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Master Skooter

Master Skooter

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My current rig is getting rather long in the tooth:

Abit IP35 Pro
Q6600 2.4GHz (with Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7 cooler)
8GB (4x2) Kingston Hyper X DDR2
Hitachi 500GB SATA HDD

Possibly the good bits:

Thermaltake Toughpower XT 675W PSU
Zoltac GTX470 AMP Edition.

I've got a 128Gb Crucial M500 I could pop in, so really thinking of board, CPU & memory, around £300-400ish?

Thanks in advance
Skoot
 
Master Skooter said:
My current rig is getting rather long in the tooth:

Abit IP35 Pro
Q6600 2.4GHz (with Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7 cooler)
8GB (4x2) Kingston Hyper X DDR2
Hitachi 500GB SATA HDD

Possibly the good bits:

Thermaltake Toughpower XT 675W PSU
Zoltac GTX470 AMP Edition.

I've got a 128Gb Crucial M500 I could pop in, so really thinking of board, CPU & memory, around £300-400ish?

Thanks in advance
Skoot
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You have a nice budget there so the combinations are endless & if you want colour co-ordination between the motherboard/memory.

This is just a little something to give you a idea

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £49.99
Total : £403.56 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
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How much faster would the i5 option be over an AMD based option:


AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99

Gigabyte 990XA-UD3 AMD 990X (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99

TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99

Raijintek EreBoss High Performance CPU Cooler £26.99

Sub Total : £244.13
Shipping : £8.00
VAT : £50.43
Total : £302.56

Cheers
 
Sod it I'm going to bite the bullet and spend >£1k.

Anyone fancy speccing me a build please? Will the Thermaltake PSU be ok? Ihave 2x monitors that will do for now so looking for everything else.

Cheers
Skoot
 
Here is a starter.


YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 290 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £359.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £249.95
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard with *FREE COOLERMASTER SEIDON 120V COOLER £163.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD38G2133HC11ADC01) £69.95
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £59.99
1 x Samsung SE-S208DB/TSBS External Slimline 8x DVD-RW (TV Connect) - Black £21.98
Total : £995.80 (includes shipping : FREE).




Your current psu will be fine. You could also reuse your current hard drive and optical drive ? so you could remove them from this spec if needed.

The Gigabyte motherboard comes with a free cooler.


If you feel you don't want/need an i7 and 290 you could always drop down to an i5 and 280x to save some money.
 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £259.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard with *FREE COOLERMASTER SEIDON 120V COOLER £157.99
1 x NZXT H440 Mid Tower Case - Black £94.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £69.95
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £41.99
1 x NZXT CB-LED20-WT 24x White LED Sleeve - 2m £13.99
1 x BitFenix Alchemy 24Pin ATX Extension 30cm - sleeved black/red/black £7.49
1 x BitFenix Molex to 4x SATA Adapter 20 cm - sleeved black/red/black £5.99
1 x BitFenix Alchemy 6pin PCIe Extension 45cm - sleeved black/red/black £5.99
2 x BitFenix Alchemy SATA 6GB/s braided cable 30cm - Red £5.99 (£11.98)
2 x BitFenix Alchemy 8pin PCIe Extension 45cm - sleeved black/red/black £5.95 (£11.90)
1 x BitFenix Alchemy 8Pin EPS12V Extension 45cm - sleeved black/red/black £4.99
Total : £1,013.71 (includes shipping : £13.75).



One sexy machine.
 
ThaReaperGuy said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £259.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard with *FREE COOLERMASTER SEIDON 120V COOLER £157.99
1 x NZXT H440 Mid Tower Case - Black £94.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £69.95
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £41.99
1 x NZXT CB-LED20-WT 24x White LED Sleeve - 2m £13.99
1 x BitFenix Alchemy 24Pin ATX Extension 30cm - sleeved black/red/black £7.49
1 x BitFenix Molex to 4x SATA Adapter 20 cm - sleeved black/red/black £5.99
1 x BitFenix Alchemy 6pin PCIe Extension 45cm - sleeved black/red/black £5.99
2 x BitFenix Alchemy SATA 6GB/s braided cable 30cm - Red £5.99 (£11.98)
2 x BitFenix Alchemy 8pin PCIe Extension 45cm - sleeved black/red/black £5.95 (£11.90)
1 x BitFenix Alchemy 8Pin EPS12V Extension 45cm - sleeved black/red/black £4.99
Total : £1,013.71 (includes shipping : £13.75).



One sexy machine.
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Depends what's more important, looks or performance. If it's performance over looks you can bin all the 'bling', go for a cheaper case and fit in a 290 non reference(msi gaming edition)
 
fowler002 said:
Depends what's more important, looks or performance. If it's performance over looks you can bin all the 'bling', go for a cheaper case and fit in a 290 non reference(msi gaming edition)
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"I only play a bit of Warcraft, but would probably play a little BF4 etc if the rig was up to it."

The aesthetics are probably worth it in this case.
 
 
Master Skooter said:
Nice build, Thanks Reaper B)

Fowler, out of interest what would you suggest?
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Prob something along the lines of what lee suggested, mixture of aesthetics and function(colour cooridnated without the 'bling'). You could save money by going 4670k and putting the saved money in the bling if you wanted it.

Tho I have no idea how good the 'free' aio water cooler is that comes with the motherboard lee suggested.
 
As with Idleman, re-use the PSU, SSD and HDD and get this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 OC WindForce 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-R929OC-4GD) £379.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £249.95
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x NZXT H440 Mid Tower Case - White £94.99
1 x Silverstone Tundra Series TD02 Liquid CPU Cooler £94.99
1 x Avexir Venom Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C9 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21330904G-2CIG) - Green Light £79.99
Total : £1,034.00 (includes shipping : £11.75).



4770K, 290, nice green ram/mobo combo and a sweet cooler that should keep the i7 cool with a big OC :)
 
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