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YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750Ti WindForce OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £119.99
1 x BitFenix Prodigy M MATX Cube Case - Midnight Black £74.95
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G) £67.99
1 x AMD Athlon X4 750K Black Edition 3.40GHz (Socket FM2) Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD750KWOHJBOX) £55.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-HD3 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £49.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £45.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x EVGA ACX mITX CPU cooler, Black - 92 mm £24.95
Total : £483.80 (includes shipping : ).



-The cooler is on pre-order but I couldn't resist because it's SO CUTE!
-You really don't need an i5 for a this build (as far as I can see).
-The prodigy M is the same size as the m-itx version
-SSD because SSDs are the future
-Not sure if the Seasonic will fit in the case, probably, but will let someone better informed let us know.

:)
 
 
PHazlington said:
The 6 core is a bit overkill for a 750ti so I'd stick with the athlon 750k
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You don't match the CPU with the GPU, if you can fit a significantly better CPU in the budget, go for it.


PHazlington said:
And I'd stick with the gigabyte card because MSIs QC has been a bit iffy as of late.
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It's on offer :P But yes, Gigabyte is probably a better bet.

PHazlington said:
And you don't need that EVGA PSU either.
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Why not? Never skimp on the power supply of all things. It can take other components with it if it dies, I'd never get a cheap one.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £134.99
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 750Ti FTW ACX 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £131.99
1 x BitFenix Phenom MATX Cube Case - Midnight Black £74.95
1 x Gigabyte H87M-HD3 Intel H87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £64.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD10EZRX) **SINGLE PLATTER** HDD £49.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £45.95
Total : £502.86 (includes shipping : ).



  • Great litte processor no overclocking but still excellent performance
  • Nice simple case I have the phenom as well and it isa nice case
  • Choose the caviar green as the only part in my PC that is noisy is in fact the hard drive
 
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ExtremeIC3cream said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £134.99
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 750Ti FTW ACX 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £131.99
1 x BitFenix Phenom MATX Cube Case - Midnight Black £74.95
1 x Gigabyte H87M-HD3 Intel H87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £64.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD10EZRX) **SINGLE PLATTER** HDD £49.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £45.95
Total : £502.86 (includes shipping : ).



  • Great litte processor no overclocking but still excellent performance
  • Nice simple case I have the phenom as well and it isa nice case
  • Choose the caviar green as the only part in my PC is in fact the hard drive
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Defo defo not that EVGA, it has fan issues that affect every ACX card.
 
PHazlington said:
Defo defo not that EVGA, it has fan issues that affect every ACX card.
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Cant say I've noticed any fan issues with mine. That said, people on the post here http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=2123961 are saying it only happens with the nvidia driver. I'm using the nvidia linux driver and I don't have widows on the machine so can't test the differences. This of course is entirely anecdotal but I don't have any noise issues under linux which may be useful as you're intending to run SteamOS.
 
Tom B said:
Cant say I've noticed any fan issues with mine. That said, people on the post here http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=2123961 are saying it only happens with the nvidia driver. I'm using the nvidia linux driver and I don't have widows on the machine so can't test the differences. This of course is entirely anecdotal but I don't have any noise issues under linux which may be useful as you're intending to run SteamOS.
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The issue that I was referring to was that the fans are unable to drop below 43% which, apparently, is very loud. Software has not solved this issue as far as I'm aware. When did you buy yours? I'm thinking they may have quietly rolled out a rev2 with this issue solved...
 
I got mine pretty much a week after it was released and it's using the old bios. I don't have any noise measurement equipment but the card itself isn't unreasonably loud.

To put it in perspective, the loudest thing in my case is the stock 120mm fan on a Corsair H50. Setting a 120mm Hiper HiperFlow fan (rated at 20db) to full RPM is significantly louder than the GPU fan.
 
For quietness, you can't beat the Nofan CR-95 CPU cooler. You just have to put your GPU in the #3 slot. I can also recommend the Silverpower silent PSU.
 
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