New PC , dragging myself into the present

[orsonic]

Hi all , wondered if i could get some feedback on this list of bits , should all work together ? Anything you would alter ? its £1,075.49 with shipping , thats about my budget limit.

"Grenadier GX8" AMD FX-8 8350 Black Edition @ 4.2GHz Eight Core Gaming Bundle , with the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 and 8gb of teamgroup elite black

The Corsair H80i for a cooler

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce OC 2048MB

Corsair Force GT 120GB SSD

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache

Corsair RM Series- RM 750 '80+ Gold' 750W PS

Corsair Carbide 540 atx case



The machine i am replacing is a 2.5ghz Q9300 with 2gb of ddr2 and a GTX 260 2gb .

Thanks for any replies .

 

[orsonic]

couple of great alternatives , thanks guys . All seems to be around the £1k - £1.1k mark ...yep it is a lot , but its time for a new machine

I went for the H80i cooler as it looks like it will be far easier to maintain than an air cooler .

I do have an OS and optical drives


* you both went for an R 290 3gb - 4gb... good cards i presume ... is the 4gb worth the extra ?

As a reference for usage , 3d modelling and gaming ..leaning more towards gaming

 

[orsonic]

Thanks for all the advice so far all ...
after checking the board specs i saw it only supports 1866/1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules , so i went for the kingston beast 1600 , more than likely going to put another 8gb in later ( presuming the suggested 2400MHz wont work ? )




1 x Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £128.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £139.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £359.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case £129.95
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £99.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H80i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £71.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit £67.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache £59.99
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive £59.99

Will the 750 psu be ok for that ?

@Boomstick .... dont hate me ..i just have decided to throw in with these AMD dudes this time around

 

[orsonic]

Do you plan on adding a 2nd gpu anytime ?

not at these prices

maybe next build (couple of years away)

by then it will be dx20 cards with a small nuclear reactor powering it all