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James Mirran

Member
Greetings All,

Finally biting the bullet and looking at getting a new PC, with a primary focus on being a gaming system, and looking for some second opinions.

I'm looking at an overclocked system with the few to keeping the CPU capable for 5 or so years.

A few things to mention:

  • GPU: 1080ti - Pulling this out of my current system.
  • Monitor: ViewSonic 27" 1440p 144Hz - Existing Monitor.
  • Budget: £1,200.00.

Case
FRACTAL DEFINE S BLACK GAMING CASE (Window)

Overclocked CPU
Overclocked Intel® Core™ i7-9700K Eight Core (3.60GHz @ up to 5.0GHz)

Motherboard
ASUS® PRIME Z370-P II: ATX, LGA1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs

Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (2 x 8GB)

Graphics Card
NONE, I ALREADY HAVE A GRAPHICS CARD

1st Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 860 2.5" EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)

2nd Hard Disk
3TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE

DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NOT REQUIRED

Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

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

Processor Cooling
Noctua NH-U14S Ultra Quiet Performance CPU Cooler

Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Wireless/Wired Networking
WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD

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

Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001]

Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language

Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account

Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365 (Operating System Required)

Anti-Virus
BullGuard™ Internet Security - Free 90 Day License inc. Gamer Mode

Browser
Firefox™

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 5 to 7 working days

Price £1,150.00 including VAT and delivery
 
J

James Mirran

Member
Current PC:

Processor: Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-3570 (3.4GHz) 6MB Cache

Motherboard: ASUS® P8Z77-V LX: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, ATI®CrossFireX

RAM: 16GB DUAL-DDR3 1666MHz (2 X 8GB)

Graphics Card: GTX 1080ti

Hard Disks: 120GB INTEL® 330 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 500MB/sR | 450MB/sW) & 1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

Power Supply: CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE

CPU Cooler: SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE INTEL CPU COOLER
 
Oussebon

Oussebon

Multiverse Poster
For most titles you're not going to see any revolutionary improvement. Some, sure, but you'd have to be willing to sink £1.2k into better performance in Fallout 4, Watch Dogs 2, etc.

But take something like Witcher 3...
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And the difference is as close to 0 as makes no difference.

You're also buying at a time when Intel's CPU prices are sky high thanks to them failing to match up supply with demand, and while RAM prices are still sky high. And Intel's CPU still are affected by Spectre etc, if that bothers you.

In all honesty I'd suggest holding off until next year :/ You could always buy an SSD in the meantime. You can get good 1TB ones for £140 (though prices may drop still further).

Buying now won't net you wild performance gains for most games, will cost a lot more than buying at other times - and in terms of one of your objectives being a futureproof system, you're buying before security issues have been taken care of at a hardware level, and the year before PCIe 4.0 is expected to come out.

Holding off for Zen 2 next year would seem a lot better.
 
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Oussebon

Oussebon

Multiverse Poster
No worries. My 3770k and P8Z77-V have also been calling to me for an upgrade, and I too have had to tell them to wait another year due to the lack of anything very inspiring at the moment. Here's hoping 2019 has some better goodies in store. :)
 
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