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I'm selecting parts for my friend's first PC and he has a budget of £1k. I was wondering if these parts are ok and if there are any better parts that are better price to performance, for example, the RAM.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/fZzrBP

He has a HP monitor that his dad doesn't use anymore and i have a mouse, mouse mat and keyboard that i'm going to be giving to him. I also have a spare headset that i'll give him too.
 
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More powerful. Will last much longer...

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£303.00 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - H5 Universal 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler (£44.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-Z270-Gaming K3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£123.15 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£119.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Plextor - M7V 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£63.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£41.88 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB SC GAMING Video Card (£214.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair - Carbide Series 300R Windowed ATX Mid Tower Case (£45.46 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£48.36 @ Ebuyer)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (£83.94 @ Aria PC)
Total: £1089.74
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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If you wanna cut cost, activate windows down the line... https://www.howtogeek.com/244678/you-dont-need-a-product-key-to-install-and-use-windows-10/
 
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How about this build:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£175.00 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus - STRIX B250I GAMING Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard (£111.91 @ BT Shop)
Memory: Kingston - Savage 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£100.36 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: SK hynix - SL308 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£76.97 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Toshiba - 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£54.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Palit - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Super JetStream Video Card (£249.94 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Fractal Design - Define Nano S Mini ITX Desktop Case (£56.75 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX - XTR 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£84.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (£83.94 @ Aria PC)
Total: £994.81
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Your previous stated build doesn't need an aftermarket cooler but if you're sticking with a GTX1060 then you have no need to overclock your CPU thus the reason why I avoided the Z chipsetted board.
 
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The price difference between a I5-7600 and a I5-7600K is about £10.
The I5-7600 runs at 3.5, but the i5-7600K can be overclocked to some 30% better performance, well worth the price difference.
As of 2/23/17
What percent of samples can get an overclock
at a vcore around 1.4v.
I5-7600K
5.3 samples exist, unknown % of occurence
5.2 13%
5.1 27%
5.0 52%
4.9 72%
Well worth the price difference.

The CX430M is sufficient for a GTX1060, but not enough for a future graphics upgrade that the cpu can well support.
You should be looking at something in the 520-65ow range.
Then, the CX series power supplies used to be a tier 4 unit because of reliability.
The newer units are better.
I would try to buy a tier 1 or 2 unit from a list such as this:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html
Seasonic is always good.
Here is a 620w S12II for not much more.
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/nB3RsY/seasonic-power-supply-s12ii620bronze

I do not put much value in modular or gold rating.
Your case has plenty of places to hide a few unused connectors.

Lastly.

I will never again build without a ssd for the "C" drive. It makes everything you do much quicker.
120gb is minimum, it will hold the os and a handful of games.
But, many things default to the "C" drive.
When a SSD nears full, it will lose performance and endurance.
240gb is the recommended minimum.

If you can go 240gb, or 500gb you may never need a hard drive.

You can defer on the hard drive unless you need to store large files such as video's.
It is easy to add a hard drive later.

Samsung EVO is a good choice for performance and reliability.

 
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Just leaving this here:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600X 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor (£227.94 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Scythe - Mugen 5 51.2 CFM CPU Cooler (£35.09 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£75.38 @ BT Shop)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£129.60 @ Aria PC)
Storage: SK hynix - SL308 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£76.97 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£41.88 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB GT OCV1 Video Card (£212.99 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Thermaltake - Core V21 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£47.28 @ Amazon UK)
Other: Windows 10 Home 32-bit/64-bit English International (£89.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Other: Corsair CP-9020102-UK CX Series CX550M ATX/EPS Semi-Modular 81 Plus Bronze 550 W Power Supply Unit (£58.06 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £995.14
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-06 15:31 BST+0100
 
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PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/63d7JV
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/63d7JV/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel - Core i5-7600K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor (£203.94 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£24.21 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: MSI - Z270 PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£102.73 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£119.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£87.03 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.99 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB SC GAMING Video Card (£214.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Antec - One ATX Mid Tower Case (£46.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair - Builder 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£56.64 @ Aria PC)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (£83.94 @ Aria PC)
Total: £978.44
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-06 15:33 BST+0100
 
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I might rethink the build.
If this is presumably for a gaming pc, then a balanced gamer will budget about 2x the cpu cost for the graphics card.
with about a £500 cpu/gpu budget, a £300-7700k is stronger than is appropriate for a £200 GTX1060.

