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viiofix

viiofix

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Hey everyone. Long time lurker, first time poster, the usual.

I've not built a pc in a long time (8 years+) but have been doing some reading for the last couple months and currently have the following in my basket. I was hoping someone might have a quick look at let me know if I've overlooked anything before I pull the trigger.

I'm quite keen to buy asap as the 4690k has just dropped another tenner and a couple of other items are as low as I've seen them recently too which is good as I'd hoped not to spend much more than £700 (my budget started lower but computer shopping is hard right?!).

I don't need an OS, keyboard or monitor(s) and don't intend to run SLI (hence the cheaper, non-SLI board and R9 390). I also intend to use my current HDD for additional storage. I mainly intend to game though I haven't really thought about what games I'll play. I mostly play wow at the moment but that's partly because my rig is almost as old as wow so it's about the only thing that works to any bearable degree. Let me know what you think please.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 390 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (AXR9 390 8GBD5-PPDHE) £229.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1) £68.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD316G1600HC11DC01) £59.99
1 x Zalman R1 Midi Tower - Black £33.95
1 x Ozone Neon Laser Gaming Mouse - White £14.99
Total : £714.88 (includes shipping : £12.50 Ex.VAT).



For a little taste of nostalgia, my current rig is as follows and, according to my order history, was bought in October 2007:

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.40GHz
Asus P5K Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Corsair HX 520W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply
Samsung SpinPoint T 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency Dual Channel
Asus ATI Radeon HD 4670 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - shamelessly stolen from the rig I built my girlfriend in order to replace my Leadtek GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 that died a year or so back

Cheers
 
Build looks good. If you can get better motherboard with heatsink on vrams and possibly better power phase as it will come handy when overclocking
The only suggestion just buy better mouse as if you want competitive £40-50 mouse will last you forever or until you break it :P

390 if you plan to game at higher res 8gb will come handy as equivalent would be gtx970 which has 3.5 + 0.5 gb but iot's faster at 1080p. Also you get nivida features.
 
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Thanks for the comments guys.

Samy - with the mouse I just wanted a new one, nothing flashy. I've read a couple of good reviews of the Ozone mouse and it was originally £40 (still £30+ elsewhere) so it looked good for the price from OCUK.

stulid - I'd been looking at the bundle for ages but hadn't looked at it again recently; typical. That's the cheapest I've seen it so I'll probably go for that given it's a better board that gives me more options in future. Nice one.

Whilst I'm still undecided whether I'll go beyond 1080p (new monitors is next on the list) I do intend to run dual monitors which is why I was going for 16GB RAM and the 390 with more VRAM than the 970. Is the 8GB 2400 better than 16GB 1600 or is 16GB just unnecessary?
 
Any particular reason mike? I'm not that precious about looks but do prefer the exterior of the Zalman. I will be trying to do a better job of cable management this time around but I'm not taking pictures or showing anyone the inside so don't really mind what that all ends up looking like. At a glance I don't see what major benefits the Aerocool 1000 would bring to the table given that it's £20 more (though it does look pretty good compared to some of the other, more expensive offerings out there).

I've looked at heatsinks too and would definitely get one as and when I overclock. I just want to get something new in and working first before I take that step.
 
The Z97P-D3 is not great IMO...missing optical out & VGA, PCIE x1 unusable as too close in proximity to the x16 slot, feels cheap. Go for the better board.
 
/phew

Had goosebumps for a minute there; especially as there's no mention of Freesync support on the OCUK page for the Powercolor 390.
 
Thanks for confirming stulid, that was the reason I opted for the monitor in the end.

I did Google it and find confirmation of Freesync support elsewhere; it was just a bit of a shock when you said 380 after I'd just confirmed payment. Waiting for your correction was a long 23 minutes given I've not got much else to do at work today!
 
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