Gaming PC is the build alright?

JustNatsu

JustNatsu

Active member
Hey all its been a good few years and its about time I upgraded from my gtx 770 tin can. My budget its roughly £2k for a futurist PC used for extreme use such as multi tasking, gaming, streaming ect. The spec below is what I've picked out, im no PC expert so would like to know if there is anything you'd change or upgrade. Thanks ~

Case
NZXT NOCTIS 450 MID-TOWER GAMING CASE (BLACK/RED)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-7700k (4.2GHz) 8MB Cache
FREE Halo Wars 2 with select INTEL® CPUs!
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG MAXIMUS IX HERO: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
8GB EVGA GEFORCE GTX 1080 FTW GAMING - DVI, HDMI, 3 x DP
1st Hard Disk
500GB WD Blue™ 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 545MB/sR | 525MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
2TB WD BLACK 3.5" WD2003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100i V2 Hydro Series High 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 802.11 AC1200 867Mbps/5GHz, 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 DVD & Licence
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
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 6 to 8 working days
Quantity
1

Price £2,013.00 including VAT and delivery
 
Oussebon

Oussebon

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When you say streaming, do you mean Netflix etc or streaming your gameplay to the internet?

What's your budget? Circa £2k?
 
Oussebon

Oussebon

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There's not much point to the GTX 1080 FTW version rather than a regular version. The performance difference really doesn't justify the £100 price difference:
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If getting a GTX 1080 FTW you might as well just go £100 further still and get a GTX 1080 ti. Or save £100 by going for a regular GTX 1080.

The Samsung 850 Evo is only ~£10 more than the WD Blue and is a good deal faster.

Motherboard
ASUS® ROG MAXIMUS IX HERO: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs - RGB Ready!
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The Z270E is £50 or so cheaper, has built in 867mbps wifi, but is already pretty expensive and stuffed with features. If you don't need some of the fairly specific things that the Hero has which the Z270E doesn't then you can save a load there.

The WD Black HDDs are horrendously expensive. A 2TB one is about £70(!) more than a regular 7200rpm HDD. You could buy 2 x 2TB HDDs and it'd still be a quid cheaper than a 2TB WD Black.

You're going for a high end motherboard, -k CPU, high end AIO cooler, etc. You should look at a pre-overclocked system where your OC will be covered by the warranty. The price difference with a non-OCed system is pretty modest, spec for spec.

e.g:


Case
NZXT NOCTIS 450 MID-TOWER GAMING CASE (BLACK/RED)
Overclocked CPU
Overclocked Intel® Core™i7-7700k Quad Core (4.20GHz @ up to 4.8GHz)
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG STRIX Z270E GAMING: LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GB, Wi-Fi - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1080 - DVI, HDMI, 3x DP - GeForce GTX VR Ready!
1[SUP]st[/SUP] Hard Disk
500GB Samsung 850 EVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2[SUP]nd[/SUP] Hard Disk
2TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100i V2 Hydro Cooler w/ PCS Liquid Series Ultra Quiet Fans
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
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
Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
Anti-Virus
BullGuard™ Internet Security - Free 90 Day License inc. Gamer Mode
Browser
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
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 6 to 8 working days
Quantity
1

Price £1,825.00 including VAT and delivery

Unique URL to re-configure : https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/intel-z270-overclocked/bddKxkpQs5/

A GTX 1080 ti would take it to £2076, so £63 more than your original spec.
 
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Oussebon

Oussebon

Multiverse Poster
If you do a lot of streaming and video editing, you may want to consider an AMD Ryzen build.

While the raw gaming performance is lower, something like an R7 1700x is still perfectly respectable for gaming. The extra cores and threads may help a lot if you're asking your CPU to basically encode video while also running a demanding game.

I don't have any numbers to offer up on that though (I wish I did).

An otherwise equivalent Ryzen build might look like:


Case
NZXT NOCTIS 450 MID-TOWER GAMING CASE (BLACK/RED)
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight Core CPU (3.4GHz-3.8GHz/20MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® PRIME X370-PRO (DDR4, 6Gb/s, CrossFireX/SLI) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1080 - DVI, HDMI, 3x DP - GeForce GTX VR Ready!
1[SUP]st[/SUP] Hard Disk
500GB Samsung 850 EVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2[SUP]nd[/SUP] Hard Disk
2TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100i V2 Hydro Cooler w/ PCS Liquid Series Ultra Quiet Fans
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
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
Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
Anti-Virus
BullGuard™ Internet Security - Free 90 Day License inc. Gamer Mode
Browser
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
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 6 to 8 working days
Quantity
1

Price £1,829.00 including VAT and delivery

Unique URL to re-configure : https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-am4-pc/NaGbH6s6ns/

Other than in the ultra expensive liquid cooled systems, PCS don't offer OCed Ryzen systems, so if you wanted to OC you'd be on your own for that.
 
JustNatsu

JustNatsu

Active member
Oh I see thank you I didn't even realise about the graphics card I just clicked seen GTX 1080 lmao. And I'll stick with Intel cause it's what I'm familiar with.

I don't quite understand about the overclocking and motherboard you are talking about. Is it not suitable for overclocking?

And I'll consider switching the black HHD and I will switch the SSD to Samsung thank you.
 
Oussebon

Oussebon

Multiverse Poster
I don't quite understand about the overclocking and motherboard you are talking about. Is it not suitable for overclocking?
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Sorry.

What I'm saying is that the original motherboard you chose "ASUS® ROG MAXIMUS IX HERO" is a lot more expensive than something like the "ASUS® ROG STRIX Z270E GAMING".

The HERO is more expensive partly because it has support for things like cooling the CPU with liquid nitrogen. If you are not going to do that, you might want to stick to the Z270E instead and save ~£50. The Z270E is perfectly good for regular overclocking. You can see reviews identify overclocking as one of the strengths of the Z270E: https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Mothe...ng-Launch-Preview/Overclocking-and-Conclusion


Basically, unless you have a specific reason for needing the HERO, the Z270E should give you everything you need, and more, while saving you a load of £ :)
 
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