New midrange build

theone8181 · 3 Sep 2015 at 13:30

Hi guys, my brother is in need of some new pc comonents and ive specced the following. I appritiate any feedback good or bad. He will be running 2 560ti's in sli so no need for a new card.

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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £152.99
(£127.49) £152.99
(£127.49)
MSI Z97 PC Mate Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard MSI Z97 PC Mate Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £64.99
(£54.16) £64.99
(£54.16)
Corsair Vengeance Pro Silver 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (CMY8GX3M2A1600C9) Corsair Vengeance Pro Silver 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (CMY8GX3M2A1600C9) £56.99
(£47.49) £56.99
(£47.49)
Seagate SSHD 7200RPM 3.5" 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DX001) SSHD Hybrid Drive Seagate SSHD 7200RPM 3.5" 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DX001) SSHD Hybrid Drive £56.99
(£47.49) £56.99
(£47.49)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler £29.99
(£24.99) £29.99
(£24.99)

Apologies for the poor formatting. Hes currently got a 120gb SSD for windows but i figured a 1tb SSHD is a nice comprimise of cost/performance/space and as windows keeps telling him his hard drive is going to fail (not the ssd) it will hopefully be a nice replacement.

Cheers

Chris

ExRayTed · 3 Sep 2015 at 13:37

Power Supply?

mickyflinn · 3 Sep 2015 at 13:43

The motherboard doesnt support SLI

2 cheapest SLI motherboards

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1 x MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £89.99
Total : £179.98 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).

theone8181 · 3 Sep 2015 at 14:55

mickyflinn said:
The motherboard doesnt support SLI

2 cheapest SLI motherboards

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1 x MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £89.99
Total : £179.98 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).

Cheers that would have been a bit of a schoolboy error

. I think it's a be quiet 750W so plenty of ooomph.

lee32uk · 3 Sep 2015 at 16:11

I wouldn't bother with a hybrid drive if you already have an SSD. I would just go with a WD Blue.

Also the Kingston Ram is cheaper and will fit under any cooler.

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1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD10EZEX) £41.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Savage Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/8) £38.99
Total : £80.98 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).

theone8181 · 3 Sep 2015 at 17:20

Ok cheers. I always thought Seagate was a bit better than wd? Keep them coming. How do you add your basket while keeping the hyperlinks? Just copy and paste?

ExRayTed · 3 Sep 2015 at 17:59

I do so hate repeating myself

What power supply are you using?

theone8181 · 3 Sep 2015 at 18:21

I mentioned in my earlier post

I think it's a bequiet 750W.

lee32uk · 3 Sep 2015 at 19:13

theone8181 said:
Ok cheers. I always thought Seagate was a bit better than wd? Keep them coming. How do you add your basket while keeping the hyperlinks? Just copy and paste?

I prefer the WD Blue but either will work fine.

Basket plugin - https://github.com/akiller/ocuk-shopping-cart-to-forum-converter

It works fine with Google chrome as well.

theone8181 · 4 Sep 2015 at 07:43

So the cooler and the processor are ok? I used to be good at this stuff but ive not bought anything since my 2600k

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mickyflinn · 4 Sep 2015 at 13:28

theone8181 said:
So the cooler and the processor are ok? I used to be good at this stuff but ive not bought anything since my 2600k .

If hes going to overclock he will need a K version cpu if not then the 4460 is on offer till wednesday.

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1 x Intel Core i5-4460 3.20GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £149.99
Total : £149.99 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).

linktoinsanity · 4 Sep 2015 at 14:19

If he's not going to overclock then save some £££s on the cooler and just use the Intel one.

theone8181 · 4 Sep 2015 at 17:29

I don't think he will be doing any overclocking whatsoever. I wasn't sure how good the standard cooler is if its being hammered for 8 hours a day?

theone8181 · 30 Sep 2015 at 07:59

I just recieved an email about some skylake bits, what do you guys think to a i5 6500 for £162 and a gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI mobo for £114 with 8 gig of ddr 4 ram?

lee32uk · 30 Sep 2015 at 11:54

You might as well go with the newer Skylake option.

The Raijintek Themis is also £10 cheaper than the EVO 212. For a locked cpu then it is all you need.

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1 x Raijintek Themis Black Heatpipe CPU Cooler PWM - 120mm £19.99
Total : £25.97 (includes shipping : £4.98 Ex.VAT).

barrymcd · 10 Feb 2016 at 17:17

theone8181 said:
Hi guys, my brother is in need of some new pc comonents and ive specced the following. I appritiate any feedback good or bad. He will be running 2 560ti's in sli so no need for a new card.

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £152.99
(£127.49) £152.99
(£127.49)
MSI Z97 PC Mate Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard MSI Z97 PC Mate Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £64.99
(£54.16) £64.99
(£54.16)
Corsair Vengeance Pro Silver 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (CMY8GX3M2A1600C9) Corsair Vengeance Pro Silver 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (CMY8GX3M2A1600C9) £56.99
(£47.49) £56.99
(£47.49)
Seagate SSHD 7200RPM 3.5" 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DX001) SSHD Hybrid Drive Seagate SSHD 7200RPM 3.5" 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DX001) SSHD Hybrid Drive £56.99
(£47.49) £56.99
(£47.49)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler £29.99
(£24.99) £29.99
(£24.99)

Apologies for the poor formatting. Hes currently got a 120gb SSD for windows but i figured a 1tb SSHD is a nice comprimise of cost/performance/space and as windows keeps telling him his hard drive is going to fail (not the ssd) it will hopefully be a nice replacement.

Cheers

Chris

Look

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/titan-tanto-intel-core-i5-4690-3.9ghz-turbo-quad-core-gaming-pc-fs-095-og.html