Hey guys, I recently decided to build a new PC as my current one isn't really cutting it. My goal is to play upcoming major titles at 1080p and over 60fps. I would appreciate any criticisms or suggestions regarding what I have put together. Price range is $700-750.
Looks pretty solid to me. The only thing I could imagine you possibly wanting to change would be maybe going back to socket 1150 to grab a 1231v3 if you'd benefit from the hyperthreading.
Skylake on air cooling and polaris gpu. try to get a lower wattage but better quality psu. Something gold, maybe semipassive.
The A-Data are supposedly not the fastest ssds. Maybe look at Mushkin or Crucial for good value and decent performance. (Disclaimer: have never owned an A-Data ssd myself.)
@SpaceCat I think I will stick with the 6600k as my workload won't benefit too much from hyperthreading and I would rather be on the newer architecture. Great suggestion though!
@noenken How much wattage do you think I would need? would a 550 or 650 suffice if it were 80+ gold? I'll keep that in mind about ssd's when I'm actually ordering it.
Absolutely. I would say a 6600K + polaris, 400W is enough even when massively overclocked. Add some drives and other components and around 500W will serve you very well for a very long time.
Solid build, I've been seeing other new pcpartspicker builds here for roughly around the same price but going with 380s. This is what they should've done...wait.
Motherboard is on the lower end of the Z170 boards, not sure how far you could OC with it
Otherwise go for a higher quality PSU, 750W would give you plenty if you ever wanted to try an RX 480 crossfire set up if AMD pushes it harder and DX12 fixes the dual GPU issues
80+ Gold isn't necessary as 80+ Bronze is still plenty efficient and of good quality, however, Gold is nice to have if you want to save a coffee or 2 a year on your power bill.
The build looks pretty good. I'd get a motherboard with great power delivery if you're going to be overclocking (I hope so since you have a Z chipset and a K sku CPU) @MisteryAngel seems to know a lot about motherboard VRM design so she'll be able to point you in the best direction for that.
Yeah I don't know too much about overclocking but looking to get into it with this unlocked chip. Is something like this any better or recommended mobos?
Power bill doesn't really matter to me living in a dorm XD I'll still try to fit in one with gold efficiency.
Only thing I can say is that I had no problems overclocking on an Asus Z170 A. And that isn't that expensive. (6600K, 4.5GHz at variable voltage 1.35V max.)