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So i am buying a new computer later today i have already picked all the parts and saved a quote just wanted some last minute advice snd didn't know where to ask but here, I think i have made the right choices but you never know and seeing as i am having this built for me and know nothing about computer building i wouldn't be able to change anything myself once it's built.
I will be gaming in 1080p and i only play MMORPG's but when i look for benchmarks no one seems to do benchamrks for these game, I am currently playing final fantasy XIV will the 1060 6gb graphics card be enough to play MMORPG's on max setting ?
If it helps i will show you the rest of my computer build my copying the quote below.
So i am buying a new computer later today i have already picked all the parts and saved a quote just wanted some last minute advice snd didn't know where to ask but here, I think i have made the right choices but you never know and seeing as i am having this built for me and know nothing about computer building i wouldn't be able to change anything myself once it's built.
I will be gaming in 1080p and i only play MMORPG's but when i look for benchmarks no one seems to do benchamrks for these game, I am currently playing final fantasy XIV will the 1060 6gb graphics card be enough to play MMORPG's on max setting ?
If it helps i will show you the rest of my computer build my copying the quote below.
K318 - Corsair Obsidian 450D
CPU:A413 - Intel® Core™ i7 6700
CPU Cooler:B106 - Cooler Master Hyper 212x
RAM:C410 - 16GB Corsair 3000mhz Vengeance LPX DDR4 (2x8GB)
Graphics card:D132 - NEW! NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB
Motherboard:E412 - Asus Maximus VIII Ranger
Operating System:F105 - Windows 10 Home (64-bit)
Hard Drive:G409 - Samsung 1TB 850 Evo SSD
Optical Drive:H104 - 12x Blu-Ray Combo S-ATA
PSU:K603 - 450W Corsair VS
Sound Card:Q302 - Onboard 7.1 Audio
Warranty:sw1 - 5 Year Silver Warranty
Priority turnaround:PD202 - Dispatched within 5 working days
Thanks Anna
Thanks Anna
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Also, why just go for 1080p? That rig will run both 2K and 4K fine. If we are talking around 27" 2K is a huge difference, 4K not so much. 30" or larger and 4K is the best choice. 4K can be pretty expensive with G-sync but you can actually get a good 2K screen pretty cheap. If you want 24" or less due to limited space just ignore this suggestion.
A 2K screen is not that expensive and a good upgrade, but of course nothing you need right now and easy to get later.
Another thing is to get a good keyboard, trust me, you want a mechanical one if you can afford it, it is way better when you play MMOs for a marathon session.
The warranty is probably longer then you actually need, a computer older then 3 years need some serious upgrading and that void many warranties. Check up if you can upgrade the GFX card or if that voids it.
And don't worry about GFX card upgrading, it is very simple and there are many guides on the 'net. It usually takes a minute and most of the time is to open and close the box.
Possibly additions: A large media drive (a cheap regular harddrive) is far more useful then an optical drive if you keep music, movies or similar on the computer. 2-3TBs is cheap and it never hurts to have enough drive space, you don't want to install MMOs or FPS games on it though, but games like CIV and AoW3 wont be much difference.
Also a 1070 GFX card would last you a year longer, it is sadly $200 more but it is at least worth a consideration.
Anyways, good luck.
The reason why i am gaming in 1080p because i just bought a monitor just a couple of weeks ago, I was thinking about reducing the size of the HDD to a 500G SSD and upgrading the graphics card to 1070 but i do love to have films and TV shows stored on PC so i can watch them again, I have a 1TB HDD now and only have 288GB storage left it was less but i dleted some stuff a few weeks back.
Why will a GTX 1070 last a year longer and it will it not just be a waste of extra money if i'm only gaming in 1080p ?
I don't really play any other PC games and i'm only playing Final Fantasy XIV at the moment and i only play MMORPG's now.
Should answer your "why" for a 1070 over a 1060. I don't like their shameless advertising, but topically correct.
