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Hi everyone im building a £700 gaming pc for the first time, i intent to use this pc for 1080p/1440p gaming such as ets2, gta 5 and lower graphically intense games such as minecraft. I spent alot of time research and choosing my parts wisely. Do you think the specs are good enough for gaming at 60fps and are realiable so it would not break down quickly. i want this to last a long time (4-6yrs). thx

specs/parts
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/wdyJ6h



Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
£164.99
Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
£89.99
Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory
£40.91
Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 60GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
£31.96
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
£38.97
EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card
£264.97
Corsair SPEC-03 Red ATX Mid Tower Case
£42.98
EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
£44.42
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (£155.00 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock Z170M Pro4S Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£78.45 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£40.69 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£34.98 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.97 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 390 8GB Nitro Video Card (£259.98 @ Ebuyer)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£35.93 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£66.96 @ Aria PC)
Total: £710.96
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-23 23:52 GMT+0000
 
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Nothing is really future proof.
I like the build, it has about the right balance between cpu and gpu.

The one part I take serious issue with is 60gb for a ssd.
even a 120gb ssd will fill up quickly.
I strongly suggest you buy a 240gb ssd like this Samsung evo
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-inch-Solid-State-Drive/dp/B00P736UEU/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1453593092&sr=1-1&keywords=samsung+240gb+ssd

Defer on the hard drive; 240gb is enough to hold the os and a fair number of games.
Whenever you fill it up, you can always buy a hard drive for overflow.
 
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Hi forever Oleg again, many thanks again for trying to help me with my pc build. I would like to stick with all of my parts except for the ssd, the sandisk ssd is a great price for it and I'm changing the ram the one you suggested it because of the faster mhz in the ram. I will be sticking with the same case because i like it and the gpu. Many thanks for your help. I will only need the ssd for windows 10
 
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I would get the i5 6600 and a Cooler master hyper 212 evo for "future proofing" instead of the 6500.
With a "non k" cpu, you should get a h170 board instead of a z170 board, the z170 just make the ability to overclock that you don't need with a locked cpu. ( locked cpu means that you can not overclock).
If you are buying the 60gb ssd for only the operating system, it sounds like a good idea. But if you want to have your'e key games there and programs that you use often, i would go for a 250 gb ssd, even a 128 gb ssd would fill up fast if you are going to use it for that. The Samsung 850 evo 250gb is a great choise.
The rest of the components are good picks:)
 
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R9 390 is a better choice for "future proofing" as well as if you plan to move to a higher resolution due to slightly higher raw power as well as DOUBLE the VRAM.

If you haven't noticed, i5-6600 is less expensive than i5-6500.

The power supply you chose is really poor quality. That's why I chose a G2 unit for you which is one of the highest quality units out there.

Why are you getting a Z170 board if you can't overclock? At least with the Asrock board and Sky OC you can overclock the locked i5 chip.

Rethink your build. Don't make mistakes.
 
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Thankyou goefelt for the suggestion but I'm only using the ssd for the boot of windows 10 and some programs like chrome and other small programs. I do not need such a big capacity ssd because atm it is not worth it considering I need to get mechanical keyboard, monitor ect for my pc as well so I would not have enough but it would be great if I did have a big capacity ssd for improved game performance. Thanks
 
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Please read my post above. Don't mess up on your first build.
 
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I have checked on amazon uk maplin scan, overclockers ect and the 6600 is £30 more expensive than the 6500. I other another psu which is the Seasonic s12II 520w psu. Is that a good PSU? On the moterboard I don't know any good brands with it so I just left it, can you suggest some good motherboards near or under my motherboard right now? Thx. Ik that the k is a unlocked cpu thx
 
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-Z170-HD3P-GA-Z170-HD3P-Motherboard/dp/B013E37FW0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1453607239&sr=8-3&keywords=z170
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Z170-P-D3-Asus-Motherboards/dp/B0126R2T44/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1453607239&sr=8-7&keywords=z170
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-GA-B150M-D3H-Gigabyte-B150%C2%A0M%C2%A0-%C2%A0LGA1151%C2%A0uATX-DDR4%C2%A0PCIE-Disp/dp/B014QPFXA6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1453607225&sr=8-1&keywords=b150
 
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The first motherboard was the same one I going to get. The second one only supports ddr3 ram and the last one you made a mistake its a uatx board. In the future ddr4 is going to be benefited so I'm keeping it I guess. Does ddr3 and ddr4 makes much of a difference in gaming?
 
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No, ddr3 and ddr4 memory does not make much impact on gaming and general use, but when building a new skylake rig, i would choose ddr4. If you was going to build a Haswell rig, you would go for ddr3, because well, it does not support ddr4
 
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First of all, you will not net 60gb out of a 60gb ssd.
More like 54gb.
Next, there are many other things that want to go on the "C" drive by default and you may not have a choice to relocate them.
Consider the source, but Samsung claims better gameplay fps with a ssd:
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/why/forGamer.html
A small ssd will not perform well because it will not have sufficient free nand blocks to do updates quickly.

A small ssd will lose endurance and wear out faster.


Considering your budget and the low price of current ssd it would seem folly to me not to use a 240gb ssd.
If you do not have the budget now, skip the hard drive for now, it is easy to add one later.

As to ram speed, do not waste your budget on faster ram.
Here is a report on skylake ram scaling:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1478-page1.html
And... fancy heat spreaders are mostly marketing. 1.2v ram does not need any.
In fact high heat spreaders can conflict with some coolers.
 
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Okay it seems like on the internet they are saying stick away from corsair psu as they use capxon capacitors which are rubbish but the msi h170 mobo is dam sexy but online people say that msi mobo arnt realiable??? Is that true
 
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Corsair CX and VS PSUs = bad, no touch.

H170, Z170 for the same price = good for a locked chip like i5 or i7. Z170 is for overclocking.but it doesn't matter if it's a better, more reliable board for the price of an H170.

MSI Motherboards are not reliable? Well, that depends on the motherboard.
 
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Msi boards are as reliable as any other board, there is always people talking bad stuff about every pc component you can find. SR-71 blackbird recomended the ASUS h170 pro gaming. link to thread -->

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2839292/h170-motherboard.html

I also found a motherboard benchmark, and they put the ASUS h170 pro gaming on the top of the list. link --->

http://motherboardbenchmark.net/best-chipset-intel-h170-motherboard/

The Asus h170 pro gaming seem like a good board. With choosing motherboards it depends on what features it has that you need and if you like the look of it. Buying a motherboard with too many features that you would likely never need, is money wasted. Take a good look, and decide what motherboard is the best for you :)

Yes, the Corsair rm-series has got a lot of bad words, but many people think they are very good psu's. Maybe i shouldn't said that you should buy the RM psu, it's tier 3. The new RMi series has only Japanese capacitors, and they are very silent. I have ordered a Corsair RM850i for my build. All RMi series psu's are tier one. If you want the best reliable psu with a very long guaranty, get the Evga G2, it is also tier 1. I have heard they can be a bit noisy, but many people say they are very quiet. Well, if you do not care about noise, the Evga G2 is a no brainer. Here is the PSU tier list. Tier 1 is the best psu's, tier 2 is the second best. and etc..
Psu tier list:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html
 
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