New build - Big upgrade!

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Hello all,

I am just about set on ordering the parts for a long needed PC upgrade. And a big upgrade it will be. I am going from:

- Q6600 2.4 GHz (used to be OC'd but last couple of years it has been stock as infrequently used)
- Asus P5K-E Deluxe Motherboard
- 4GB Corsair DDR2 RAM
- 120GB Corsair Force SSD + storage HDDs
- Asus GeForce 560Ti 1GB (probably very bottlenecked with by system but upgrade from 8800GT)
- Antec P182 + Corsair 620W PSU

New PC will be primarily for gaming (Windows) and design work (OS X):

- Intel 4770K 3.5GHz Retail
- Gigabyte Z87X-UD5H Motherboard
- 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866MHz (leaves room to go to 32GB later)
- Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (re-allocating from a Mac mini which will get a 120GB EVO)
- Secondary 840 EVO 250GB (for OS X installation) + some 3TB HDDs
- Asus GeForce 560Ti 1GB (will upgrade in a month or two to GeForce 770 or 780)
- Corsair RM650 Gold 650W PSU
- Corsair Obsidian 650D Case
- Corsair H100i Cooler at later date

My questions are:

Will it be worth getting a GTX 780 over a 770 considering how much of a massive upgrade everything else will be? Currently monitor is Dell 2407WFP 1920x1200, likely to upgrade to 27" 2560x1440 later in the year.

Can you recommend a better case (preferably Mid Tower)?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
 
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There's a massive number of cases out there on the OcUK website and elsewhere, just take your pick :) Your original system is very similar to my old system, don't worry you'll be pleased with the result haha.

As for the 770 <-> 780, yes, I believe it's worth the extra, though if you get a factory overclocked 770, maybe not. What kind of budget are you looking at, and why put the original 120GB Corsair SSD to waste - it's more than enough for Windows and main programs with room to spare :D

Also, I wouldn't go for the UD5H, go for the UD4H. Only difference between UD3 and 4 is the power delivery system. It's better on the UD4H.
UD5H has some different outputs array - different video outputs for integrated video (which you are not going to use anyway), one less internal USB2 header, dual lan, more SATA ports (but no eSATA on the back and not many need more than 8 SATA Ports XD), more fan headers, two firewire headers (UD3 and 4 have none) and support for X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity® and EAX® Advanced HD™ 5.0 technologies, whatever that is.
 
I would keep your current Corsair psu unless it is past it's sell by date ? I don't think it is worth getting a new one for the sake of an extra 30W.

Also do you plan on running sli ?

The Bitfenix Ronin is pretty good for the money

YOUR BASKET
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
Total : £79.55 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
Thanks for quick replies.

@Shivy011 - was going to potentially budget for a 780 anyway so will probably look to do that, will just space it out of the months...the 560Ti can do for now.

Also, good point about the Corsair SSD. It has been running in SATA2 :/ So I guess i had dismissed it as an inferior SSD (have been using Samsung 840s in my Macs).

I originally was looking at the UD5H due to popular recommendation in the Hackintosh community (one of the aims of the build) but perhaps that was due to the firewire headers? I shall investigate but for the sake of ~£30 I may just go for it.

@lee32uk - I did look that up and Corsair stated it should work with Haswell chipset however isn't confirmed to full support it. May also re-use old system for fileserver or something later so a spare PSU is handy.

Not considering SLI at this time due to a single new GPU being a massive upgrade anyway but may look into it at a later date.

Shall consider the BitFenix case, similar design case to the 650D but almost half the price!
 
Cant stress enough how such an amazing case the bitfenix ronin is! I have one myself, check build log
 
This is what i'd suggest:

Added the GPU and cooler to the spec just so you can see how it all looks together:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Geforce GTX 780 Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £399.95
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £245.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £163.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £137.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD316G2133HC11ADC01) £129.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £99.95
1 x Toshiba 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA300) HDD £86.99
1 x BitFenix Ronin Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £53.99
Total : £1,398.34 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Will be perfect for you're needs. :)
 
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