Hello everyone
I have been out of the gaming world for the past few years and my surface pro 2 just gave up the ghost, the missus has given the green light for a new system.
no requirements to be mobile and after the troubles with a laptop/tablet computing, stuff that
So i have casually been reading TR for years, so have some idea, and have previously build own systems in (what seems) eons gone by (ps, im dad)
The games i want to play, fallout 4, GTA 5 and rocket league, oh, and civilization, but i know anything will run that
Budget is $1500 as an upper limit, but have monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers .... but live in Australia, so the pricing of things kinda suck
monitor is an old 24" dell pushing 1920 x 1200, happy with that, beautiful monitor
what i have come up with, prices from http://www.umart.com.au
CPU - Core I5 6600K - $358
MoBo - Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3 - $269
GPU - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB MiniITX Video Card - $315
RAM - Corsair 8GB (2x4GB) CMK8GX4M2A2133C13R DDR4
2133MHz Vengeance LPX DIMM Red - $79
HHD/SSD - Kingston 240GB SSD 2.5in SSDNow V300 - $108
- Western Digital WD20EZRZ Blue 2TB SATA
6Gb HDD 64M - $98
Case - Socks - $100
P/S - ????? - $100
Cooling - Profit - $100
O/S - Microsoft Windows 10 Home 32bit/64bit
USB Flash Drive - $135
Total price - $1662 plus postage
Price is a little over, but i can shave that with the 2TB HHD (we have a network drive that would suffice for mass storage for now) and im sure in the case and cooling department
So what do you think of the build?
I think many dolleroos can be saved with the MoBo, but i based that from the December sweet spot build, recommendations and pros/cons please
Why is it better to have 2x4G RAM rather than 1x8? and much performance gains for faster RAM?
I would like to overclock, hence the 6600k and cash for cooling solutions
recommendations for case, power supply and cooling solutions?
where should i spend more, and where can i save?
Cheers and thanks for your help