Building mid-range gaming pc - need opinions and help

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yendenikhil

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Hello guys,

I am planning to build my gaming machine with all inclusive for around 1600-1900 EUR. I have hashed out one build. Please suggest your opinions or better replacements.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (€227.30 @ Mindfactory)
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard (€79.55 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (€81.48 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€97.84 @ Mindfactory)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€175.30 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: *Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 8GB G1 Gaming Video Card (€466.75 @ Mindfactory)
Case: *BitFenix Colossus Mini Mini ITX Tower Case (€62.83 @ Mindfactory)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (€144.56 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit
Monitor: BenQ XL2720Z 27.0" 144Hz Monitor
Keyboard: Cooler Master OCTANE Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse (€44.90 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Mouse: Gigabyte GM-M6800 Wired Optical Mouse (€16.79 @ Mindfactory)
Total: €1397.30
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-07 23:13 CEST+0200

In this build only monitor and OS cost is not shown by pc part picker guys but both should come around 400 EUR more.

Please assess and suggest what should I change. I am looking for form factor of mini-ITX.

 
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Looks OK to me. You probably don't need 16GB of RAM, 8 should be plenty.

You might want to look at getting an aftermarket CPU cooler, possibly closed loop as your PC is gonna be toasty with all that stuff crammed into an ITX case...
 
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Thanks for reply.

I am lost about the coolers hence never picked in the build.

Also, do you think I should not go mini-ITX? Please suggest alternative. I chose mini ITX as it looks cool as cube but not hard and fast on it.
 
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PCPartPicker part list: http://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/X432VY
Price breakdown by merchant: http://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/X432VY/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (€241.01 @ Amazon Deutschland)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (€36.40 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Motherboard: ASRock Z170A-X1 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (€97.37 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (€76.81 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€97.84 @ Mindfactory)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€53.90 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 8GB G1 Gaming Video Card (€466.93 @ Mindfactory)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case (€83.84 @ Mindfactory)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (€144.78 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home Full - USB 32/64-bit
Monitor: Asus VG248QE 24.0" 144Hz Monitor (€279.00 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Keyboard: Cooler Master OCTANE Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse (€44.90 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €1622.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-08 20:31 CEST+0200

The keyboard that you choose all ready comes with a mouse so no reason to buy another one.
 
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Thanks for the build. Though, I see that you chose overclocking CPU, is the performance gain considerable?

Also, you changed case, monitor and RAM, is the options you chose better than what I had? I am just curious to know what is better :)

Thanks for suggesting coolers, I still cant get my head around it.

Lost mini ITX form factor though (Not a big issue for me!).
 
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That Bitfenix case is actually pretty spacious for mITX, you'll have no trouble either getting an air cooler or liquid closed loop in there as long as you don't go bigger than a 240mm radiator

For air something like this would be nice https://de.pcpartpicker.com/product/wjmLrH/noctua-cpu-cooler-nhu12s or https://de.pcpartpicker.com/product/YwGkcf/be-quiet-cpu-cooler-bk018

and for liquid cooling this is a safe bet but massive overkill if you're not overclocking. https://de.pcpartpicker.com/product/Ld3RsY/corsair-cpu-cooler-cw9060016ww

Even this would be fine https://de.pcpartpicker.com/product/w37wrH/corsair-cpu-cooler-h55 but both liquid systems will probably be noisier than air.
The only reason you should consider water over air is for the extra room but looking at the CPU cooler allowance for that case you can get some very decent air coolers in there for much less money than a liquid cooler.
 
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Some games benefit more from an overclocked CPU and some games benefit less, it depends on the game that your are playing. CPU heavy games like will benefit more from your overclocking your CPU (the difference in FPS is about 3-20).

The monitor that i choose is almost the same as the one that you choose, they both are 1920x1080 144hz 1ms but the one i choose is way cheaper, Same goes to the RAM all most exactly the same but cheaper.

The case i choose is one of the most popular cases, it has good air flow and is big enough for anything you want to do with it.
 
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