Looking at this Rig for pure gaming

[Nathe Derry]

Hi guys and girls,
have been looking at getting a new high end gaming PC, that will run new games at high settings and will do so for a couple of years to come. Got a budget of upto £2500 for tower and hardware. (Already got monitor, keyboard, mouse and so on).

This is what I've been looking at:

CPU: INTEL® Core™ i7-5930K Six-Core 3.50 GHz 15MB INTEL Smart Cache LGA2011-V3
HDD: 240 GB INTEL 730 Series SATA-III Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Single Drive)
HDD2: 2TB WD Black WD2003FZEX SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64M Cache 7200rpm Hard Drive
MEMORY: 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4/2800mhz Quad Channel Memory (HyperX Predator w/Heat Spreader)
MOTHERBOARD: ASUS X99-A INTEL X99 Chipset, 3-Way SLI/Crossfire supported, 4 Channel DDR4 ATX Mainboard w/ 8 RAM slots, UEFIBios,Thunderbolt Ready,CrystalSound 2,Turbo LAN,USB3.0,SATA-III RAID,3 Gen3 PCIe x16, 1 PCIe x16 & 1PCIe x 1
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: MSI Afterburner OC NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card (Single Card)

If you need more info, please let me know.

I play a wide variety of games, from Shooters to RPG's to Simulations to whatever…

Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks all
Nathe

 

[Nathe Derry]

Thanks Jed, I'll have a think about it as I'm not buying it right at this second. Will be the weekend before i do anything drastic. lol. Thanks again all for the help…Dare say I'll be back in a few days with a new thread like HELP!!! I'm clueless!!! lol

 

[sora]

so to that build you would only add another 250Gb SSD

I would as well. A SSD results in faster loading time.

 

[J_E_D_70]

Check neweggs youtube videos for system building how-to. Think there are three of them.

 

[barto]

Putting a PC together is pretty easy. But I know that the first one can be intimidating. The hardest part is the installing the CPU cooler. After that, it's plug away.