My head is hurting right now i just wanted to make sure i was making the right decision because once it's built i won't be able to change anything because i don't know how too and it's quite a bit of money i am spending, I'm just waiting for some money to go into my bank this afternoon then i am ordering it.
If i could build it myself i would have, I just don't want the hassle of buying the stuff then trying to put it together and if something doesn't work then having to send it back so i just get it built for me.
Whether something is reasonable to buy depends tremendously on the prices. For example, that video card is a great deal at $200 but completely ridiculous at $400. Where are you planning to buy it and what prices do they offer?
This is all the parts i am ordering and it comes to £1549.90
I checked to see how much i will be paying for the graphics card on it's own and for the 6gb gtx 1060 it costs £261.49, you can do this by not selecting a graphics card and then seeing how much it would cost.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIABFS4F36641
You could also get the gtx 1070 for 250$ cheaper but you have to downgrade to the HDD.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIABFS4F68372
Or you can have the gtx 1080 for the same price but you still have to get the HDD instead.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIABFS4F36747
Be carefull those pictures show cd drive but they don't have them in the specs.
450W is more than enough for that since you aren't overclocking. I have a 400W Seasonic in my build, and it's drawing more power than your computer will. That being said, I wouldn't downsize your PSU either.
My only recommendation: Drop from the i7 6700 to the i5 6600, and evaluate if you really need the BD or not (that's your call, I haven't used an internal optical drive in years now personally). The CPU swap, you won't notice the difference at all at 1080 in MMOs, and it will likely save you $100-150 (which you could either pocket, or dump back into the computer, adding more storage, new or second monitor, or something else nice)
I won't comment on the price, except to say if your comfortable with that budget, then that's all that matters.
That's horribly expensive choice of motherboard. Is there anything you need that wouldn't also be on cheapest Z170 motherboard on that store?
At the price of 1TB SSD you could instead get 500GB SSD and 4 TB secondary hard drive for film + TV show storage.
SSD is really good, and you should definitely get SSD for holding your operating system + programs + games, but SSD space is so expensive that if you want to store hundreds of gigabytes of TV shows it's better to have a normal hard disk for storing them.
I did change my order a bit and got the price down i decided to go with a 500GB SSD and a 1 TB HDD i just hope i can install windows on the right one.
The last time i ordered a PC from them i got all the discs and i had to loads the windows on myself, It should arrive in the next 5 days because i paid a bit extra to get it built in 5 days.
And getting the discs is worth the hassle, it sucks that so many new computers lack them. Usually when you need the discs you can't download them from microsoft and burn them since you lack a working computer.
I think getting the I7 BTW is a good choice, MMOs tend to be CPU heavy after all and it is far easier to upgrade the GFX card in a couple of years then the CPU.
And if you find that you need a lot more harddrive space you can always get an icebox or a slot drive, your build have 2 E-sata ports so you can use that to run external harddrives on them at normal speed instead of slow USB ports.
I like the case it's really nice i only wanted something that was plain black and nothing fancy and could have an optical drive, The CPU cooler looks really big nearly the size of a brick i'm starting to think maybe it's one people use when overclocking which i'm not but what ever aslong as it keeps the CPU cool i suppose that's all that matters.
I haven't done much gaming but i did that unigine heaven benchmark test thing just the basic edition i will post the results i got below but i noticed my GPU temp never went above 66.
file:///C:/Users/Anna's%20PC/Unigine_Heaven_Benchmark_4.0_20161205_1938.html
I did do more searching on youtube while i was waiting for my PC and all benchmarks i had looked at previosuly were comparing the GTX 1060 to the AMD RX 480 but i came accross some that compared it the GTX 970 and GTX 980.
It seems that it was a good time for me to upgrade because i had in my other PC a GTX 760 but it seems that the GTX 1060 can out perform a GTX 970 and sometimes the GTX 980.