Is this a good Skylake build that will last 5 years?

palac14

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Hello friends,

I looking forward to upgrade my rig, it's kinda of old for this new technologies.
So I do some research and build this rig:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/QxCkBm

I need comments, is it good for gaming? I don't like fancy cases, My display will we a Samsung Smart TV, so I believe is a FULL HD 1080 resolution. This will be in my living room, will be my media player and gaming system.

About the budget, honestly I'm willing to spend a few bucks for a solid system that could perform nice with upcoming game, like Mad Max, Battlefront. My thoughts are that this system need to keep up with games from 5 years from now.

What do you think? what would you change and why?
If is cheaper and will do the job, I'm all ears.

PS. I'm kind of confuse about the overclocking. I don't know if I'm willing to do it.
 

RCFProd

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Sweet build, but a couple of things.

You thinking of a 256GB SSD which is 200 dollars? There are good 250GB SSD for 100 dollars where you can add another 1 or 2TB HDD under 80 dollars for much better balance.

Overclocking isn't really a dangerous thing, at the same time though It's not that necessary. I would still get a better cooler than the Hyper 212 that will also fit your build really well. Like the Cryorig R1 Ultimate:

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palac14

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Thanks for your reply. About the SSD, I already have it, I'm recycling from my old build, and I was thinking of some NAS solution, because I have a lot of videos that I will love to watch on the smart tv, also my wife has her own work folders on my drives, that why I was thinking on some NAS.

And the cooler would look very nice, thank you for your comment.

Regards.