New system - comments pls

[detheridge02]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor & Corsair H100i CPU Cooler Bundle £327.98
1 x Asus Z87 MAXIMUS VI HERO Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £157.99
2 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.99 (£239.98)
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit £107.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £99.95
1 x NZXT Phantom 530 Full Tower Gaming Case - White £97.99
3 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99 (£197.97)
1 x OcUK Extreme InfoThink 16GB USB2.0 Flash Drive £13.99
Total : £1,258.84 (includes shipping : £12.50).



The GPU will be a Gigabyte Windforce 3x GTX780 which is in my current system. Possible SLI upgrade later
Storage plan is 2xSSDs in RAID 0 and 2x 2TB in RAID 0 for games and data (3rd HD is for the wifes PC!). Originally I was looking at the NZXT H440 case but heard of air flow issues with the case so swapped to the Phantom 530.
Display is currently a fairly vanilla acer 24" which will be replaced in the SLI upgrade to 3x 120/144Hz screens.

Any comments or parts that won't work well together? Old system is in my sig below, as you can see quite a hike in performance parts lol

Cheers

 

[danewesley]

It looks perfect, only thing I'd change is the board to this..and it's on offer

www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-434-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2574

 

[detheridge02]

I did look at the Gigabyte board but the 6xSATA is limiting. With the cart above plus DVD burner and a spare 1TB that I use for VMs I would use 6 straight away.

 

[detheridge02]

Does OC UK stock the OC Panel for the Hero board? I can't seem to find it?
Thanks

 

[dfour]

Nice build. I looked into raid 0 with ssd and found it makes no difference in games. It can help with some normal programs but if gaming is your focus its not worth it. IMHO your better off using 1 ssd for the OS and the other for your primary games, fps especially with the other 2 tb for single player/non multi player fps in non raid or raid 1 for backup and safety of your data.

 

[detheridge02]

Thanks dfour. The system will be multi-purpose. Gaming tends to be BF4 and some FSX (helpful for pilot training practice) and also video editing, VMs and general development work.

 

[stufflol]

That is almost the same as the system I built yesterday . Used a stormstryker as the case though

 

[dacads]

Any reason for that flash drive?

I would go with USB 3.0, the Lexar S23 32GB would be a good choice. Cheaper and faster but unfortunately not stocked by OCUK

 

[detheridge02]

How did you find your new system stufflol?

The flash drive is purely to stick the RAID drivers on and use for UEFI BIOS updates, nothing special or day to day

 

[stufflol]

I really like it, it looks pretty good , I am really happy with the case (CM Stormstryker). The motherboard is really user friendly - easy OC and memory config.
Here is what I went with:

Inno3d GTX780 iChill
16GB Teamgroup Frost 2400
Corsair h100i
EVGA Supernova 850
Samsung Evo 250
Asus maximus hero VI
Intel 4770k (oc'd to 4.2 atm)

Got some extra AF and SP fans - they sound better than the standard CM ones, also some braided white extension cables. Just need some fan extensions and a controller now and I will be finished.

Was my first build really happy with it tbh.

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[detheridge02]

Looks nice. Which braided cables did you use? I was considering red but after seeing your white cables I may have to change my mind lol

 

[stufflol]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-007-BX

Would you stick with the case you stated or do you like the stormstryker?

 

[detheridge02]

Thanks
I like the stormstryker but I must admit to being an NZXT fan!
I'll have to add some braided cables to my order. The set is no use because of the GTX780 being 2x8pin rather than 1x8pin and 1x6 pin.

 

[stufflol]

U can order the same cables separately i think

 

[detheridge02]

Slightly tweaked basket now
YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus Z87 MAXIMUS VI EXTREME Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £299.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £239.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit £107.99
1 x NZXT Phantom 530 Full Tower Gaming Case - Black £104.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £99.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H80i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £74.99
3 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99 (£179.97)
1 x Corsair Flash Voyager LS USB 3.0 16GB (CMFLS3-16GB) £11.99
2 x Corsair Air Series AF140 1200RPM LED Red Quiet Edition (CO-9050017-RLED) £10.99 (£21.98)
Total : £1,276.81 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Decided to swap to 1 SSD and use it just for the OS and frequently used games. Reviews show the H80i cooler is comparable with the dual fan version (H100i) apart from recovery times being a bit longer.

The big change is moving up to the Asus Maximus IV Extreme for some serious overclocking and expansion in the future.

 

[dfour]

why not go for this ram

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-057-TG&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=2429

it will match your motherboard, fan and case colour as you have little else white in your build.

 

[detheridge02]

Cheers! Faster as well not that DRAM speed really effects that much

 

[DaleTheWhale]

Haswell likes faster RAM!

And I'd downgrade the board personally, you can get massive overclocks of boards half the price!

 

[detheridge02]

Hmm originally I had the Asus Hero down which is about 1/2 the price

 

[detheridge02]

Well thats just freed up another £150 odd
Comparing the Hero and Extreme, I lose the OC panel.. no big shakes with the Asus software provided and 2 SATA ports and some fan headers.