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I am not too sure I will overclock right off the bat as I do not know a clue about it. Would anybody change anything on Fulax's build?
 
in that case nothing, if you could have squeezed another £100 i would have said a slightly better case, cpu cooler and motherboard.

But as its £1100 then Fulax build is about as good as it gets
 
Jayke said:
I am not too sure I will overclock right off the bat as I do not know a clue about it. Would anybody change anything on Fulax's build?
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Your card will be overclocked out of the box, so no worries there. Pushing it further is extremely simple - when you're ready, just pop into the 780 owners thread on these forums and someone will get you started.
 
I would like to thank everybody who has helped me, I have received advice from around 3-4 different forums/friends and the amount of builds I have been recommended was incredible and sometimes plain stupid.

I think I will be going with your Fulax, is "Gainward" a decent way to go or should I change that?
 
As Doomed said, the Gigabyte card has the better cooler and they have a UK-based RMA service if anything goes wrong. The benefit of the Gainward would be that it is overclocked higher out of the box.

If you'll be overclocking further yourself (as I said, it isn't difficult) then you might as well go for the Gigabyte; if not, the Gainward's extra out of the box performance could swing it.

It's your call, in the end. Personally I suppose I'd go with Gigabyte for the RMA service.
 
Fulax said:
As Doomed said, the Gigabyte card has the better cooler and they have a UK-based RMA service if anything goes wrong. The benefit of the Gainward would be that it is overclocked higher out of the box.

If you'll be overclocking further yourself (as I said, it isn't difficult) then you might as well go for the Gigabyte; if not, the Gainward's extra out of the box performance could swing it.

It's your call, in the end. Personally I suppose I'd go with Gigabyte for the RMA service.
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I have heard bad things with the Gigabyte, I think I might go for the gainward as it's OC'ed, is there support bad, if I have a problem do I contact OCUK or Gainward?
 
Actually, I seem to remember OcUK having some kind of express 48-hour RMA service with Gainward with a month of purchasing. Something like that. I'm not sure if it is still running, but I'll try to find the thread.

EDIT: Gotcha. Here and here

Check with customer service for more details/if it is still on.
 
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Fulax said:
Actually, I seem to remember OcUK having some kind of express 48-hour RMA service with Gainward with a month of purchasing. Something like that. I'm not sure if it is still running, but I'll try to find the thread.
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Hopefully I do not need it!
 
Turns out it doesn't say anything about a time limit, so that looks pretty good. As you say, you hopefully (and probably) won't need it, but it's nice to have as a safety net.
 
Doomedspeed said:
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Enjoy it. You've got a good build there. :D
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Can't wait to get it, I am happy it's all from one place!

Final Build

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gainward GeForce GTX 780 Phantom GLH 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £399.95
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £249.95
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-SLI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £97.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £65.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £1,097.41 (includes shipping : £8.00).
 
Thank you overclockers, I cannot wait!

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Shame I only saw the thread now the order is placed, would have said gone with the gigabyte z87-oc, 750-850w psu, the sapphire 280x toxic and a better case then added a 2nd 280x down the line.
 
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