£1300 - £1500 Gaming Build

Doomedspeed said:
No need for replacement fans. The ones supplied are very good. Noise wise, you just use the fan controller supplied on the back of the case (behind the motherboard tray) works the PWM.

Like i say, no need to split the SSD's when you can get a 256gb/250GB for MUCH cheaper.

4TB is excessive, 1tb or 2tb should be fine.
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All i would say is that other retailers may have bargain basement deals on the ssds! Also yes excessive i have my faults :D
 
CapitalOne said:
All i would say is that other retailers may have bargain basement deals on the ssds! Also yes excessive i have my faults :D
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I have noticed but they are on SSD's which use the much-hated Sandforce Controller. There have been many issues relating to that controller people have started to steer clear.

The Samsungs 'Samsung Controller' and the Crucials 'Marvell' are much better option.

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And the fan suggestion is really just for the look if I'm being honest. The nzxt fans were good, but i did find the h100i fans noisier.
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Yeah, if you are going to replace any fans, the H100i's would be those. They are pretty loud.
 
Yeah so this is my final build.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus Maximus VII Ranger - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£12 Saving** £377.94
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £299.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Pro Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (CMY16GX3M2A2400C11R) £169.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 64-Bit DVD - OEM (FQC-06949) £116.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £89.99
1 x NZXT H440 Mid Tower Case - Black £89.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88.00
2 x Corsair Force GS 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CSSD-F128GBGS-BK) £74.99 (£149.98)
1 x CableMod E-Series G2 & P2 Cable Kit - Black / Red £69.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.98
1 x Corsair SP120 Quiet Series High Pressure Low Noise - Dual Pack (CO-9050006-WW) £22.00
Total : £1,535.48 (includes shipping : £14.75).

 
Without wanting to be contrary for the sake of it, the only performance weak link in that build might be the corsair ssd's. I also have a blue version of this build (AMD platform) and you can achieve the same colour match on the ssds with some sticky back plastic and a stanley knife so dont feel you have to get the GS drives! Personally my boot SSD is a Samsung EVO and the Corsairs are specifically for "games i play a lot at the moment" so i am not able to comment on thier competency as OS drives, however load times in for example, FC4 are greatly improved.

I completely agree about the extensions, one thing the H440 has lots of is void space near the PSU for cables.

Final tip if you are going for red ssds and colour is important to you is to get some red sata3 cables. I think they would need to be a min 30cm depending on your motherboard.

Your key components, i.e. chipset, cpu, RAM and gpu are all good.
 
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Like i say, fora lot less, you can get a lot more,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Palit GeForce GTX 980 JetStream 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (NE5X980014G2-2042J) £419.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£25 Saving** £363.98
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED316G2400HC11CDC01) £119.99
1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU) £104.99
1 x NZXT H440 Mid Tower Case - Black £89.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £89.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £77.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.98
1 x Corsair SP120 Performance Series High Pressure - Dual Pack (CO-9050008-WW) £22
Total : £1,436.39 (includes shipping : £13.75).



That CPU bundle also gives you £37.50 Cashback: http://www.gigabytenordic.com/uk/intel_z97-x99_promotion/

So saved well over £100 (and gained more performance)
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Palit GeForce GTX 980 JetStream 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (NE5X980014G2-2042J) £419.99
1 x Asus Maximus VII Ranger - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£12 Saving** £377.94
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED316G2400HC11CDC01) £119.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 64-Bit DVD - OEM (FQC-06949) £116.99
1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU) £104.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £89.99
1 x NZXT H440 Mid Tower Case - Black £89.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88.00
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.98
2 x Corsair SP120 Quiet Series High Pressure Low Noise - Dual Pack (CO-9050006-WW) £22.00 (£44.00)
Total : £1,512.54 (includes shipping : £14.75).



Thoughts?
 
GTX 970/SLI is better value.

This is just under £40 more than your previous spec.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£25 Saving** £363.98
2 x GALAX GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent "Infinity Black Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **WorldWide Exclusive** £281.99 (£563.98)
1 x Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Full Tower Case - Black £119.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD316G2666HC11CDC01) £109.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £89.99
1 x SK Hynix 256GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS256G32MNB-2201A) £84.98
1 x Cooler Master Nepton 240M AIO Cooling Solution £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £77.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** HDD £43.99
1 x Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Multicolor LED Strip - 2m £16.99
Total : £1,551.88 (includes shipping : ).




The Luxe has LED lighting so you can choose Red, and the LED strip matches the case LED colours. You will also get better airflow with the Luxe.

The SK Hynix or Crucial MX100 SSD are both better value than the 850 Evo.

The Galax is a very good card and you get free delivery on your basket with it. You also have a better chance of zero coil whine.

Gigabyte warranty is better than Asus.

The Teamgroup Ram is a great price.


If you only plan on running a 144Hz 1080p Monitor then a single GTX 970 would be fine.

It will also run 1440p very well, although SLI would be better if you want to get 60FPS on High/Ultra settings.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus Maximus VII Ranger - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£12 Saving** £377.94
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £299.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED316G2400HC11CDC01) £119.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 64-Bit DVD - OEM (FQC-06949) £116.99
1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU) £104.99
1 x NZXT H440 Mid Tower Case - Black £89.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £89.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88.00
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.98
2 x Corsair SP120 Quiet Series High Pressure Low Noise - Dual Pack (CO-9050006-WW) £22.00 (£44.00)
Total : £1,392.54 (includes shipping : £14.75).



This is what ive decided to go with for the first purchase. I went for one 970 because for what im doing to start with that will be good enough but i will then be upgrading to two of them later in the year so.
 
Is that what you have ordered?

I can see one tiny little thing and that is the H100i and Win8.1 have a few annoying issues (pink LED and lack of fan control in the software) these can be fixed but it is not "out of the box" perfect.
 
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