First ever build please check my spec!

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Hi guys! This is pretty much my first ever build where I will be building it from scratch instead of ordering the machine complete from ocuk!

My budget is around £1300 and trying to keep it around that mark!

Bellow is what I have so far come up with. I will appreciate any help or changing a few things around. Only things i'm a bit unsure about is the memory and psu I added. Just to add im thinking of taking out the 780 and wait for the new gpus in a few weeks and order the build without the gpu for now.

The screen I will be getting the benq xl2411t from another website.

Thanks and will appreciate any advice!

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£43 Saving** £343.98
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 WindForce 3x OC Rev2.0 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N780OC-3GD) £329.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £99.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £89.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 350D Windowed Micro ATX Case - Black (CC-9011029-WW) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9) £67.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 750W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020015-UK) £62.99
1 x Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1 Sound Card - OEM (PCI-Express) (30SB104200000) £35.99
Total : £1,202.35 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
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Ok thanks for all the feedback I will go through it all now :)

First being the case, didnt relise the corsair 350D will be too small for the motherboard :D So I chose this case:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower Case - Black (CC-9011035-WW) £124.99
Total : £134.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).



The question I have is will I actually not notice any difference at all in sound with a sound card with that mobo?

Secondly, dont quite understand memory frequency's I will chose one of the ones you guys have suggested but will it be better if i chose the higher frequency such as the 2400 mhz?

When comparing these two all I see is the higher frequency being higher so its better? Sorry a bit confused

1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX21C11BRK2/8-OC) £67.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99

Lastly, in terms of psu will 650w be enough or will you recommend a 750w and above?

Thanks :D
 
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Thanks for all the feedback guys. Went away with the advice and came up with the following.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£43 Saving** £343.98
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 WindForce 3x OC Rev2.0 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N780OC-3GD) £329.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower Case - Black (CC-9011035-WW) £124.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £99.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £89.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX24C11BRK2/8-OC) £71.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £65.99
Total : £1,219.56 (includes shipping : £14.75).



I changed the case to a bigger size [only one I liked in terms of looks xD]

To the best of my ability I changed the memory and PSU to what you guys have suggested. Hopefully that is good to go.


I will be ordering this within the next week or so but without the GPU and I will wait for the new cards to come out. In the mean time I will build the system without the card and pop the new card in when they are released.
 
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