ready made

larryddd · 5 Sep 2013 at 17:14

Thanks Ethermaster that looks really nice

larryddd · 5 Sep 2013 at 17:22

that's a lot of fans in there but I guess you cant have to many. is the cpu cooler manufacturer refurbished unit going to give me any problems in the future.

larryddd · 5 Sep 2013 at 17:23

yes looking at the side view I see its black inside

Ethermaster · 5 Sep 2013 at 17:33

The fans are to replace the stock ones that come with the H100 and the case so that they colour match the rest of the build nicely, the H100 although a refurbishment shouldn't really give you any problems to be honest but there is always the risk that you could get it and it leaks so I would just connect it to a molex for a hour or two outside of the case and see if it does, if it doesn't I would say your not going to have any problems at all.

stulid · 5 Sep 2013 at 17:34

The H100 should be as good as a new one.

Ive had two CLC so far and neither have had issues with leaking etc.

Idleman · 5 Sep 2013 at 18:25

larryddd said:
Idleman I sent your basket to overclockers to see how much a custom build would be and they came back with this
Please note though that we may well have to change either the RAM or cooler as the tall heat-spreaders on this RAM will probably interfere with the large CPU cooler.?

Well, if they bothered to get out the tape measure, they`ll see that the fan clears the ram, instead of just speculating.

larryddd · 5 Sep 2013 at 19:22

Thanks for the reply Idleman. I was reading a thread somewhere else and someone said the i5 is better value than the i7 for a single card,any thoughts on this

Ethermaster · 5 Sep 2013 at 19:27

The Intel Core i5 does present better value over the i7 in gaming (Unless you loading up all the PCI-e lanes). The i5 is the same as the i7 but it just doesn't use Hyper Threading like the i7 giving you 8 logical cores.

larryddd · 5 Sep 2013 at 19:34

so would you advice be to go for the i5 over the i7 I would save a bit but money isn't the issue

stulid · 5 Sep 2013 at 19:37

I5's are fine for gaming.

Idleman · 5 Sep 2013 at 19:39

larryddd said:
Thanks for the reply Idleman. I was reading a thread somewhere else and someone said the i5 is better value than the i7 for a single card,any thoughts on this

I would agree but the 7990 is a dual card. If you were to go for a 7970/770 for example, then I would have specced an i5.

larryddd · 19 Sep 2013 at 15:28

Ethermaster said:
Its not actually red in side nor is the window just in that picture to make the window stand out I think OcUK have put some LED lighting into, but I have done a red and black one for you

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7990 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE GAMES £529.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £269.99
1 x MSI Z87-G43 Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 750W Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (0-761345-06223-7) £99.95
1 x Corsair Vengeance C70 Midi Tower Gaming Case - Arctic White £94.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £86.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £49.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler *Manufacturer Refurbished Unit - 90 Day Guarantee £44.99
1 x Corsair SP120 Quiet Series High Pressure Low Noise - Dual Pack (CO-9050006-WW) £25.99
1 x Corsair AF120 Performance Series Low Noise High Airflow - Dual Pack £25.99
1 x Corsair AF120 Performance Series Low Noise High Airflow - Single Pack £13.99
1 x NZXT CB-LED10-RD 12x Red LED Sleeve - 1m £9.98
1 x BitFenix Alchemy 24pin ATX extension 30cm - Red £8.99
2 x BitFenix Alchemy 8pin PCI-E extension 45cm - Red £6.98 (£13.96)
2 x BitFenix Alchemy SATA 6GB/s braided cable 30cm - Red £5.99 (£11.98)
1 x BitFenix Alchemy 8pin EPS extension 45cm - Red £5.99
2 x BitFenix Alchemy Molex to 3pin x3 Fan adaptor 7V 20cm - Red £4.99 (£9.98)
1 x BitFenix Alchemy Internal Audio Extension Adaptor 30cm - Red £4.49
4 x BitFenix Alchemy 2pin I/O extension 30cm - Red £3.95 (£15.80)
Total : £1,521.43 (includes shipping : £17.85).

hey Ethermaster meant to thank you for helping me out last week with the above build, only thing I'm not sure yet is the i5 or i7. I see the his hd 7990 is on sale this week at what seems a good price any difference between the two.

Ethermaster · 19 Sep 2013 at 18:35

No problem

IMO there is little to none difference between the 2 cards as both are reference and @ stock clocks, the only thing that will change is the warranty and RMA process. The actual GPU at the heart of the 7990 is the same on both cards as is the cooler and the PCB and all made and designed by AMD themselves. I personally with the deals this week would pick up an i5 but that is upto you... if you wanted to jump up to an i7 you will get slightly better results in games and none in order IMO.

jonnyp1993 · 19 Sep 2013 at 20:34

Idleman said:
As long as you keep it clean and out of direct sun light, I would`nt have thought so.

Thats good to know because my next case is going to be white lol

larryddd · 20 Sep 2013 at 08:03

jonnyp1993 said:
Thats good to know because my next case is going to be white lol

What case are you going for, the only other one I was looking at was the Cooler master CM storm stryker white full tower.

Ethermaster · 20 Sep 2013 at 08:10

A small section of other white cases

larryddd · 20 Sep 2013 at 09:04

Thanks for taking the time, choices,choices. heard some good things about the NZXT cases

larryddd · 20 Sep 2013 at 09:12

Made a choice I'm going for the CM storm stryker

larryddd · 20 Sep 2013 at 09:16

I take it the rest of my hardware will go into the stryker

Ripjaw · 20 Sep 2013 at 09:48

I dont think its been said yet but if your 'gearing up' for bf4 then your gonna want windows 8 for the new direct x 11.1 im sure i read somwere that win7 wont be compatable with it?