Please rate my £1,500 build

AdladUK

AdladUK

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I'm sure people are tired of rating builds, but this is quite a decent one (I hope).

Initially I was going to do a water cooling setup, but with the Corsair Hydro and a custom cooler already on the graphics, what's the point?

Please let me know if anything needs changing before I checkout. Thank you.

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Your spending 1.5k you need the Noctua cooler for your cpu, that H70 doesnt belong beside those other parts :P

Do you really want the Obsidian ? Its a perference thing, but my next drool worthy purchase will be the Nzxt Phantom, have you looked hard enough :)

All the other pieces i dont really have an opinion on, except the Xonar beats the opposition
 
Oh no, just the h70 isnt better than great air, and its a hell of a lot louder, its fans are awfully loud, RJK is a huge fan of them (sarcasm) :P

The Noctua D14 is the best air cpu cooler at this current time, it belongs beside your other parts :)
 
necrontyr said:
Oh no, just the h70 isnt better than great air, and its a hell of a lot louder, its fans are awfully loud, RJK is a huge fan of them (sarcasm) :P

The Noctua D14 is the best air cpu cooler at this current time, it belongs beside your other parts :)
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Okay thanks, guess I'll do some more research on the H70 and most likely change back to the air solution
 
Change the SSD to a Crucial C300 64GB. It's SATA3, and a load faster on read which is what you want from a system disk. You already have a large spinney for everything else.
 
As people have mentioned, the Noctua NH-D14 is definitely the cooler to get. Also I would personally go for the ASUS P6X58D-E which I found to be better than the Gigabyte.
 
Get some 1600mhz memory and save £50, you're unlikely to reach anywhere near 2000mhz anyway, I'd also go with the Asus P6X58D-E personally.
 
Thank you for help thus far guys. Seems switching to the Noctua is the right thing to do, so I've updated my build accordingly.

I've also switched over to a GTX 480 (with custom cooler), changed the SSD to Crucial and picked low lying memory modules.

I have a few brands I always stick to when buying components. Gigabyte for the motherboard is one, Gainward for graphics is another (hense why I didn't chose one of the lower priced 480s) and OCZ for memory. This is how it looks:

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I would change the hard disc to the Samsung F3, was going to say change to the Patriot ram but the heatsink on them will probably interfere with Noctua.
 
RJC said:
I would change the hard disc to the Samsung F3, was going to say change to the Patriot ram but the heatsink on them will probably interfere with Noctua.
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Sorry missed that one! Have changed the drive to the Samsung. Can't believe it's half the price
 
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