Is this a good PC build?

Hawksider · Sep 19, 2016

So I know jack about computers but through scrolling around the internet I think I might have partly determined the parts for a new damn good gaming PC and I was wondering if it is good, if I'm missing anything, if any of the parts I chose aren't good for gaming, ect.

Here is what I've compiled so far.

Case: NZXT Phantom 820 Full Tower Chassis with RGB Color Changing Lights and Fan Control CA-PH820-M1, Matte Black

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1600 P2, 80+ PLATINUM 1600W, Fully Modular, EVGA ECO Mode

Motherboard: Gigabyte LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 E-ATX Intel Motherboard GA-Z170X-Gaming G1

RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Desktop Memory Model F4-2400C15Q-32GRR

CPU: Intel Boxed Core I7-6700K 4.00 GHz 8M Processor Cache 4 LGA 1151 BX80662I76700K with Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120mm PWM Fan

Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 8GB GDDR5X, RGB LED, 10CM FAN, 10 Power Phases, Double BIOS, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC)

Like I said I know jack squat about computers and I compiled this list through reading many articles, conversations, debates, Q&A's, so I have no idea whether this is good or not and I'm pretty sure I'm missing some parts but thats why I'm posting this here.

Hawksider · Sep 19, 2016

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Question from Hawksider : "Is this a good PC build?"

So I don't know jack about computers but through scrolling around the internet I think I might have partly determined the parts for a new damn good gaming PC and I was wondering if it is good, if I'm missing anything, if any of the parts I chose aren't good for gaming, ect, ect.

Here is what I've compiled so far.

Case: NZXT Phantom 820 Full Tower Chassis with RGB Color Changing Lights and Fan Control CA-PH820-M1, Matte Black

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1600 P2, 80+ PLATINUM 1600W, Fully Modular, EVGA ECO Mode

Motherboard: Gigabyte LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 E-ATX Intel Motherboard GA-Z170X-Gaming G1

RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Desktop Memory Model F4-2400C15Q-32GRR

CPU: Intel Boxed Core I7-6700K 4.00 GHz 8M Processor Cache 4 LGA 1151 BX80662I76700K with Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120mm PWM Fan

Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 8GB GDDR5X, RGB LED, 10CM FAN, 10 Power Phases, Double BIOS, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC)

Like I said I don't know jack squat about computers and I compiled this list through reading many articles, conversations, debates, Q&A's, so I have no idea whether this is good or not and I'm pretty sure I'm missing some parts but thats why I'm posting this here.

USAFRet · Sep 19, 2016

PSU - badly overpowered
RAM - probably too much
Drives?
What OS?
What will you be using this for? Gaming?

Hawksider · Sep 19, 2016

USAFRet :

PSU: Yeah I know it's way overpowered, I was just thinking maybe I should get the best I can so I can reuse it in the future or just have it ready for the future but looking at it now 1600W is really too much. Should I go for like the 1000 or 850 or something?

RAM: Yeah I was thinking it was quite a bit, so should I get it or not?

Drives: I knew I was missing something, drives it was. I honestly have no idea what to pick in terms of drives. I want something with a lot of space but when reading up on everything Drives was the only thing I forgot to research into, any recommendations?

OS: Windows 10? I'm only guessing what the OS is so sorry if I answered wrong.

I'm planning on gaming yeah.

Also should I get more fans or is there enough there to keep it cool?

Like I said I don't know poop about computers.

Rogue Leader · Sep 19, 2016

Its a horrendous build, but at least you know you don't know and thats why you're asking here.

Lets try this again, here is a good starting point:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($324.89 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI Z170A-G45 GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($172.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($94.00 @ B&H)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($45.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 1080 8GB STRIX Video Card ($629.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Corsair SPEC-02 ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.98 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($82.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($85.70 @ My Choice Software)
Total: $1601.29
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-19 22:11 EDT-0400

USAFRet · Sep 19, 2016

Hawksider :

Unlike many others, you came here first before spending stupid money on useless parts.
Kudos.

The above list is a good starting point.

azaran · Sep 19, 2016

Hawksider :

Case: Do you need a full tower or are you just getting it for the lighting? Full towers are huge beasts and a side from being incredibly heavy also are larely unneeded. You build would be perfectly fine in a Mid Tower design. What are you looking for in a case?

PSU: Its a good unit. But its also a unit that is seriously over powered for what you need. Your build would need at most a 550w at this point. You don't want to build right to the ceiling of what your power requirements are but there's no good reason to go 1000w over that ceiling. A 750-850w if you wanted go to with an SLI setup. A EVGA G2 550 or at most an 850 would do you well.

Motherboard: Nice choice. Gigabyte makes solid boards and the G1 is supposed to be very nice.

RAM: If your not doing anything beyond gaming, 32GB is mostly going to sit around unused. Also running 4 sticks puts more of a strain on the memory controler. If you really want 32GB of 2400 I'd look at this kit. Its on Gigabytes memory list and is only two sticks.
F4-2800C15D-32GVR
If you don't need more than 16GB, then you may as well save yourself some cash and go with F4-2800C15D-16GVR

CPU: Good pick if you need the horsepower of an i7 and have the budget for it.

CPU cooler: Not a good overclocking choice and there are better smaller air units out there. I'd swap out to a Cryorig H7, or H5 universal if you want a bit more room to play with some OCing before making the jump to water cooling.

GPU. Solid card, make sure your monitor will make the card worthwhile.

