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Walt

Walt

Inspector Walt of the FPD
Hello everyone. With Windows 10 now releasing and a lot of big games of the horizon, I feel it is time for me to finally invest in upgrading my machine as I am guessing it's quite out of date.

At the moment I am sitting with - 

Intel(R) Core i5-2500k CPU @ 3.30GHz
8.00 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

I have only had a quick browse, and am not the best when it comes to tech. However, this caught my eye

http://www.ebuyer.com/718021-pc-specialist-vanquish-pro-x-ii-gaming-pc-pcs-d828692

I was wondering if anyone would be able to provide any insight into the selection I have made. Is it good, is it value for money, stuff like that. I am open to building it myself although I don't have much experience in that department so would have to do a fair amount of research into it.

Any help is appreciated, all opinions and ideas are welcome!. 

Cheers

Walter Riddles

 
Build it yourself. Always.

Its really not all that difficult, just make sure everything you buy is compatible with each other.

As for the rig you linked. Its nice, but you would be better off building something with the same specs yourself :)

 
Dylan is a troll Walt ignore him

 
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Cheers friends! I'll get on that right away!. I only have 8GB RAM at the moment so I'll grab another 8!. It is free right lol???

 
You are always best buying parts and building it yourself over buying a pre built PC.

It is always going to be better if you build to last so if you go all out when you do build your PC you're going to get a good fair few years out of it before you need to touch it again and for £1300 you can build yourself a great PC.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com is a great site to use to get an idea of what you're looking at price per part and how much your PC is overall going to cost will also let you know if what you're choosing is compatible with the other parts you have selected.

In 2016 there's going to be a whole new range of hardware available including the next generation nvidia cards, so it's your choice or not if you want to stick it out with your current PC until then.

However if you're going to invest now with £1300 you could easily be looking at a 6th generation I5 or I7 and you could go with a 980TI which is an excellent card for the money if you're going to compare it to the Titan X which costs over £700 and the 980TI costing max £550 depending on the place you purchase it from yet looking at the bench marks for non sli builds stays on par with the Titan X and in some cases beats it.

I myself couldn't justify spending the money on and form of 970/980/980TI or Titan X right now just because 2016 is almost here and the next generation to come with it.

Take a look at PCPartpicker it's a great site and if you need to compare benchmarks/performance/reviews check out LinusTechTips on youtube they do daily videos reviewing pretty much everything that is on the market and relevant right to anyone looking to build a new PC.

Good luck with your new build.

 
Liquid said:
Have u tried PC world
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What's your budget? Any preferred options? If it's around £1400 as per your selection of prebuilt, have a look at this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£258.90 @ Amazon UK) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£92.83 @ CCL Computers) 
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII RANGER ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£127.72 @ CCL Computers) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£75.78 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£68.99 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£97.34 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card  (£406.69 @ Aria PC) 
Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£88.98 @ Novatech) 
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£99.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 OEM (64-bit)  (£67.95 @ Ebuyer) 
Total: £1385.17
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Feel free to swap 980 for a 980 Ti, or the CPU for the new 6600 or 6700

 
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@TI Ben - Do you know when the next gen are expected to hit in 2016?. Also, are you saying you'd save more to get one of these next gen ones, or wait for them because that would mean a price drop in current ones. Seems like that 980TI is quite the machine.

@GP. Daanish - Thank you very much for this, will have a look into that. Greatly appreciated

@Liquid -

 
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I'd recommend getting one of the new i7 6700k instead of a 4790k and then DDR4 ram so you are futureproofing yourself by quite aload

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£289.99 @ Dabs) 
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£92.83 @ CCL Computers) 
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII RANGER ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£141.98 @ Dabs) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£99.21 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£68.99 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£49.14 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card  (£529.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: NZXT H440 (White/Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£88.07 @ Aria PC) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£61.70 @ Amazon UK) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 OEM (64-bit)  (£67.95 @ Ebuyer) 
Total: £1489.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-14 11:58 BST+0100

Dream build, only 1500 aswell

(This is leaning up against Daanish's with my op tweaks since I'm lazy AF)

 
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@The Riddler

There's no set date for the next gen but it will be some time in 2015 no doubt.

To answer your question the price will drop somewhat on the current cards but probably not an insane amount but the performance per £ you're going to spend on the newer cards is probably going to be better than what you can get now.

In all honestly it is a long wait and the 980TI is one of the best cards they've ever made for value and as you're looking to build up now you may as well go for it you could always sell up and swap it out of a next gen when they hit the market if you felt like it but you're not going to struggle running any games with a 6th gen Intel CPU and a 980TI on the highest of settings up to 4k resolution.

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Also this: 

Lemmen said:
I'd recommend getting one of the new i7 6700k instead of a 4790k and then DDR4 ram so you are futureproofing yourself by quite aload
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@TI Ben - Thanks for the response bud.

@Lemmen - How much are we talking for one of them. I am a bit concerned that swapping out for one of them will bump the total up a heck of a lot...I plan on switching out the 980 for the 980TI and that makes it around £1500. I want to look at changing the cooler from water cooled to a fan...cause knowing me I'd fuck up and destroy my PC...also, any suspected release date for those i7s

 
The Riddler said:
@TI Ben - Thanks for the response bud.

@Lemmen - How much are we talking for one of them. I am a bit concerned that swapping out for one of them will bump the total up a heck of a lot...I plan on switching out the 980 for the 980TI and that makes it around £1500. I want to look at changing the cooler from water cooled to a fan...cause knowing me I'd fuck up and destroy my PC...also, any suspected release date for those i7s
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I'll just add here there's such a tiny tiny tiny chance that you are going to mess up using a closed loop corsair water cooler you don't have to do any filling yourself it's pretty much a plug and play pre-built unit.

 
@Lemmen - Thank you very much for that bud, that looks great. Got the 980TI in there as well. Spot on. Greatly appreciated

@TI Ben - Would you mind reviewing the build Lemmen linked and provide your opinion. I am imagine it's spot on, but always best to get multiple opinions on it I feel.

 
The Riddler said:
@Lemmen - Thank you very much for that bud, that looks great. Got the 980TI in there as well. Spot on. Greatly appreciated

@TI Ben - Would you mind reviewing the build Lemmen linked and provide your opinion. I am imagine it's spot on, but always best to get multiple opinions on it I feel.
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From pure laziness I went with most of Daanish's aswell, but I'd recommend another case since apperently this one doesn't support a DVD drive according to PCPartpicker, so might keep an eye open there.

 
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