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[stesco]

Looking to purchase this spec below however before I do just looking for some advice. Do you think I could change anything or add? Main uses gaming and general day to day use. This will replace my current PC Specialist spec which is now 4 years old. Thanks in advance.

Case COOLERMASTER CM690 III ADVANCED CASE (GREEN)

Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor i7-5930K (3.5GHz) 15MB Cache

Motherboard ASUS® X99-S: ATX, HSW-E CPU, USB 3.0, SATA 6 GB/s

Memory (RAM) 16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 8GB)

Graphics Card 6GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 Ti - DVI, HDMI, 3 DP

1st Hard Disk 500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)

2nd Hard Disk 2TB WD BLACK WD2003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 16x BLU-RAY WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW

Power Supply CORSAIR 750W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

Processor Cooling Corsair H60 Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler

Thermal Paste STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING

Sound Card ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Wireless/Wired Networking 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)

USB Options MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS

Power Cable 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)

Operating System Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence

Windows 10 Upgrade FREE Upgrade to Windows 10 with all Windows 7 & Windows 8.1 Purchases*

DVD Recovery Media Windows 10 (64-bit) DVD with paper sleeve

Office Software Microsoft® Office 365 Home Premium (12 Month Subscription)

Anti-Virus NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE

Warranty 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)

Delivery STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)

Build Time Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 11 working days

Promotional Item FREE METAL GEAR SOLID game with select GTX 9 Series GPUs! -Subject to T&Cs

Total Order Price £2,043.00

 

[keynes]

I would go with the Azure spec in the review section for £1500. It has similar spec, will perform as well or even better than the one you posted and it is cheaper.

 

[jammey]

I would go with the Azure spec in the review section for £1500. It has similar spec, will perform as well or even better than the one you posted and it is cheaper.

Well his CPU would make dogs meat out of the 6700k, except in gaming where they would perform similar. Aside from that I would recommend the Azure as it is much better value, unless you really do need the the extra performance in production tasks.

 

[stesco]

Thanks for your comments, I did look at the Azure and saw it got a really good review, however I don't like the case. I know if I go and amend this spec the discount will be lost, is there any way around this. Also I am keen on keeping the CPU to future proof?

 

[jammey]

Thanks for your comments, I did look at the Azure and saw it got a really good review, however I don't like the case. I know if I go and amend this spec the discount will be lost, is there any way around this. Also I am keen on keeping the CPU to future proof?

The 6700k was just released! It's as future proof as they get. You will never need more that that for any tasks I can think of except major multitasking, and I do mean major. There is no way around that sorry, can I ask why you don't like the case?

 

[keynes]

Well his CPU would make dogs meat out of the 6700k, except in gaming where they would perform similar. Aside from that I would recommend the Azure as it is much better value, unless you really do need the the extra performance in production tasks.

Intended use is gaming and general day to day use. Do you have any benchmarks showing the difference?

 

[jammey]

Intended use is gaming and general day to day use. Do you have any benchmarks showing the difference?

Like I said, in gaming there will be very little difference.
CPU Mark:
5930k - 13712
6700k - 11928
3DMark (physics):
5930k - 17418
6700k - 14045

There has been no official benchmark comparison between these two from one website so I can't link you to one, everyone is more interested in the 6700k vs 4790k at the moment. It's common sense though, that the 5930k is much better at production tasks, with it's six cores and same DDR4 memory. The 6700k is an upgrade (or should I just say refresh because they are within 10% of the performance) to the 4790k and is in no way meant to compete with the x99 CPUs in productivity. However, if gaming is the main use, with some live streaming and moderate editing, the 6700k will be just as good.

 

[keynes]

Like I said, in gaming there will be very little difference.
CPU Mark:
5930k - 13712
6700k - 11928
3DMark (physics):
5930k - 17418
6700k - 14045

There has been no official benchmark comparison between these two from one website so I can't link you to one, everyone is more interested in the 6700k vs 4790k at the moment. It's common sense though, that the 5930k is much better at production tasks, with it's six cores and same DDR4 memory. The 6700k is an upgrade (or should I just say refresh because they are within 10% of the performance) to the 4790k and is in no way meant to compete with the x99 CPUs in productivity. However, if gaming is the main use, with some live streaming and moderate editing, the 6700k will be just as good.

Well when you said it was dogs meat I assume it would be significantly inferior in more CPU intensive tasks which I don't think that's the case. Will be interesting to see how they compare.