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I'm looking at building a new gaming PC with mid-high end performance for 1920x1080 gaming.

Currently looking at

CPU: Intel Skylake i5 6500 4-Core 3.2GHz
Motherboard: Intel Z170 Chipset ATX Gaming Edition
RAM: 16GB DDR4 Quad Channel Red Series
Case: Cooler Master K350 Mid Tower
Power Supply: 850w ATX 80 Plus Silver
Primary Storage Device: 2TB SSHD Hybrid Hard Drive
Second Storage Device: 1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
Graphics Card: Nvidia GTX 970 4GB
Second Graphics Card: Nvidia GTX 970 4GB
Optical Drive: BluRay Internal Writer
Network: WiFi Single Band N USB Adapter
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212X
Operating System: Windows 10 64bit Home Edition USB
Additional Fan: [2x] Additional Case Fan Non-LED

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Thoughts guys?

My single EVGA SC 970 runs the vast majority of games I play 60fps w/ high or ultra settings. The exceptions are some not so optimized indie games (Squad and Ark Survival ~45fps), open world sims (Arma/Kerbal), Fallout 4 (40fps in the graphically intensive parts of downtown otherwise smooth 60fps) and GTA5 (a few ugly stutters thanks to cpu bottleneck).

War Thunder, BF4, Battlefront, Rainbow 6 Siege, Wargame, Skyrim, Red Orchestra, and others run ultra at close at 100fps if I uncap the refresh rate. With 2 970s @ 1080p you will max out everything 60fps no prob unless you're playing something extremely CPU dependent (like Arma 3).

My single EVGA SC 970 runs the vast majority of games I play 60fps w/ high or ultra settings. The exceptions are some not so optimized indie games (Squad and Ark Survival ~45fps), open world sims (Arma/Kerbal), Fallout 4 (40fps in the graphically intensive parts of downtown otherwise smooth 60fps) and GTA5 (a few ugly stutters thanks to cpu bottleneck).

War Thunder, BF4, Battlefront, Rainbow 6 Siege, Wargame, Skyrim, Red Orchestra, and others run ultra at close at 100fps if I uncap the refresh rate. With 2 970s @ 1080p you will max out everything 60fps no prob unless you're playing something extremely CPU dependent (like Arma 3).

Cheers, I'm looking at the video card and I'm thinking of going a single card to reduce cost, but the second card is always nice. But thanks for the heads up.

If you could let me know which supplier that you'll be choosing I'd appreciate it. I'm in OZ & the price variance between suppliers for parts is doing my head in.

Unless you're a sucker for getting constant 60fps on cutting edge graphics games like Witcher or Far Cry with everything maxed out, I would just get a GTX970 and invest an extra $100 in something like a i5 4790k. I'm happy with my i5 4430 + 970 setup, but the few times my system is tested its usually in the CPU department.

edit: definitely go for high end processor over double 970s if you have any interest in streaming/recording

Why not go single 980 or 980TI I think it's a beast, considering the twin 970s are 7gb and 980ti is 6gb plus more clocks, etc, etc, better specs, would be better imo. I was between the 970 and got a AMD r9 390xfx, works smooth.

Cheers!

Hmm ill go ssd 500 giga minimum, get one gfx

first of all, whats your budget?

CPU: Intel Skylake i5 6500 4-Core 3.2GHz

good choice, but seeing that you have a z170 board you could also get an i5 6600k and overclock in the future. if you want to stream and render a lot, get the i7 6700k

Motherboard: Intel Z170 Chipset ATX Gaming Edition

which brand?

RAM: 16GB DDR4 Quad Channel Red Series

dont take quad channel! z170 only supports dual channel, therefore get 2 ram sticks. this means you can upgrade in future. which frequency is this ram??

Power Supply: 850w ATX 80 Plus Silver

good with 2 cards, way too much with one card. again, which brand?

Primary Storage Device: 2TB SSHD Hybrid Hard Drive

pls not. get a 500GB ssd and a 2tbhdd. while sshd are slightly faster than normal hdds, you want a ssd

Graphics Card: Nvidia GTX 970 4GB
Second Graphics Card: Nvidia GTX 970 4GB

not good. either get an r9 390 if you want a single card, or a gtx 980ti if you want high power! multigpu setups are loud, hot, scale badly and have microlag. you know about the vram problem with the 970?

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212X

take 10 bucks and get something bigger and you will be able to use that one for builds in the future aswell

Operating System: Windows 10 64bit Home Edition USB
Additional Fan: [2x] Additional Case Fan Non-LED

Thoughts guys?

this looks like the typical pre-built pc crap. no brands for psu and motherboard (cause they will use the cheapest crap there). dont do it. build it yourself. its a cool experience, easy and absoluetly worth it. you will get a better pc for less.

first of all, whats your budget?
good choice, but seeing that you have a z170 board you could also get an i5 6600k and overclock in the future. if you want to stream and render a lot. get the i7 6700kwhich brand?dont take quad channel! z10 only supports dual channel, therefore get 2 ram sticks. this means you can upgrade in future. which frequency is this ram??good with 2 cards, way too much with one card. again, which brand?pls not. get a 500GB ssd and a 2tbhdd. while sshd are slightly faster than normal hdd, you want a ssdnot good. either get an r9 390 if you want a single card, or a gtx 980ti if you want high power! multigpu setups are loud, hot, scale badly and have microlag. you know about the vram problem with the 970?take 10 bucks and get something bigger and you will be able to use that one for builds in the future aswell
whis looks like the typical pre-built pc crap. no brands for psu and motherboard (cause they will use the cheapest crap there). dont do it. build it yourself. its a cool experience, easy and absoluetly worth it. you will get a better pc for less.

