Assistance on part selection

Webster

Webster

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All,

Been out of the scene way too long, and need some advise..

Currently run some i7 920 with a reasonably poor motherboard, oldish PSU (Jeantech 700W), can't even remember what ram, and a 560Ti.

Lately have had a few issues with stability, I have no interest in troubleshooting as the motherboard has always been questionable, so would like to take the opportunity to upgrade.

I have:
Case, monitor, ssd, hard-drives, and a new AMD 7970.

I need:

CPU: i5/i7 Haswell?
Motherboard: Z87? I need one with 10 SATA ports ideally, or if those ones are rubbish then an expansion card or something.
CPU Cooler: Quiet
PSU: Quiet/modular
RAM: 8GB I think is enough?

Components need to be able to O/C to 4+ without too much bother, if this is realistic.

Based upon recommendations I'm literally going to order all of this today.

Thanks in advance.

Alex
 
Something like this should do it:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £275.99
1 x ASRock Z87 EXTREME6 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £169.99
1 x XFX Pro Series 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £94.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (TXD38G2400HC10QDC01) £59.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler £26.99
Total : £627.95 (includes shipping : FREE).



I've got for the 850w PSU in case you wanted to go crossfire with your 7970 and because you said you need 10 sata ports.

Thinks can be changed, what was your budget?
 
This looks about right, budget doesn't really exist, I don't want to spend out a load if it can be helped but I'm not prepared to skimp on anything.

Is there much difference in the i5 @ £197.xx ?

CPU cooler is out of stock and PSU. Ideally need items in stock as ordering asap.

Won't be going crossfire, but I do run quite a few HDDs.

Thanks
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £275.99
1 x ASRock Z87 EXTREME6 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £169.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 750W Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020061-UK) £78.98
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (TXD38G2400HC10QDC01) £59.99
1 x Thermalright True Spirit 140 CPU Cooler £26.39
Total : £611.34 (includes shipping : FREE).



I'd probably go with this, though worth getting more opinions.

The i7 will be a fair bit more future proof in my opinion, as more games/programs start to make use of more threads.
 
Potty27 said:
Something like this should do it:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £275.99
1 x ASRock Z87 EXTREME6 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £169.99
1 x XFX Pro Series 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £94.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (TXD38G2400HC10QDC01) £59.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler £26.99
Total : £627.95 (includes shipping : FREE).



I've got for the 850w PSU in case you wanted to go crossfire with your 7970 and because you said you need 10 sata ports.

Thinks can be changed, what was your budget?
Click to expand...

In stock PSU: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-055-BQ&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2466

In stock cooler: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-037-AL

SSD: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-026-KS&groupid=701&catid=2104&subcat=1427
(^ though it is sandforce based)

or

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-161-SA&groupid=701&catid=2104&subcat=1427
 
Cheers, will order all of this now.

So the i7 is definitely worth the £75 increase over the i5 flavour?

Thanks to you both for your time.
 
If just gaming and you plan on upgrading in 18 months or so, you may be better off with the i5.

P.S. Probably worth waiting an hour or 2 in case anyone spots something more suitable or a decent saving to be had.
 
I don't use the PC a lot, it's on 24/7 as a media server primarily, and I use it remotely from work often, hence requiring the reliability.

I play League Of Legends, and a few other games here and there, nothing major.
 
Webzta said:
I don't use the PC a lot, it's on 24/7 as a media server primarily, and I use it remotely from work often, hence requiring the reliability.

I play League Of Legends, and a few other games here and there, nothing major.
Click to expand...

i'd go for the i5 then.

You'll see no extra benifit from the i7, as (to be honest) you won't using the extra power the money pays for..
 
One thing I neglected to mention is that my case is pretty big, when popping everything in basket the PSU shows to have shortish cables, is tehre an alternative? Would to pretty upsetting if the cables didn't reach :)
 
Ah, didn't see that one, will add that to my basket. Was referring to the bequiet one linked.

Case is some Lian Li V2000B I think.
 
I'd go for a good air cooler for a regular overclock as the AIO watercoolers are noisy without replacing the fans, plus the pump sound bothers a lot of people.
 
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