Gaming machine upgrade

Fluffy88

Hey,
A friend has asked me to help him choose parts for an upgrade, I haven't been keeping up-to-date with PC building in the past few years so I'm a little out of touch.  He wants a PC that will last a long time, his current machine has a Phenom CPU so we are talking 10 years of service.  I've put together the following parts list, let me know what you think, I would appriciate any improvements or changes.

1. What is your budget? £800

2. What will be the main purpose of the computer? Gaming (Kerbal, Elite Dangerous, Battlefront, etc...)

3. Do you need a copy of Windows? No

4. Can you use any parts from an old computer? Hard drive/SSD/Case

5. Do you need a monitor? No

6. Do you need any of these peripherals? No

7. Are you willing to try overclocking? No

8. How can you pay? Any

9. When are you purchasing? 1 Week

Item|Price
Asrock B360M-HDV Intel B360 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard|£64.99
Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G30|£149.99
Corsair CS550M 550W Semi-Modular 80+ GOLD Certified Power Supply (CP-9020076-UK)|£79.99
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 ITX Edition 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1060IXOC-6GD)|£278.99
Intel Core i7-8700 3.2GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail|£259.99

Total: £845.05 (includes shipping: £11.10)

I went with the i7 8700 non-K since he don't like overclocking and it is the single most powerful CPU (I think).  So it should last a long time while other components like the GPU are easily upgradable over the life of the system.

TerrorFirmer

I would ditch the i7-8700 in favor of an i5-8400. Put the extra money into maybe stretching for a GTX1070 now that prices are dropping, it's massively more powerful than a GTX1060 whereas in games on a normal 60hz monitor, there'll be zilch difference between an i5-8400 and i7-8700.

Arguably even an i3-8100 + GTX1070 is a way better setup for games and costs the same (now that the i3's are true quad cores and have fairly high clock speeds too).

Ryzen 1600 is also an option if you like with a B350M motherboard and would be a similar price to the i5-8400 + B360.

Fluffy88

Thanks for the help Terror :ninja:

AirsoftAndy

£878 upgrade (shipping included) - quad core i3, 16gb ram , gtx 1080
https://secure.scan.co.uk/web/savedbasket/details/ea1e6254-7b09-4866-88d3-62496460e08f

£800 upgrade (shipping included - quad core i3, 16gb ram , gtx 1070
https://secure.scan.co.uk/web/savedbasket/details/84117e52-aa76-4659-8b65-916e4f1ac10d

£876 upgrade (shipping included) - 6 core i5, 16gb ram , gtx 1070
https://secure.scan.co.uk/web/savedbasket/details/a210821b-a81a-4443-8ee8-7df0023904d7

Personally I would probably go for the last one (i5)

Fluffy88

Hey Andy, I appreciate you putting those builds together, however the links seems to be dead or at least they are restricted to you, I get a 404 error when I open them.
Can you post it publically? 
I'm very interested to see how you managed to squeeze a 1070 into the build

Fluffy88

We have taken some of your suggestions and come up with this build.

Have I made a big mistakes?
(I had to post build in next post, I screwed up the formatting)

I've dropped the PSU since he has a few year old Corsair GS700, this should be plenty to run this build.

Fluffy88

Desc Link Seller Price
CPU i7 8700 https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07598HLB4/ Amazon £254.66
GPU GTX 1070 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01LLAJ8PU/ Amazon £409.99
Mobo Asus B360M-K http://www.ebuyer.com/product/833337 eBuyer £64.98
RAM Corsair 16GB 3000MHz http://www.ebuyer.com/product/743007 eBuyer £149.98
£879.61


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AirsoftAndy

Hi Fluffy,
Would your friend consider an i5 over an i7,
i5's are 6 cores now and more than plenty for gaming,
For example you can see these two CPU's being put head to head here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFh_D0Ju6UM,

The extra 100gbp could be put towards the GPU which would make more of a difference,

The motherboard you listed only supports up to 2666mhz ram but the link you have for ram is a great deal and cheaper than 2666mhz ram anywhere else,

https://www.scan.co.uk/savedbasket/0a8e719a-02a9-4d94-b243-ba9fce4cc9bc - £742.55 shipped
https://www.ebuyer.com/743007 - £149.98 free shipping
Total :£893

Fluffy88

The 2 assumptions I have made that are pushing towards the i7 are,
1. Longevity, his current system is 8 years old so for that reason I wanted a CPU that would last longer.
2. He'll only be gaming at 1080p for the moment so I don't imagine that will stress a 1070.
If my assumptions aren't accurate then I'll see what he thinks about the i5.
Doing all this shopping has got me excited to upgrade my own machine, I'm looking at the i5 8400 for myself


RE the RAM, yeah I saw a review saying the non-Z boards are limited to 2666mhz but you can't beat a good deal