Upgrade to X99 sanity check

[Devlish]

Hey all, well I am going to have to finally bite the bullet. My i5 3570K is pretty darn good but the motherboard (z77 ds3h) is giving me all sorts of headaches, especially with the USB 3.0 ports and trying to get another socket 1155 motherboard is futile. Adding in a pcie card gives me a bsod so I feel really hesitant to plug a new CV1 in there, especially as my DK2 mysteriously died a couple of months ago.

So having thought long and hard about whether to go z170 or x99, ive decided on the x99 route. Will be salvaging my trusty power supply (750w Akasa) and a 970. Any thoughts appreciated, especially on that cooler...

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060007-WW)= £64.99
• 1 x Kingston 480GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/= £89.99
• 1 x Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Midi Tower Case with Window - Black= £59.99
• 1 x Samsung SH-224FB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM M disc compatible= £12.95
• 1 x MSI X99A SLI Plus Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £169.99
• 1 x Intel i7-5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - Retail (BX80648I75820K)= £335.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FBK4/16= £64.99

Total: £798.89
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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[stulid]

Do you need the DVD drive?

The V300 range are not that hot.

Bigger cooler - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...-liquid-cooling-upgrade-bundle-bu-096-tl.html - select the correct rentention kit from the options and it fits in the roof of the case (not sure if you can have a DVD drive with this larger AIO in the roof at the same time).

 

[pastymuncher]

Avoid the Kingston SSDNow drives as they changed the chips in them after they were reviewed and are nowhere near as fast as claimed.

 

[Devlish]

Cheers both, swapping out the kingston drive for a samsung one and wondering if i should go water cooling at all - the aio coolers had some leak complaints in a thread somewhere. Might just stick with an old reliable fan, even if it is white... eek.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Midi Tower Case with Window - Black= £59.99
• 1 x Samsung SH-224FB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM M disc compatible= £12.95
• 1 x MSI X99A SLI Plus Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £169.99
• 1 x Intel i7-5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - Retail (BX80648I75820K)= £335.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FBK4/16= £64.99
• 1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)= £129.95
• 1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn White CPU Cooler= £32.99

Total: £806.85
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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[pastymuncher]

As far as AIO's go as long as you avoid the Raijintek ones you should be ok. Check out the new Antec ones for excellent performance for your money.

 

[tyler_jrb]

Aio will be better but if your worried stick with an air cooler. Rest looks fine to me.

There are plenty of air coolers. If your after black to go with the board etc. Dark rock do good coolers. Ensure that it will fit the case though.