Good specs? Where to improve / tune down.

[Yves Petterson]

The following info is what i think i'll be using for my gaming pc. I'm not a pro at this stuff so please help. It is quite expensive tbh but worth it imo. It needs to be able to run Far Cry 4, Skyrim and upcoming games.





Case
COOLERMASTER COSMOS SE GAMING TOWER (Windowed)
Free Item
CM Storm Pitch Gaming Headset
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor i7-5820K (3.3GHz) 15MB Cache
Motherboard
Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5: ATX, LG2011, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, XFIRE/SLI
Memory (RAM)
8GB CRUCIAL DDR4 2133MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 - 1 DVI, 1 mHDMI, 3 mDP - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item
FREE PICK YOUR PATH VOUCHER with GTX 780 / 780Ti /970 / 980 GPUs!
1st Hard Disk
500GB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 16MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (€89)
Processor Cooling
INTEL SOCKET LGA2011 STANDARD CPU COOLER
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence (€101)
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY V2014 - 1 Year + 5GB Online Backup (€16)
Monitor
IIYAMA XB3070WQS-B1 30" IPS LED 2560x1600 Widescreen (€668)
2nd Monitor
IIYAMA XB3070WQS-B1 30" IPS LED 2560x1600 Widescreen (€668)
Speakers
Creative GigaWorks T40 Series II 2.0 High End Speakers (€109)
Headsets
LOGITECH® WIRELESS GAMING HEADSET G930 - 7.1 SURROUND SOUND (€165)
Cable Tidy
3 x PCS 1.5M Zip Cable Tidy - Professional Cable Management (€7)
External Hard Drive
WD 500GB Passport Ultra USB 3.0 External HDD - WDBPGC5000ABK (€63)
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
3 DAY DELIVERY TO SWITZERLAND (€64)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 5 to 7 working days
Quantity
1

Price: €3.080,83 including VAT and delivery.

 

[Novuake]

Where are you purchasing this?

You can get A LOT better for a lot less.

The 2011 socket platform gives almost zero benefit to gaming above 1150 but costs near triple the price.

Also the PSU you chose is overkill but not high quality compared to the rest of the build.

Why not windows 8.1?

Get 2 x 4GB of RAM for dual channel.

2 GTX970s would cost a little more but perform A LOT better.

 

[Yves Petterson]

I'm using PC specialist because it's UK. US pc sites don't usually deliver to europe so its kinda hard for me to get one from the popular sites.

I know i can, but where? it needs to support international shipping.

So should i leave out the socket platform? or what would you recommend?

Help me on this one, PSU, upgrade or downgrade?

Windows 7 because Windows 8.1 crashes a lot and has many errors( according to my hardcore windows using friend)

- Will change the ram
- what about the GTX 980's (x2) Is that in any way different than the 970's?

Thanks dood.

 

[Tikishark]

I went with the EVGA 220-G2-0850-XR for my build. Not sure about the price in Europe, but I paid 128.99 US. Great PSU with a Gold rating and a 10 year warranty (5 initially and 5 more when you register). As far as the GPU. I installed two Gigabyte Gaming G1 970's in SLI. They are screaming fast and well worth the money (almost as fast as a R9 295x2, but about 400 US dollars cheaper).

Here is my PCPartpicker post

I'm using PC specialist because it's UK. US pc sites don't usually deliver to europe so its kinda hard for me to get one from the popular sites.

I know i can, but where? it needs to support international shipping.

So should i leave out the socket platform? or what would you recommend?

Help me on this one, PSU, upgrade or downgrade?

Windows 7 because Windows 8.1 crashes a lot and has many errors( according to my hardcore windows using friend)

- Will change the ram
- what about the GTX 980's (x2) Is that in any way different than the 970's?

Thanks dood.