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mysticsniper

mysticsniper

mysticsniper

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I think you've gone slightly OTT with the motherboard.. also you're missing a case?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £319.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.98
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED316GM1600HC11DC01) £109.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £104.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G2 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £99.95
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88.00
1 x Pioneer BDR-209EBK 16x BDRW Multilayer 128GB retail £59.99
Total : £902.88 (includes shipping : ).




Same PSU but cheaper and with a 10 year warranty, motherboard comes with a free headset and gone with a better GPU
 
mysticsniper said:
I've not added the CPU as the 4790k isn't available at the moment.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce 3x OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card GV-N770OC-4GD) £281.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming G1 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £259.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 850W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £129.95
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.98
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED316GM1600HC11DC01) £109.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88.00
1 x Pioneer BDR-209EBK 16x BDRW Multilayer 128GB retail £59.99
Total : £1,049.88 (includes shipping : ).

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Any reason why that Motherboard? The Gaming 3 is a good choice currently if just gaming and wanting SLI/Xfire.

I suggest you look at getting 2133/2400mhz RAM, not much more than 1600mhz RAM now. Much better performance.

What case is this going in?

What is the PC used for?

Overall budget?
 
Doomedspeed said:
Any reason why that Motherboard? The Gaming 3 is a good choice currently if just gaming and wanting SLI/Xfire.

I suggest you look at getting 2133/2400mhz RAM, not much more than 1600mhz RAM now. Much better performance.

What case is this going in?

What is the PC used for?

Overall budget?
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Case stated above, and I and trying to keep the price around the £1400 mark, £1500 tops.

PC will be used mainly for Gaming and Photoshop/ Video editing.
 
 
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I like the new RAM, so will add that.

I do tend to stick with Brands that has worked for me in the past, hence why I picked Gigabyte for the mobo and the GPU, so will be sticking with those in future.
 
The reasoning for choosing Powercolor is OCUK now deal directly with the warranty process, with a stated turnaround time of under 72 hours :) I'm sure even Gigabyte can't match that :p
 
stulid said:
Oh I dont know about that :p

UK based RMA centre, 3 year warranty, average turn around is under 5 days.
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Also removing the cooler to install another or WC won't invalidate the warranty ;)

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=26260309

pipson said:
You could save £10 and get better looking rams too

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2 x Avexir Core White Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U16000904G-2CIW) - White Light £49.99 (£99.98)
Total : £99.98 (includes shipping : ).

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That's slower and 4 sticks so will take up all the RAM slots..
 
So at the moment, my basket looks like this..

I am not sure on the Evga PSU. There an unknown brand to me when it comes to the Power supplies, so will have to look at some reviews about them. In the past I have always used Corsair, but they have taken a nose dive in recent months. Super Flower seems to be the popular choice at the moment and there is a lot of positive feed back.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 OC WindForce 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-R929OC-4GD) £335.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD316G2666HC11CDC01) £149.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £119.98
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 5 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88.00
1 x Pioneer BDR-209EBK 16x BDRW Multilayer 128GB retail £59.99
Total : £863.93 (includes shipping : ).

 
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