£1700 Upgrade, quite a bit more than I've done before

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Hello all,

I’m just in the process of putting together an upgrade for my PC, but it is about £1000 more than I have spent before and I'm not entirely sure of my decisions.

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 780Ti Superclock ACX 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (03G-P4-2884-KR) £559.99
1 x Asus Z87 MAXIMUS VI EXTREME Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £299.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 900D Super Tower Case (CC-9011022-WW) £274.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £245.99
1 x Corsair RM Series RM 1000 '80+ Gold' 1000W Power Supply (CP-9020062-UK) £139.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX24C11T3K2/16X) £139.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £89.99
Total : £1,768.63 (includes shipping : £14.75).



(KB, mouse, monitors, hard drives, optical I all have already ready to go.)

Is there any glaring errors there I might have missed?

I'd very much like to keep the 780 TI and with future pay checks I'd like to SLI it for some lovely 3 monitor gaming - will air be enough to cool them in close proximity?


Thanks very much for any help you can offer, it is a big investment!
 
ThaReaperGuy said:
Seems very high end kit, what will you be using it for?
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Hi, yup I'd like to keep it relevant for gaming for a long time. Other than that there will be modelling/rendering and general dev work. I was looking at maybe £1100 - 1200 but just thought I should go the whole hog really.
 
Guys this is fantastic. I knew there were savings to be made in the build, I'd have preferred the size of the 900D but the cost reduction is just too great really.
 
I added that motherboard yesterday afternoon, after sleeping on it and reading this, I was being silly to consider it really - just burning money. I included it, along with the 900D because I could SLI, add watercooling properly etc IF I wanted to in the future (2, 3 years down the line). From previous experience I've not had a computer longer than 2 or 3 years without something major changing anyway (making that whole thing moot). So yeah, I'll save the money and still have basically the same machine for my uses (but there is still room for these changes if it lasts that long).

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 780Ti DirectCUII OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £539.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £245.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex Platinum 1000W Fully Modular "80 Plus Platinum" Power Supply - Black £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard with *FREE COOLERMASTER SEIDON 120V COOLER £143.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Pro Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (CMY16GX3M2A2400C11R) £139.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower Case - Black (CC-9011035-WW) £124.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £89.99
Total : £1,451.42 (includes shipping : £13.75).



More sensible, I feel. I'll have a sleep over the 700 or the 540 cases.

Thanks everyone for all the input regarding this, it should be fairly obvious I'm a bit out of my depth with the high end specs.
 
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