First time build

[G_Sol]

Hi All,

I've been a PC gamer for a fair few years, and so recently decided to undertake building my own system. As I'm doing this for the first time, I'm hoping someone might be willing to look over my intended components. I've tried to check everything beyond the PCPP auto-checker, but being fairly new to this I'm concerned I might have missed something obvious.

I'm on a pretty tight budget, and this is already a little over (before I even factor in buying a monitor), so if anyone spots any unnecessary expenditure please do suggest alternatives- essentially, whilst I'd love to go up to a i5 7500/newer motherboard, that isn't going to be an option. I'm also not intending on overclocking, which I believe means I can get away with the B150 chip.

I'm aware that this isn't going to run demanding games on high settings, but I'm hoping it should deal with most things respectably (i.e. run relatively smoothly)? It also needs to be able to run the statistical models I'm building, but I don't think that is going to be too much of an issue.

Intended components are here: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/82C9LD

CPU: Intel - Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (£132.28 @ Alza)
Motherboard: ASRock - B150 GAMING K4/HYPER ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£82.30 @ More Computers)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£61.22 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Intel - 320 Series 40GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£35.99 @ Novatech)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£41.98 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB FTW GAMING ACX 3.0 Video Card (£116.89 @ Amazon UK)
Case: BitFenix - Nova ATX Mid Tower Case (£28.86 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£76.25 @ CCL Computers)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (£80.52 @ CCL Computers)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link - TL-WN781ND PCI-Express x1 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi Adapter (£9.32 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £665.61

Many thanks for any advice anyone is able to offer

 

[yourilevoye]

Be aware of the PSU. I am glad that you didn't cheaped out at ur PSU, but I have seen some reviews about this one that some people got coil whine or loud fans. I do Think that 40gb of SSD is too low. For windows I would recommend atleast around 80gb.
For teh case u could take a look for the NZXT s340. If it fits ur budget I highly recommend it. The 1050ti Is a great card for 1080p, but I wouldn't recommend to go higher for bigger games.

 

[G_Sol]

Be aware of the PSU. I am glad that you didn't cheaped out at ur PSU, but I have seen some reviews about this one that some people got coil whine or loud fans. I do Think that 40gb of SSD is too low. For windows I would recommend atleast around 80gb.
For teh case u could take a look for the NZXT s340. If it fits ur budget I highly recommend it. The 1050ti Is a great card for 1080p, but I wouldn't recommend to go higher for bigger games.

Thank you very much for your reply. I hadn't seen too many reviews mentioning the issue you highlight, so thank you for bringing it to my attention. I'll try to find something else around that price.

Upgrading the SSD is at least fairly cheap- I was looking to only house to OS on it, hence why it was so small, but I can probably stretch to something bigger.

I'm aware I'm being a bit cheap with the case, but I really am at the limits of my budget. Sadly, whilst the NZXT s340 looks great, I think it will be a little too expensive for me (unless I can recoup the money elsewhere in the build).

I think 1080p is probably the best I can expect with the budget I have? The EVGA card seems to have the highest clock speed, but also requires a 6-pin connector- I'm not sure I fully understand the consequences of doing this. Would it be better to opt for a version with a slightly lower clock speed, but could be powered by the PCIe port?

 

[smorizio]

drop the hard drive for now use the money for a 256g ssd as the boot drive. when you have the funds install the hard drive latter. it more work to move an os from one drive to another. 40g ssd to small for main os drive.