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Hello, I've had my current PC for approximately 4 years now, I bought the system from Dell, it has served me well but it's time to move on. I've had 7870 on it for quite some time and unfortunately 7870 is just not good enough for the current games.

Most of you are most likely going to suggest me building my own system, but I'd rather not. I plan on buying a system from Scan.co.uk and I am going to use their "Scan Finance" (hopefully I will be able to). Anyway, let me move on to the actual subject - my new system!

The system that I'm after is pretty much the one below with some tiny changes:
http://www.scan.co.uk/3xs/configurator/overclocked-custom-gaming-pc-carbon-ti

Intel Core i7 5820K CPU with Hyper-Threading overclocked to 4.4GHz
EVGA 6GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
16GB 2666MHz Corsair Vengeance DDR4
Asus X99-A motherboard
512GB Samsung SM951 PCI-E SSD

As well as the monitor below:
144Hz 24" AOC G2460PG G-Sync

I plan on potentially streaming in the future therefore I'll be using 2 monitors, my current one as well as the one above this sentence. I am most likely going to be gaming on 1920x1080 and therefore I don't think that any game will be an obstacle for the next 3+ years due to 980 Ti.

Please let me know your thoughts/opinions/suggestions regarding this decision. I'm aware that 980Ti might be an overkill for me - but I am definitely okay with that. I just don't want my graphics card to choke on anything for the next few years!

Thank you for reading :)
 
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Look toward the LGA1151 platform (Z170), not the LGA2011-3 platform (X99). Their choices are a bit limited, but just make sure you opt up for a Corsiar RM unit. Do not go with the CS model(s). Also, scale down to the GTX 980 and pair that with the 750w PSU so you can run a second GTX 980 in SLI down the road.

Cases - Corsair Carbide 300R, Black, Steel/Plastic, 285x522x565 (WxHxD in mm), 2x USB 3, Headphone & Mic [Corsair 300R Black] - £65.16 inc VAT
Motherboards - Asus Z170 PRO GAMING, Intel Z170, S 1151, DDR4, SATAe/SATA3 6Gb/s, M.2, PCIe 3.0, SLi/CrossFire, USB3.1, ATX Motherboard - £117.80 inc VAT
Intel CPUs and Overclocking - Intel Core i7 6700K, Skylake, Quad Core with Hyperthreading, 4.0GHz, 4.2GHz Turbo [Overclocked - CPU...
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Look toward the LGA1151 platform (Z170), not the LGA2011-3 platform (X99). Their choices are a bit limited, but just make sure you opt up for a Corsiar RM unit. Do not go with the CS model(s). Also, scale down to the GTX 980 and pair that with the 750w PSU so you can run a second GTX 980 in SLI down the road.

Cases - Corsair Carbide 300R, Black, Steel/Plastic, 285x522x565 (WxHxD in mm), 2x USB 3, Headphone & Mic [Corsair 300R Black] - £65.16 inc VAT
Motherboards - Asus Z170 PRO GAMING, Intel Z170, S 1151, DDR4, SATAe/SATA3 6Gb/s, M.2, PCIe 3.0, SLi/CrossFire, USB3.1, ATX Motherboard - £117.80 inc VAT
Intel CPUs and Overclocking - Intel Core i7 6700K, Skylake, Quad Core with Hyperthreading, 4.0GHz, 4.2GHz Turbo [Overclocked - CPU professionally overclocked up to 4.6GHz.] - £289.09 inc VAT
CPU Coolers - Noctua NH-U14S - Quiet Performance Air Cooler - £51.19 inc VAT
Memory - 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX Black, 3000MHz, CAS 15-17-17-35, 1.35V - £58.56 inc VAT
Graphics Cards - 4GB EVGA GTX 980 SC ACX 2.0, 1266MHz GPU, 2048 Cores, 7010MHz GDDR5 - £406.78 inc VAT
Graphics Card Overclocking - £30.00 inc VAT
Power Supply Unit - 750W Corsair RMi, Modular, Silent, 80PLUS Gold - £100.00 inc VAT
Storage - Solid State Drives - 250GB Samsung 850 EVO - £83.10 inc VAT
System Drives - 1TB Seagate Barracuda, 7200rpm, 64MB Cache - £35.88 inc VAT
Samsung SH-224FB - 24x DVD Reader & Writer - £13.18 inc VAT
Operating System - Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-bit
 
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Hey man, thanks for a swift reply. What makes you recommend Z170 over X99? X99 does seem to be a little bit more expensive. They are both pretty much identical, I would need to change PSU if I decided to go with Z170 though. It would still cost less so I suppose it's irrelevant. I'd basically save ~ £130 if I decided to go with Z170.

The more I compare the two the more I start agreeing with you actually. It seems that the CPU that you've recommended would definitely be a wiser choice since it seems to be newer. And the motherboard on Z170 has "gaming" written next to it even though it is cheaper by £43... Hmm..

Also why do you think that I shouldn't get 980 Ti and go for normal 980 instead? Could I not just simply buy another Ti later on..?

Z170 link | X99 link
 
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