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Post by mrooola on Jul 6, 2016 9:41:50 GMT -5
Hey people.
I've been playing on ps4 and haven't used pc outside of work in probably 12-15 years. It's time to get back in the game and I'm looking to get myself a new rig. Since it's been a while I'm in need of some assistance. I've gotten some advice from friends, but it seems as preferences among pc users are as split as console users so figured I'd ask some of you as well. This is what I'm looking to get:
Cabinet: Phanteks Eclipse P400S
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K Skylake
FAN: Noctuna NH-L9i
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X
HDD: Samsung 750 EVO 250GB SSD
HHD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666MHz 16GB
Mother: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON, S-1151
PSU: Corsair CX750M, 750W PSU
Now my question here should anyone decide they want to help. Will all this work together and/or have I gone overboard at any one place or left myself unreasonably short. It's not the best rig in the business, but it should be pretty damn good right? Should I consider swapping anything?
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Post by pyates on Jul 6, 2016 10:10:37 GMT -5
I'm also going to be doing the same shortly. Your specs look solid to me, without going into too much detail, as long as you have the right ports on the motherboard for your CPU and enough Wattage with the PSU to cover the amount required then looks very good to me. Not sure on "MSI GeForce GTX Gaming X" looks generic... is that one of the new 1070 or 1080 cards or a 970/980 card? Or other... I assume not Titan X?  I'm currently really undecided on graphics card and I've not gotten much further. I built myself PC's in the past, but never gotten a decent graphics card as I've never aimed at games. My debate is whether I can justify spending the monies to get a 1070 (deffo can't 1080), and if I don't is there much point getting a 970 as it is so much lower spec and not that much cheaper. Should I look to either go big and get a 1070 or get something basic for now to keep costs down and upgrade in the future. Do cards below 970 even run the game very well? Cheers |
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Post by mrooola on Jul 6, 2016 10:40:33 GMT -5
I'm also going to be doing the same shortly. Your specs look solid to me, without going into too much detail, as long as you have the right ports on the motherboard for your CPU and enough Wattage with the PSU to cover the amount required then looks very good to me. Not sure on "MSI GeForce GTX Gaming X" looks generic... is that one of the new 1070 or 1080 cards or a 970/980 card? Or other... I assume not Titan X? I'm currently really undecided on graphics card and I've not gotten much further. I built myself PC's in the past, but never gotten a decent graphics card as I've never aimed at games. My debate is whether I can justify spending the monies to get a 1070 (deffo can't 1080), and if I don't is there much point getting a 970 as it is so much lower spec and not that much cheaper. Should I look to either go big and get a 1070 or get something basic for now to keep costs down and upgrade in the future. Do cards below 970 even run the game very well? Cheers Woops. Updated op. It's a 1070. Reason I picked it is it seems extremely quiet. I like quiet. I had the same debate about the GPU as you do. Nothing below 970 will cut it in the long run I think. A 960 should work fine right now, but in a year? Not too sure. The 1070 costs basically the same as a 980 ti and not a whole lot more than a 970 so I came to the conclusion that 1070 is the way to go. |
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Post by pyates on Jul 6, 2016 11:02:08 GMT -5
I'm also going to be doing the same shortly. Your specs look solid to me, without going into too much detail, as long as you have the right ports on the motherboard for your CPU and enough Wattage with the PSU to cover the amount required then looks very good to me. Not sure on "MSI GeForce GTX Gaming X" looks generic... is that one of the new 1070 or 1080 cards or a 970/980 card? Or other... I assume not Titan X? I'm currently really undecided on graphics card and I've not gotten much further. I built myself PC's in the past, but never gotten a decent graphics card as I've never aimed at games. My debate is whether I can justify spending the monies to get a 1070 (deffo can't 1080), and if I don't is there much point getting a 970 as it is so much lower spec and not that much cheaper. Should I look to either go big and get a 1070 or get something basic for now to keep costs down and upgrade in the future. Do cards below 970 even run the game very well? Cheers Woops. Updated op. It's a 1070. Reason I picked it is it seems extremely quiet. I like quiet. I had the same debate about the GPU as you do. Nothing below 970 will cut it in the long run I think. A 960 should work fine right now, but in a year? Not too sure. The 1070 costs basically the same as a 980 ti and not a whole lot more than a 970 so I came to the conclusion that 1070 is the way to go. The power consumption is apparently lower on those as well so all in all that looks solid to me... pretty much the rig I would love. Just not sure I can justify the cost or not. That looks beastly  ... any idea how much that would cost you? Obviously if you would prefer not say that's cool |
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Post by mrooola on Jul 6, 2016 11:10:05 GMT -5
Woops. Updated op. It's a 1070. Reason I picked it is it seems extremely quiet. I like quiet. I had the same debate about the GPU as you do. Nothing below 970 will cut it in the long run I think. A 960 should work fine right now, but in a year? Not too sure. The 1070 costs basically the same as a 980 ti and not a whole lot more than a 970 so I came to the conclusion that 1070 is the way to go. The power consumption is apparently lower on those as well so all in all that looks solid to me... pretty much the rig I would love. Just not sure I can justify the cost or not. That looks beastly ... any idea how much that would cost you? Obviously if you would prefer not say that's cool Just below 1500 euro i recon. So a lot of money, but not as much as I'd expect. From what I've seen online it should be less in the UK. |
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Post by Airik3333 on Jul 6, 2016 15:50:58 GMT -5
