Building My First PC

[Cushy]

Quick Link : https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/CXxnCb

PC Build:

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

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

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

Memory: Corsair - Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory

SSD: Samsung - 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive

HDD: Western Digital - Blue 3 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive

Graphics Card: MSI - GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB GAMING X TRIO Video Card

Case: Corsair - 780T ATX Full Tower Case

Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

 

My budget is around £2000. -I will most likely be buying on black friday or 'cyber monday' from whoever sells cheapest. [I live in the UK]

If anyone could think of suitable substitues for any part that would be greatly appreciated. I would prefer not to change the CPU, Graphics card and SSD. *HDD needs to stay the same size!

For compatability there seems to be no issues apart from : "The motherboard M.2 slot #2 shares bandwidth with a SATA 6.0 Gb/s port. When the M.2 slot is populated, one SATA 6.0 Gb/s port is disabled.". If someone could explain that to me in simpler terms please

As for building the PC. If anyone could include anything else i may when building as well. Thanks!

*If anyone could confirm that this build will work and the case and parts will all fit nicely together that would be great!*

I will mostly use this build for high-end gaming, streaming and possibly video editing etc in future

 

All help appreciated!

[jkelley1123]

4 minutes ago, Cushy said:

The motherboard M.2 slot #2 shares bandwidth with a SATA 6.0 Gb/s port. When the M.2 slot is populated, one SATA 6.0 Gb/s port is disabled."

This means that one of the SATA 6gb ports on the motherboard are deactivated when the motherboard detects an M.2 drive installed. I'm not sure if there's a standard for which port gets disabled, but you'll be able to figure it out pretty quick when your storage drive doesn't show up in the BIOS when you first boot it.

[SupaKomputa]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor  (£287.99 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Asus - ROG STRIX X470-F Gaming ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£184.97 @ CCL Computers) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory  (£222.16 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  (£112.74 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Western Digital - Blue 3 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£79.19 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: MSI - GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB GAMING X TRIO Video Card  (£784.97 @ More Computers) 
Case: Corsair - 780T ATX Full Tower Case  (£168.04 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£90.46 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £1930.52
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Hows that?

8 core cpu as oppose to 6

No need for heatsink (already included)

[Zando_]

Just now, SupaKomputa said:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor  (£287.99 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Asus - ROG STRIX X470-F Gaming ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£184.97 @ CCL Computers) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory  (£222.16 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  (£112.74 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Western Digital - Blue 3 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£79.19 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: MSI - GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB GAMING X TRIO Video Card  (£784.97 @ More Computers) 
Case: Corsair - 780T ATX Full Tower Case  (£168.04 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£90.46 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £1930.52
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-15 15:59 GMT+0000

 

Hows that?

8 core cpu as oppose to 6

No need for heatsink (already included)

For 1440p or higher that'll be awesome, but if the OP wants to play at 1080p 144Hz or similar, the 8700K will have the edge. I'd assume they're pretty similar in 1440p and 4K though. 

[Guest]

What Monitor are you going to be using ?

[Cushy]

3 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor  (£287.99 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Asus - ROG STRIX X470-F Gaming ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£184.97 @ CCL Computers) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory  (£222.16 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  (£112.74 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Western Digital - Blue 3 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£79.19 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: MSI - GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB GAMING X TRIO Video Card  (£784.97 @ More Computers) 
Case: Corsair - 780T ATX Full Tower Case  (£168.04 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£90.46 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £1930.52
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-15 15:59 GMT+0000

 

Hows that?

8 core cpu as oppose to 6

No need for heatsink (already included)

As mentioned by Zando i believe the I7-8700K will be better overall and although the AMD is quite a bit cheaper in price for the small performace loss i have only had a bad experience with AMD processors.

[Cushy]

2 minutes ago, lee32uk said:

What Monitor are you going to be using ?

I will be buying a 144hz/4K in January.

[StoryVFX]

Just now, Cushy said:

I will be buying a 144hz/4K in January.

Damn, you balling out playa

[Zando_]

Just now, Cushy said:

As mentioned by Zando i believe the I7-8700K will be better overall and although the AMD is quite a bit cheaper in price for the small performace loss i have only had a bad experience with AMD processors.

