Black Friday is calling me... good deals spec advice please?

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I'm ready to push the button on this now after months of faffing about and deliberating. Some of the Black Friday deals look great so can someone help with a spec I can buy in the next day or 2 to get the best value for money?

Basically I'm after a PC for games (mainly Elite Dangerous tbh) and other things like coding, which will have some longevity - my current setup is 6 years old and I'm not unhappy with it as I don't always have to have the latest thing, but I want to start again with something powerful that will last.

I'm thinking i7, 16gb RAM, SSD + 2tb mechanical. Don't need peripherals or Optical drive, I have Win 8.1 already. I'm open to video card advice - I've just bought the Acer B326HUL 32" monitor so it needs to be able to drive that as well as possible for games. Motherboard with good quality audio would be nice.

Case doesn't need a window or lights etc as it will be out of sight, but I'll be building it myself for the first time so anything that might help to make that an easier job would be appreciated!!

Budget is up to about £1000 - £1200, but don't go nuts if it's not necessary!

Thanks
 
That looks pretty good. The cpu/mb bundle seems spot on.

Question - I've seen the Gigabyte 295x2 card on offer, for only a bit more than the 980 cards. Is that worth going for and if so what sort of PSU should I be looking at to run that comfortably?
 
the 980's have better benchmarks and run cooler with less power consumption, you dont have a gsync moniter but for the money id reccommend 970 now and in future possible SLI thats why i went to that PSU
 
So something like:

Asus Maximus VII Ranger - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£20 Saving** £369.95

Corsair XMS3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX16GX3M2A1600C11) £129.95

Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88.00

Samsung 128GB SSD 850 PRO SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-7KE128BW) £87.98

Western Digital Caviar Red 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD20EFRX - OEM HDD £74.99

Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Case - Black (CC-9011014-WW) £59.99

Total : £824.95


Just need a video card and PSU
 
Rather have to black edition MOBO as you get a free motherboard within 3 years from them, and 16GB is pointless for gaming and its very low speed the RAM you have chosen aswell, everything else is fine but you can get the 3TB harddrive for 5er more so might aswell.

PSU 850w if you plan to SLI in future and the graphics card 970 to keep yourself in budget
 
Ok, revised to:

Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK - Devil's Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£20 Saving** £384.98

TeamGroup Vulcan RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED316G2400HC11CDC01) £149.99

SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 850W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £89.99

Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88.00

Samsung 128GB SSD 850 PRO SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-7KE128BW) £87.98

Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD30EZRX) HDD £79.99

Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Case - Black (CC-9011014-WW) £59.99

Total £955.92

I wanted the 16GB as I'm hoping to do more than gaming, maybe some 3D work or video as a hobby, but definitely some Visual Studio for coding.


Just need a point in the right direction regarding video card - are the 970's pretty much the same so I can pick any one? Am I better paying a bit more and going for a 980, given that I probably won't SLI for a while...?
 
Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) - £79.99

and if you got the money then yeah but the one im going for is the Galax or the Ichill
 
surreal said:
Just need a point in the right direction regarding video card - are the 970's pretty much the same so I can pick any one? Am I better paying a bit more and going for a 980, given that I probably won't SLI for a while...?
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A 970 will power a 1440p monitor with ease:

YOUR BASKET
1 x EPIC BUNDLE: Intel 4790K, Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7, Kingston 16GB 2400MHz Kit, Superflower 750W PSU & FREE STUFF!! **£50 SAVING** £560.98
1 x Inno3D GeForce GTX 970 OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Raijintek Triton AIO Water Cooling Solution £69.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £61.99
Total : £1,022.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
Is the Crucial SSD any good? I've only heard good things about Samsung which is why I picked it, I know a couple of people who have had Crucial drives fail on them. Will only be for the OS anyway.
 
TheGentry said:
The black edition free board is worth gettin that, and you will only need 8gb anyway
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The savings are worth it I guess, the extra 8GB comes for free pretty much.

8GB of RAM including the Gigabyte BK board.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK - Devil's Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£20 Saving** £384.98
1 x Inno3D GeForce GTX 970 OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £79.99
1 x Raijintek Triton AIO Water Cooling Solution £69.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £61.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99
Total : £986.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).



You can upgrade your board within 3 years if a new socket type is released.
 
That's pretty much what I have now, except I'm hanging on to the 16gb RAM for dear life - does it really not make any difference? Would Windows not be better for it, or other applications like Visual Studio or Blender or something?

My basket as it stands:

Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK - Devil's Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£20 Saving** £384.98

Inno3D GeForce GTX 970 OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99

TeamGroup Vulcan RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED316G2400HC11CDC01) £149.99

SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 850W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £89.99

Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99

Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD30EZRX) HDD £79.99

Raijintek Triton AIO Water Cooling Solution £69.95

Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Case - Black (CC-9011014-WW) £59.99

Total : £1,171.37
 
I'd opt for the EVGA PSU, as it comes with 10 years warranty and 750 will handle 2 970's.

And Greens are slower as they're ECO drives, so read/write/access speeds are a little bit affected.
 
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