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bwfc0907

bwfc0907

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Hi
Am considering upgrading my PC at the mo. Have a budget of no more than £1k. Will need the list below. Would like Nvidia 970 but am open to your thoughts. My set up is in a cupboard with pull out keyboard and seems to suck dust in at a rate of knots so any help to overcome this is appreciated.
CPU
Motherboard
Case (cud stick with current but seems to eat dust)
GPU
RAM
Cooler
PSU
SSD
HDD (cud use current 3TB but is currently just a partition as couldn't get Windows installed on it.)

Cheers
 
stulid said:
Hi,

Is this DIY or for a pre-built PC?

What case do you have?

Need an OS?

And what will you sue this for?
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Will build myself, built my last one 4 years ago.

Will need Windows 8.1

Use it for gaming and watching movies. Games will include Company of Heroes 2 & Battlefield 4.

Case is Antec 300.

I have a bluray writer I can utilise in the new build.
 
stulid said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £281.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £188.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £92.99
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 Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £77.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £59.99
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - Black £39.95
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £19.99
Total : £1,012.44 (includes shipping : £8.00).



£22.50 cashback if you order before the 27th - https://toptechcashback.com/uk/en/pages/cashback/qualifying
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Thanks for the reply. Would an i7 processor not be beneficial to help future proof a little?
 
stulid said:
Not for gaming as you will then have to sacrifice elsewhere to maybe fit one one in.

let me see what i can do.


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £275.99
1 x MSI Radeon R9 290X LE Lightning Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £92.99
1 x SK Hynix 256GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS256G32MNB-2201A) £84.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £77.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G1 650W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (120-G1-0650-XR) £69.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - Black £39.95
1 x Alpenföhn Brocken ECO CPU Cooler - 120 mm £24.95
Total : £982.37 (includes shipping : £8.00).




removed the HDD.

The PSU needs to be this strong for this beast of a card, it is not enough to add a 2nd.

£30 cashback.
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Cheers, I can reuse my 3TB HDD but I assume I still couldn't install an OS on it?
 
Good point. Could I install programs (infrequently used) to the 3TB HDD. Seem to remember I had a problem formatting it to enable me to do it?
 
stulid said:
Back in the day when UEFI was announced it was a big deal about how 3TB and a single partition could be used fully - http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/...-core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/5
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Makes sense, my MB is dying as well so would make sense to utilise the bits I can. The case looks similar to the one I have, makes me wonder if I should stick with it.

Any way of stopping a PC appearing to suck dust into it? It gets caked in thick dust on the CPU and GPU?
 
stulid said:
Getting a case with good filters helps and maintenance of the filters.

Take them out, suck the dust off them with a vacuum cleaners brush attachment and re-fit.

Does your current case support a 150-160mm cpu cooler and a GFX card that in the case of the MSI lightening is 302mm long?
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Seems to suck dust through the fans, any idea why?

What do you mean by good filters?

Think you are right about the current case being to small.

The CPU cooler is different from my current one. I'm sure it came with the CPU. Is this no longer the case?

Is the Devils Canyon CPU a special edition.
 
stulid said:
Filters.

I.E fine mesh infront of the fans to stop dust and crap.

Devils canyon is just a improved Haswell with a few tweaks, nothing special about them.

Retail 4690K or 4790K will come with a stock intel heatsink, oem wont.
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Is the stock Intel heatsink good enough if I bought a retail? I'm confused as the Devils Canyon is retail but you have added another cooler?

So basically I need to keep it cleaner to stop the dust build up.

Cheers for taking the time to answer my questions.
 
stulid said:
I added a cooler so you,

A) can overclock as it has more surface area to shift heat
b) Quieter, big fan size means it can rotate slower

You dont have to have a aftermarket cooler.
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Aftermarket cooler to be quiet is better for my needs. I take it I don't need the Intel fan at all. What is the k for on the CPU.

How many additional fans does the case need?
 
stulid said:
That case has two fans, one intake and one outtake, thats is fine.

The K means it has an unlocked multiplier making overclocking easy.

The speed is a sum of 100MHz (for the base clock) and the CPU multiplier of say 35x for the 4690K, that is how it gets 3.5Ghz or 3500MHz.

If you change the multi from say 35x to 40x you will have a 4GHz CPU.

Thats a simplified explanation of it, but the CPU also has speedstep and Turboboost.
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Cheers, if I decided to keep my case how can I check on whether the CPU cooler will fit?
 
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