My First build, Advice!

Dxwson · 20 Jan 2014 at 21:24

Hi so I'm new on here and this will be my first fully fledged pc build. I do know a little about building computers but never done one from the ground up. just wanted some advice on compatibility and if anyone can see any problems, here's my proposed build:
CPU

Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor
Corsair H80i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 4GB Video Card
Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case
Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
LG GH24NS95 DVD/CD Writer
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

SSD to come at a later date

Pgreenwo · 20 Jan 2014 at 21:48

What is your budget?. People May be able to wangle a nicer spec although that is a nice build anyway!

RJC · 20 Jan 2014 at 21:58

Hello and welcome to the forum

I have a slight shuffle:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-OC Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £158.99
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X WindForce 3X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included £157.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H80i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £71.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £62.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £894.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Doomedspeed · 20 Jan 2014 at 21:58

Case choice is yours but here is my suggestion:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £259.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £59.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 412 Slim CPU Cooler £34.6
Total : £914.62 (includes shipping : £11.75).

RJC · 20 Jan 2014 at 22:02

Gpu on pre-order:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition LE 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-SLI Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H80i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £71.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £62.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £927.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Dxwson · 20 Jan 2014 at 22:13

My budget is around £1000

any reason you choose the 280 over the 770?

RJC · 20 Jan 2014 at 22:20

The 280 is fairly reasonable GPU for the price vs performance:

Rough comparison between the 2:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1041?vs=1037

Doomedspeed · 20 Jan 2014 at 22:31

£70+ spare in the budget, that can only mean 1 thing.

SSD.

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Dxwson · 20 Jan 2014 at 22:36

may look into it, you recommend the msi card? i was told the sapphire toxic is pretty good

Dxwson · 20 Jan 2014 at 22:44

also it's only an extra £40 more for the 4gb windforce 770 for me, surely that's a bit more future proof? feel free to shoot me down!

my original build came to a total of £1002.01 with stuff bought from various places, by overclockers prices it would be around an extra £100

edit:

will be running a dual monitor set up

Pgreenwo · 20 Jan 2014 at 23:11

Just over but Here would be my vote for £100 over buying quality gear.
Just to keep your options open thats all.

I don't think you will gain much by going for a 4gb 770.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gainward GeForce GTX 770 Phantom 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £275.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Asus Z87 MAXIMUS VI GENE Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £159.95
1 x Corsair RM Series RM 650 '80+ Gold' 650W Power Supply (CP-9020054-UK) £99.95
1 x Corsair Obsidian 350D Windowed Micro ATX Case - Black (CC-9011029-WW) £94.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £93.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £67.99
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £62.99
Total : £1,108.79 (includes shipping : £12.50).

Pgreenwo · 20 Jan 2014 at 23:16

or with a 4gb 770

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gainward GeForce GTX 770 Phantom 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £319.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Asus Z87 MAXIMUS VI GENE Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £159.95
1 x Corsair RM Series RM 650 '80+ Gold' 650W Power Supply (CP-9020054-UK) £99.95
1 x Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Windowed Case - Black (CC-9011017-WW) £78.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H80i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £71.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £67.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £62.99
Total : £1,113.89 (includes shipping : £11.75).

Dxwson · 20 Jan 2014 at 23:25

Pgreenwo said:
Just over but Here would be my vote for £100 over buying quality gear.
Just to keep your options open thats all.

I don't think you will gain much by going for a 4gb 770.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gainward GeForce GTX 770 Phantom 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £275.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Asus Z87 MAXIMUS VI GENE Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £159.95
1 x Corsair RM Series RM 650 '80+ Gold' 650W Power Supply (CP-9020054-UK) £99.95
1 x Corsair Obsidian 350D Windowed Micro ATX Case - Black (CC-9011029-WW) £94.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £93.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £67.99
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £62.99
Total : £1,108.79 (includes shipping : £12.50).

it would cost me 289 for the windforce 770 4gb, surely 4gb is better than 2gb for a dual monitor set up? again feel free to shoot me down if i'm wrong

Pgreenwo · 21 Jan 2014 at 00:09

Sorry didn't see you were using 2 screens. Yes it would be an advantage then

dom · 21 Jan 2014 at 09:59

Would you not save a lot of hassle by putting windows onto an SSD first as it will boot quicker and then adding SATA drives as you need them?

Dxwson · 21 Jan 2014 at 18:24

dom said:
Would you not save a lot of hassle by putting windows onto an SSD first as it will boot quicker and then adding SATA drives as you need them?

Probably yeah, boot speed has never really bothered me though, was eventually going to put one in and just store game launchers on it!

Fallen god · 21 Jan 2014 at 22:18

Dxwson said:
it would cost me 289 for the windforce 770 4gb, surely 4gb is better than 2gb for a dual monitor set up? again feel free to shoot me down if i'm wrong

If you want to play on more then 1 display then I think you need a bit more grunt then the 770. I would personally go with something like this, I feel the Mobo is well over priced and the budget is better used else where. Went for a goldish theme, got to it in a SSD and a 290 which should be a lot better.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 OC WindForce 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-R929OC-4GD) £367.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Asus Z87M-PLUS Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £106.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 350D Windowed Micro ATX Case - Black (CC-9011029-WW) £94.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £71.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
Total : £1,132.91 (includes shipping : £12.50).

Doomedspeed · 21 Jan 2014 at 22:22

Fallen,

Maybe swap the motherboard out for this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Z87M Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £119.99
Total : £129.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).

It will allow Xfire later.. But as you say still a bit on the steep side..

The 350D is a good case for Xfire too, so just up the PSU a bit.

Fallen god · 21 Jan 2014 at 22:32

Doomedspeed said:
Fallen,

Maybe swap the motherboard out for this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Z87M Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £119.99
Total : £129.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).

It will allow Xfire later.. But as you say still a bit on the steep side..

The 350D is a good case for Xfire too, so just up the PSU a bit.

I had a look at that, is a board I like but then I would need too spec a bigger PSU too, if the OP doesn't mind spending a bit more I don't see an issue with it.

Dxwson · 21 Jan 2014 at 22:38

Fallen god said:
If you want to play on more then 1 display then I think you need a bit more grunt then the 770. I would personally go with something like this, I feel the Mobo is well over priced and the budget is better used else where. Went for a goldish theme, got to it in a SSD and a 290 which should be a lot better.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 OC WindForce 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-R929OC-4GD) £367.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Asus Z87M-PLUS Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £106.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 350D Windowed Micro ATX Case - Black (CC-9011029-WW) £94.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £73.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £71.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99
Total : £1,132.91 (includes shipping : £12.50).

that is a nice build but my budget tops out around £1000, i won't be using both monitors for gaming, just the one with a second for other stuff. what makes the other motherboards better than the g1 sniper?