First Gaming PC Build (any recommendations or changes?)

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I am going to be building my first Gaming PC around-about in June for my 18th birthday and just want any ideas if I should edit my gaming rig or just leave it as how it is. Here is the link:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/czQyhM

Also, just a few suggestions that I have:

  • ■ Should I wait and get the LGA-1151 instead?
    ■ Will I be able to play decent games on Ultra at 60fps on 1920x1080 if I keep the Motherboard?
    ■ Do you think Water Cooling is recommended?
    ■ Is the amount of money I'll be spending a bit overkill, or just about right?
    ■ Is it worth building my own Computer altogether? (If not, any UK websites to get it pre-built cheap is kindly greatful!)


Thanks!
 
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I'd say wait until like May, then come back and ask for suggestions, as likely 1151 will be a bit cheaper and have more options by then.

But to answer your bullet points:
1. Yes.
2. Motherboards have near 0 effect on game performance, FPS is 95% about your GPU.
3. Yes, it runs cooler and quieter than air.
4. A bit, you don't need a sound card, unless you're looking to do professional sound editing, or Wi-fi card unless you're absolutely going to use Wi-fi, and you should use wired if you can. You can get a cheaper case and motherboard as well.
5. Yes, it's very easy, like assembling a Lego kit. Just following the instructions (motherboard manual tells you where to put things) and it only takes a few hours.
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I'd say wait until like May, then come back and ask for suggestions, as likely 1151 will be a bit cheaper and have more options by then.

But to answer your bullet points:
1. Yes.
2. Motherboards have near 0 effect on game performance, FPS is 95% about your GPU.
3. Yes, it runs cooler and quieter than air.
4. A bit, you don't need a sound card, unless you're looking to do professional sound editing, or Wi-fi card unless you're absolutely going to use Wi-fi, and you should use wired if you can. You can get a cheaper case and motherboard as well.
5. Yes, it's very easy, like assembling a Lego kit. Just following the instructions (motherboard manual tells you where to put things) and it only takes a few hours.
 
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Its all good, but
No SSD? You really could benefit from one
i would reccomend the ZOTAC ZTSSD-A4P-120G 2.5" 120GB SSD SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive SSD
This SSD is cheap and good
A sound card? ASUS's high end Motherboards have great sound so I don't think you will need that Phoebus, unless you want to make some music
Id reccomend this psu instead
http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=17-207-034
Cheaper and better quality
As for your questions =
Nah, LGA 1150 is fine
Absolutely
If you are Extremely OverClocking
You could drop down to 1600 mhz ram
Definitely, first of all a prebuilt version of this would cost you twice the price
And building a pc is way more fun and it feels like it really yours
 
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So should I swap out the Sound Card for an SSD? :)
 
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Appreciate the feedback!
 
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IMHO there are 3 levels of gaming computer.
Level 1 = budget build, in which you compromise heavily on everything just to get your computer down to £300.
Level 2 = You spend £600 an i5 and a GTX 960 and and SSD and decent components to go with them. You get a computer which is incredibly faster and more capable than a budget build. (not just twice as fast, 3 or 4 times as fast!)
Level 3 = You double your money again, but only get a bit more performance than level 2. You don't care, because you want the top spec components in your PC.
The build you have chosen is level 3.
Which is fine if that is what you really need.
 
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I don't mind removing or adding other components or hardware. I just want to play the top-spec games like BF4, Far Cry 4 and other games like that on Ultra. I'll roughly pay around £1200 maximum for it. :D
 
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In that case, you have chosen the right GPU
An i7 is no help at all for playing games. To play fallout 4, some players are finding that an i5 actually works better than an i7.
Pyroraider is correct. You need an SSD,
He is right about water cooling too - it is pointless for you because you are only doing gaming.
James is right about the sound card - even my H81 motherboard has almost Hi fi sound quality

That saves you about £200, which I suggest you put toward a really nice monitor so that you can appreciate your graphics quality. I have a Viewsonic VP2770
 
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In that case, know a good i5 for gaming?
 
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Definitely
 
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an i5 6600 is a socket 1151 chip.
I stuck with Haswell because it is cheap and uses the same memory as all my other computers... but you have lots of cash, so I think 1151 is the way to go.
And it is available now - you don't need to wait until May.
 
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The only reason I'd probably wait till May is due to the fact that it may be a little bit cheaper, since there will probably be another Intel Chip out soon, so the prices would go down. And probably the fact that it's about a £50-100 difference so it's probably worth it for the future proofing.
 
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Will do, thanks!
 
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