comparison of new build to a pre built system

Mr. Wednesday

Mr. Wednesday

Mr. Wednesday

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so people. finally getting around to building a new pc for myself in this country and after doing a cursory examination it seems i may be better off getting this

components

CPU: Intel Core i5 4690K
CPU Overclocking: 4.3Ghz - Extreme Overclock
CPU Cooler: NEW! Corsair H55 Water Cooler
Operating System: Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
Motherboard: NEW! Gigabyte Z97X-SLI
RAM: 8GB Corsair 2133mhz Vengeance (2x4GB)
M.2 Super-fast SSD: NEW! Crucial 120GB M500 M.2
Hard Drive: 2TB S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s
Optical Drive: 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 4GB
Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio
Internet: Wireless 802.11N 300Mbps MIMO PCI card
Case: NEW! Corsair Carbide Spec-01
PSU: NEW! 650W Corsair CS Modular
Keyboard and mouse: Gigabyte Force M7 Mouse and Force K3 Keyboard
Warranty: 3 Year

i already have a screen so that knocks 100 off making it 1010.50 with the extra hard drive and wifi i need.

ill be using it for gaming and autocad based 3d modelling.

so my question is, is there a cheaper set of components with same or better specs? when i added each one to overclockers uk individually it came out to a couple of hundred pounds more.

cheers for all the help

Tom
 
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buying parts separately on ocuk is about 130 more than the pre built system. via the partpicker link it came out to about 100 more. for once it seems a pre built has a good deal compared to self built.
 
huh, apparently i did not :) all this is sure to be compatible? just want to be sure :)

also i figure in the future i might need to add in an extra graphics card. would i need a more powerful psu? not a dealbreaker just wondering
 
its done, finally ill be able to game again. my little freebie mac really just cant cut it.

two thumbs up and a hearty handshake to stulid, saved me 100 quid. essential as a student.
 
so i built my system today, upon installing windows it crashes after the first reset with CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT. since it cant be a driver issue as its a complete new build and fresh install it seems the common problem is a faulty core on the processor. any suggestions? i've contacted ocuk as well but i'm not sure about response times
 
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