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Recommendations on this gaming/streaming PC build?

1. Budget & Location

I am located in Sweden and my current budget is around $2000 USD which roughly translated to 18 000 Swedish Kronor. I am willing to go a bit over the budget if the parts are worth it.

 

2. Aim

The aim of this station is mainly for gaming and some minor programming in the future. I would like it to be able to stream as well, as I would like to do this in the future as well. 

So to get more in depth, the games I am currently playing and probably going to keep playing is games similar to PUBG, ARK: Survival Evolved, CS:GO and GTA V. I would like the PC to be able to stream the games with decent quality and still not lose FPS (not really sure what's good for a streaming pc).

 

3. Monitors

No monitors required as I have that already.

 

4. Peripherals

Maybe some good RGB LED strips with a controller that I can fit inside the case.

 

5. Why are you upgrading?

I am currently looking to upgrade as I've had this computer for the past 4 years now and it is really starting to show, I am also not able to really play the newer games without a high amount of FPS drops or lag. As I've mentioned earlier I am looking to start streaming games as well and thus require a much better computer.  

 

 

This is what I've currently been able to come up with, however, it is about $100 USD over my budget and any recommendations on what I can change to get the price down but keep a good performance would be awesome:

 
CPU        
lntel Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor

CPU Cooler    
Cooler Master - MasterLiquid ML240R RGB 66.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

Motherboard    
Asus - ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard

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

Storage    
Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

Video Card    
MSI - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB ARMOR Video Card

Case    
NZXT - H500i (White) ATX Mid Tower Case

Power Supply    
EVGA - SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

Operating System    
Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit
 
Any recommendations on what I can remove/add or change would be greatly appreciated as I want the best computer as possible for the budget I have.
 
Thank you in advance,
Lessio
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1. Cooler Master's ML240L sucked hard (unimpressive thermals, poor durability), I dont expect the ML240R will be any better. I'd at least get a Fractal S24 or EVGA CLC 240 or Arctic Freezer 240 or NZXT X52 (Corsair's H100 has loud fans for mediocre performance, so not recommending that either), though they cost more (especially the X52)

 

2. MSI Armor cooler is a joke on anything faster than a 1070. The 1080ti Armor is a good PCB with a terrible cooler, good for watercooling conversion but not use in stock configuration. Literally, any card but that if you will use it at stock configuration

 

3, PSU isnt great. 

something tier 3 or above in the list will do.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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The 240mm AIO isn't good. A beefy air cooler would cool better. Look at Corsairs H100i - H110i - H115i - H150i lineup, as well as NZXT's Kraken AIO's.

 

That power supply isn't the best.

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