Final Spec Check (Ordering Today!)

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So here's my final spec which I'm ordering today. Just looking for any final thoughts on bits that I could tweak. It will be used for some light gaming ie Hearthstone, Sim City and also for work so it'll be running Visual Studio (which is why I've gone for 16GB RAM). The upper limit is £1000 and if you're so inclined I wouldn't mind some suggestions on a fairly cheap k+m and also some speakers (not included in the budget)
So here it is:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£14 Saving** £258.58
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280X TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £199.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX24C11BRK2/16-OC) £131.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 650W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £74.99
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £38.99
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Express Adapter (TL-WN881ND) £16.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49
Total : £972.95 (includes shipping : ).



Thanks :)
 
Get the H105 instead of the H100i as there is compatibility problems with the software that comes with the H100i and Windows 8.1 atm
There should be a fix out soon-ish I would expect though

You can do better than an R9 280X for £1k :)

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE AMD 8GB 2400MHz Memory Kit £299.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£14 Saving** £258.58
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX24C11T3K2/16X) £119.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £89.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Seasonic M12II EVO Edition 850W '80 Plus Bronze' Fully Modular Power Supply £79.99
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £54.98
Total : £1,053.46 (includes shipping : ).



The free RAM with the 290 can be resold for ££
 
Yes I will be using win 8.1. I heard there was a sort of fix for the h100i software if you changed some of the registry settings?

Nice spec shivy although I was wondering how does the seasonic compare to the superflower in the original spec?
 
rigby93 said:
Yes I will be using win 8.1. I heard there was a sort of fix for the h100i software if you changed some of the registry settings?

Nice spec shivy although I was wondering how does the seasonic compare to the superflower in the original spec?
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There is, but I'm not so sure if it's worth the hassle doing all of that when you could plug and play with a H105/Antec 1250 sort of deal. You get better performance with the H105 anyway, so I'd stick with that unless you really wanted the link stuff/colour changing LED etc

Second question I think both are great (Seasonic may only be bronze rated but has excellent internals and covers you for crossfire/SLI), but stulid is the man to ask for that probably, no experience with either
 
rigby93 said:
Yes I will be using win 8.1. I heard there was a sort of fix for the h100i software if you changed some of the registry settings?

Nice spec shivy although I was wondering how does the seasonic compare to the superflower in the original spec?
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The only way I have found to make the H100i work is,

For the fans - remove the USB cable while running and refit it, then restart the system.

The pink LED issue - install an older version of the Link software that allows manual updating of the firmware, update/rollback the firmware to a previous version, then install the newer Link software and keep it from updating the firmware to newer one.
 
stulid said:
Are you going to be using windows 8/8.1?

Is this bundle to expensive for you or do you want cheap cheap and cheaper?

YOUR BASKET
1 x CM Storm Sniper Elite Gamer Peripheral Bundle £64.99
Total : £64.99 (includes shipping : ).

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I like this bundle a lot but I'm conscious it's just going to get replaced around christmas time so I'm not sure if it's too much for a few months. Anything a little cheaper maybe around £30-£40
 
stulid said:
The only way I have found to make the H100i work is,

For the fans - remove the USB cable while running and refit it, then restart the system.

The pink LED issue - install an older version of the Link software that allows manual updating of the firmware, update/rollback the firmware to a previous version, then install the newer Link software and keep it from updating the firmware to newer one.
Click to expand...

Yeah I've seen a few different solutions for the link software but to be perfectly honest it was the prospect of using the led in the h100i that was making me lean that way
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£14 Saving** £258.58
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280X TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £199.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX24C11T3K2/16X) £119.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 650W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £74.99
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £54.98
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Express Adapter (TL-WN881ND) £16.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49
Total : £976.94 (includes shipping : ).



so here's an updated spec. Swapped out the RAM to give me more money for a 2TB HDD. Not sure i can push the extra £100 for the 290 when I include the wireless card and dvd drive. Any final thoughts?
 
The 290 comes with £80 worth of free RAM though, which you could sell for about £70 and recoup the money, which is excellent value

Also, I'd be getting the Seasonic PSU - it's awesome value and will cover you for future SLI/Crossfire

Get a wireless dongle not a card, I believe the cards are quite complex and hard to set up sometimes, dongles much easier

otherwise looks good if you're willing to faff around with Corsair Link/Win 8.1 :)
 
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