Help me finish this build

[Matt865]

Hi,

I’m hoping someone can help me finish choosing parts for this build? I’m almost there (see below), but can’t decide on a motherboard. It would be very helpful if anyone had a suggestion for that. I understand that the Z97 Chipset boards are what I should be looking at for Devil’s Canyon CPUs?

It’s unlikely I’ll be doing any serious overclocking of the CPU, but I might want to upgrade to SLI at some point in the future. And I’ll be adding another three hard drives I already have to the system, so plenty of SATA ports would be good.

I thought one possibility could be the Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 but I’m open to suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

So far I have:
1x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780Ti WindForce 3x OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N78TOC-3GD)
1x Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail
1x BitFenix Shinobi XL Full Tower Gaming Case - Black
1x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
1x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW)
1x EVGA SuperNova G2 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply - changed as per suggestion below
1x Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD30EZRX) HDD
1x OcUK Value Blu-ray / DVDRW combi SATA - OEM
1x Alpenföhn Brocken 2 CPU Cooler

I used the configurator on the site (the above is based on the OcUK Pro Gamer X65i) and can almost get what I wanted using that. Hopefully OcUK can work their magic once I know what I want.

 

[Matt865]

Hi Lee. Thanks for the reply. I'll definitely look at that PSU you've mentioned as an alternative. It looks good.

This will be a gaming rig - and will also be used for some basic (mostly 2D) CAD work. But I guess I might have gone a bit ott with 16GB of RAM.

My current monitors (x2) are 1920*1080.

My currently cases has a window and I will miss it. But the main reason I've chosen a windowless case is that it will live in a bedroom, so less light is better, especially as it will probably be on overnight sometimes.

I'm open to other suggestions for similar cases if anyone has any.

 

[Matt865]

Hey.

I'll use the configurator to get it pre-built.

 

[Matt865]

Thanks for the case suggestion. That Antec case looks like it deserves serious consideration.

I did look at the K2 cooler but was put off as I assumed it needed 2 CPU fan headers on the mobo which might limit my choices a bit?

I thought the DC processors also only supported RAM up to 1600MHz?

I can't do a proper spec as OCUK config does include DC (devil canyon) parts yet.

Have OcUK staff hinted at when the config will include DC?

 

[Matt865]

Thanks for the link to the Chrome tool. I had wondered how to collect the information like that.

 

[Matt865]

Thanks to the posters above. New system is ordered.

I did go for the Antec case (with two additional fans), PSU and faster RAM as suggested.