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Admiral Huddy

Admiral Huddy

Admiral Huddy

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I have been asked to provide an upgrade for an older system. We have a decent case, a 620w Corsair PSU and a couple of 1TB HDD already.

The chap is a photographer so needs a speedy quick system which is quiet. Graphics performance isn't the biggest priority.

As well as overclocking the haswell, I've also chosen some nice speedy RAM with Low Latency and a decent SSD to speed things up. His images can be stored on the existing HDDs. The H110 should keep noise down whilst keeping temps down.

As i said, graphics isn't really an issue for a non-gamer but I'm not sure if the HD4600 is up for the job of photo shopping etc.. or if he needs a new discrete GPU. He's currently using a 8800GT.

I've chosen Windows 7 Pro because he doesn't want Windows 8 (fair enough) as he needs a VM as some of his expensive peripherals don't support drivers for windows Vista onward hence the Pro version.

Anyway, here's what i have.

Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail

Crucial M500 240GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT240M500SSD1)

Corsair Vengeance Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ16GX3M2A1866C9)

MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-Bit - OEM

Corsair Hydro H110 280mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060014-WW)

Comes to £819 incl VAT and shipping


Any improvements or thoughts?
 
Morning Hud,

Okay i have a few changes;

The SSD should be changed to the EVO 250GB, as its faster, more reliable and cheaper: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-168-SA

The omtherboard seems overspecced, there a lot of cheaper motherboard you can get a decent OC out of. The benifit of the G45 over the G43 is the Xfire/SLI which won't be used in this build. Though personally id go for the even cheaper Gigabyte D3HP: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-437-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2574

RAM, for the same price you can go for the Vengance PRo (same speed, timings and money): http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-370-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1387

I assume the H110 will fit his case? :)
 
Hi Doomedspeed. Yep i measured the other day so we are good to go.

I was wondering about the motherbaord so will take on you sueggestion about D3HP. I read good things about the MSI but forgot we won't be needing SLI/Crossfire.

Good spot on the SSD and RAM too ... thanks :)
 
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