hi guys, im wanting to build a gaming PC for around £600 and was wanderin what you thought would get me the bust bang for buck

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I agree that an i5 6500 H170 (even H110) would be better than a i3 Z170, but the savings from switching boards is not enough to move up to an i5 6500. You could do something like this but the MB is very basic:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (£152.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-HDV Micro ATX LGA1151...
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not even a decent build for the money.
non k cpu ona z board.

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/nQbY6h
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/nQbY6h/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£160.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock H170 Pro4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£69.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£54.99 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£70.89 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£40.96 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 390 8GB Nitro Video Card (£279.98 @ Novatech)
Case: Phanteks ECLIPSE P400 ATX Mid Tower Case (£57.70 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX TS 650W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£58.26 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £793.76
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-29 13:31 BST+0100

the build you made was over 700£, you can save 100 from mine changing the r9 390 with a sapphire nitro r9 380

for the OS: just download it from Microsoft site and buy a key from reputable web site. In italy it's legal and it costs only 20€
 
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tmalcherczyk,

Your build is nice, but I was able to tweak it a bit to something a bit better. You really need a better PSU which I ungraded to the excellent EVGA G2 model. There is nothing wrong with using a z170 board with a non-k CPU because it allows you to benefit from faster RAM. Some games seem to benefit from the faster RAM, so I took the liberty to upgrade your RAM.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1478-page1.html
https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/492721-skylake-gaming-performance-scaling-with-ddr4-ram-frequency/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESeoexGLVFU

I also upgraded the SSD. The Asus Strix GPU models are very nice. It has the semi-passive fans which don't spin while at idle and is also quiet at load.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/zardon/asus-r9-285-strix-review/19/
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_radeon_r9_380_strix_review,23.html

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£160.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock Z170A-X1/3.1 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£89.61 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory (£28.36 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£59.99 @ Novatech)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£40.96 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 285 2GB STRIX Video Card (£117.23 @ CCL Computers)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.98 @ Novatech)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£66.98 @ Novatech)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)
Total: £596.10
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-29 15:16 BST+0100

You could actually go in this direction for a much superior gaming build except perhaps for Steam games which benefit from the extra cores. It would limit your GPU upgrade potential in the future, but you would have the best gaming build now.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£97.26 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock Z170A-X1/3.1 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£89.61 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory (£28.36 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£59.99 @ Novatech)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£40.96 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380X 4GB DD XXX OC Video Card (£179.99 @ Novatech)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.98 @ Novatech)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£66.98 @ Novatech)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)
Total: £595.13
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-29 15:44 BST+0100
 
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the 2nd one could be good if he is able to overclock via BCLK, feature that ASROCK removed from its board. I'd reather have a i5-6500 a h170 board and smaller gpu card (since the new generation will be launched soon) than an i3 and a z170 card. The stuff which have to last longer are cpu/mobo/psu imho.
 
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I agree that an i5 6500 H170 (even H110) would be better than a i3 Z170, but the savings from switching boards is not enough to move up to an i5 6500. You could do something like this but the MB is very basic:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (£152.99 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-HDV Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£44.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£23.86 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£59.99 @ Novatech)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£40.96 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380X 4GB DD XXX OC Video Card (£179.99 @ Novatech)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.98 @ Novatech)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£66.98 @ Novatech)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)
Total: £601.74
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-29 18:49 BST+0100

If you could go over budget a bit, this would be a excellent build:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£160.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£60.90 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£23.86 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£59.99 @ Novatech)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£40.96 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380X 4GB DD XXX OC Video Card (£179.99 @ Novatech)
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.98 @ Novatech)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£66.98 @ Novatech)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)
Total: £625.65
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-29 18:52 BST+0100
 
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Honestly I'd say no To ssd if I had to stay in the 600£ cause you can always buy it after, but in the meanwhile you can have a pc without renouncing to anything important
Just buy the product key for the OS
he can save 10£ for the xfx TS550

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/npCX99
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/npCX99/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£163.27 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock H170 Pro4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£69.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£31.98 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.95 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 380 4GB NITRO Dual-X OC Video Card (£169.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Case: Phanteks ECLIPSE P400 ATX Mid Tower Case (£57.70 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX TS 650W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£58.26 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £591.14
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-30 08:23 BST+0100
 
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