Advice on new custom PC

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Rapid31415

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Hello,
This will be my first custom PC. I will use it for everything, from gaming and watching movies to Photoshop or professional work. I am not interested in heavy overclocking but I might experiment with some light overclocking.

One of my priorities is to have a silent PC, especially when working and not gaming.

This is my first try. Please let me know ¡f components are balanced in performance and noise and any advice you may give:

CPU: Intel i7-6700K 4.0Ghz
Motherboard: Asus Z170-A
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Silver DDR4 2400 PC4-19200 16GB 2x8GB CL15
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14
HD 1: Samsung 850 Evo SSD Series 1TB SATA3
HD 2: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB SATA3
Case: Corsair Cardbide Quiet 400Q
PSU: Corsair RM750i 750W 80 Plus Gold Modular
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming 4GB GDDR5
Keyboard: Ozone Strike Battle Black Cherry Brown
Wifi: Asus PCE-N15 WiFi 11n 300Mbps low profile
DVD: Asus SDRW-08D2S-U Lite DVD Recorder Slim USB

Thanks
 
All looks really good. Don't get the 970 though, hang on for the 1070 or get the 1080 now. You'll be gutted if you built this nice system and then suddenly a new card comes out! ;)

Welcome to the forum by the way! :)
 
In order to keep the total price, I could downgrade the i7-6700K to a i5-6600K and upgrade the GTX 970 to a GTX 1070. How about that?
 
Rapid31415 said:
In order to keep the total price, I could downgrade the i7-6700K to a i5-6600K and upgrade the GTX 970 to a GTX 1070. How about that?
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You could also downgrade from a 1TB SSD to a 500GB SSD.

I would upgrade your wireless card, that is a 2.4GHz only 802.11n card and very outdated. I'd get a dual-band 802.11n card at a minimum, and if you have an AC router get an 802.11ac wireless card.
 
Rapid31415 said:
Hello,
This will be my first custom PC. I will use it for everything, from gaming and watching movies to Photoshop or professional work. I am not interested in heavy overclocking but I might experiment with some light overclocking.

One of my priorities is to have a silent PC, especially when working and not gaming.

This is my first try. Please let me know ¡f components are balanced in performance and noise and any advice you may give:

CPU: Intel i7-6700K 4.0Ghz
Motherboard: Asus Z170-A
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Silver DDR4 2400 PC4-19200 16GB 2x8GB CL15
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14
HD 1: Samsung 850 Evo SSD Series 1TB SATA3
HD 2: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB SATA3
Case: Corsair Cardbide Quiet 400Q
PSU: Corsair RM750i 750W 80 Plus Gold Modular
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming 4GB GDDR5
Keyboard: Ozone Strike Battle Black Cherry Brown
Wifi: Asus PCE-N15 WiFi 11n 300Mbps low profile
DVD: Asus SDRW-08D2S-U Lite DVD Recorder Slim USB

Thanks
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I'd say drop down into an i5 6600K, up your GPU to a GTX1070, grab a pcie wifi adapter that is dual band AC capable - Asus is good, just go with AC, the cooler could be swapped to a cheaper but just as capable unit like an EVo212,

You could also get dual, 2TB barracudas and run a RAID-1 setup for your data, and drop the SSD to 500/512GB variant.

I think a few of these change will yield you better performance and bang for buck!
 
WD Velociraptors - excellent performance for mech drives
WD Blacks - great performance
WD Blues - regular performance
WD Greens - use it really just for storage purposes only
WD Reds - More for NAS environment
WD Purple - Surveillance environment?

I think that's the summary for Western Digital drives. Go with HSGT drives if you can though, those things are bulletproof.
 
Intel_man said:
WD Velociraptors - excellent performance for mech drives
WD Blacks - great performance
WD Blues - regular performance
WD Greens - use it really just for storage purposes only
WD Reds - More for NAS environment
WD Purple - Surveillance environment?

I think that's the summary for Western Digital drives. Go with HSGT drives if you can though, those things are bulletproof.
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I've had 3x 4TB WD Reds in my NAS for around a year now, running 24/7 and have had zero problems. WD drives have been pretty reliable in my experience.
 
I've owned one of my 2TB Greens for over 5 years now and it's still perfect. It's been running in my NAS for over a year 24/7 with no issues. Before it was in my NAS it was in my desktop PC. I believe the 3TB Green I have in my desktop PC is also about 4 or 5 years old.

i5 6600K instead of the i7 but paired with the 1070 instead of the 970 sounds like a good setup!
 
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