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Best 1700 USD Gaming Pc

Sang2Pak

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Jun 7, 2016
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Hi Im building my first custom PC sometime this month and would definitely like help finding the best components for a gaming PC. Im also gonna be streaming games and making videos for YouTube maybe. Definitely prefer Intel and plan on getting a Gtx 1080 or 1070 aftermarket card. Thanks in advance.
 
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Still not a good build. Over budget, without mail in rebates. Still using a poor quality PSU. Might want to give this a read. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html The 980ti's are not worth getting, with the GTX 1070 being as fast/faster, for less. This would have made more sense, for a non overclock/sli build.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($297.99 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG M9i 48.4 CFM CPU Cooler ($33.74 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI Z170A SLI PLUS ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($112.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory...
Probably once i figure out how to overclock. Im very new to PCs on how overclocking and everything works. I own a very basic laptop that i bought from best buy 2 years ago so i dont know how gsync, sli and all that stuff works haha.
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($369.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG A40 ULTIMATE 83.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($114.45 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI X99A GAMING 7 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($238.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Aegis 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Sandisk X400 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($129.98 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Toshiba 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($79.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Thermaltake Versa H35 ATX Mid Tower Case ($68.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($104.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSC0B DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($84.99 @ NCIX US)
Other: GTX 1070 ($379.00)
Total: $1651.35
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-07 21:00 EDT-0400
 


The CX 750 is a horrible PSU, for such a system, and the 212 is not adequate for a 6 core CPU. 6800k is still to high priced, not to mention the bios update needed, to run it, with that board. X99 is also a quad channel platform.
 
Still not a good build. Over budget, without mail in rebates. Still using a poor quality PSU. Might want to give this a read. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html The 980ti's are not worth getting, with the GTX 1070 being as fast/faster, for less. This would have made more sense, for a non overclock/sli build.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($297.99 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG M9i 48.4 CFM CPU Cooler ($33.74 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI Z170A SLI PLUS ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($112.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Sandisk X400 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($129.98 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Toshiba Product Series😀T01ACA 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($62.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Deepcool KENDOMEN Red ATX Mid Tower Case ($54.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($104.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSC0B DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($84.99 @ NCIX US)
Other: GTX 1070 ($379.00)
Other: GTX 1070 ($379.00)
Total: $1715.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-07 21:15 EDT-0400
 
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