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Daanish

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Hi all,

As most of you know, my PC has been having some troubles recently, and has been for the past few years.

As a result, I was thinking about upgrading to a brand new PC for Christmas with the budget being around £1500.

I opened up PC part picker, and threw the following build together:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£341.99 @ Aria PC) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£24.95 @ Novatech) 
Motherboard: Asus Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£113.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£89.29 @ More Computers) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£57.70 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£94.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB STRIX Video Card  (£569.99 @ Aria PC) 
Case: NZXT H440 (White/Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£87.59 @ Aria PC) 
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£94.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £1475.47
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-06 10:08 GMT+0000

Let me know what you think, and how I can improve. I don't really know what I'm doing and just picked stuff that looked good...

My only requests are:

i7 CPU (As I occasionally do rendering)

SSD

Large HDD

DDR4 RAM

In the build, I selected a 980 Ti for my GPU, however, I could save some money and use the 970 which is in my current PC - would this be a good idea? I could always upgrade the following year.

Thanks in advance

Daanish

@lionel  @Zeito

 
I have the i5 6600k and 980ti - they're great, but I'm thinking of upgrading to the i7.  

They're a great combo and work so well.

Also have the same case, I think it's looks amazing.

I'd suggest getting the 980ti rather than the 970

If you want, I can post the some 3dmark results I got.




 
Looks good, remember that alot of new cards/ram/ssd is comming the first quarter of next year, 1000x faster ram (they say) with the new technology, also like 7 times faster ssd's and the new video cards start with 16gb vram, not sure what these things will cost, but all cards,ram and ssd from this year will fall alot in price, so id say wait a bit or atleast use ur 970 for a while, and if ur getting ssd now, go for a pci-express ssd so ul get 1600mbs writespeed verdus 450-550mbs normal ssd, the pci-express ones come with win10 installed on then aswell i think:)

Im upgrading my pc aswell, but waiting to see what the prices will be after newyear :)

 
GP. Daanish said:
Hi all,

As most of you know, my PC has been having some troubles recently, and has been for the past few years.

As a result, I was thinking about upgrading to a brand new PC for Christmas with the budget being around £1500.

I opened up PC part picker, and threw the following build together:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£341.99 @ Aria PC) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£24.95 @ Novatech) 
Motherboard: Asus Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£113.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£89.29 @ More Computers) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£57.70 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£94.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB STRIX Video Card  (£569.99 @ Aria PC) 
Case: NZXT H440 (White/Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£87.59 @ Aria PC) 
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£94.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £1475.47
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-06 10:08 GMT+0000

Let me know what you think, and how I can improve. I don't really know what I'm doing and just picked stuff that looked good...

My only requests are:

i7 CPU (As I occasionally do rendering)

SSD

Large HDD

DDR4 RAM

In the build, I selected a 980 Ti for my GPU, however, I could save some money and use the 970 which is in my current PC - would this be a good idea? I could always upgrade the following year.

Thanks in advance

Daanish

@lionel  @Zeito
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I think that's a solid build. The 980Ti is of course top of the pops when it comes to cards, but the 970 is a SOLID contender, and yeah it'd shave 500-600 quid off your build. Any plans to play in 4k or 1440p/1600p @ 144hz? if not - use the 970. You can always upgrade later :)

 
If your going to save cash on the graphics, grab a m.2 pcie drive, make sure your getting the pcie version. 

You could get the 500gig version if you're skimping on the graphics. 

 
Zeito said:
I think that's a solid build. The 980Ti is of course top of the pops when it comes to cards, but the 970 is a SOLID contender, and yeah it'd shave 500-600 quid off your build. Any plans to play in 4k or 1440p/1600p @ 144hz? if not - use the 970. You can always upgrade later :)
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lionel said:
If your going to save cash on the graphics, grab a m.2 pcie drive, make sure your getting the pcie version. 

You could get the 500gig version if you're skimping on the graphics. 
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Thanks for the replies. I think I'm going to sell my current PC, which means selling the 970 with it.

If I have the money, I'd love to buy a 144hz or 1440p monitor, but with the 980Ti, I can't really afford one xD. 

In regards to lionel's point, I have no idea what that means, so you'll have to explain it on teamspeak xD. 

Build suggestions if possible are really useful - I pretty much chucked together things that looked good xD

 
I would suggest keeping the 970 for 2-3 months, or at least till the january sale. I would also suggest, don't get a 980ti unless you plan on upgrading your monitor.

But splash out on either a PCIe SSD or an m.2 PCIe SSD, they offer great speed, but do set you back a bit more than a normal sata SSD. fx something like this one.

Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 PCIe (http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mzv5p256bw)

You could also save your self some money on getting a smaller PSU, it's nice to have some room to upgrade in the future, and if you aren't planning on getting a SLI setup, I would suggest getting a 750 watts power supply.

That's like my two cents, good luck on it though. :)

 
crazyone said:
I would suggest keeping the 970 for 2-3 months, or at least till the january sale. I would also suggest, don't get a 980ti unless you plan on upgrading your monitor.

But splash out on either a PCIe SSD or an m.2 PCIe SSD, they offer great speed, but do set you back a bit more than a normal sata SSD. fx something like this one.

Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2 PCIe (http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mzv5p256bw)

You could also save your self some money on getting a smaller PSU, it's nice to have some room to upgrade in the future, and if you aren't planning on getting a SLI setup, I would suggest getting a 750 watts power supply.

That's like my two cents, good luck on it though. :)
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Makes sense, but I would say if no plans for sli.  A 650w PSU is enough (it's what I'm running now and have had no problems)

 
yea, even a 600 watts would be fine, but we don't know what next generation of GPU's need, and once you taste the sweet ultra graphics in all games, you kinda want to be able to get the same perfomance next time you upgrade. I believe the 780ti required a 500w PSU, where as the 980ti requires a 600w, and not knowing wwhat Nvidia is working on, we got no idea what their next high end GPU will require, so I decided on the 750w just to be sure.

 
Basically the m.2 interface is the equivalent of a pcie HDD but cheaper. And much faster than a ssd. It is serious future proofing. 

I would also recommend sticking with the 970 for a while, personally I think 4K is bullshit but then again I wear glasses :)

 
I've got that case but in black and the problem is it keeps trying to kill me at night..

I'd consider another case if I were you

 
crazyone said:
yea, even a 600 watts would be fine, but we don't know what next generation of GPU's need, and once you taste the sweet ultra graphics in all games, you kinda want to be able to get the same perfomance next time you upgrade. I believe the 780ti required a 500w PSU, where as the 980ti requires a 600w, and not knowing wwhat Nvidia is working on, we got no idea what their next high end GPU will require, so I decided on the 750w just to be sure.
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Not true.

With every generation of GPU's, Nvidia has strived to make them as power efficient as possible and with Maxwell [what the 980ti runs of] being the most power efficient, the power draws of high end cards are going down every new release.

 
Ok, so I switched the SSD to the 950 and the PSU to the EVGA 750 watt 80+ gold. This brings the total price to around £1600. How else can I save money? I won't be buying this until around January I think in case some new stuff comes out, and I assume there will be Chirstmas sales. 

 
Chang said:
Not true.

With every generation of GPU's, Nvidia has strived to make them as power efficient as possible and with Maxwell [what the 980ti runs of] being the most power efficient, the power draws of high end cards are going down every new release.
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I never mentioned how much the card uses in power, only how big a PSU they reccomend you getting.

 
Sorry just a quick correction, the m.2 protocol is named as NVMe. 

Sorry just wanted to update you with the correct facts. 

 
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