Smartest upgrade path from here?

stulid said:
Yes use the UK one and all is fine.

One thing (and I havent seen a PSU with this feature for ages) in olden times some PSU had a 110/240v switch on the rear, make sure (if it has one) thats it on 240v before hand and never ever flip it over back to 110v.

Also OcUK should have added a UK kettle lead in with the PSU anyway? nothing in the boxes?

Anymore questions no matter how silly just ask and I will give you an answer:)
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You're right, they did supply one although I only found it after I'd used the one I already had. I'm posting this from my new PC. Just installing the Nvidia drivers now.

Thanks very much for your help but I think I am all done now. Done some moderate cable management but there's no window so I'm not that bothered.
 
Alright fine, a very small amount of cable management :o. On my previous computer, the GPU's power connector was at the end of the card so I could've put it through to the back of the case and then back out the hole in the middle. On this one however, it was pointing out of the side and that didn't seem like the best idea so I just did the cable straight from PSU to GPU and folded the cable into 3 and tied it so that it wasn't loose, same with the sata ones. It looks really bad now I take a photo haha.

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Maybe I'll spend another half an hour or something tidying a couple of things up.

I didn't end up swapping for the reference 970 because they shipped it before they saw the post. They offered to let me RMA and then order another but the postage made it about the same price factoring in GTA for £30. The real win is that I made a black, red and silver colour scheme without realising :cool:
 
Well done:)

You will be able to get that folded up cable mostly behind the tray, keep at it.

If its to stay on carpet maybe think about flipping the PSU over so the fan isnt sucking the crap out the carpet.
 
stulid said:
Well done:)

You will be able to get that folded up cable mostly behind the tray, keep at it.

If its to stay on carpet maybe think about flipping the PSU over so the fan isnt sucking the crap out the carpet.
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Thanks, it isn't staying on the carpet, it sits on the wood panel to the left, I just pulled it out for the picture
 
stulid said:
Cool.

So you know what you have left to do to it right?

1:- Cable management.
2:- OC the CPU.
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I need to get my priorities in order

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I'll get onto those things tomorrow, enjoying my PC far too much at the moment :D

Also just realised I took that screenshot while it was going at a ridiculously slow speed, it's at 4MB/s now
 
I don't really know what I'm doing with overclocking but I got this using Intel Extreme Tuning Utility without changing the voltage at all. I can't imagine it's 100% stable for that reason but it's gone through a couple of 5 minute stress tests without any of the cores touching 60°. Didn't even really notice an increase in sound of the fans.

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I'll watch a couple of guides then properly do it in the bios.
 
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