)
Total: £2230.78
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-05-14 16:08 BST+0100

Thanks for the reply. The main use for this PC is for gaming, virtual machines and music production (mainly my DJ stuff)

I'll say fair comment with the fans, I was actually going to switch out the Noctua fans due to the colour but I'll take a look at the specs of the Be-quiet you mentioned.

I require two ethernet ports, as mentioned above I already have the card from my past build so that's not a factored in cost this is also the same with my keyboard and soundcard.

I wasn't aware that you couldn't run Windows 10 home in that manor but require pro anyway for some of the more advanced features like hyper-v.

The read-write speeds on and m2 drive compared with a ssd are ridiculously faster!

brob · May 14, 2018

You can run a Windows 10 OEM license, it's just that doing so would violate the license terms.

Yes the speed/bandwidth of an NVMe drive is 4 - 6 times better than a SATA III connection. But that extra bandwidth/speed only produces a noticeable difference under certain conditions. Most of the storage i/o in a system with the described usage will be small (4K) reasonably random blocks with cpu processing interspersed. Where the higher performance of an NVMe drive makes a difference is with long serial reads/writes and high i/o queue depths.

Personally I think the money is better spent getting a larger SATA III ssd as more faster storage improves overall performance.