System being ordered - Thoughts?

Neil79 · 29 Jun 2015 at 11:35

Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM
Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit
Asus Z97 Pro Gamer Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
Raijintek Triton AIO Water Cooling Solution
Noctua NT-H1 Thermalpaste (2.5g)

Can't get any lower than £571 and it needs to be liquid cooling + I7 + 16gb memory

Already have the case, gpu and psu, keyboard, monitor...

Neil79 · 29 Jun 2015 at 11:39

Glanza said:
Save some money on lower speed ram, 1866?

Hi Glanza, what if I want to overclock the i7 to about 4.6 etc would that be an issue?

Which ram would you recommend?

Although saying that, it isn't on my i5 and that's doing 4.7

Neil79 · 29 Jun 2015 at 12:28

Yeh, thought as much

Cheers will order now

Neil79 · 29 Jun 2015 at 12:55

los said:
I'd get the retail version of the CPU if I was you for the 3 year warranty, also I'd get the core version of the triton, then order some decent fans myself

Too late ordered

Neil79 · 29 Jun 2015 at 14:09

pastymuncher said:
Is this a upgrade from your 2500k? If so you should have waited for Skylake as Haswell isn't a big enough step up in performance to justify the cost.

1 = Cost would be much higher for new hardware releases
2 = Gift, needed to be ordered by today

Neil79 · 29 Jun 2015 at 15:07

Spoke to John of Sales and the Asus board does not fit the cooler! Thankfully I have sorted out a change of order and he's exchanged it to a MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Intel Z97

So beware everyone of that board and cooler

Neil79 · 30 Jun 2015 at 10:33

pastymuncher said:
Strange, did he say why it won't fit? Heatsink in the way or something?

Very large capacitors around the edges of the cpu socket, same with the Asus Z97-a