+1

gtx 970 has 3.5 vram my r9 390 works really well, altough I don't think it can handle the 8gb vram on full potential, in that case get the r9 390x altough if you don't want it for cryptomining, etc, etc get the nvidia gtx 980ti imho, and I would definitely go for i7, dunno current price of i7 4790k which is good.

Your setup for playing all the latest games would be sufficient if not overkill. Lol

I'm looking at building a new gaming PC with mid-high end performance for 1920x1080 gaming.

Currently looking at

CPU: Intel Skylake i5 6500 4-Core 3.2GHz

I'd go for the 6600K, it's not even expensive and it has a higher clock speed + OCing capability if you need more performance in the future. Currently a higher tier CPU isn't worth it for gaming since no games utilize their properties atm.


RAM: 16GB DDR4 Quad Channel Red Series

Not sure if games need 16 gigs of RAM but it's pretty cheap anyways.


Graphics Card: Nvidia GTX 970 4GB
Second Graphics Card: Nvidia GTX 970 4GB

Would a GTX 980 Ti be better than 2x 970? Don't know, it's pretty close I guess. Or you might wait for the next tier NVIDIA cards to come out a bit later this year.


CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212X

I have the 212 EVO and it's a really good cooler for it's cost, my 3570k runs at 4,4 GHz / 1,15V at 75-79 °C during intel burn test.

All in all looks good!

All in all looks good!

Cheers, I've done an updated version, not much of a difference
but more or less on feedback in here, I would love to go a 980ti but it's a tad bit out of my price range.

Cheers, I've done an updated version, not much of a difference
but more or less on feedback in here, I would love to go a 980ti but it's a tad bit out of my price range.

Wow this is amazing. Should be pretty good, especially with that CPU. i7s are good and I have a 4700mq in my laptop (my main computer that plays coh2). All that RAM should work nicely, especially the vRAM.

Could you buy this for me too please? You'd be doing the world a favor.
Thanks man

same questions:
which brand is the power supply? why 700 watts? 550 is really enough! why an sshd? why a liquid cpu cooler? for this money you can get the best aircoolers there are and those are definetely enough to cool your system and also more quiet! what brand is the mainboard?

are these prebuilt options?

can you run coh2 on maximum settings on Rzhev on at least 60fp without lags or fps drops in a long game? I am serious

same questions:
which brand is the power supply? why 700 watts? 550 is really enough! why an sshd? why a liquid cpu cooler? for this money you can get the best aircoolers there are and those are definetely enough to cool your system and also more quiet! what brand is the mainboard?

are these prebuilt options?

550W for 980 with i7 oc'd? Thought it needed more than that, tbh, the recommendations from pc sites i've heard you need more than 550, but maybe they are exaggerating.

Thx for info though.

Dunno if this site is reliable, but could help if you want some info about PSU that you need.

http://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator

Air coolers in Australia are horrible- they get clogged with dust & don't keep the temp down enough.

550W for 980 with i7 oc'd? Thought it needed more than that, tbh, the recommendations from pc sites i've heard you need more than 550, but maybe they are exaggerating.

nah, 550w is fine

130w for the i7, 200 for the 980, 100 for the rest, +100 with overclock.

I'm looking at building a new gaming PC with mid-high end performance for 1920x1080 gaming.

Currently looking at

CPU: Intel Skylake i7 6700K 4-Core 4.2GHz
Motherboard: Intel Z170 Chipset ATX Gaming Pro Edition
RAM: 16GB DDR4 Dual Channel Red Series
Case: NZXT Phantom 410 Red Mid Tower
Power Supply: 700w ATX 80 Plus Bronze
Primary Storage Device: 2TB SSHD Hybrid Hard Drive
Graphics Card: Nvidia GTX 980 4GB OC Edition
Optical Drive: BluRay Internal Writer
Network: WiFi Single Band N USB Adapter
CPU Cooler: DeepCool Maelstrom 240 Enclosed Liquid Cooling Kit
Operating System: Windows 10 64bit Home Edition USB
Additional Fan: [2x] Additional Case Fan Non-LED

Thoughts guys?

Mid-high end performance, my arse. That thing's a beast!

That CPU is definitely the best choice for gaming if you have the dosh. Pretty much no games use more than 4 cores, and that has the highest clock speeds available, plus overclocking.

Mid-high end performance, my arse. That thing's a beast!

That CPU is definitely the best choice for gaming if you have the dosh. Pretty much no games use more than 4 cores, and that has the highest clock speeds available, plus overclocking.

Still can only run coh 2 on 30 FPS

But the amount of time I've been playing on a potato (Like they're potatoes, they're Russian potatoes, and then there is my potato) I thought I'd go for a fairly good set up.

But if you had an option, what would you change/go for? Personalty I'd love to go for a 980ti but yeah, that price point is way to much.