Spec check before ordering

Spawny Rick · 20 Mar 2014 at 00:12

Hi,

I'm about ready to order for the first time in far too long and just wanted to check I've not picked anything blatantly incompatible or inferior. I'm going to be coding, running a vm or two, and maybe some light gaming. I'd like it to be quite quiet but doesn't have to be completely silent. Not looking to overclock.

Is there any big difference between the Core i7-4771 and the Core i7-4770? They were the same price so I added the 4771.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4771 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £229.99
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 270X DEVIL 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £169.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £129.95
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED316GM1600HC11DC01) £109.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £82.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 530W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £59.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler £29.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £935.96 (includes shipping : £11.75).

Bart_Hunt · 20 Mar 2014 at 00:22

The only thing I would changeis the gpu brand.
I'd go for Sapphire 270x Toxic. A few friends purchased it recently and they all love it.
Maybe it's just personal preference.

Danny75 · 20 Mar 2014 at 00:36

If you are going to back-up the 250GB SSD on the HDD, I'd get a 2TB.

And since it's a Z87 mobo, could change RAM to something like this for not much more:

YOUR BASKET
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit £119.99

pipson · 20 Mar 2014 at 01:46

I have the Powercolor Radeon R9 270X DEVIL myself and i have been very impressed cant go wrong with it and you get 3 free things with it, the 2 games and the mouse pad and can handle anything plus for the price it cost you can always add another in the future for future proof. - highly recon it!

Spawny Rick · 20 Mar 2014 at 09:03

Thanks Danny75, good call on the memory, I'd missed spotting that set.

I've been thinking about going for a 2TB drive, but I've also got a 500GB in my current rig I might re-use for backups. Long term I plan to add a NAS as well so it's a bit of a stop-gap.

I've no strong feelings on the graphics card, but there's so much choice I don't want to spend too much time dwelling on it. pipson, Bart_hunt, thanks for your comments, it's really helpful to hear personal experiences.

As no-one's picked up on the question, I'm guessing there's no real difference in the CPU's I mentioned, so for the same money I may as well go for the faster one.