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[daveee]

Budget is £1200 and this comes to £1204, Will be used mostly for gaming, I dont intend to mess around with overclocking as I like to leave things as they are. The quoted power needed says 493 but I prefer the 650 psu incase of any additions down the road. Need the wifi card as pc not close to router. Hard choice was either having 1 ssd or 2, or just 1 HD to cut costs so probably going for 1 SSD

Case
COOLERMASTER HAF 912 PLUS MID TOWER GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache

Motherboard
Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 3 ATX, LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs

Memory (RAM)
16GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 8GB Kit)

Graphics Card
4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 970 - 2 x DVI, HDMI, DP - GeForce GTX VR Ready!

1st Hard Disk
480GB KINGSTON V300 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (450MB/R, 450MB/W)

Processor Cooling
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO (120mm) Fan CPU Cooler

Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND

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

Wireless/Wired Networking
WIRELESS 802.11 AC1300 867Mbps/5GHz, 400Mbps/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

 

[keynes]

If no overclocking you can get a non-k cpu, downgrade the thermal paste and get a cheaper dragonfly cpu cooler. Are you adding a 2nd gpu? Your motherboard supports sli but not your psu and you may also need a better case to improve cooling for a 2nd gpu.

 

[daveee]

Not planning on overclocking but like that the 6700k runs normally at 4.0ghz, faster than the non k. Not heard of the dragonfly cooler before, always been happy with coolermaster coolers. No 2nd gpu planned, chose the ultra quiet corsair at 650w because it's supposedly ultra quiet and the watts are enough for what would go in there atm with a little headroom for future things. Rather a bigger case though but have to keep it at 1200

 

[SpyderTracks]

The V300 SSD's are really rather rubbish (run at half stated speeds), a samsung evo would be better and is not much more expensive.

 

[keynes]

Not planning on overclocking but like that the 6700k runs normally at 4.0ghz, faster than the non k. Not heard of the dragonfly cooler before, always been happy with coolermaster coolers. No 2nd gpu planned, chose the ultra quiet corsair at 650w because it's supposedly ultra quiet and the watts are enough for what would go in there atm with a little headroom for future things. Rather a bigger case though but have to keep it at 1200

The higher frequency won't be noticeable for gaming with your choice of gpu and if no second gpu planned you could downgrade the motherboard and the other bits to get a stronger single gpu