Opinion on this build?

[Bolter]

Case
CORSAIR 230T COMPACT GAMING CASE - RED LED
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700 (3.4GHz) 8MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® Z170-E: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM)
8GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card
4GB AMD RADEON™ R9 380 - DVI, HDMI, DP - DX® 12, Eyefinity
1st Hard Disk
1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
M.2 SSD Drive
128GB M.2 2280, SATA 6Gb/s (510MB/R, 310MB/W)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 450W VS SERIES™ VS-450 POWER SUPPLY
Processor Cooling
Super Quiet Titan DragonFly Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence
DVD Recovery Media
Windows 10 (64-bit) Home DVD with paper sleeve
Office Software

 

[Frank100]

Hi,

What's your intended use and is this the top end of your budget?

Generally speaking for just high end gaming an i5 is fine. The i7 makes sense if you also want to do more processor intensive tasks.

The R9 380 will get very hot. I do like ATI cards particularly for doing co-processing work but they are harder to keep cool and use more power than the Nvidia cards. For gaming the GTX970 is the sweet spot and this will use a lot less power and stay much cooler than the ATI card you've suggested. I'm also a little uncertain how well a 450W PSU would cope long term with a higher end gaming card. Even with the more efficient GTX970 I would up it to 550W.

The processor has a built in memory controller for communicating with the RAM and it runs at 2133MHz by default. Unless you overclock this then it won't fully utilise the faster RAM. Even at the faster speed I don't know how much real world performance you'll see. That will save a few £s. Maybe instead get 16GB of 2133MHz speed? Again without knowing what you'll use it for it's difficult to say how much you'll need.

I think I need more info before knowing what else to suggest but hopefully the above will give you an idea.

Frank100