Critique This Rig Please
 

For gaming and VR. What say you?



*NZXT H440 STEEL Mid Tower Case. Next Generation 5.25-less Design. Include 4 x 2nd Gen FNv2 Fans, High-End WC support, USB3.0, PWM Fan hub, Matte BLK / Red

*ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

*EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 08G-P4-6286-KR, 8GB GDDR5X, RGB LED, 10CM FAN, 10 Power Phases, Double BIOS

*CORSAIR RMx Series RM750X 750W 80 PLUS GOLD Haswell Ready Full Modular ATX12V & EPS12V SLI and Crossfire Ready Power

*Intel Core i5-6600K 6M Skylake Quad-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 1151 91W BX80662I56600K Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 530

*PNY CS1311 2.5" 240GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSD7CS1311-240-RB

*G.SKILL Aegis 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2133 (PC4 17000) Intel Z170 Platform / Intel X99 Platform Desktop

*Seagate Desktop HDD ST1000DM003 1TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

*Windows 10 Home - 64-bit - OEM

You gonna plug that Intel LGA 1151 into that AMD AM3+ motherboard huh?

Thank god the case isn't one of those fugly pre-teen, sci-fi looking pieces of plastic crap.

Odd....i thought Vail was going with an off-the shelf PC, not a custom build.

Since this is a gift, buying all the components for his son to then build himself seems like a pretty neat idea.

Doh!

ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

That was the old one before I switched to Intel.

I was going to go COTS then a friend's son who is an engineer offered to help me build my own. Actually I'm building two for two of my sons. My first time; I've learned a lot in the last couple of weeks though I'm still real n00by.

We're all going to build them together with, I'm looking forward to it.

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They make that model with the AURA lights feature as well, if you wanted that. It's like $20 more. I noticed your previous mobo had that....

Does that case not have any 5.25" drives at all? Sure you don't need a DVD drive?

Are there any key features you look for in a mobo? There are 3 Z170 models that I have on compare in NewEgg, each one has a couple of different features but I can't tell if one is really better than another.
I'm not getting the unclocked K series Intel CPU so the overclocking features don't mean much to me.

I would look into after market heat sink for CPU

One thing i always look at in a MoBo is how much ram it can support. You don't want a MoBo that caps at 16 Gigs of ram if you anticipate wanting to upgrade that later.

Corsair's H110 is a great product. Whisper quiet water cooling. Looks nice behind your acrylic case too. The heat management software it comes with is nice, and you can change the L.E.D color on the heat sink to match the theme of your build.

Another plus is that you don't have some massive radiator putting physical stress on your MoBo, nor does it get in the way. You get a water cooled CPU with out the hassle of leak testing or building your own water cooled set up, and it's cheaper too.

I'm a huge fan of the H110.

Sounds like a huge pile of shit, what did you do... go to Radio Shack and tell them "give me your worst garbage"














I kid I kid... dont know the first thing about it

So its water cooled?

Indeed. The CPU at least. I bought one for a build i did a year or so ago. I built a computer to do multi-media work. It sits right next to my desk so i wanted it to be very quiet while on the phone.

This thing is like a freakin' Prius...you can barely tell it's running. Installation is straight forward and easy, and the cost is minimal. You can find it for $100 or less.

Just have to make sure that your case has the provisions to install a radiator at the top. Most do.

***EDIT***

To clarify, i use the H100i. Just checked.