Time for new system

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proff999

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It's now time to get a new system and as I've been out of the loop thought I'd ask you guys on here.

Budget is up to £1300

Currently have an overclockers pre built system.
Antec 1200
Corsair 650w
i7 920 @ 3.2
6GB Ram
MSi 7850
60GB SSD

As I'm not PC savvy I'm looking for something pre built and the Missus wants something with a smaller footprint and a bit quieter than my current tower. Been looking at the "Forcebox Gamer Plus" with the addition of a 250GB SSD and GTX970.

Usage wise I'm a keen gamer and do convert the family's Blu-ray purchases to different formats for ipad's etc. Would like scope to overclock if possible. Would you guys suggest i5 or i7,8GB or 16GB RAM and which is best chipset option. Can push to a Mid size tower if required but would need to be quiet.. Looking for best performance within my budget.
 
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Thanks guys. First of all I take it the Z97 is better than H81, i7 is worth the extra over the i5 and Crucial MX 100's are the SSD of choice.

Will Overclockers build and test?
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 - Devils Canyon Core i7 4790K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£43 Saving** £347.99
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £275.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 350D Windowed Micro ATX Case - Black (CC-9011029-WW) £84.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) HDD £79.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £77.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX21C11BRK2/8-OC) £67.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 650W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £67.99
1 x Cooler Master Seidon 120V, AIO Cooling Solution £39.95
1 x OcUK Value Blu-ray / DVDRW combi SATA - OEM £39.95
Total : £1,179.28 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
This is what I meant.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Z97M Gaming - Devil's Canyon i7 4790K CPU & Micro ATX Motherboard Bundle **£18 Saving** £351.98
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming Edition 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £275.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 350D Windowed Micro ATX Case - Black (CC-9011029-WW) £84.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) HDD £79.99
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £77.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 650W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £67.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 8GB (2x4GB) PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Red (HX21C11BRK2/8-OC) £67.99
1 x OcUK Value Blu-ray / DVDRW combi SATA - OEM £39.95
1 x Cooler Master Seidon 120V, AIO Cooling Solution £39.95
Total : £1,183.27 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
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Pretty much went with your build mate, just changed the Gfx to MSI and the Seagate to 3TB.

Once again thanks for your help.

I'll be on the overclocking help pages when it arrives as haven't overclocked anything since my AMD 3500+ and Opteron 144!!
 
Been excellent, systems still ok to be honest. Runs BF4 nicely and pretty good at editing etc just to big! Just need to move it all on now, best place to sell is eBay I guess?
 
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Just a quick mail to say thanks for all your advice. New system arrived this morning (3 days after order placed as opposed to 7 days quoted). It's exactly what I needed. Compact, quiet and blazingly fast. Even came overclocked @ 4.4!!!

Once again the whole Overclockers experience has been awesome. First class information from you guys on the forum, first class customer service from Damo, Great prices from Overclockers.

On the negative side I now need a monitor that will do the system justice (Currently on Dell2206W), new keyboard, Mouse and a mat! Any reccomendations would be greatly appreciated.
 
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