Assistance on part selection

Webster

Webster

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All,

Been out of the scene way too long, and need some advise..

Currently run some i7 920 with a reasonably poor motherboard, oldish PSU (Jeantech 700W), can't even remember what ram, and a 560Ti.

Lately have had a few issues with stability, I have no interest in troubleshooting as the motherboard has always been questionable, so would like to take the opportunity to upgrade.

I have:
Case, monitor, ssd, hard-drives, and a new AMD 7970.

I need:

CPU: i5/i7 Haswell?
Motherboard: Z87? I need one with 10 SATA ports ideally, or if those ones are rubbish then an expansion card or something.
CPU Cooler: Quiet
PSU: Quiet/modular
RAM: 8GB I think is enough?

Components need to be able to O/C to 4+ without too much bother, if this is realistic.

Based upon recommendations I'm literally going to order all of this today.

Thanks in advance.

Alex
 
This looks about right, budget doesn't really exist, I don't want to spend out a load if it can be helped but I'm not prepared to skimp on anything.

Is there much difference in the i5 @ £197.xx ?

CPU cooler is out of stock and PSU. Ideally need items in stock as ordering asap.

Won't be going crossfire, but I do run quite a few HDDs.

Thanks
 
Cheers, will order all of this now.

So the i7 is definitely worth the £75 increase over the i5 flavour?

Thanks to you both for your time.
 
I don't use the PC a lot, it's on 24/7 as a media server primarily, and I use it remotely from work often, hence requiring the reliability.

I play League Of Legends, and a few other games here and there, nothing major.
 
One thing I neglected to mention is that my case is pretty big, when popping everything in basket the PSU shows to have shortish cables, is tehre an alternative? Would to pretty upsetting if the cables didn't reach :)
 
Ah, didn't see that one, will add that to my basket. Was referring to the bequiet one linked.

Case is some Lian Li V2000B I think.
 
Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £164.99 1 £164.99
ASRock Z87 EXTREME6 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £141.66 1 £141.66
Samsung 128GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD128BW) £93.29 1 £93.29
BeQuiet Pure Power L8 730W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £74.99 1 £74.99
TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (TXD38G2400HC10QDC01) £49.99 1 £49.99
Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £24.99 1 £24.99

That's how my basket looks now, all look OK?

Once confirmed will order, thanks again for all of your assistance.
 
Perfect, thanks - Have updated basket and placed order.

Keep an eye out for the 'how do I overclock this **** thread! :)' - Can't have changed too much since the Q6600 days, right? :)
 
Got everything through and built, all looks good, cables are short though literally only just reach my gfx card, talking mm perfect.

I have had to use both pci leads to power my single 7970, is this normal?
If I just use one (1x8pin and 1x6pin) it powers up the card but nothing on screen? Have to use both pci leads and have the 2 spare 6 pins dangling which looks poor at best.

Any ideas? Other than that all good, boot times are ridiculous, 4 sec from pressing power button never seen anything like it!
 
Have ordered some extension cables so the 2x spare 6pin pci connectors aren't just dangling down and they aren't so stretched. In hindsight I would have bought a card without 2x8Pin requirement.

Other than that all seems good, some of the pins on the socket looked a bit suspect but appears to work fine.

Thanks again!
 
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