Sanity check before ordering...

[pieman]

Having sought the opinions of this board and before committing to an order tomorrow, would anyone change any of the following components without blowing my budget away £1k to £1.2K?



I'm going to use my existing monitor, optical drives and keyboard/mouse and I'm looking to enjoy many hours of happy gaming over several years on this rig.

 

[LukieBoy007]

If it's mainly gaming that you will be doing, the i7 really won't be necessary.

 

[pieman]

Streaming too and I want it to be fairly future-proof as with a young family this may probably be the last significant upgrade for a while!!

 

[BriT]

Not considered Ivybridge?

 

[LukieBoy007]

Going by that, you won't notice any difference with an i7. But it is your money, and I must admit an i7 is tempting at that price.

 

[Sparx]

Change the i7-2700K Sandybridge to a i5-3570K Ivybridge and save approx £35, no point buying old gen. Also if you want to save yourself another approx £100 grab the MSI 7950 instead (which uses a 7970 PCB anyway) - it can overclock to the same if not better than an actual 7970, the performance difference between the 2 is minimal.

 

[altrewin]

Looks good, couple of things: Thought the PSU came with a cable? Also, make sure the cooler will actually fit in your case as it's rather large.

 

[pieman]

Ok, cheers for the feedback will change the CPU and do some reasearch on the MSI GPU. I've acquired a Fractal Design Define 4 case so I'm hoping that can accomodate the cooler. I need a spare kettle lead so at £1.43 I thought what the hek.

Anything else?

 

[triggerthat]

SSD is out of stock.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III OC V2 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with SIX FREE PC GAMES £229.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD256BW) £199.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £71.99
1 x PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III Series 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - White £59.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1156/1155/1366/AM2/AM2+/AM3/AM3+/FM1) £47.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £28.00
Total : £904.52 (includes shipping : £10.50).