Light Gaming Build / Chillblast

[motorola4gmike]

Hi all,

Looking for guidance on whether this build is acceptable or slightly over the top.

Use will be light gaming ie old titles like Company of Heroes, internet surfacing and M$ Office .
Budget preferably under £1000 and looking for longevity.

Build :

PROCESSOR: Intel Core i5-8400 Coffee Lake CPU, 6 Cores, 2.8 - 4.0GHz
Power Supply: Corsair CX650 80 PLUS Bronze 650W PSU
GRAPHICS CARD: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 2GB Graphics Card
CASE: Corsair Carbide Air 240 Case - Black
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte Z370M D3H Motherboard
COOLER: Arctic Freezer 7 Pro V2 CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste: Standard Thermal Paste
Memory: 16GB DDR4 2400MHz Memory (2 x 8GB Sticks)
Case Cooling: Not selected
M.2 PCIe SSD: Not selected
Solid State Drives: 250GB Samsung 850 EVO Solid State Drive
Hard Drives: Not selected
Optical Drive: Not selected
Sound Card: Onboard High Definition Audio

Chillblast price £953

Looking to have the PC on my desk , hence the Carbide Air case , but will the CPU cooler fit in this size of case and would it pay to look outside of Chillblast for the build and is the GT 1030 graphic card ok for the next 2 years ? .

Thanks Mike

 

[King Dranzer]

Here is the list:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£248.39 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus - PRIME H310M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£59.98 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£139.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Storage: Western Digital - Blue 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£63.56 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition Video Card (£370.77 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair - 270R ATX Mid Tower Case (£53.99 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£58.67 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £995.35
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-29 15:56 BST+0100

This is what you can get for your budget. i7-8700 and GTX1070Ti combo is leaps ahead in performance compared to i5-8400 and GT1030 combo. All are high quality components nothing to worry.
Get the parts and build it yourself it will be worth the effort. At any time through the build you have any doubts you can return here and ask us. We will help you through.

 

[cold_fuzz]

Your original build is priced nearly double what it's actually worth.

If you want to save a bit you can drop the ssd or drop to a 1070.

Cpu is unlocked so if you decide you want to oc you can for better performance. Some b350 boards might not have the bios update for 2nd gen ryzen, you can ask the company before hand, or amd will send you a kit to update the bios. Alternatively you can buy an X470 board for aout £40 more.



You won't get a 1070ti for 370 atm.

PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/XJVHzY
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/XJVHzY/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor (£192.31 @ Box Limited)
Motherboard: Asus - PRIME B350-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard (£76.98 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Team - T-Force Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£149.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Storage: Kingston - A400 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£47.94 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£33.95 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Palit - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB Dual Video Card (£419.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Case: Cooler Master - MasterBox Lite 5 RGB ATX Mid Tower Case (£53.24 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£58.67 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1033.07
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-29 21:51 BST+0100

 

[motorola4gmike]

Many thanks for the replies, sobering to see how much cheaper it is to self build.

Watched a few videos and read some articles on the subject and a manual was often mentioned, where does this manual come from?, confused.

Buying the right components seems OK via the PC Part Picker but sourcing the additional cables and putting everything together seems very daunting, any specific websites that may encourage me to make that step?, thanks Mike.

 

[King Dranzer]

Check this video of Paul's Hardware
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4MTvj3zIZw

And also check other live builds he did for more details if some got missed in this one.

The R270 case is little bit more easier to work in compared to the one Paul was working in above video.

You can also skip the CPU cooler installation part from the above video as you have the stock Intel cooler it is much easier to install. Search YouTube for Intel stock cooler installation and you will lot of videos.