Gaming Desktop for Christmas

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Conger88

Bronze Level Poster
Hi All,
I am looking to buy a beast of a gaming/graphics design desktop for Christmas,
Budget 2,000 - 3,000.
I bought a laptop 2 years ago from this website and I made a few mistakes with that purchase. For example I bought a 100 GB SSD for my main which boots my operating system and then a 1TB HDD for everything else but I find that my main C Drive gets full pretty quick as most things default install to this location.
Which means I am constantly having to tidy up.

Anyways I am looking to play games on max setting without any worries, I find myself just picking the most expensive in everything but would like more advice this time around.
For example I am going to go with the Titan Graphics card, I assume this is the best Gfx card to go with at the moment?
Anyways I have got a quote for a desktop that works out around 2,900, but any additional tweeks would be great.
Looking to play games like Crysis 3 on max settings or any other high spec games.
Let me know your suggestions for a gaming rig. Also I want to get a beast of a monitor maybe in February to make things even better but will leave that for another discussion.
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ahad

Silver Level Poster
Rather than going with the Titan choose the 980 ti instead. It has around 90% of the power at a much lower price. As far as the actual build is concerned im sure keynes or someone could help you out. They are usually very quick and their builds are spot on. :)
 
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keynes

Multiverse Poster
For example I am going to go with the Titan Graphics card, I assume this is the best Gfx card to go with at the moment?
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Not a good choice for gaming, not good value for money.


Case
COOLERMASTER CM STORM TROOPER - GAMING ENTHUSIAST CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700k (4.0GHz) (Pre-Order Only)
Motherboard
ASUS® Z170 PRO GAMING: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM)
16GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2133MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
6GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 Ti - DVI, HDMI, 3 DP
2nd 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
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1000W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (£139)
Processor Cooling
Super Quiet Titan DragonFly Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler (£19)
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) 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 & 2 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 (£79)
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 4 to 6 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £2,406.00 including VAT and delivery.

Unique URL to re-configure: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/quotes/intel-skylake-pc/2CacvCuMJ8/
 
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LFFPicard

Godlike
As above but get the Arctic paste.
Also as with your space issues currently, the best option is to always go through the advanced install not quick install and change the install directory.
 
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Conger88

Bronze Level Poster
Hi all,
Thanks for the quick replys! Ok I seen you have went with the 2 graphics cards rather than the one titan. Would this be a lot better?
Will this cover all games on high specs that are out there? I have a 5 TB external drive at my house so I would prefer just to go with a larger primary drive. Maybe just the one.
Also would I not be advised to go for a better processor? I am not seeing this processor listed in my options Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700k (4.0GHz) (Pre-Order Only) ( Edit never mind I was looking at AMD Processors)

Case
COOLERMASTER CM STORM TROOPER - GAMING ENTHUSIAST CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700k (4.0GHz) (Pre-Order Only)
Motherboard
ASUS® Z170 PRO GAMING: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM)
16GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2133MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
6GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 Ti - DVI, HDMI, 3 DP
2nd 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)
 
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Conger88

Bronze Level Poster
Hi,
Your quote works out at 3,400 euro, my budget was based on euros not pound sterling. However I do appreciate the layout. Is there something I could take out of the build?
Thanks
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Conger88

Bronze Level Poster
Thanks Keynes,
I have brought down to an i5 and changed to a 2TB Hard Drive instead of Solid state drive.
That brings it down to roughly 2,900 euros. Would this be a good machine? Would I be expected to be able to play all games on highest spec with no issues?
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LFFPicard

Godlike
You could keep to the first spec Keynes suggested and remove the second 980ti.
You can then add one later if needed, currently the 980ti plays anything you throw at it on max settings full hd.
 
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Conger88

Bronze Level Poster
Nah I wanna keep the two GFX cards now :yes: Will try and cut the price somewhere is. Is there a big impact by just getting a normal hard drive as opposed to a solid state drive. I know the boot time and applications load faster but is there anything else? They seem very expensive for the size available.
I don't really want to lower the processor either so going to try and stick with highest available
 
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Conger88

Bronze Level Poster
Hi guys,
Can I just ask is the huge difference in price between intel and amd worth it?
I want a top top gaming machine where I can play any game maxed settings. But just wondering do I need and i7 or i5 processor or are amd good enough?
Is gaming soley all about the gfx card?
Thanks
Sorry for double post
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ItsPhire

Gold Level Poster
It is worth it yeah. AMD processors are someone's outdated and get really hot. Intel processors are great as they're fast, relatively cold and means you can do pretty much anything. They're better if you decide to render videos or livestream. (My i5 4690k and GTX 970renders 10 minute videos in 5 minutes in Sony Vegas)
 
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luke m8

Member
Conger88 said:
Thanks Keynes,
I have brought down to an i5 and changed to a 2TB Hard Drive instead of Solid state drive.
That brings it down to roughly 2,900 euros. Would this be a good machine? Would I be expected to be able to play all games on highest spec with no issues?
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get a 120 or 250gb SSD to run your operating system and programs on, the loading times will be amazing with an SSD. you can get a cheap 1TB HDD for storage
 
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Conger88

Bronze Level Poster
Hi Luke, thanks for the advice however I did this with my laptop and you are right the loading times are great but I bought 90GB Solid state drive for this and I find that it fills up way to quickly. My operating system and some other files take up 40GB. Even though I try every time to install my games, files into another drive other random files just always seem to get saved to my C drive. Even some software does not give you the option to save to different drive.
So for that reason I want my main drive to be quite large as I found it really irrigating on my laptop having to clean up the C drive as it got full quite quickly.
Has anyone ever had this problem?
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