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[Straylight]

Hi all, just put together a new full-system shopping cart, first time in like 6 years!

Minus the case (I have sourced a InWin 301c from elsewhere) does my build make sense? I worry about bottlenecks - eg RAM that will mean I don't get the most out of my CPU etc. Or anything major I've forgotten! Any thoughts really appreciated, thanks!

OCUK shopping cart screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/v9lXu7W

 

[pastymuncher]

Hi and welcome to the forums.

If you put all your items in the basket and then click on the BBCode at the bottom of the list and copy the text you can then paste it in the forums and you end up with this:-

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £319.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z370M-D3H Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £124.99
• 1 x Asus GeForce GTX 1080 DirectCU III Strix Advanced Gaming Aura RGB 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics= £539.99
• 1 x Cryorig C1 Top Flow CPU Heatsink with 140mm Fan - White Frame= £64.99
• 1 x Kingston HyperX Predator 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Quad Channel Kit (HX432C16PB3K4/32)= £379.99
• 1 x Super Flower Leadex Titanium 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Titanium" Power Supply - Black= £177.95
• 1 x Samsung 970 PRO Polaris 512GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £218.99
• 1 x Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)= £6.49
• 1 x Arctic Cooling F12 PWM Fan Rev. 2 - 120mm= £4.99

Total: £1,838.37 (includes shipping: £0.00)​

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What is the main use of this build? If gaming then there is no need for 32Gb of memory and 16Gb is more than enough. This kit is very good and is on offer at the moment.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TLGD= £149.99

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There is no need for such a expensive PSU either. You will never save the electricity for the big price premium of Titanium over Gold. Just as well to go with a quality Gold rated PSU and a 650w unit would be more than enough to power that pc even with it heavily overclocked. The Antec has the same internals as the Seasonic and both have a 10 year warranty which is double that of the much more expensive Superflower you were looking at.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Antec HCG Gold 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £92.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £89.99

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The Cryorig C1 comes with a tube of thermal paste so you don't need the AS5.

What resolution will you be gaming at? I would go for a cheaper GTX1080 and not a Asus either. This one is cheaper, has a excellent cooler and has faster clocks than the Asus.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Inno3D GeForce GTX 1080 iChill Air Boss X3 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card (C108V3-2SDN-P6DN= £488.99

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Not sure about the motherboard, PCI-e SSD and cooler but they are all compatible. I expect others will come in with their opinions soon.

 

[Straylight]

Thanks a bunch for the detailed reply! I wasn't aware of the paste to forum function, sorry about that.

I'm a game developer and I do quite a lot of work in Blender and/or with multiple VMs, and fairly often start swapping on my current 16GB build so was really wanting to push for 32GB but RAM is crazy expensive these days! I was also a bit limited on RAM heat-spreader dimensions given the CPU cooler, which is itself a result of wanting a fairly small case, I'll check over your RAM recommendation many thanks.

Yeah I realised too late that I had chosen a bad pricepoint on the 1080, I'll go with your recommendation.

On the gaming side, I am more interested in long-term cost efficiency - I'm upgrading from my venerable HD7850 and i5-3570k, which has lasted so many years without complaint. I am intending on getting a 4k monitor, but will be sticking with 3/4 1080 monitors for now - source code real-estate matters more than anything! I'll be salvaging the HDDs from my old build.

The AS5 and getting an overspecced PSU are old habits from the 90s I guess I'll save some money there also.

Thanks for all the advice!