New year build project

Robzere31 · 19 Dec 2013 at 14:52

After a few edits & tweaks here & there, I think I've finally decided on what to get.
Haven't decided on a GPU yet, but probably an Nvidia of some kind, & already have a 3TB hard drive for mass storage.

Just going to wait till new year, then let the buying comence ! Hoping to pick the odd bit up on the MM if I'm lucky

Idleman · 19 Dec 2013 at 14:56

All looks good. Just need some fans for the cooler.

Got my P280 window panel a couple of weeks ago, looks great and hav`nt noticed any increase in noise levels.

Robzere31 · 19 Dec 2013 at 15:05

Yep, haven't decided on what fans to use yet. Got a few lying around in the parts bin, but will probably get new ones.

Doomedspeed · 19 Dec 2013 at 15:14

Sp120's are good and have red rings.

honosuseri · 19 Dec 2013 at 16:30

Think I'd prefer the Gigabyte Sniper ATX mobo. If you are not buying till the new year then I'd wait and look for the 290 GPUs with the aftermarket cooling solutions, budget depending obviously.

All the best with it bud and don't forget your free P&P

Robzere31 · 7 Jan 2014 at 00:35

Well after a few changes & a couple of bargains here & there here's what I've ended up with.

Corsair 650D case
i7 4770K Haswell
MSI Z87-G45 motherboard
Avexir 8GB DDR3 2133mhz (2*4GB)
HIS 270X turbo GPU
Western Digital 3TB hard drive
Crucial M500 240GB SSD
Benq GW2450HW monitor
BeQuiet 1000W PSU
Samuel 7 CPU heatsink
Noctua NF-12 120mm (CPU)
Windows 8.1
Liton Blu-ray/DVD
Various 120mm & 200mm fans
Logictech keyboard & mouse

Including a new desk it's come in at £1250. Happy with that, just got to see if I remember how to put a system together now !!

hakank68 · 7 Jan 2014 at 00:40

You can get the VN248H (Ips panel) for around £10 extra if you can sacrifice some response time

OvEr_KiLL · 7 Jan 2014 at 00:47

i would have got the samsung evo ssd and for 1 270x you certainly do not need 1000w

Robzere31 · 7 Jan 2014 at 00:49

I know, but I got the 1000w at a rather good price on the MM along with the monitor.

OvEr_KiLL · 7 Jan 2014 at 00:51

Robzere31 said:
I know, but I got the 1000w at a rather good price on the MM along with the monitor.

ohh ok , well done

edit. how did you get in the mm you do not have 1000 posts....

Robzere31 · 7 Jan 2014 at 00:53

OvEr_KiLL said:
ohh ok , well done

edit. how did you get in the mm you do not have 1000 posts....

I qualified a few years ago when the post count was set at 250 for access.

Robzere31 · 7 Jan 2014 at 12:34

Let the building commence !

Doomedspeed · 7 Jan 2014 at 12:36

Looks awesome, Keep us updated, with pictures.

Robzere31 · 9 Jan 2014 at 23:58

End of day one for the new build.

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Still plenty to do, but no drama's yet !!
Not 100%on the CPU fan, may change it to the same as the exhaust one (SP-120)

Robzere31 · 11 Jan 2014 at 08:45

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Couple more, now the fun of installing everything!

Robzere31 · 20 Jan 2014 at 15:59

Little update for everyone.
After a couple of days running the system at stock, time to see how well it would Overclock.

After a little fiddling I've got it stable at 4.5ghz 1.25v, Temps after looping a couple of benchmarks for an hour or two are low 70,s
GPU seem happy running 1130mhz core & 1500mhz memory, however for general gaming im running 1100/1450

Robzere31 · 10 Feb 2014 at 18:13

I remember now why I got out of the desktop PC scene.....I was always broke !

Latest little mods are moving the hard drive caddy into the 5.25 bay & covering the PSU cables at the bottom of the case which were rather unsightly.

Also, moved to an MSI 290 GPU after the 280x I brought failed after less than a week.

ndaar · 10 Feb 2014 at 18:16

Seems like you change the CPU cooler fan as well to a corsair sp140/Sp120? I just ordered a couple of SP140s for my case, don't really need them but wanted to play with something LOL.

Looks good though

Robzere31 · 10 Feb 2014 at 18:20

ndaar said:
Seems like you change the CPU cooler fan as well to a corsair sp140/Sp120? I just ordered a couple of SP140s for my case, don't really need them but wanted to play with something LOL.

Looks good though

Yeah, I didn't like the look of the Noctura. Also got 2x of the SP120 in the top of the case as exhaust fans. There the quiet editions & I'm really impressed with them.
Keeps the Haswell under 70c @4.5GHZ

ndaar · 10 Feb 2014 at 18:28

Robzere31 said:
Yeah, I didn't like the look of the Noctura. Also got 2x of the SP120 in the top of the case as exhaust fans. There the quiet editions & I'm really impressed with them.
Keeps the Haswell under 70c @4.5GHZ

Yeah I got some of the quiet ones as top exhaust fans, If I like them maybe Ill replace the rest in the case LOL. Fits with my red/black MSI theme...I don't tend to go LEDs.