Looking for new tower, opinions ?

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Ello,

I've currently got a OCUK system which I got when I first moved into the house 3 years ago, was the first thing I purchased after buying the house! Priority's!

I'm looking to buy a new tower to replace the beast that was my old PC. I want to stick with OCUK as the warranty is good, the last system was very good, and I just like that piece of mind knowing I won't have to put everything together myself & end up breaking something as I normally do.

I've got a budget of a maximum £2400 with VAT included.

After a couple of weeks surfing through the OCUK website, It's getting to that time where I don't want to wait anymore and want to get something ordered. Below is one I've dug out & changed a few things around (The original link at bottom). I want to stick with Nvidia, and I'd like to give Intel a go as the old machine was an AMD.

Here it is:

- Case: Corsair Obsidian 750D Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black
- Power Supply: Corsair RM Series 750W PSU
- CPU: Intel Core i7 4770K 3.50GHz Haswell Processor overclocked to 4.4GHz
- Motherboard: Gigabyte G1 Sniper Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
- Cooler: Corsair H100i CPU Water Cooler
- RAM: 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit
- Hard Drive 1: 1TB 840 Evo Series SSD
- Hard Drive 2: 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM HDD
- Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 780Ti 3072MB
- Sound: High Definition 7.1 Onboard Sound Card
- Optical Drive: Standard 24x DVD-RW Black

Also included in this is Fast track build 2 working days (Can't wait, big kid :D), 36 month warranty, Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. (Gone for a build to order from OCUK)

Total cost (Without the VAT as I will get this back) £1937.46.
With the VAT £2324.95.

Another thing I was toying with was swapping the 780Ti for 2x 770 4096MB gards... But I'm not entirely sure on what's best. The cost is £50 more for the 2 cards rather than the 780Ti card. What'ya think?
*Edit* - Ideally I want to add a third monitor in very soon too, all 3 will be used to run games (max?) resolution.

Also, if anyone has any advice / recommendations I'm all ears.

Link to OCUK page - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-010-OG&groupid=43&catid=2475&subcat=2487
 
You could ask OCUK to build you a spec from your own basket, so for example:

YOUR BASKET
2 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 780Ti "Own Design" 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £479.99 (£959.98)
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX24C11T3K2/16X) £139.99
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) £119.99
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £109.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £73.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD20EZRX) HDD £65.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £16.99
Total : £2,066.39 (includes shipping : £13.75).




I don't know how much they would charge you to build it, but it should be well under budget.

The 750D case is also showing as out of stock so it might be an idea to ask on availability.

Also Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit has a Ram limit of 16GB so you wouldn't be able to add any more (Not that you will need any more than 16GB)

The Gigabyte Sniper has excellent on board sound, so I doubt you would need a separate soundcard.

You can add LED strips and Bitfenix Braided cables to the above if you wanted to colour coordinate it more.
 
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