MSI/XFX Black/Red Gaming Build

Rowan88

Rowan88

Rowan88

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Hi,

I just finished building this gaming PC for my friend. It was around £720 for the PC in total after some nice price matching from Overclockers.

Case: Phantek Enthoo Pro
Motherboard: MSI Z97-Gaming 3 Intel Z97 ATX DDR3 Motherboard
Processor: Intel Core i5-4690k 3.50GHz Devils Canyon Intel S1150
CPU Cooler: Raijintek Ereboss High Performance CPU Cooler Red
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB Red(2x 4GB 1866MHz)
Graphics: XFX Radeon R9 280X Double Dissipation GDDR5 3072MB
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6GB/s
PSU: SuperFlower Golden Green HX550w






I also installed some nice PSU Extension cables in black and red so it gave the build a nice clean finish, hence my OCD to cable management haha.

I have also fitted some nice LED 5050 lights to the inside which give it a very nice finishing touch but I will upload a picture of that later.

And before I get slated YES! I will be purchasing a SSD in the very near future lol.



Hope you guys like it and it was fun building it and can't wait to build another

:)
 
Cheers guys.

I was going to do that as that's the way I have them set up in my personal gaming PC but because they weren't colour co-ordinated I assumed you could put them in any slots without consequence.

Is there a major difference putting the RAM into slots 1-3 or 2-4?
 
Build looks awesome, only thing I would change is maybe putting the cables for the GPU into the lower grommet to make it look a bit neater.

Also with the Ram it will run in dual channel if its in 1/3 or 2/4 and I believe that doubles the bandwidth so its a nice gain, both combos will give the same so might be easier to put it in 2/4.
 
Cool I will change that when I am round at his house next time...

I put the PCIe cables there so it pulls up on the GPU to prevent sagging (like mines is suffering from just now :( ).

Thanks for the feedback.
 
Yeah I am going to buy some black/blue ones for my own personal gaming PC (I made a topic about it on this thread too).

They really finish off a build...
 
Sagging GPUs are always a pain, and lol the fan on the CPU looks anemic compared to the massive heatsink!
 
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