First gaming build

[Philsty]

Hey guys, so I wanted to get more into gaming, heavy gaming. I have a computer atm but it's non upgradable since it's a pre-built and chrome basically maxes out the cpu.

My budget is around £2000 and this is the best I've been able to come up with, if anyone has any changes let me know, peripherals aren't required since I have everything.

 

Thanks from the top

 

PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Zc6ZGG
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Zc6ZGG/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor  (£439.94 @ AWD-IT) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£107.99 @ Aria PC) 
Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver - 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste  (£8.77 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Motherboard: MSI - Z370-A PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£89.98 @ CCL Computers) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (£294.94 @ More Computers) 
Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  (£131.98 @ CCL Computers) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£50.34 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB GAMING X 8G Video Card  (£570.79 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Case: be quiet! - Dark Base 700 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£149.99 @ Aria PC) 
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£119.99 @ Novatech) 
Total: £1964.71
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-06 20:12 BST+0100

 

[lmeneses]

Everything looks good, the only thing I would recommend is maybe buying a bit better mobo to pair with the 8700k, although it would not be necessary. 

[FunkmastaFlex]

Looks good, but I think you could save some money by going with a 16gb kit, 32gb is over the top if you're just going to game on it. 

[Hip]

12 minutes ago, FunkmastaFlex said:

32gb is over the top if you're just going to game on it. 

I totally agree. Only go higher if you going to work with rendering programs or editing of movies.

 

edit:

 

I've been locking up GPU's and for just 8 GBP more you can get a 1080 Ti @ overclockers

[Lordclouds]

9 minutes ago, FunkmastaFlex said:

Looks good, but I think you could save some money by going with a 16gb kit, 32gb is over the top if you're just going to game on it. 

Yeah even 8 is not that bad but definitely get 16. 32 is an overkill for gaming. music composition or editing totally requires 32 or 64 ram

[Darkimane]

I suggest you grab a 1080 ti and reduce the ram to 16gb. 1080ti's don't cost much more plus 16gb of ram should be fine for gaming

[Philsty]

Thanks for all the feedback, I'll be dropping the ram to 16gb and hopping up to a 1080TI since the price difference is so small between the two.

[Herman Mcpootis]

get a better Z370 board, the Z370-A pro doesn't have good vrms. the 970 evo and 32gb of ram is not needed for just gaming.

[Herman Mcpootis]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor  (£439.94 @ AWD-IT) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair - H150i PRO 47.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£137.84 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI - Z370 GAMING PRO CARBON ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£151.69 @ CCL Computers) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£125.99 @ CCL Computers) 
Storage: Crucial - MX500 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£71.94 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£50.34 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB DUKE OC Video Card  (£667.47 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Case: be quiet! - Dark Base 700 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£149.99 @ Aria PC) 
Power Supply: Corsair - TXM Gold 750W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£86.99 @ CCL Computers) 
Total: £1882.19
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-07 03:50 BST+0100