If, for example, you used a stronger £350 GTX1070 and a lesser $200 I5-7600K you would game better.
 
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Id be tempted by a ryzen 1600 & a 580 8gb personally.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£190.83 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus - PRIME B350-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard (£85.52 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£118.82 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial - MX300 275GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£85.49 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£41.88 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Sapphire - Radeon RX 580 8GB PULSE Video Card (£239.99 @ CCL Computers)
Case: Zalman - R1 ATX Mid Tower Case (£43.80 @ Alza)
Other: Windows 10 Home 32-bit/64-bit English International (£89.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Other: Corsair CP-9020102-UK CX Series CX550M ATX/EPS Semi-Modular 81 Plus Bronze 550 W Power Supply Unit (£58.06 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £954.34
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-06 16:08 BST+0100


Use windows free for the moment & you can get a gtx 1070 in there under budget easily

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£190.83 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: Asus - PRIME B350-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard (£85.52 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£118.82 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial - MX300 275GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£85.49 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£41.88 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Palit - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB JetStream Video Card (£339.90 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Zalman - R1 ATX Mid Tower Case (£43.80 @ Alza)
Other: Corsair CP-9020102-UK CX Series CX550M ATX/EPS Semi-Modular 81 Plus Bronze 550 W Power Supply Unit (£58.06 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £964.30
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-06 16:11 BST+0100
 
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It really depends on what you/your friend look to do with the build.

Gaming at 60hz: There'll be no difference between the 1600x vs 7700k.
Gaming at 144hz : Advantage go to the 7700k
Multitasking workload (streaming/video rendering): Advantage go to the 1600x.

Scythe Mugen 5 is better than the Cryorig H5 (both the Universal and the Ultimate version) whether in cooling a 4 or 6 cores chip and with less noise.

Intel Z270 chipset/MB has better feature sets compare to AMD AB350. e.g. audio/LAN chip, HSIO lanes for NVMe M.2.

The inclusion of a 550W CXM (PCPP list price is for the N.A version CXM, so I manually add the CXM UK version) give extra leeway in future upgrade choices vs just 450W.

Plus the OS is a retail license and come on a ready to use USB vs non-transferable OEM license on a DVD.
 
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Bear in mind the 7600k already falls short in some games for optimal settings. It will last a good one or two year less than the 7700k. On the contrary, if you switch to a 1080ti after a couple of years, it will still be going strong for a lot more years to come.
Besides, with your current monitor, anything above 1060 is a waste of resource.
 
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Not sure why you downgraded the cpu, but its fine. If you want top of the line performance, go for the Samsung 850 evo series. Its one of the best in read/write and sequential. If you have the budget, then you can also go for the 960 evo NVME drive.

Another approach...

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-7700 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor (£257.94 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-B250M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£65.62 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Kingston - Savage 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£99.93 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£86.27 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£41.88 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB SC GAMING Video Card (£214.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair - C70 Military Green (Green) ATX Mid Tower Case (£106.95 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£48.36 @ Ebuyer)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (£83.94 @ Aria PC)
Total: £1005.87
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-06 18:16 BST+0100
 
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For me I'm part with hellfire here .I would absolutely 100% with no uncertainty whatsoever take a locked i7 7700 over an overclockable i5 setup

Core speeds matter very little with the current crop of CPU's , they're all capable of 100fps or more.

I would still take a ryzen 1600 full stop because of the huge price difference .

The end of straight quad core CPU's is coming IMO , its a bad idea buying one now when there are so many better options & the kaby lakes in all honesty are not even that great overclockers.
 
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