Planning for 700~ build

[Sixense]

Hello everyone, been lurking for some time here, finally got the courage to post.
Budget is around 700 pounds, I don't think my gf will let me spend any more (even tho this rig will go to her when we get the cash for my monster rig like a year or two later).

So far got this:
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 270X Gaming Edition OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £169.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £92.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 650W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £77.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £74.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX21C11BRK2/8-OC) £67.99
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £55.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £44.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler £24.97
5 x Noiseblocker NB-eLoop Fan B12-P - 120mm PWM (2000rpm) £15.98 (£79.90)
Total : £704.82 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Fully modular PSU would be awesome, but if you find a better not modular, I will get some braided cables from BitFenix. (Kind of aesthetic fanatic I am).
Later on CPU will most likely be upgraded to 4690k or 4790k some time after.

I will not be getting everything this year, maybe an SSD first, as we're still playing on my eMachines E730G that's 4 year old... Maybe something else if there's some sweet discounts on Black Friday / Cyber Monday. Hopefully get all the cash till February and buy and build then.

 

[mickyflinn]

The 4gig 270x is pretty pointless at that price point a 280 would be better but technology and prices change, so feb 15 will be a different spec.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 280 WindForce 3X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £169.99

 

[David Bisset]

Mostly a quite nice build, but that is quite a lot to spend on case fans, I'd cut that back a bit for this scale of build.

Also, as micky mentions, the 270X is way overpriced, get a 2GB version (possibly even a 270 not a 270X as the only difference is stock clocks) to save money or a 280 or a 285 to improve performance (despite the naming the 280 & 285 are pretty similar in performance, but both a good bit faster than what you picked for the same or less money).

 

[stulid]

Init..£80 of fans and £45 case, just get a £100 case instead.

 

[Fallen god]

^ You could spend that £80 on an I5 and have a much better system.

 

[pandem0nium]

Pretty much bang On, minus the shipping. You might get shipping free for all of it with the graphics card code on the home page, I'm not sure.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Inno3D GeForce GTX 970 OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £269.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320E Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £104.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 650W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £77.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £74.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
1 x Raijintek EreBoss High Performance CPU Cooler £29.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Red £29.99
Total : £713.00 (includes shipping : £11.75).



In b4 the AM3+ hate.. You won't get better price/performance without paying a lot more for an I5K bundle.

 

[stulid]

The board only supports RAM upto 2000MHz and 1600MhzCAS9 is cheaper at the moment.

Also pretty sure the cooler is too tall for the case.

 

[pandem0nium]

the case is 470 deep, the coler is 150 high, so should be plenty of room I think.

I think I'd rather have the faster ram downclocked to 2000. There's £6 between them and room for it in the budget.

 

[stulid]

the case is 470 deep, the coler is 150 high, so should be plenty of room I think.

The case is how wide you think? 470mm is the depth from front to rear.

You want the measurement from board to sidepanel.

The cooler is more than 150mm too, I measured mine closer to 170mm.

 

[ShivP]

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2014/05/15/bitfenix-launces-neos-budget-atx-case/1

Says "The Neos can accommodate CPU cooler heatsinks up to 160mm in height (155mm for windowed version) and will support full-height 120mm single-fan water cooling radiators."

So 160mm for the normal case So *should* fit but may be a bit tight? Another site says 158mm, Guru3D 160mm so looks like it's around that ball park

 

[pandem0nium]

Hah, deary me, read that wrong.

This review reckons up to 160mm coolers:

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2014/05/15/bitfenix-launces-neos-budget-atx-case/1

and that's it's height, so probs pushing it a bit.

 

[stulid]

Hah, deary me, read that wrong.

This review reckons up to 160mm coolers:

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2014/05/15/bitfenix-launces-neos-budget-atx-case/1

and that's it's height, so probs pushing it a bit.

The cooler itself is 160mm the fan makes it 173mm

 

[pandem0nium]

Ah ok, fair enough.

This would probs be a better idea:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Corsair Hydro H80 CPU Cooler *Manufacturer Refurbished Unit - 1 Year Warranty £35.99
Total : £45.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).