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Hey, just sold my old rig to my Dad as he needed an upgrade and bought myself a cheap laptop, now I'm just wondering what my next full build should be, wanting to spend about £2000 with a 1440P 144hz monitor (For FPS Games mainly csgo)...
Theme is Black and White due to Mobo design but could be changed :)

This is going to be just a project but will be wanting to last 2 -3years, after built I will be adding another GPU for SLI after Nvidia have fixed it.

Any other suggestions would be amazing!
Thanks.

Specs:

CPU
Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor @ £359.99

CPU Cooler
Corsair H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler @ £109.99

Motherboard

MSI X99A SLI KRAIT EDITION ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard @ £195.98

Memory
Kingston Savage 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory @ £109.99

Storage
Sandisk Ultra II 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive @ £116.99
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive @ £64.10

Video Card
MSI GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card @ £394.97

Case
NZXT Phantom (White) ATX Full Tower Case @ £99.80

Power Supply
XFX PRO Black Edition 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply @ £113.70

Monitor
Asus MG278Q 27.0" 2560x1440 144Hz Monitor @ £409.99

Total: £1975.50
 
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That would be a great build no doubt about that.

My only concern is about the water cooler, i'm a little biased against them. As i don't see much benefit in them.
They can actually cool a little better than an air cooler, but if they're installed wrong they can have leaks which my end up damaging your system, so because of that i'm more of a Air Cooler guy.
But if you now how to install it properly, go for it.

The change in the PSU is substential, those extra 100W would do nicely if you add a second GPU but until there they won't be required. If you plan to SLI soon, go for it as well.

Aside from those, everything's greatly fine
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I tried to keep some of your parts, if any of those i picked is wrong colored, i believe you can just switch it out to some much more of your liking
I'd tottally recommend this one, i added a few more quality pieces and better one, therefore those will be much newer and the upgrade path in this build is more reliable.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (£299.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler (£64.25 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£189.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£101.43 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£143.94 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£64.10 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 1080 8GB STRIX Video Card (£716.42 @ BT Shop)
Case: NZXT S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£63.48 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£119.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Monitor: Asus MG278Q 27.0" 2560x1440 144Hz Monitor (£409.99 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £2173.54
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-07 12:11 GMT+0000
 
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Thanks for your Answer @Manddy123, I would defo need 2tb (A lot of storage is needed ;P).
Also how comes the 6700k instead of 5820K? And I presume the Ram would just need to be Oc to run Native? but actually an amazing build.
 
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The 6700k is much newer, less power consuming and actually faster. IMO there's no reason to stick with older tech. Check this:
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-5820K/3502vs2579

I didn't see the 2TB HDD there my bad, i'm gonna change it.

About the RAM, as soon as you active XMP it can run faster natively.
 
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Fair enough, yeah Just saw that, thanks for the advise, That may be my next build and I can run it without a GPU if needed to test which will be better :).

Thank you for your help :D
 
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Something like this? :p
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (£299.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£109.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£189.95 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£101.43 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£143.94 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£64.10 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card (£665.34 @ Ebuyer)
Case: NZXT Phantom (White) ATX Full Tower Case (£99.80 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: XFX PRO Black Edition 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£113.70 @ Eclipse Computers)
Monitor: Asus MG278Q 27.0" 2560x1440 144Hz Monitor (£409.99 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £2198.23
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-07 12:14 GMT+0000
 
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That would be a great build no doubt about that.

My only concern is about the water cooler, i'm a little biased against them. As i don't see much benefit in them.
They can actually cool a little better than an air cooler, but if they're installed wrong they can have leaks which my end up damaging your system, so because of that i'm more of a Air Cooler guy.
But if you now how to install it properly, go for it.

The change in the PSU is substential, those extra 100W would do nicely if you add a second GPU but until there they won't be required. If you plan to SLI soon, go for it as well.

Aside from those, everything's greatly fine
 
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Thank you for help! :D

 
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