another build check please

davido_labido

davido_labido

davido_labido

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Dont worry about the case, thats not a problem at all, its going to be under a desk and never seen, but if theres a better one, il still take it into consideration
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im going to chuck 1200 quid at this, need to try and keep the cost down some what.

what would you change?
 
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thats what i said to him, hes a queen though and wants 16gb as it came under budget i thought i might as well make him happy.

as for the PSU, it seems i always go to high, so thanks for that! what would you recommend ? a 750?
 
setter said:
Would the customer be willing to go with a big air heatsink mate? Would shave a few more pound off, though you would need to swap the ram kit to a low profile pair. I can highly reccomend this.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-020-AL
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He would, and probably wouldnt mind either way tbh, the reason i went for the closed look was for the looks and so i could get some ram in it. i didnt want it to be a too boring build. with it being 10 quid difference, i thought id try it.

i saw someone posting about that mount doom a day or 2 a go actually. they do the job then?

also i looked at the samsung green, i know it clocks like a beast (which i doubt he will do) and is obviously low profile (to go with a chunky heatsink)
 
setter said:
Yup, seasonic are very highly rated psu's. The mount doom is a cracking cooler, kept my 3570k under 75c in intel burn test, low 60's in games, cpu was at 4.5ghz. Still have it on my 3770k.
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i might be taking my custom loop out for a bit (just whilst i get some other bits i want) so was looking at getting a cooler for mine, so might have to grab one anyway lol

cheers for ya help btw :D
 
Ethermaster said:
Would your friend like a styled themed build and then stick it back on show ???

The Core i5 is more then eunff for gaming and so is 8Gb of ram ...
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are you me?!?

i did the same thing at first (with the mobo and gfx card, but it seemed the gfx card was slightly lower than the other.

he doesnt care at all what his computer looks like. ive suggested some horrible stuff, and he was just "yeah thats fine"

i did tell him that he doesnt need an i7, but he wants it. :D

setter said:
Good call on the cpu Ether. 4770k will be of more use if doing tasks that utilise hyperthreading, such as video encoding. Only a few games use it at present, i only swapped from a 3570k as i needed a bit more grunt for sli'd gpu's for a few games i play.
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but wont they use it in the future?
 
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he only really wants it to play bf3 (and then bf4 when it comes out)

as for the titan looking one, its out of stock =( (it does look awesome though) he wants it quickly (as in il probably order it tonight/tomorrow morning) so i can have it done for him friday.

is that elite black ram decent? seems cheaper than the 8gb packs ive been looking at (the vengeance etc etc)
 
Ethermaster said:
Its low profile (good idea if your going to stick a massive heatsink on top of it, buts its CAS is a bit on the higher side with 11-11-11-28.

This has slightly better timings of 9-9-9-27 but in the real world on Haswell for gaming your not going to really notice it......correct me if I'm wrong.

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aaah, sweet, i was looking at

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but for the price difference, the one you linked would surely be better! thanks :D ( i actually have the ballistix tracer in mine at the moment (for the flashy lights, i know, i know =( )
 
well ive ordered folks!

i had to ive used a mix and match of everything people said, so thanks for that folks.

Ive pretty much gone for the same as my OP but changed out the PSU, some git bought the last 770, so i grabbed the msi one. that meant that i wanted the msi mobo too though lol.

ive grabbed 8gb of ram not 16 also to balance out the price, and then found a 5% discount code i forgot i had so banged that on it too! so all in all well under budget!

thanks again :D
 
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