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sachinbadiani · 6 Oct 2013 at 08:18

Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £239.99

Asus GeForce GTX 760 DirectCUII OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £199.99

Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £163.99

Antec P280 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black £99.95

Corsair Builder Series CX 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020015-UK) £73.99

Corsair Hydro H55 Quiet Liquid CPU Cooler £52.99

I have already purchased the processor just now before the prices go back up to normal price today

I already have HDDs and SSDs from my present system (spec in signature) so will slowly migrate everything across to the above system. Then I am moving the present computer downstairs for HTPC and games use on big TV.

I have got 4 x 8GB sticks (Kingston HyperX Blu DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600mhz Dual Channel Kit) from the special offer OCUK did in January - will these be okay with the motherboard and Haswell processer?

I'm just looking for a stable system, so I won't overclock to start with. I do have my eye on the Arctic MX-4 thermal paste - that should be okay?

Any improvements you can make to the above would be most welcome. Am also looking for a new soundcard if you know of any decent ones - not too expensive.

Many thanks.

Deus Ex · 6 Oct 2013 at 09:06

Look around for 670, 7950 deals? I got a 670 from OCuK for £161, it is faster than a 760, I believe both of the cards I have mentioned are. They have a His 7950 for £185.00 with free shipping

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-065-HS

I believe that would be a better choice.

Ram is fine.

edit: spelling...

sachinbadiani · 10 Oct 2013 at 07:22

Hi Deus Ex, sorry for late response. Many thanks for your reply.

I went for the 760 graphics card still as I was more into Nvidia. Though I did look at the link you posted and liked the price (and looked at the AMD range of new cards).

I also got the Gigabyte Z87X-UD5H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard instead of the UD4H, as it has more SATA ports. And I got the Samsung EVO SSD 120gb from the reviews on this forum.

Waiting for motherboard to come today and then I can continue. Everything else including case came yesterday.

The Antec case is GOOD. I am now able to hide the cables behind the "visible" part of the case so it looks "tidy" and I got some extra in-flow fans for the front of the tower. Should be up and running this evening.

shadow_boxer · 10 Oct 2013 at 10:06

Looks good. I would however have gotten the GTX670. It's the same price but a little faster out of the box and generally offers more overclocking headroom. The UD5H is an excellent board and I'm sure you won't be disappointed.

joelk2 · 10 Oct 2013 at 10:10

7970 excellent value at the moment, i would choose that card

apart from that it all looks good.

sachinbadiani · 11 Oct 2013 at 22:40

Got everything fitted today and powered it on. Updated the bios from version F4 to F7 immediately. And it is a version 1.0 board (I don't know the difference between the next revision).

Just having a problem with one of the front fans which is not spinning. Will replace with a spare tomorrow. I have left the computer running till tomorrow morning in the BIOs mode. And then install the OS.

Some of the cabling is a bit messy, but once I've installed Windows on it and everything is running smoothly, I will go back to looking at cabling, and putting the side cases back on.