Custom rig help - 3k budget

[asphatee]

Hi all, heading down to sim lim tomorrow to accompany a friend interested in building a custom rig.

Mostly play games like Ark, CSGO, Dota2.
Have a budget of 3k, need everything except keyboard, mouse, speakers.

Would like to have a blue/black theme, 144hz monitor & gtx 1070.

Please recommend me builds that suit his requirement and a good store.

 

[nmemonic]

not a specs expert, but going by your budget it might sound u have not built in quite a few years. For an average rig, i would say thats almost double your needed budget.
I Dont think you need 3k for what ya mentioned but Ill let the experts chime in from here on as i can just help with what i know. In the old days we needed that kinda amount but 3K would garner you an insanely high end pc by todays standards.

 

[yusoffb01]

your friend is relying on you for which parts to recommend right? And you outsource that job

 

[asphatee]

not a specs expert, but going by your budget it might sound u have not built in quite a few years. For an average rig, i would say thats almost double your needed budget.
I Dont think you need 3k for what ya mentioned but Ill let the experts chime in from here on as i can just help with what i know. In the old days we needed that kinda amount but 3K would garner you an insanely high end pc by todays standards.

Told my friend roughly 2k would be enough but he insisted on this budget so yeah :/

 

[asphatee]

your friend is relying on you for which parts to recommend right? And you outsource that job

No? He told me to ask here for him.

 

[MrMundy]

3k can get decent monitor bah

 

[f4ll3n]

Wah that budget so high. You insist 2k he still want 3k, hell bent on spending?
6600k cpu. Or you want try 6700k?
Mobo depends on how much future expansion you want, future proof abit by getting z170 chipset to pair with OC'ing cpu(k-version)
Gpu can go 1080 alr..SLI x 2
Get a modular psu with 80 gold rating.
Can probably get 2 sticks 16g ddr4 3000Mhz CL15 RAM or save on this and spend on monitor.
Dual display/triple display?
Get ssd for OS - samsung Evo enough...
Hdd for data I guess he can go 4tb

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[wc1989]

Hi all, heading down to sim lim tomorrow to accompany a friend interested in building a custom rig.

Mostly play games like Ark, CSGO, Dota2.
Have a budget of 3k, need everything except keyboard, mouse, speakers.

Would like to have a blue/black theme, 144hz monitor & gtx 1070.

Please recommend me builds that suit his requirement and a good store.

Based on the games u stated that he plays, put budget at about 2.2k, should be able to get the rig plus a 144hz monitor as well.

For 144hz monitor, can consider AOC G2460PF, Asus VG248QE, BenQ Xl2411Z, all 3 are 24 inch monitors and cost about $470 range.

 

[f4ll3n]

Forgot chassis. Get cm master 5? Can fiddle with 3d printer and add/stack Haha.

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[LegendZenify]

Acer XB271HU - $1090 from doraemon

Asus Z170A + i5 6500 - $573 (can't find blue themed b150/z170 mb, only this with blue accents)
WD Blue 1TB - $75
Samsung EVO 250Gb - $139
Corsair LPX 16 Gb 2133MHz - $109
Palit GTX1070 - $689
Superflower 550W Silver - $119
NZXT Phantom 240 Blue - $139
Windows 8 Home Premium - $135 (then free upgrade to W10 by July 29)
Subtotal - $1978 (should be able to bargain lower)

Total (with monitor) - 3068, should be able to bargain down to below 3k
Prices from PC themes pricelist unless otherwise stated.

 

[adrielx]

my build on the right side is about $3k less the PSU which I recycled from old build.

 

[Tornesoul]

27" 1440p 144hz monitor confirm can hit 3k.

Blue/black quite hard nowadays.

Red/black easiest haha

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[arcana75]

Just built a new rig, see the right. Total damage 3080. Note that many coupons and codes were used to maximise savings, but even without that, u can still hit the 3K goal by downgrading a 1080gtx to a 1070gtx, 6700K w watercooler to 6600 w air cooling, smaller PSU (550W will do for u).

 

[timpeh82]

Just built a new rig, see the right. Total damage 3080. Note that many coupons and codes were used to maximise savings, but even without that, u can still hit the 3K goal by downgrading a 1080gtx to a 1070gtx, 6700K w watercooler to 6600 w air cooling, smaller PSU (550W will do for u).

one question,
why u use itx mobo on a mid tower?
limited capacity ya
by the way, my build is also around $3200
just build around 2 weeks back

 

[Palaxius]

If rig is not overclocking, which H170 board shld choose? Gaming H170 boards...

 

[arcana75]

one question,
why u use itx mobo on a mid tower?
limited capacity ya
by the way, my build is also around $3200
just build around 2 weeks back

I picked itx for the onboard wifi and Bluetooth especially BT cuz I was going to do wireless audio. WiFi will be nice to have but going wired for this.