Help with a future home made Gaming PC

[seanatcelticpark]

Hello,

i want to build my own custom PC and have been looking on Novatech.co.uk at PC Components, I have an idea in mind of what i want to use. I will be using it for Gaming and Streaming to Twitch as the laptop i am Currently using struggles with OBS and game open.

so far i have these components:

ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 ROG STRIX GAMING 8GB GDDR5 Graphics Card or GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 WINDFORCE 3X OC 8GB GDDR5X Graphics Card

Either Intel Kaby Lake i5/Skylake i7 (depending on which one it would run better with)

Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-21300 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit

Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 64MB Cache Hard Drive SATA 6GB/s - OEM

Samsung 960 EVO 250GB NVME M.2 SSD

Corsair Hydro Series H100i v2 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler - LGA2066 Supported - TR4 Supported
The motherboard i dont really know which would support this and the PSU which would be best.

The case im looking at Corsair Carbide Series 400C Mid Tower Case

Any feedback and recomendations would be great! Thank you

 

[YoAndy]

You should try to buy an 8 generation core i5 or i7 processor (just released and they are hard to find due to high demand but they offer better performance and more cores). They offer more cores for almost the same price.. The core i5 8400 will cost less than $200 USD and offers six cores instead of the 4 cores from the previous generation. The new core i7 offers 6 cores with 12 threads.

 

[seanatcelticpark]

You should try to buy an 8 generation core i5 or i7 processor (just released and they are hard to find due to high demand but they offer better performance and more cores). They offer more cores for almost the same price.. The core i5 8400 will cost less than $200 USD and offers six cores instead of the 4 cores from the previous generation. The new core i7 offers 6 cores with 12 threads.

I have thought about that but it will be hard to find a Motherboard for it to operate in ive found out

 

[seanatcelticpark]

You should try to buy an 8 generation core i5 or i7 processor (just released and they are hard to find due to high demand but they offer better performance and more cores). They offer more cores for almost the same price.. The core i5 8400 will cost less than $200 USD and offers six cores instead of the 4 cores from the previous generation. The new core i7 offers 6 cores with 12 threads.

Actually ive found a Motherboard Asus PRIME Z370-A Socket LGA 1151-V2 ATX Motherboard that will support it for £160 it has all the slots available for my needs or Asus ROG STRIX Z370-F GAMING Socket LGA 1151-V2 ATX Motherboard

 

[YoAndy]

You should try to buy an 8 generation core i5 or i7 processor (just released and they are hard to find due to high demand but they offer better performance and more cores). They offer more cores for almost the same price.. The core i5 8400 will cost less than $200 USD and offers six cores instead of the 4 cores from the previous generation. The new core i7 offers 6 cores with 12 threads.

Actually ive found a Motherboard Asus PRIME Z370-A Socket LGA 1151-V2 ATX Motherboard that will support it for £160 it has all the slots available for my needs or Asus ROG STRIX Z370-F GAMING Socket LGA 1151-V2 ATX Motherboard

Those are pretty good motherboards.

 

[seanatcelticpark]

You should try to buy an 8 generation core i5 or i7 processor (just released and they are hard to find due to high demand but they offer better performance and more cores). They offer more cores for almost the same price.. The core i5 8400 will cost less than $200 USD and offers six cores instead of the 4 cores from the previous generation. The new core i7 offers 6 cores with 12 threads.

Actually ive found a Motherboard Asus PRIME Z370-A Socket LGA 1151-V2 ATX Motherboard that will support it for £160 it has all the slots available for my needs or Asus ROG STRIX Z370-F GAMING Socket LGA 1151-V2 ATX Motherboard

Those are pretty good motherboards.

i have been thinking of upgrading the hardrive to a 128mb cache one but don't know if its worth it, but overall the motherboard should be able to sustain the system i want to put in

 

[YoAndy]

You won't notice any real world performance, The SSD is always a better option, just spend your extra money on a bigger SSD or other components.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_buffer

 

[seanatcelticpark]

You won't notice any real world performance, The SSD is always a better option, just spend your extra money on a bigger SSD or other components.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_buffer

what would you recommend? M.2 and a SSD Drive?

 

[YoAndy]

You won't notice any real world performance, The SSD is always a better option, just spend your extra money on a bigger SSD or other components.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_buffer

what would you recommend? M.2 and a SSD Drive?

M.2 and SSD are a great option (a must have) but they are really expensive, If you need a high capacity drive for the storage of really large files, you could bet a Hard drive but don't spend extra money on getting one with extra cache because the difference is minimal(not worth the extra money).