I've thought long and hard about going back to a PC for this game.. PS4 is just so easy.. Except for the designer crashes.. I spent years keeping my PC tuned up and working properly to run my flight sim software.. I grew tired of that and finally quit using flight sim software after 15 years.. One little update from something would throw my entire rig into a tailspin.. I think my once powerful PC is tired from all that.. Flight sim with all those add-ons running really wore it out.. My PC does not run TGC as good as my PS4.. Ha.. What keeps me from switching is justifying the money.. I still get to enjoy TGC and TGC Tours on PS4.. My PC still does a great job keeping up with the bills and checking the TGCT website, Facecrap, Twitter, Etc.. I will probably switch one day.. crazycanuck runs a pretty neat setup "Dawn Patrol" on Friday nights that's fun to watch.. Not sure I have the right personality to do something like that.. Everyone would make fun of my Tennessee southern accent that I can't shake even though I have been in Texas for 21 years.. Your specs look good to me Ola.. I would worry about getting a proper graphics card for TGC more than anything.. Seems like issues I see people having running TGC comes from a certain graphics card.. Good Luck ! |
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Post by pyates on Jul 6, 2016 18:03:41 GMT -5
Yeah I definitely cannot justify buying a PC just for this game (as much as I'd like to). I used to make computer games for a living and I'd quite like to have a play with Unity or Amazons free Lumberyard... But then again the game I have in my head right now is a low graphics would run on pretty much anything sorta thing... So maybe I don't need lots of power . I definitely need a new PC, even if just for boring stuff & Visual Studio, so will likely try and strike a balance. Would love to know how a 950 would do running TGC... Other games I wanna play prob don't require too much either; Cities Skylines and Planet Coaster when it comes out (by my old colleagues). That could probably do me until maybe Xmas/birthday when I could consider an update if I need it |
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Post by joegolferg on Jul 10, 2016 3:03:47 GMT -5
I'm considering buying a PC just for cities skylines. How much would it cost for a decent but not completely geeked out PC?
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Post by pyates on Jul 10, 2016 5:14:21 GMT -5
Best checking against this sort of page for the min and recommended specs. www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/cities-skylines/12489I imagine pretty much any PC would meet the minimum these days. It runs well on my gfs PC which is a couple of years old but has an i5 which is a good processor but has a terrible graphics card. So nothing too much needed IMO In case anyone is interested there will shortly be a 1060 gtx available which is cheaper and faster than the 980... 19th July, will be getting one hopefully ... cheers ola for that info |
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Post by mrooola on Jul 10, 2016 5:42:22 GMT -5
I ordered my "beast" yesterday. Now I need to wit for my GPU and chassi that was out of stock. Made some slight changes.
A 650w PSU, a different fan, a slightly different motherboard that I got in a cheap bundle together with the CPU. Changed the MSI GPU for a gainward 1070 phoenix ghl. All in all 1300 euro. That does not include Intels Cashback deal they have going on.
If you are looking at a new computer. Do check that out. Many CPU / motherboard combination buys warrant a Cashback from Intel.
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Post by mrooola on Jul 10, 2016 5:44:53 GMT -5
That Cashback is available in many countries. Could be a European thing. Didn't look too closely
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Post by canthitstraight on Jul 12, 2016 16:28:08 GMT -5
You're going to love that 1070 Ola. I just put one in my system and it more than doubled my framerate on low settings, which is what I have been using. If a course shows 50-60fps, I'm now in the 120's.
I upped the settings to the point where I can have a consistent 60-70+fps and it is night and day what I can now see on the greens. Hoping it's going to up my game in this coming tournament.
Mind you I'm running this on a 6 year old Q9550 processor and 9 year old motherboard. Once I get my full system built (will be similar to yours) things will run even better. For now, it works pretty good for TGC. We'll see what happens when TGC2 comes around.
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Post by mrooola on Jul 14, 2016 23:04:06 GMT -5
You're going to love that 1070 Ola. I just put one in my system and it more than doubled my framerate on low settings, which is what I have been using. If a course shows 50-60fps, I'm now in the 120's. I upped the settings to the point where I can have a consistent 60-70+fps and it is night and day what I can now see on the greens. Hoping it's going to up my game in this coming tournament. Mind you I'm running this on a 6 year old Q9550 processor and 9 year old motherboard. Once I get my full system built (will be similar to yours) things will run even better. For now, it works pretty good for TGC. We'll see what happens when TGC2 comes around. I got all the parts except the GPU now. I't scheduled to ship today. Can't wait. Now if I can find a way to speed up my internet :/ |
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Post by pyates on Jul 15, 2016 8:39:14 GMT -5
I'm well jealous! Thanks to you I'm having to wait for the 1060 to be released  ... doesn't seem that retailers over here have a clue when they will actually stock them so we'll see what happens when the 19th July release date comes around. Quick question... has anyone bought oem windows licence keys off the Internet's before? The prices vary wildly from £15/£20 up to £100+... if I sneak in before the end of the month cut off I'll go for a windows 7 licence and upgrade to 10. Anyone recommend somewhere? |
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Post by mrooola on Jul 18, 2016 12:49:22 GMT -5
 Here we go. |
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... any idea how much that would cost you? Obviously if you would prefer not say that's cool 
... doesn't seem that retailers over here have a clue when they will actually stock them so we'll see what happens when the 19th July release date comes around.