Any recommendations on building a decent 1070 or 1070ti gaming rig under AU$2000? Would love the feedback and tips on which manufacturers parts are decent and reliable. As well as having the best possible budget price. Thanks.
(Buidling a mirco ATX btw)
Any Tips on Building a 1070/1070ti Gaming Rig?
LRadbit on 06/11/2018 - 13:42
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GPU: Any manufacturer will do tbh. The chips themselves all come from nvidia/amd. Whichever one is cheapest is ideal. Ofc aesthetics matter too so factor that in. If you're buying 2nd hand stick to Gigabyte, Asus, EVGA, Sapphire (for AMD) for GPUs.
CPU: I would suggest ryzen 5 2600 when its on sale for like ~$200. If 2nd hand, CPUs generally don't die…like ever. If you see a banger deal then grab it (think $200 for an 8th gen i5 or $300 for 8th gen i7).
Mobo: Do your research here for features etc. If you like RGB then ASUS is king. For OCing, its a toss up between Asrock and ASUS normally (obviously some exceptions). Best bang for buck tends to be asrock/gigabyte
RAM: Overpriced right now. Stick to 8gb for now and upgrade in the future.
SSD: 860 evo, mx500, 960 evo will do (easily had for $100 for 500gb)
HDD: would honestly skip this, unless you need mass storage
Case: Anything you find attractive in your price range will do. Start with Fractal design, NZXT and corsair.
PSU: Antec hcg series is good budget psu. Otherwise, corsair and Coolermaster make decent ones too. Make sure you get Modular/semi-modular for cable management and minimum 80+ bronze with 500W if you want just one 1070ti (ideally 750w for efficiency etc).
Stores: Umart, Mwave, Scorptec, avoid MSY unless it has something you cant get elsewhere. May have missed a few other stores. If 2nd hand, gumtree is hard to deal with but has some good deals every now and then
Thanks will put that into consideration. Just one thing, I'm kinda new into this and always see people commenting about the ram prices, how was the prices before all this debacle. I know for graphics cards, they were the result of miners but what about rams. Haven't really got a clue about the price they were before or why.
The TLDR is that all the RAM manufacturers are artificially inflating prices in order to make more money (and RAM is essential in just abut any electronic device that uses computers, think smartphones, laptops, GPUs, tablets, computers etc.). Before the price hikes you could get a good speced 8gb ddr4 (i.e. ddr4 3000mhz) for $50-80AUD depending on stock and brand. It's now around $100+ mark.
Look at a website called Logical Increments for build guides
I have just recently finished building my first PC. www.au.pcpartpicker.com was a great help. What I did was look for a case which I liked and looked through that website to see what other people used in terms of components for their build.
I didn’t want to spend that much so I set myself a budget and waited for ebay deals for those components to go on sale. The recent ebay 10% off gift cards helped a lot when stacked with the 20% off discounts.
It took me almost 2 months waiting on deals + shipping to eventually get all my parts and complete my build however I believe the savings was worth it.
Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor
Corsair H60 2018 Ver 2
Gigabyte H370N-WIFI
Corsair - Vengeance Pro RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory
Samsung - 860 Evo 500GB SSD
MSI GTX1070 TI Titanium
Inwin - A1 (Black) Mini ITX Tower Case w/600W Power Supply
Deepcool CF-120 RGB - 3 PackCost of the components totalled $1654 which I think is a reasonable price.
MSI Optix MAG27CQ QHD 144Hz Curved 27in VA Gaming Monitor
Monitor set me back $452 which brings the total build + monitor to $2106.
I think I could have saved a bit more money by going with Ryzen CPU however I had already purchased the motherboard before the rise of Intel CPU prices.
Some tips which i wished i have known before purchasing parts was to check the amount of fan headers on the motherboard to the amount of fans you will be running, you may need y splitter's or a fan hub. RGB headers also have two different types, normal 12v rgb headers and the newer addressable rgb headers.
Hope this helps!
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Intel-i7-8700K-240GB-SSD-16GB-DD…?
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Intel-i5-8600K-120GB-SSD-8GB-DDR…?
Not bad. 10% off at the moment and around another 8% off if you buy gift cards on classifieds