White / Blue Machine £1000 Budge

Ok i think its ready to order the parts last checks please.... Ive decided to take out the keyboard for the time being as it was taking me up to over £1300 and i started with a budget of £1000 :)

EVGA GeForce GTX 670 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (02G-P4-2670-KR) £305.99

Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £189.95

Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard with FREE BOOGIE BUG XXL GAMING MOUSE MAT £129.98

BitFenix Colossus Blue LED Big Tower Windowed Case - White £119.99

Corsair Enthusiast Series TX750M High Performance 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020003-UK) £89.99

Corsair Hydro H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/LGA2011/AM2/AM3) (CWCH100) £84.98

Sandisk Extreme SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (SDSSDX-120G-G25) £84.98

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £54.98

Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B) £49.99

OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99

Sub Total : £1,009.01

Total : £1,228.51

Thinking of swapping the psu for:

Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 700W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £64.99
(£54.16) £64.99
(£54.16)

As I'm probably not going to need to SLI / crossfire within a year if this psu will work or should I stay with the corsair.
 
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honosuseri said:
The H100 is what £5 more tops? That has a 240mm rad and twin fans, you'd be crazy to get the H-80. All the cases I have suggested will take the H-100 I made sure of that

EDIT

You are very welcome :)

In regards to the price and payment options. You are not that far away from getting free delivery. 1 year and 100 posts ruling or if you can get 250 posts the P&P vanishes :) You could consider exploiting the free P&P and do the build in small installments. It sounds like faff because it is but this way you can grab parts that are on offer as the weeks go by.

i.e

Case and PSU (test PSU with paperclip test)
Then your mobo bundle (IGP there remember so you can add the GPU later. Use the stock heatsink till you do the custom loop)
Then peripherals HDD,GPU etc.

Just a thought ;) In regards to the RAM i used the patriot RAM as it looked good with the mobo and happened to be cheaper than the other brands (sorry it wasnt blue). I don't think it's low profile RAM though, so the stock heatsink would be fine and a waterblock as well. If you use aftermarket aircoolers you might find it difficult to fit over the RAM, so if you want the blue look to the RAM then the LP vengeance RAM has the looks and practicality.

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 670 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (02G-P4-2670-KR) £305.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £189.95
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard with FREE BOOGIE BUG XXL GAMING MOUSE MAT £129.98
1 x BitFenix Colossus Blue LED Big Tower Windowed Case - White £119.99
1 x Logitech G19 Gaming Keyboard (920-000978) £99.98
1 x XFX 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £96.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £87.98
1 x Sandisk Extreme SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (SDSSDX-120G-G25) £84.98
1 x Corsair Vengeance Blue Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9B) £44.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £1,193.52 (includes shipping : £14.75).



Ive taken the cooler off as you plan on watercooling later on. Hopefully you like the rest of the build/look. Choose what you will over the keyboard, it was still in my basket so i used the G19
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Honosuseri thanks for this again, could you explain the bit about buying the parts overtime as I didn't quite understand the your explanation.

Would it be possible to get the computer up on running on say £700 and add the other bits month by month as I sort of need it to be in use as soon as because I can already feel the keyboard and bits on my mac start to loosen :) this would save me having to go down the finance root as I have £700 possibly 800 in cash.

The build I ended up on and was looking for the final yes or no on can be found above. I have taken out the keyboard as that is something I can add at a later date as I have an old one I can use for now. I could also sacrifice the water cooler for now and go for something cheap if I could get a machine I could just use to play the likes of wow and Diablo on. Then complete my build month by month.

And yes I'll do a build of it all and any addons I do as well as the custom Waterloop after my pay ris.
 
How to get free P&P

Some people on here aren't great at saving. With the free P&P you can buy bits at a time with what spare cash you have each month (the delivery is next day btw). You don't qualify yet so you would have time to try and set some money aside and finalise in your head what direction you want to go.

With the free P&P buy the case and PSU first to start the build (ideally when a good PSU is on offer). Next month look to buy the mobo bundle (CPU,RAM,mobo). This would be a skeleton build, you have enough parts for the mobo to post so you can test it's all ok.

Then you need the other odds and sods. You'll notice the weekly offers vary a lot. What you would want to try and do is buy things when they are on offer. If there is nothing you like that will suit your build then wait for the following week to see what's up for grabs.

It is more faff as I said, just an option you could consider. I'm more than happy to discuss your build as each reply ups your post count. You should consider starting a thread in the overclocking and cooling section to get tips on setting up a custom loop & maybe cooling the GPU too, again this adds to your knowledge (and lurkers who maybe be reading) and you gain posts towards the free P&P.

If you know 100% you will be watercooling you might as well just use the stock aircooler than comes with the retail CPU for now. You should get a 4ghz overclock on that and you can push for more once you get the CPU under water.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £189.95
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard with FREE BOOGIE BUG XXL GAMING MOUSE MAT £129.98
1 x BitFenix Colossus Blue LED Big Tower Windowed Case - White £119.99
1 x Corsair Enthusiast Series TX750M High Performance 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020003-UK) £89.99
1 x Sandisk Extreme SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (SDSSDX-120G-G25) £84.98
1 x Corsair Vengeance Blue Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9B) £44.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £692.57 (includes shipping : £14.75).



That would get the PC up and going for £700 in one hit, the IGP is no real good for gaming but the rig will be up and running. Then look to add the GPU, storage drive, cooling etc etc later

Hope i've explained myself better this time
 
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