Corsair air 240 build please:)

shatpank81 · 26 Jul 2014 at 20:06

Hi
A friend is interested in the corsair 240 and is willing to wait for the white one, so gives him a bit of time to save up
He said he mainly plays B4, but the odd Football manager and plays games like castlecrashers, telltale games to chill out lol
He already as a 24" 1080p monitor, mouse, keyboard and a windows 7 pro license
His max budget is say £650-£700' tops but that must include the case as well, which is about £69.99
If it can be done cheaper than those prices then great.

mickyflinn · 26 Jul 2014 at 20:15

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280 TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
1 x Corsair Carbide Series Air 240 High Airflow PC Case - White (CC-9011069-WW) £69.95
1 x Gigabyte Z97M-DS3H Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £68.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX21C11BRK2/8-OC) £65.99
1 x Crucial M500 120GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT120M500SSD1) £54.98
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £41.98
1 x Samsung SH-118BB/BEBE SATA 18x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £12.95
Total : £703.80 (includes shipping : £12.50).

lee32uk · 26 Jul 2014 at 20:17

mickyflinn said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x XFX Radeon R9 280X DD Black Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (R9-280X-TDBD) £199.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Corsair Carbide Series Air 240 High Airflow PC Case - White (CC-9011069-WW) £69.95
1 x Gigabyte Z97M-DS3H Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £68.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX21C11BRK2/8-OC) £65.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £41.98
1 x Samsung SH-118BB/BEBE SATA 18x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £12.95
Total : £698.82 (includes shipping : £12.50).

You will need an external DVD drive as there is no 5.25 bay on the 240

mickyflinn · 26 Jul 2014 at 20:19

lee32uk said:
You will need an external DVD drive as there is no 5.25 bay on the 240

TX, i suppose you could use an internal drive then disconnect after install of windows or use a usb flash drive

shatpank81 · 26 Jul 2014 at 20:34

Sorry he already has a 1tb and 320gb hard drive which he will use as a data drive
And doesnt need an dvd drive as i will borrow him my windows 7 on a usb drive
So if i take off the dvd drive and 1tb, will bring it under £650..
However are powercolor/xfx reliable graphic card brands?

MichaelAwkward · 26 Jul 2014 at 21:15

You shouldn't have a problem. The days of a particular brand being unreliable are long gone. They're all about the same.

mickyflinn · 26 Jul 2014 at 21:33

Get a decent cooler and overclock the cpu.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Raijintek EreBoss High Performance CPU Cooler £29.99

lee32uk · 27 Jul 2014 at 01:05

shatpank81 said:
Sorry he already has a 1tb and 320gb hard drive which he will use as a data drive
And doesnt need an dvd drive as i will borrow him my windows 7 on a usb drive
So if i take off the dvd drive and 1tb, will bring it under £650..
However are powercolor/xfx reliable graphic card brands?

OCUK deal with powercolor warranty if I remember correctly. I am not sure about xfx warranty. I thought ocuk had stopped selling xfx stuff because of the poor warranty support although I might be wrong.

Rroff · 27 Jul 2014 at 01:10

lee32uk said:
OCUK deal with powercolor warranty if I remember correctly. I am not sure about xfx warranty. I thought ocuk had stopped selling xfx stuff because of the poor warranty support although I might be wrong.

They've started reselling XFX stuff with their own OcUK warranty. Personally I'm still not convinced about XFX but time will tell. In the past they almost always cheaped out on something somewhere :S i.e. not bothering with proper voltage regulation on some PSUs, low quality capacitors on some GPUs, etc.

lee32uk · 27 Jul 2014 at 01:42

Rroff said:
They've started reselling XFX stuff with their own OcUK warranty. Personally I'm still not convinced about XFX but time will tell. In the past they almost always cheaped out on something somewhere :S i.e. not bothering with proper voltage regulation on some PSUs, low quality capacitors on some GPUs, etc.

Touchwood my XFX psu has been great up to now, although that is more down to Seasonic I guess

Rroff · 27 Jul 2014 at 02:02

Never got a feel for the baseline with those seasonic based ones - don't know of anyone with a problem with one, don't know anyone who has one and not working in a job where I'd encounter it any more.