New Gaming PC - Looking For Feedback

savgebeast

savgebeast

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Ok so after going over the options i have decided to up the stakes and go for the new x99 chipset and ddr4.

Complete System:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 295 X2 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £699.95
1 x "Steamroller Asus X99" - Intel Core i7 Haswell-E DDR4 Configurable Bundle £230.04
1 x Intel 5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - Retail (BX80648I75820K) £299.99
1 x Avexir Platinum 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit (AVD4U24001604G-4M) £199.99
1 x No Upgrade - Intel Stock Cooler (None overclocked systems) £0
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 1300W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (120-G2-1300-XR) £169.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower Case - Black (CC-9011035-WW) £124.99
2 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/240G) £109.99 (£219.98)
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88
1 x Corsair SP120 Performance Series High Pressure - Dual Pack (CO-9050008-WW) £22
Total : £2,072.63 (includes shipping : £14.75).

 
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Personally I would look at the 4690k or the 4790k cpu's they are quicker than the AMD and pull a lot less power at the same time:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 295 X2 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £699.95
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£43 Saving** £351.98
1 x Cooler Master Cosmos SE Mid Tower Case £134.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88
Total : £1,284.52 (includes shipping : £8.00).




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YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 295 X2 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £699.95
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£14 Saving** £258.58
1 x Cooler Master Cosmos SE Mid Tower Case £134.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88
Total : £1,191.11 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
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Thanks for the really fast reply RJC!

I'm not exactly sure as to what makes the CPUs faster i know that more cores means it can run more processes simultaneously. Would you mind explaining how the 4790K would be faster then a FX-8 piledriver (due to it having 8 cores and a faster clock speed then the i7)
 
Interesting, i suppose the intel hyper-threading makes the difference if it can out performance a higher clocked CPU with double the cores; it is definitely a big contender now.

Do you know anything or have any comments on my choice of case, i know this case has many nice fans that can fit a couple radiators and has 6 HDD/SSD bays (which can be removed to fit bigger GPUs).
 
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Interesting, i suppose the intel hyper-threading makes the difference if it can out performance a higher clocked CPU with double the cores; it is definitely a big contender now.
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you cant compare cpu clock speed unless your looking at the same range of cpus, you can have an 8 core cpu at 5 ghz but if the cores are only doing quarter of the calculations per clock as say a 4 core at the same clock speed the 4 core is till going to be twice as fast!
by range of cpus that is say a i5 4690k and a i7 4790k they are both effectively the same chip but the i7 just has hyperthreading so you can directly compare their clock speeds.
 
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