Ryzen is massively different from the older models. I have an R5 1600 and a 2700X, zero problems with either. The 2700X will also stomp the 8700K in anything that takes advantage of all it's cores/threads, but for high refresh rate gaming the 8700K will win out. I have an 8600K (performs about the same as an 8700K in straight gaming, a little worse in some that use more threads), it's better for 120fps + at 1080p, but for anything lower my R7 2700X is fine, and if I wanna encode on the CPU while streaming or do any other multithreaded tasks, the 2700X is much better. 

 

Basically if you want high refresh rate gaming, an 8600K or 8700K (the new 9000 series don't look like there's much of a difference in games and are horribly expensive IIRC), for everything else Ryzen has a much better price/performance ratio. 

[Guest]

Just now, Cushy said:

I will be buying a 144hz/4K in January.

You know that they are £2K+ right ? Also you would need an RTX 2080 ti to make most use of that res/refresh rate.

[Shyam Ganapathy]

1 minute ago, lee32uk said:

You know that they are £2K+ right ? Also you would need an RTX 2080 ti to make most use of that res/refresh rate.

Yeah, atleast an RTX 2080ti. 2 would probably be ideal for those circumstances.

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, lee32uk said:

You know that they are £2K+ right ? Also you would need an RTX 2080 ti to make most use of that res/refresh rate.

^^^ for 4K 144Hz, a 2080 Ti has a big edge over the 2080/1080 Ti. That's the res where it's actually useful, for 1440p and 1080p it's overkill. 

[StoryVFX]

Im pretty sure he said that the budget was 2000£

[Cushy]

3 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

^^^ for 4K 144Hz, a 2080 Ti has a big edge over the 2080/1080 Ti. That's the res where it's actually useful, for 1440p and 1080p it's overkill. 

Ahh. By 4K/144Hz i meant one or the other It really depends how much money i want to spend come january as i already have a couple of monitors and looking into a 3rd main one.

[Cushy]

If anyone could tell me if all the parts will fit into the given case that would be great! Not too sure how to tell if they would or not

[Cushy]

15 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Ryzen is massively different from the older models. I have an R5 1600 and a 2700X, zero problems with either. The 2700X will also stomp the 8700K in anything that takes advantage of all it's cores/threads, but for high refresh rate gaming the 8700K will win out. I have an 8600K (performs about the same as an 8700K in straight gaming, a little worse in some that use more threads), it's better for 120fps + at 1080p, but for anything lower my R7 2700X is fine, and if I wanna encode on the CPU while streaming or do any other multithreaded tasks, the 2700X is much better. 

 

Basically if you want high refresh rate gaming, an 8600K or 8700K (the new 9000 series don't look like there's much of a difference in games and are horribly expensive IIRC), for everything else Ryzen has a much better price/performance ratio. 

Thanks for the information I'll be sure to look into those sorts of things in future but for now i think i'll play it safe for me and go for the intel CPU.

[jkelley1123]

1 minute ago, Cushy said:

If anyone could tell me if all the parts will fit into the given case that would be great! Not too sure how to tell if they would or not

All this should fit. The GPU might be cutting it close with about 20mm of clearance for length. You'll have about the same for the Noctua cooler from the side panel.

[Zando_]

7 minutes ago, Cushy said:

Ahh. By 4K/144Hz i meant one or the other It really depends how much money i want to spend come january as i already have a couple of monitors and looking into a 3rd main one.

Ah, you should be fine with 4K 60 if you drop some settings (2080 performs about the same as a 1080 Ti) in certain games, and 1440p 144Hz should be fine as well. 

1 minute ago, Cushy said:

Thanks for the information I'll be sure to look into those sorts of things in future but for now i think i'll play it safe for me and go for the intel CPU.

 The 8700K will serve you well, I had one before the 8600K, it's a beast even at stock. Was in my cousin's rig, he was running PUBG at 130-140fps or so at stock, overclocked it's even more powerful. 

[Guest]

Not that I would pay £500+ for a cpu but you could get a 9900K with a £2K budget. The 9700K would be a cheaper option as it is still 8 cores but with no hyperthreading.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz 8-Core OEM/Tray Processor  (£564.01 @ More Computers) 
CPU Cooler: be quiet! - Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler  (£67.76 @ CCL Computers) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte - Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£183.59 @ Aria PC) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (£115.19 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£70.79 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 3 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£91.94 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB WINDFORCE OC Video Card  (£739.98 @ Box Limited) 
Case: Phanteks - Enthoo Pro TG RGB ATX Full Tower Case  (£97.99 @ CCL Computers) 
Power Supply: Corsair - RMx (2018) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£97.39 @ Kustom PCs) 
Total: £2028.64
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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