My 2013 Build

[PraxxtorCruel]

What do you guys think?

I was planning on having the two fans pulling in air from the bottom of the case. It is perfect for 2 x 120mm fans. I'm planning on overclocking the CPU and graphics card. I've gone with the 7970 but I've been recommended the 770 a few times, what do you guys think? I might not need the 4770k but I'd prefer to stick with it for now. Is there anything the masters feel needs changing? My budget is ideally no more than 1.4k, thanks in advance. I plan on gaming and watching full hd movies and general use.

 

[honosuseri]

PSU is monster overkill as the D3HP isn't for dual GPUs dude.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor & Corsair H100i CPU Cooler Bundle with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £358.99
1 x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III Boost Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **NEW REVISION** £239.99
1 x Plextor M5S 256GB Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5S) £139.99
1 x CM Storm Stryker Full Tower Gaming Case - White £139.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £127.99
1 x XFX 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £89.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U24001004G-2CI) - Blue Light £67.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £52.99
Total : £1,323.34 (includes shipping : £17.85).



With a 770 it still comes in under £1.4K inc P&P

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor & Corsair H100i CPU Cooler Bundle with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £358.99
1 x KFA2 Geforce GTX 770 EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (77XPH6DV6KXZ) £319.99
1 x Plextor M5S 256GB Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5S) £139.99
1 x CM Storm Stryker Full Tower Gaming Case - White £139.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £127.99
1 x XFX 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £89.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U24001004G-2CI) - Blue Light £67.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £52.99
Total : £1,396.92 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Don't think you need the extra fans. If I was to buy any I'd look at Corsair SP120 quiet editions to upgrade the H100i cooler

 

[Doomedspeed]

I totally agree with hono, you need to really have a X8/x8 motherboard (like in honos spec) so you can add another gpu as an upgrade.

Hono's build with a 770 in it looks good though I still think the 7950/7970 is amazing value for money.

Case choice is personal but im sure you could get another good case for less (im really not keen on the styling) though it is personal choice.

 

[snitcher]

honos spec looks good especially the 1st one.

 

[Kosmiche]

Case looks awful.

 

[honosuseri]

I totally agree with hono, you need to really have a X8/x8 motherboard (like in honos spec) so you can add another gpu as an upgrade.

Hono's build with a 770 in it looks good though I still think the 7950/7970 is amazing value for money.

Case choice is personal but im sure you could get another good case for less (im really not keen on the styling) though it is personal choice.

Thanks for backing me bud. I don't have a problem with the Stryker but as you say it's personal preference. If I use an alternative it gives more cash to go into the mobo......

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor & Corsair H100i CPU Cooler Bundle with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £358.99
1 x KFA2 Geforce GTX 770 EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (77XPH6DV6KXZ) £319.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £173.99
1 x Plextor M5S 256GB Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5S) £139.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi XL Full Tower Gaming Windowed Case - Black £114.95
1 x XFX 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £89.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £52.99
Total : £1,400.87 (includes shipping : FREE).



Better mobo and faster RAM although it's quite tall that makes no odds when using the H100i

 

[PraxxtorCruel]

Thanks guys for the information and thanks Hono for the fantastic builds. I'll do my final preparations and then get the cheque book out. Thanks again!

 

[honosuseri]

Thanks guys for the information and thanks Hono for the fantastic builds. I'll do my final preparations and then get the cheque book out. Thanks again!

No worries bud. Looks like the XFX 750W is off the cards as it's no longer listed Haswell still has heat issues like Ivy when you push the overclocks, to be blunt that H60 just ain't gonna cut it fella......

YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 Geforce GTX 770 EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (77XPH6DV6KXZ) £319.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £269.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £154.99
1 x CM Storm Stryker Full Tower Gaming Case - White £139.99
1 x Plextor M5S 256GB Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5S) £139.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £101.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H110 280mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM3) (CW-9060014-WW) £94.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U24001004G-2CI) - Blue Light £67.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £52.99
Total : £1,426.91 (includes shipping : FREE).




This H110 is a 280mm Rad, the H100i is 240mm. Surface area is king so the H110 should be cooling better to help the overclock, The H100i has an LED you can customise on the block as does the Antec 1220 though. Switched back to the Stryker you like. Compromised on the mobo a little and tarted it up with the LED RAM again. The Nvidia 770 GPU is essentially a "Super Duper 680" so is not to be sniffed at.

Remember you can give the Windows 8 Enterprise (Evaluation) Edition a bash for free on a 3 month trial. Windows 8.1 will be a service pack of sorts which brings back the start menu, it too should get it's own trial. Not sure if you want to pocket the cash from the OS or stick it back into components and worry about buying the OS much later when you can make an informed decision.

All the best with the build bud and YES we would LOVE to see a build log here

 

[redstar1]

The 770 build there is very similar to something I'm looking at but I'm not massively into overclocking. Are the stock fans no use at all these days?

 

[Doomedspeed]

The stock CPU fans aren't great. They can easily handle stock temperatures but can be pretty loud.. They won't really cope with over clocking atall