Final Gaming/Video/Photo Editing Build? Last Min Changes?

Mark719

Mark719

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Hey, I will soon be ordering my build and have been looking at part and asking questions for the past few weeks to get it good. Hopefully I have finally got a decent build, this is for gaming, video rendering and editing and photo editing, also general use.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus HD 7970 Matrix Platinum 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **FREE SHIPPING** £269.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x NZXT Phantom 820 Enthusiast Ultra Tower Case - Black £199.99
1 x Asus VN247H 24"Widescreen Super Narrow Bezel LED Monitor - Black £155.99
1 x MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £113.99
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 750W Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (0-761345-06223-7) £99.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £99.95
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £83.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
2 x Avexir MPower Red Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CRR) £59.99 (£119.98)
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £53.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £1,532.77 (includes shipping : FREE).




I will be buying a second Asus 24" Monitor later on after selling my iMac, also possibly much later on another AMD graphics card.

Hows the build? Anything really bad I have added that you don't recommend, I know the case is massive for what I have but will be adding more and more to it, also really like it.

The SSD is mainly for the OS and a few mainly used applications.

Also the color scheme I went for is red and black, will maybe in the future get some colored cables for the build but not yet.
 
The case wasnt worth £200 in my opinion, Im sure a cheaper NZXT Phantom 630/410/530 will be fine.
 
I would get a better board like a Gigabyte OC. The MSI board will work but if you are splashing cash for an Haswell i7, i100 and 200 quid for a case, surely you can spend another 36 quid and grab yourself a better quality motherboard. Also there is a bonus of a UK RMA.
 
Take two, or three hard drives and do RAID-0, it will be faster for video editing and other software that uses sequential re-writes.

I'm not sure what your software is, but for some specific tasks you would get more benefits having AMD FX 4-modules CPU (where gaming makes no big difference comparing to i7).
 
Avenged7Fold said:
I would get a better board like a Gigabyte OC. The MSI board will work but if you are splashing cash for an Haswell i7, i100 and 200 quid for a case, surely you can spend another 36 quid and grab yourself a better quality motherboard. Also there is a bonus of a UK RMA.
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I like the MSI board because the look and it fix the color scheme better, I haven't found a gigabyte one similar colors.

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I found this any good? http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-446-GI
 
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