HDD/SSD: Gonna need at least one. What kinda capacity are you looking for?

OS: Gonna need one. May as well go with Win10 64bit.

Hawksider · Sep 19, 2016

USAFRet :

Well thanks to both of ya! Been really helpful!

Karadjgne · Sep 19, 2016

Good parts, lousy mix, the build is all over the place.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($324.89 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H5 Ultimate 76.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($46.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M5 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($172.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($94.00 @ B&H)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($45.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 8GB GAMING X 8G Video Card ($699.99 @ B&H)
Case: NZXT Phantom 410 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($87.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($77.11 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($85.70 @ My Choice Software)
Monitor: Dell S2716DG 27.0" 144Hz Monitor ($599.00 @ B&H)
Total: $2304.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-19 22:17 EDT-0400

This is higher end for that cpu/gpu combo.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($227.88 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($133.99 @ NCIX US)
Memory: Team Elite Plus 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($94.00 @ B&H)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($45.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card ($265.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: NZXT Phantom 410 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($87.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($64.48 @ NCIX US)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($85.70 @ My Choice Software)
Monitor: Asus VE248Q 24.0" Monitor ($149.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1250.88
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-19 22:29 EDT-0400

This is respectable 1080p.

There is a huge price difference, but you need to really tailor the gpu to the monitor used or vice-versa. And a lot depends on budget

Hawksider · Sep 19, 2016

Case: Well I thought I might need a full tower for the space but if I don't then I won't get it.

PSU: What would one use a 1600W PSU for? I'm just wondering, I most certainly won't be getting it so I'm wondering why someone would buy one?

RAM: Well yeah I wasn't really planning on using the whole thing solely for gaming. I'm also a artist in progress and I use my current computer for both art ,gaming and casual use and that is my plans for whatever my new PC will be.

CPU Cooler: Alright, thank you!

SSD: I don't really know, I guess 1TB?

OS: Yeah I was planning on Windows 10.

Hawksider · Sep 19, 2016

I gotta take off for now, but if anyone else wants to submit more go ahead and I'll be looking at them later.

And once again thank you everyone for the help!

USAFRet · Sep 19, 2016

Hawksider :

SSD - 250GB SSD + 1 or 2TB HDD
What would someone use a 1600 watt PSU for? Misplaced bragging rights, or some badly overbuilt multi GPU thing.

Karadjgne · Sep 19, 2016

A 1600w psu could be used on an all out sli build with full custom loop water cooling, or would probably see use for anyone dumb enough to purchase a FX 9590 and pair it with a AMD R9-295x2 in a poor attempt to maximize 4k (the 295x2 was the prior King of 4k for a single card)

azaran · Sep 20, 2016

Alright so for comparisons sake, and so we can see the kind of budget you were willing to drop on a build, here is your part lists as you made it.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($324.89 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($27.95 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming G1 EATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($490.59 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($139.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card ($679.99 @ B&H)
Case: NZXT Phantom 820 (Black) ATX Full Tower Case ($196.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $1860.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-20 02:22 EDT-0400

A fair amount of coin to drop on it. And there's nothing wrong with wanting to go all out on a build if you like it, we're just used to people trying to maximize cost to performance. But someone put LED's on a fricken stick of RAM for a reason so if you want to make it look good, run with it if its in your budget.

You said you're an aspiring artist, so getting you're using some adobe suite products or video editing, 3d rendering for 3d printers? I'll throw some builds at you, and see what you think.

Here's a revamped version of your build. Stuck to the color theme you seemed to be going for, White/Black/Red. These parts are by no means the cheapest you can go, but they match up to the atheistic you seemed to be going towards.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($324.89 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($199.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill TridentZ Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($83.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($94.00 @ B&H)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card ($679.99 @ B&H)
Case: NZXT H440 (Matte Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case ($109.99 @ Directron)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($82.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($85.70 @ My Choice Software)
Total: $1766.30
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-20 02:49 EDT-0400

Same build but if you wanted to go with an AIO water cooling right that lets your pick the color of the logo on the pump.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($324.89 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 106.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($114.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($199.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill TridentZ Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($83.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($94.00 @ B&H)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card ($679.99 @ B&H)
Case: NZXT H440 (Matte Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case ($109.99 @ Directron)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($82.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($85.70 @ My Choice Software)
Total: $1846.30
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-20 02:50 EDT-0400

azaran · Sep 20, 2016

If you're planning on working with a lot of editing software or getting in to 3D rendering/printing, you might want to consider going in to an X99 system so you can get a CPU with some more cores to it. Like I said, none of these builds are as cheap as you can go, we could easily knock hundreds off but I thought you might like the color combos here.

For an air cooled, 6-core build
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($368.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H5 Universal 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($46.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Asus X99-A II ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($225.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($98.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($94.00 @ B&H)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card ($679.99 @ B&H)
Case: NZXT H440 (Matte Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case ($109.99 @ Directron)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($82.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($85.70 @ My Choice Software)
Total: $1863.51
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-20 03:01 EDT-0400

And if you wanted to go with an AIO water cooling kit
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($368.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 106.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($114.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus X99-A II ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($225.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($98.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($94.00 @ B&H)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card ($679.99 @ B&H)
Case: NZXT H440 (Matte Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case ($109.99 @ Directron)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($82.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($85.70 @ My Choice Software)
Total: $1931.62
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-20 03:02 EDT-0400

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