New build

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Would appreciate it if someone could run their eye over this for me. All seems fine but haven't built a PC in 6 years so I may be missing something glaringly obvious....


YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 770 Superclock ACX 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (02G-P4-2774) £371.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £275.99
1 x Plextor M5S 256GB Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5S) £139.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £131.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H80i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1155 / 1150 / LGA1156 / LGA1366 / LGA2011/ AM2 / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £76.99
1 x XFX Pro 850W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £71.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Windowed Case - Black £69.95
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G213C1K) £69.95
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (S (HD-255-SE) £62.4
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
Total : £1,306.22 (includes shipping : £12.50).




I'm comfortable with it all really, case/psu/RAM I'd appreciate advice on but the MB-CPU-GFX I'm fairly set on. Already have OS.

Box will be my gaming pc, and general use. Bigger monitor to be added when I've researched those a bit more and I'm keeping options open for eventually putting in another 770.

Advice/suggestions welcome.

 

[RJC]

Looks a solid build.

On the memory front I personally spend a little less and go with something like the ram below:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-132-CR&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

In real world performance you would not notice any difference.

 

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Looks a solid build.

On the memory front I personally spend a little less and go with something like the ram below:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-132-CR&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

In real world performance you would not notice any difference.

That's a fair point. I would normally go with crucial for RAM but I simply picked it out of another build I was looking at on here. You're probably right about it.

 

[honosuseri]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce 3x OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N770OC-2GD) £365.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £275.99
1 x Plextor M5S 256GB Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5S) £139.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £131.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £101.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Windowed Case - Black £69.95
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U24001004G-2CI) - Blue Light £67.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (S (HD-255-SE) £62.40
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £59.99
1 x LG GH24NS95 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
Total : £1,311.26 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Faster RAM for less cash. Modular PSU would be nice to be honest. GPU is clocked faster out of the box for less cash and has GBs UK based warranty with their great cooler attached

 

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YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce 3x OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N770OC-2GD) £365.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £275.99
1 x Plextor M5S 256GB Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5S) £139.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-D3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £131.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £101.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Windowed Case - Black £69.95
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U24001004G-2CI) - Blue Light £67.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (S (HD-255-SE) £62.40
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £59.99
1 x LG GH24NS95 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
Total : £1,311.26 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Faster RAM for less cash. Modular PSU would be nice to be honest. GPU is clocked faster out of the box for less cash and has GBs UK based warranty with their great cooler attached

Smashing, thanks.

Any particular reason for the change in cooler?

 

[honosuseri]

Smashing, thanks.

Any particular reason for the change in cooler?

It's a BEAST and looks very nice! It's also cheaper than the H80i and to be fair if I was to use a CLC I'd want the H100i. That's even more cash and you need to be careful about case choice to use one. Many people complain the stock CLC fans are too loud and often uprate them which just further adds to the expense.

K2 Review HERE to show you the temps etc. The Antec 920 is probably the closest rival to the H80i

 

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It's a BEAST and looks very nice! It's also cheaper than the H80i and to be fair if I was to use a CLC I'd want the H100i. That's even more cash and you need to be careful about case choice to use one. Many people complain the stock CLC fans are too loud and often uprate them which just further adds to the expense.

K2 Review HERE to show you the temps etc. The Antec 920 is probably the closest rival to the H80i

Fair enough, I'd omitted something as bulky to try and avoid problems with the RAM.

 

[RJC]

The EVGA is on Today only:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-219-EA

 

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The EVGA is on Today only:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-219-EA

Now see thats a decision I didn't need

I can't see much difference in the pair of them to be honest.

 

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Thank's for the advice guys. I've more or less gone with the suggestion from honosuseri as I can save 80 odd quid by sourcing a few components elsewhere.

Much appreciated.