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Mr_Moose

Mr_Moose

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Hi all,

Moving out of the family home and the parents are desperate to keep the PC so I'm looking at this as an excuse to build a new rig.

It'll be used for gaming mainly and some video processing (handbreak program, if you've heard of that). I'm looking at spending no more that £1000.

This is what I'm looking at just now but open to alterations

Corsair Carbide 500R Midi Tower Case - £95
Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5 Intel Z97 - £110
Corsair RM Series RM 750 '80+ Gold' 750W - £100
Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) - £165
Corsair Hydro H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler - £90
Corsair Vengeance RED 8GB - £80
Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Vapor-X - £300 or
Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X OC - £260

Total = £940 or £900 depending on the GPU.
 
ahh, thanks for that.
Looks like it'll be the H100i then.

I'm guessing superflower are well made, reliable then? I've never actually heard of them tbh.
 
Mr_Moose said:
ahh, thanks for that.
Looks like it'll be the H100i then.

I'm guessing superflower are well made, reliable then? I've never actually heard of them tbh.
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Superflower PSU's are great, that EVGA is stunning,
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=377
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/EVGA/SuperNOVA_G2_850/
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8051/evga-supernova-850-g2-power-supply-review

If you are using Win8/8.1 you may not want to go with the H100i as the Link software has two issues with it, these can be worked around but its a pain.
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys.
I think that EVGA PSU has won me over and I'll be running windows 7 so the H100i shouldn't be an issue
 
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