New Gaming PC

[nitetime]

Firstly this is my second post on this subject but months have passed since.

Replacing my old pc with some new kit. I will be using my current monitor(1080).
And probably use my existing sata SSD(WoW installed only on it as im nervous about tinkering with the operating system and fouling things up)
Budget is around the £1000 mark but may increase a little depending on suggestions/advice.
WoW is my fav game at the moment but id like to play future titles.

Concidering the Enigma Elite review model BUT will faster ram be more suitable for WoW.
Plus not sure of the case as i have read some reviews. The psu on the Enigma isnt even bronze rated - little unsure of quality.

Any advice and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Oussebon]

The VS PSU is perfectly adequate, and is used by many reputable system builders. You're right to be wary of cheapo PSUs, but the VS series by Corsair is 80+ 'white' rated and perfectly respectable. It's not one of those "800W efficient" PSUs you can buy for £20 that are insurance claims waiting to happen.

WoW does benefit quite a lot from faster RAM. It's not particularly RAM hungry though, so as with most gaming scenarios 8gb would see you right for a while. WoW also likes CPU frequency, so if you're happy spending the extra the i5 8600k is an option over the i5 8400.

WoW isn't particularly VRAM hungry so the GTX 1060 3gb is a decent fit, however for your other games the 6gb GTX 1060 (which is also 10-15% faster anyway) is worth considering.

If not going for the Enigma, then you could go with the Game Max Falcon case which seems to offer more features.

Case
GAME MAX FALCON BLACK GAMING CASE (RGB LED)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Six Core Processor i5-8600K (3.6GHz) 9MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® PRIME Z370-P: ATX, LGA1151, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM)
8GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card
6GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1060 - DVI, HDMI, 3 x DP - GeForce GTX VR Ready!
1[SUP]st[/SUP] Hard Disk
1TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 32MB CACHE
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply
CORSAIR 550W VS SERIES™ VS-550 POWER SUPPLY
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
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
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 & Single Licence
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)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 6 to 8 working days
Quantity
1

Price £992.00 including VAT and delivery

Unique URL to re-configure : https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/intel-z370-pc/kjkdStMwyp/


But all that said, the Engima Elite would be more than adequate for WoW. Although WoW likes faster RAM, it's not as though the i5 8400 and 2133MHz RAM isn't going to offer very high performance indeed. Though the above is certainly more tailored for WoW, as far as I can tell.

 

[CheloSF]

The Windows 10 licence in that build is presumably not needed either. Lets you double the RAM and the HDD capacity and stay in budget.

 

[ubuysa]

If your thinking in reusing your old SSD is that you will simply be able to plug it in and boot your existing Windows system and programs on the new PC then you're in for a disappointment. Not only will the wrong drivers be installed on your old SSD's Windows system but a great deal else in your Windows setup will be unsuitable for the new PC. When Windows installs it writes a whole bunch of data to the registry defining the hardware platform that it's running on and all this will be completely wrong for your new PC.

In addition, if the Windows license for the Windows system on your old SSD is OEM (which it will be if it came pre-installed on your old PC) you won't legally be able to run it on your new PC.

I would suggest that you buy a new Windows license with your new PC, partly because PCS will install it and all the appropriate drivers for you, you'll just need to do the initial setup when you first switch it on. You will then be able to install WoW on your new PC.

 

[nitetime]

The only thing i have on my SSD is WoW - its totally portable and was just copied and pasted from my C: drive. Or am i missing something? I'm a noob when it comes to tech stuff.

 

[Oussebon]

WoW is portable, yes. Usually. You can run into folder permissions issues depending how you transfer the files, but even in that worst-case scenario you can still copy the data files over which will mean the only download you need to perform is a very small one.

But the OS and programs on your SSD won't be - note ubuysa's points about the drivers, as well as the validity of the OS licence.

You should be able to copy WoW to the new PC without redownloading it, but you will want to perform a clean install of Windows onto your SSD. This is very straightforward to do.

 

[nitetime]

Many thanks for the replies - food for thought.
I am concerned about the latest drama with the Intel design flaw and impending firmware fix. Going to see if it affects games, or the horror stories about 5-30% performance drop will affect gamers.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Many thanks for the replies - food for thought.
I am concerned about the latest drama with the Intel design flaw and impending firmware fix. Going to see if it affects games, or the horror stories about 5-30% performance drop will affect gamers.

According to most reports I've read, it will only affect processes that demand interaction with the kernel such as SQL Server database requests and virtualisation in the main.

Gaming will have some effect, I think generally windows will operate slower, but hopefully not by much.