Been toying with a new machine for ages...

PhatEd

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Right, I've been contemplating getting a new PC for over a year now and I think now it's about time that I stopped pi**ing about and sorted it out. I've been a long time Apple Mac user and absolutely love my Mac Mini but I'm looking for a little more freedom in the choice of hardware and software available, including playing some games.

I've cobbled together the below and was wondering if you kind folk would cast your eyes over it and advise for or against anything I've picked? I'm not planning on over clocking really.

Sapphire Radeon R9 270X Vapor-X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card
SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black
TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01)
Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard
AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail
Fractal Design R4 case

I don't need SSD's and hard drives as I already have them.

Welcome your thoughts?
Thanks
 
Id swap the 270 x for a 270. Its the same thing just clocked higher, and you could do that yourself.

Thats a good build for 1080p gaming on high settings.
 
pandem0nium said:
Id swap the 270 x for a 270. Its the same thing just clocked higher, and you could do that yourself.

Thats a good build for 1080p gaming on high settings.
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Good shout. Easy enough to over clock the GPU isn't it? What are people using these days for OC'ing the GPU. It think I used Afterburner a good while back IIRC...
 
I concur.

I'd suggest this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 270 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £129.95
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £83.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-UD3P AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £67.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX21C11BRK2/8-OC) £61.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Evo Professional CPU Cooler £27.95
Total : £429.96 (includes shipping : £11.75).



Better motherboard, has much better phase cooling so the chip will be more stable and it allows you to OC.

A cooler for cool quiet operation and OC abilities.

The R4 is a good case choice.

The NZXT Hale 90+ is a seasonic unit. :)

Faster RAM, though will only run at 2000mhz on your board, still better. :)
 
PhatEd said:
Good shout. Easy enough to over clock the GPU isn't it? What are people using these days for OC'ing the GPU. It think I used Afterburner a good while back IIRC...
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Afterburner is good, the fan settings are pretty help.

EVGA precision is another good choice, i found it was more stable for some reason. :)
 
Doomedspeed said:
I concur.

I'd suggest this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 270 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £129.95
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £83.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-UD3P AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £67.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX21C11BRK2/8-OC) £61.99
1 x NZXT Hale Power 90+ 550W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Evo Professional CPU Cooler £27.95
Total : £429.96 (includes shipping : £11.75).



Better motherboard, has much better phase cooling so the chip will be more stable and it allows you to OC.

A cooler for cool quiet operation and OC abilities.

The R4 is a good case choice.

The NZXT Hale 90+ is a seasonic unit. :)

Faster RAM, though will only run at 2000mhz on your board, still better. :)
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Thanks for this.
I like the motherboard change too.
Are the stock AMD coolers still like little turbine engines?
 
The gigabyte has 2 6 pin pcie connectors. Thats a good thing for overclocking, but if you went for one with one 6 pin like the msi, you could crossfire 2 with the same psu.
 
pandem0nium said:
The gigabyte has 2 6 pin pcie connectors. Thats a good thing for overclocking, but if you went for one with one 6 pin like the msi, you could crossfire 2 with the same psu.
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Hmm, never thought of that. To be honest, I doubt I would ever crossfire. I think I would rather just upgrade to a better single card in the future. Thanks for the heads up though!
 
I'd like to get all of the parts from OCUK if possible but the only problem is they don't stock the Fractal Design cases. I liked the look of this case and also the fact that it's got plenty of hard drive space as I intend to add more drives as my Plex media collection grows.

Can anyone recommend a nice looking case that has a similar expansion options for hard drives that I can pick up from OCUK?
 
PhatEd said:
I'd like to get all of the parts from OCUK if possible but the only problem is they don't stock the Fractal Design cases. I liked the look of this case and also the fact that it's got plenty of hard drive space as I intend to add more drives as my Plex media collection grows.

Can anyone recommend a nice looking case that has a similar expansion options for hard drives that I can pick up from OCUK?
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One of these two:

YOUR BASKET
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x Antec P100 Mid Tower Silenced Computing Case £59.99
Total : £141.64 (includes shipping : £9.75).



I'd go for the antec but i love that style. :)

The Ronin is a great case too. :)

Each have atleast 6 (the antec has 7) 3.5" bays. :)
 
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