Building PC for a friend, High end

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I've picked out what I think is a quite nice build, but I'm open to suggestions, if there's something that's worthwhile having/would be a better fit I'm all for it. He said try to keep it under £2300.

Oh, and the build is pretty much just for gaming, he's running three monitors but only uses the primary 27 inch 1080p screen for gaming, the others are secondary.




YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290X 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £429.95
1 x Samsung 500GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE500BW) £281.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £251.99
1 x Corsair AX860i Digital ATX '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020037-UK) £179.99
2 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML16GX3M2A1600C10) £139.99 (£279.98)
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £139.99
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD2002FAEX) HDD £119.99 (£239.98)
1 x BitFenix Colossus Red LED Big Tower Windowed Case - Black £119.99
1 x Noctua NH-D14 Dual Radiator CPU Cooler £65.99
2 x Noctua NF-A14 FLX Fan - 140mm £19.49 (£38.98)
1 x Arctic Cooling MX-4 Thermal Compound (4g) £8.99
Total : £2,055.50 (includes shipping : £14.75).

 
stulid said:
Hi,

Errr you dont need the thermal paste as the Noctua comes with a tube of it.

The additional two fans are for?

Haswell likes fast RAM, Adata do low profile 2000MHz+ kits.

Same board and price but comes with a free mouse - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-465-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2574
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Wasn't entirely sure of the quality of Noctua's paste, I've always used the Mx-4.

Two additional fans are for rear exhaust on the case and bottom intake.

Is it worth swapping the RAM? to be honest I just didn't want to go to the hassle of removing the heatsink to make it fit under the cooler, but if they do low profile too it's probably worth it.
 
Bigger memory wouldn't make your friend "pro", or make his rig working better. 8 GB is more than enough for typical use, including more sophisticated tasks like gaming BF4 :)

4TB of storage might be something that he will never use, are you sure he needs it ? Caviar Black is a (A) class itself, but personally I'd buy Toshiba drive(s) which should be eventually faster and cheaper. You mean he wants RAID-0 volume build from both drives ?

Instead of MX-4 it's Noctua's grease included.

Oh, and 290X is not something your friend would like, in terms of working behaviour. It's simple referent build achieving high temps and loudness level in games (and during summer probably), I'd go for GTX 780 3GB with 1GHz core, but take whatever he likes.

Practically in such big budget I'd pick 2011 socket instead of 1150 and depending on what this PC is being built for, I'd buy 6-cores CPU maybe. So much money :)
 
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biuro74 said:
Bigger memory wouldn't make your friend "pro", or make his rig working better. 8 GB is more than enough for typical use, including more sophisticated tasks like gaming BF4 :)

4TB of storage might be something that he will never use, are you sure he needs it ? Caviar Black is a (A) class itself, but personally I'd buy Toshiba drive(s) which should be eventually faster and cheaper. You mean he wants RAID-0 volume build from both drives ?

Instead of MX-4 it's Noctua's grease included.

Practically in such big budget I'd pick 2011 socket instead of 1150 and depending on what this PC is being built for, I'd buy 6-cores CPU maybe. So much money :)
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He's more of a, I've got money but no time kind of guy.

The RAM I'm pretty sure he asked for a over the top amount because he likes the idea of a RAMdisk, but oh well, it's his money.

The storage drives are extras actually he's got a ridiculously large amount of RAW video he keeps from his amateur photography, so no doubt he'll have a bash at filling them.


I've changed the RAM and the mobo to the mouse bundle, anything else?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290X 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £429.95
1 x Samsung 500GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE500BW) £281.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £251.99
1 x Corsair AX860i Digital ATX '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020037-UK) £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard - FREE Gigabyte M8000x Gaming Mouse £139.99
2 x Adata XPG Xtreme v1.0 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C10 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AX3U2133XW8G10-2X) £129.95 (£259.90)
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD2002FAEX) HDD £119.99 (£239.98)
1 x BitFenix Colossus Red LED Big Tower Windowed Case - Black £119.99
1 x Noctua NH-D14 Dual Radiator CPU Cooler £65.99
2 x Noctua NF-A14 FLX Fan - 140mm £19.49 (£38.98)
Total : £2,026.43 (includes shipping : £14.75).

 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel 4930K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail (BX80633I74930K) £439.99
2 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £307.99 (£615.98)
1 x Samsung 500GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE500BW) £281.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova 1000W '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply (220-P2-1000-XR) £149.99
1 x Corsair Dominator 16GB (4x4GB) PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (CMP16GX3M4X1866C9) **SPECIAL** £139.99
1 x BitFenix Colossus Red LED Big Tower Windowed Case - Black £119.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £99.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-14 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.99
Total : £2,135.54 (includes shipping : £14.75).

 
stulid said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel 4930K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail (BX80633I74930K) £439.99
2 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £307.99 (£615.98)
1 x Samsung 500GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE500BW) £281.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova 1000W '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply (220-P2-1000-XR) £149.99
1 x Corsair Dominator 16GB (4x4GB) PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (CMP16GX3M4X1866C9) **SPECIAL** £139.99
1 x BitFenix Colossus Red LED Big Tower Windowed Case - Black £119.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £99.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-14 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.99
Total : £2,135.54 (includes shipping : £14.75).

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Oh just realised your signature, wouldn't happen to be able to tell me if the 2 230mm fans in the Collosus case are worth replacing? or are they quiet/efficient?
 
GefGz said:
Oh just realised your signature, wouldn't happen to be able to tell me if the 2 230mm fans in the Collosus case are worth replacing? or are they quiet/efficient?
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They the same as used in the ShinobiXL which I have, they are quiet and move decent air.
 
stulid said:
They the same as used in the ShinobiXL which I have, they are quiet and move decent air.
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I just text my mate and mentioned some guy on the internet suggested a different build, apparently he thinks your very trustworthy considering he has no idea who you are! I'll go for something like you suggested with some extra storage drives. Thanks for the help.
 
One thing to mention with Ivybridge-E chips is a lot of socket2011 X79 boards need a BIOS update to support the CPU, ask the place you get the board from if they will do this (requires a Sandybridge-E CPU).
 
Stulids build is the mutts nuts, definitely worth going for Crossfire 290 pros with that massive budget.

With any budget you have leftover, consider cooling the 290's using an aftermarket solution or wait for the non reference cooler versions to be out.
 
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