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I have a 3 year old i7-950 build that is starting to develop problems, possibly memory hard drive, but no longer have too much confidence in it.

So I am looking to build a new system as a bit of a Christmas treat (and project whilst off school) so what recommendations would people have. I want to start with the CPU as everything else pretty much hangs off that. Budget for the entire system is about £1k give or take.

Having not done much more than update my graphics card in the last couple of years I am not really up to date on the new tech so what CPU should I start with and then what MB, Memory, GPU etc should I be looking at?

System is for Games, Software development and a limited bit of Photoshop etc. Running 2 1920x1200 monitors atm. (and an Oc Rift when it is working!)
 
stulid said:
Need an OS/case/psu etc? anything you can keep from this old build?
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I was going to take the old build in to school to use as a demonstrator but could use old bits if needed, however with the issues it has been having I am not sure what bits to trust!

Shall we assume new scratch build for now and I can substitute bits if I need to reduce cost! :)

EDIT: Not sure if it makes much difference but OCuk is my preferred supplier, so it would need stuff they have in stock!

EDIT 2: I am also have a preference for NVidia cards (from about 10 years ago when an ATI card let me down during a raid in Everquest :))
 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK - Devil's Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£15 Saving + Gigabyte Free Upgrade + £30 Intel Cashback ** £387.98
1 x GALAX GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent "Infinity Black Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **WorldWide Exclusive** £281.99
1 x Avexir Core White Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21331108G-2CIW) - White Light £129.95
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £89.99
1 x SK Hynix 256GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS256G32MNB-2201A) £84.98
1 x Antec P100 Mid Tower Silenced Computing Case £62.99
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £59.99
1 x BeQuiet! Pure Rock Cpu Cooler - 120mm £28.99
1 x LG 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM GH24NSC0.AUAA10B £13.99
Total : £1,150.45 (includes shipping : £8.00).




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YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK - Devil's Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£15 Saving + Gigabyte Free Upgrade + £30 Intel Cashback ** £387.98
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £199.99
1 x Avexir Core White Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21331108G-2CIW) - White Light £129.95
1 x SK Hynix 256GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS256G32MNB-2201A) £84.98
1 x Antec P100 Mid Tower Silenced Computing Case £62.99
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £59.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x Alpenföhn Brocken ECO CPU Cooler - 120 mm £24.95
1 x LG 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM GH24NSC0.AUAA10B £13.99
Total : £1,034.41 (includes shipping : £8.00).




£32.50 cashback at the moment - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18637856

Black edition buy one get two - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=27088825#post27088825

The 550W PSU is good for a sin gle 290, you need 850w ideally if you want to go Crossfire, the 750W PSU is ample for two 970s.
 
stulid said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK - Devil's Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£15 Saving + Gigabyte Free Upgrade + £30 Intel Cashback ** £387.98
1 x GALAX GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent "Infinity Black Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **WorldWide Exclusive** £281.99
1 x Avexir Core White Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17200C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U21331108G-2CIW) - White Light £129.95
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £89.99
1 x SK Hynix 256GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS256G32MNB-2201A) £84.98
1 x Antec P100 Mid Tower Silenced Computing Case £62.99
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £59.99
1 x BeQuiet! Pure Rock Cpu Cooler - 120mm £28.99
1 x LG 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM GH24NSC0.AUAA10B £13.99
Total : £1,150.45 (includes shipping : £8.00).
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The 550W PSU is good for a sin gle 290, you need 850w ideally if you want to go Crossfire, the 750W PSU is ample for two 970s.
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That build looks quite nice, though I would need to look at another case and CD Rom drive.
 
 
The PC lives in the bedroom so a quiet case appeals. I still blanche slightly at pumping water into a PC though...
 
Correct, so you dont need the Be Quiet cooler.

The rad+fan fiit to where the rear case fan currently sits and the block fits on top of the cpu, it contains a pump that moves the liquid out one pipe, through the rad where the fan blows air over it to exhaust the heat out the back of the case, the liquid then flows back to the pump via the other pipe.

Its all pre-assembled and thermal paste is already applied to the blocks surface.

The case fan can then be moved to the roof or left out. Or you may have enough fittings supplied with the Seidon cooler to do push/pull with the fans (sandwich them either side of the rad and blowing the same direction).
 
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