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harvey107

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Hi,
This spec is from the review section, was looking for a PC (This is pretty much on budget £1000, minus a monitor), but was wondering if this is good enough to play Total War: Warhammer at 1080p, High settings? Thanks

Case
CORSAIR SPEC-03 COMPACT GAMING CASE - RED LED
Overclocked CPU
Overclocked Intel® Core™i5-6600K Quad Core (3.50GHz @ upto 4.60GHz)
Motherboard
ASUS® Z170-P: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM)
16GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2133MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
6GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1060 - DVI, HDMI, 3 x DP - GeForce GTX VR Ready!
1st Hard Disk
240GB KINGSTON UV400 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (550MB/R, 490MB/W)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 32MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (£79)
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H80i V2 Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£79)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
LED Lighting
60cm White LED Strip (£10) - To Complement The Colours of Your Case
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£89)
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
Anti-Virus
BullGuard™ Internet Security - Free 90 Day License inc. Gamer Mode
Browser
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
Keyboard & Mouse
CM Storm Devastator II Keyboard and Mouse (£32)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 7 to 9 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,005.00 including VAT and delivery.

Unique URL to re-configure: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/quotes/intel-skylake-overclocked/MM2yv4Cg7z/
 
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Oussebon

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That is the Hydra :) (unless the OP edited the spec after Keynes posted?)

If WH:TW is your main title, you may want to consider the Black Panthaa off the review section. WH:TW is quite demanding on the CPU and there are some articles saying it benefits from an i7 (and it also has faster DDR4).
http://www.pcgamer.com/total-war-warhammer-benchmarks-strike-fear-into-cpus/
http://gamegpu.com/rpg/роллевые/total-war-warhammer-directx-12-test-gpu
w12_proz.jpg

Also the RX 480 will outperform the GTX 1060 in WH:TW.
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_1060_review,15.html
It's £49 more but if WH:TW is your favourite game and you will likely be buying the two further instalments as well, it may ell be worth it for the Panthaa.

There was an article claiming that Nvidia cards in DX11 still outperformed AMD cards in DX12 in WH:TW. 6 days later a patch came out to improve Nvidia DX12 performance - the real effect as far as I could tell was to nerf my GTX 970's DX11 performance by 5fps (no DX12 improvement, but that was expected).

That said, it's not as though the Hydra couldn't run WH:TW on high settings. And the GTX 1060 will outperform the RX 480 across most DX11 games.
 
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harvey107

Member
Oussebon said:
That is the Hydra :) (unless the OP edited the spec after Keynes posted?)

If WH:TW is your main title, you may want to consider the Black Panthaa off the review section. WH:TW is quite demanding on the CPU and there are some articles saying it benefits from an i7 (and it also has faster DDR4).
http://www.pcgamer.com/total-war-warhammer-benchmarks-strike-fear-into-cpus/
http://gamegpu.com/rpg/роллевые/total-war-warhammer-directx-12-test-gpu
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Also the RX 480 will outperform the GTX 1060 in WH:TW.
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_1060_review,15.html
It's £49 more but if WH:TW is your favourite game and you will likely be buying the two further instalments as well, it may ell be worth it for the Panthaa.

There was an article claiming that Nvidia cards in DX11 still outperformed AMD cards in DX12 in WH:TW. 6 days later a patch came out to improve Nvidia DX12 performance - the real effect as far as I could tell was to nerf my GTX 970's DX11 performance by 5fps (no DX12 improvement, but that was expected).

That said, it's not as though the Hydra couldn't run WH:TW on high settings. And the GTX 1060 will outperform the RX 480 across most DX11 games.
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Thanks for the replies, yes it was the Hydra (from review) that I quoted, I only added the £5 warranty upgrade.

Was looking into the RX 480 as to what you said, and an i7 would be great if I could get a system within budget £1000 - £1200, especially as it might future proof me for a short while.

I just thought the Hydra was great especially on my budget.
 
Oussebon

Oussebon

Multiverse Poster
The Hydra should deliver a fine gaming experience. The GTX 1060 6gb is better than the RX 480 in most DX11 games. And most games won't care a great deal whether you have an i5 or an i7.

However the Black Panthaa (immediately below the Hydra in the review section and with the £1049 fixed price) will outperform the Hydra in WH:TW due to the i7 and the RX 480, both of which the game prefers to the i5 and the GTX 1060gb (I also suspect the faster DDR4 will help too though don't have a benchmark for that).
 
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