Will this be a decent rig?

JoeBoi · 15 Mar 2015 at 09:52

As title, also will that 970 fit in the Prodigy?

stulid · 15 Mar 2015 at 10:06

The GFX card fits.

You may want a K CPU to overclock? Have a look at Antecs range of water coolers as they are at killer low prices.

PooKer · 15 Mar 2015 at 10:28

I was going to say its worth looking at the K range.
The 1TB Barracuda is out of stock but I'd say grab a 2TB as they're only £15 more for double the storage.

JoeBoi · 15 Mar 2015 at 13:44

stulid said:
The GFX card fits.

You may want a K CPU to overclock? Have a look at Antecs range of water coolers as they are at killer low prices.

Sorry, a K CPU? I'm a bit lost

. I will have a look at the antes water cooling range. Any recommendations?

PooKer said:
I was going to say its worth looking at the K range.
The 1TB Barracuda is out of stock but I'd say grab a 2TB as they're only £15 more for double the storage.

I won't actually be building the rig until the end of this month so hopefully they will get some more stock. I have plenty of portable Hard Drives for storage.

RJC · 15 Mar 2015 at 13:54

JoeBoi said:
Sorry, a K CPU? I'm a bit lost

K series allow overclocking with the Z97 boards, the cpu you have in your basket does not

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £187.99
Total : £197.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Skynet5 · 15 Mar 2015 at 14:10

RJC said:
K series allow overclocking with the Z97 boards, the cpu you have in your basket does not

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £187.99
Total : £197.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).

+1. Looks nice.

JoeBoi · 15 Mar 2015 at 14:19

RJC said:
K series allow overclocking with the Z97 boards, the cpu you have in your basket does not

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £187.99
Total : £197.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Thanks. I've been out of the PC game for quite some time, I saw that Devils canyon processor when I was putting the parts together but couldn't work out what the difference was, I thought it was a newer revision of the i5.

lnoton said:
+1. Looks nice.

Thanks.

lee32uk · 15 Mar 2015 at 14:35

JoeBoi said:
Thanks. I've been out of the PC game for quite some time, I saw that Devils canyon processor when I was putting the parts together but couldn't work out what the difference was, I thought it was a newer revision of the i5.

Yes the Devils Canyon is the 'Refresh' CPU. It has improved thermals and a slight speed increase.

Jay Blizzay · 15 Mar 2015 at 15:21

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Danny75 · 15 Mar 2015 at 17:01

YOUR BASKET
1 x BitFenix Spectre PRO 230mm - Black £15.95

Just a suggestion (not a necessity) if you can stretch a bit more. Will help push air across the mobo/direct it to the exhaust/s, to help with temps. Brings a 7v molex which is ideal as it's not noisy like that and still pushes enough air. The 120mm case fan on the front is pretty useless (in terms of both positioning and effectiveness).