Intel i7 12700KF Alder Lake build - Specification check

Super Play · 10 Jan 2022 at 20:45

Hi Folks,

Any comments / advice on the following would be greatly appreciated.

Proposed Spec:
My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x be quiet! Pure Base 600 Midi Tower Case - Black= £92.99
1 x Corsair RM Series RM750 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020195-UK)= £74.99
1 x Gigabyte Z690 UD DDR4 - Intel Z690 DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £184.99
1 x Intel Core i7-12700KF 3.60GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail= £374.99
1 x Arctic Liquid Freezer II High Performance CPU Water Cooler - 280mm= £94.99
1 x Patriot Viper Steel 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVS432G360C8K)= £99.95
1 x Gigabyte 1TB M.2 PCIe x4 NVMe SSD/Solid State Drive= £149.99

Total: £1,085.19 (includes shipping: £12.30)

Couple of Questions / Comments:

Case: I have chosen this case as it is one of only two Midi towers I have seen on OC that will allow me to install 4 x 3.5" HDD (3 in the cages and one in a 5 1/4" bay) this will also leave me one 5 1/4 inch bay for a CDR or another drive etc.

CPU Cooling: I intend to install the AIO cooler in the roof of the case as I need to use the bays at the front of the case. Will this cooler fit in this case in the roof with RAM clearance etc?

Any recommendations for an air cooling alternative that will fit the case

PSU:

The motherboard requires '2x2, 2x4, 12V Power Connectors and 2x12 Main Power Connector' presumably this PSU has these connections?

For the extra £10 is it worth me changing the PSU to the 850w version: RM SERIES RM850 850W '80 PLUS GOLD' MODULAR POWER SUPPLY (CP-9020196-UK)

Graphics Card:

Initially I intend to use my existing GeForce GTX 750 Ti while GPU prices are high. As this is a PCI Express 3.0 card am I correct in presuming this will work with the selected motherboard?

If not I will grab a CORE I7-12700K

Thank you in advance

Quartz · 10 Jan 2022 at 21:15

Super Play said:
For the extra £10 is it worth me changing the PSU to the 850w version: RM SERIES RM850 850W '80 PLUS GOLD' MODULAR POWER SUPPLY (CP-9020196-UK)

Given the wilder rumours of high-end GPU power consumption, you may want to go with even more power.

Joxeon · 10 Jan 2022 at 21:20

I would go for the 850w and also the tenner extra for the K chip incase you have any UEFI compatibility issues as the GPU is quite old now and also piece of mind incase it fails given the prices and availability of new cards right now.

Looking at the case it should support a 280mm rad and has offsets but the freezer II is a chonky boy so I wouldn't like to say for sure.

mickyflinn · 10 Jan 2022 at 21:30

Hi.

The 280mm water cooler will not fit in the top of the case only the front so you need a 240mm or 360mm. Looking at the top of the case the 360mm aio you may have to remove the 5.25 bay.

Get 850w psu and it will have 2 eps connectors.

750ti should work but get k chip anyway as a back up.

£20 cheaper pcie4 m2

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds100t1x0e-hd-57h-wd.html

Journey · 10 Jan 2022 at 22:49

Buy the 12700K not the KF, they are the same price and you get the integrated GPU which is great if you need to swap out graphics and don't have a back up, or indeed if you use Adobe applications for the QuickSync performance boost.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Intel Core i7-12700K 3.60GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail= £375.00

Total: £383.70 (includes shipping: £8.70)

jigger · 11 Jan 2022 at 09:03

Quartz said:
Given the wilder rumours of high-end GPU power consumption, you may want to go with even more power.

TBH those rumours likely stemmed from AMD’s mi cards for data centres.

Super Play · 11 Jan 2022 at 15:49

Hi All

Thank you for your replies, it is really appreciated.

On the cooler front would the Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240mm suit (I will not be overclocking)

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/arct...ormance-cpu-water-cooler-240mm-hs-07b-ar.html