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Hi all!
A friend of mine has decided he wants a new rig, and I need a little help selecting components for him.
He's a 'heavy' gamer, has a 1920x1080 monitor (60Hz), and primarily plays games such as Ark, World of Tanks, World of Warships and Total War. His old PC was built in 2011 and has an i5 2400 stock, 8Gb of 1333MHz Ram, but we recently put a Palit GTX 970 in. He'd like to keep the graphics card for the new build, but the rest of the system could use replacing. It's noisy, sluggish and the power supply is on its way out.
I have put together a list of components below, and I'd be very grateful if you could assist me. Would the components work together, is an i7 necessary, which CPU cooler should we get (air cooled), and could we save any money with alternatives etc?
Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-541-IN
Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX321C11T3K2/16)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-142-KS
Corsair Obsidian 350D Windowed Micro ATX Case - Black (CC-9011029-WW)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-122-CS
Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SW-172-MS
Gigabyte Z97M-DS3H Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-500-GI
SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-004-SF
Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-055-CR
LG BH16NS40 16x SATA Internal BDRW - Retail
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-117-LG
Asus PCE-N15 300Mbps 802.11B/G/N Wireless PCI-E Network Adapter
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-043-AS
A few of these Sata cables
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-076-AK
As well as the GTX 970, he also has a Western Digital Blue 1TB hard drive.
Total comes to £821.72
(3 Sata cables included)
What are your thoughts? Thanks!
A friend of mine has decided he wants a new rig, and I need a little help selecting components for him.
He's a 'heavy' gamer, has a 1920x1080 monitor (60Hz), and primarily plays games such as Ark, World of Tanks, World of Warships and Total War. His old PC was built in 2011 and has an i5 2400 stock, 8Gb of 1333MHz Ram, but we recently put a Palit GTX 970 in. He'd like to keep the graphics card for the new build, but the rest of the system could use replacing. It's noisy, sluggish and the power supply is on its way out.
I have put together a list of components below, and I'd be very grateful if you could assist me. Would the components work together, is an i7 necessary, which CPU cooler should we get (air cooled), and could we save any money with alternatives etc?
Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-541-IN
Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX321C11T3K2/16)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-142-KS
Corsair Obsidian 350D Windowed Micro ATX Case - Black (CC-9011029-WW)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-122-CS
Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SW-172-MS
Gigabyte Z97M-DS3H Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-500-GI
SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-004-SF
Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-055-CR
LG BH16NS40 16x SATA Internal BDRW - Retail
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-117-LG
Asus PCE-N15 300Mbps 802.11B/G/N Wireless PCI-E Network Adapter
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-043-AS
A few of these Sata cables
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-076-AK
As well as the GTX 970, he also has a Western Digital Blue 1TB hard drive.
Total comes to £821.72
(3 Sata cables included)
What are your thoughts? Thanks!
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