GENTLEMEN! £1500 High Spec - Appraisal Needed

[AlexSexton]

Hi everybody,

I'm looking for some opinions on a mock up of a first time build that I'm planning. I'm trying to future proof for a good few years, so hopefully £1500 will get me a decent way forward. I'm open to all suggestions, but I do want to stay around the £1500 mark (I can go maybe £50 or so over).

 

Specs are as follows:

 

• Processor - Intel 4790K Devil's Canyon (4.0ghz)
• MOBO - MSI Z97 Gaming 5 
• RAM - Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (1866mhz)
• Power Supply - Corsair RM Series+ 650w
• Grafix - EVGA GTX780ti SC (with the AC cooler)
• Hard Drive -  Intel 730 240gb SDD + WD Black 1TB 
• Case - Corsair 760T or a 750D (CAN NEGOTIATE)
• CPU Cooler - Corsair H110 280mm 
• DVD - Some form of Blu-Ray Combo drive, probably LG.

I was going to stay firm on the 760t, but apparently the airflow in it isn't optimal for over clocking. I plan to try and over clock the CPU to at least 4.3 - 4.4ghz, and will be going mostly air-cooling, maybe water in the future. 

 

Also, I may go SLI on the 780ti's, but that's a big maybe. Will it be needed to be gaming in 5 years time, or is one good enough for the time being? 

 

I'm pretty flexible with most of these things, I just wanted to get the opinions of some established techies 

 

Thanks for reading

 

Alex

[Askew]

Nice choice of SSD, if you wanted to save cash you could drop the 780ti to a 780 and not lose that much clout.

[Jodomcfrodo]

NHD15 as a CPU cooler. Rest looks fine. 

In 5 years, quad 780Ti's wont run anything. It's like quad 280's now.

[Admiaczking]

beautiful

[nikosgevre]

You should get a better psu. Since you spend so much money in your build get at least 750watts psu so it would handle easily 2-way or even 3-way sli. In some years you may want to sli and 750watts will be much better than 650. I suggest the corsair cx750m or hx750(more expensive but better). Also i prefer water cooling for the cpu, so i suggest corsair h100i. Last, i prefer the 750D.

[Guest]

Hi everybody,

I'm looking for some opinions on a mock up of a first time build that I'm planning. I'm trying to future proof for a good few years, so hopefully £1500 will get me a decent way forward. I'm open to all suggestions, but I do want to stay around the £1500 mark (I can go maybe £50 or so over).

 

Specs are as follows:

 

• Processor - Intel 4790K Devil's Canyon (4.0ghz)
• MOBO - MSI Z97 Gaming 5 
• RAM - Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (1866mhz)
• Power Supply - Corsair RM Series+ 650w
• Grafix - EVGA GTX780ti SC (with the AC cooler)
• Hard Drive -  Intel 730 240gb SDD + WD Black 1TB 
• Case - Corsair 760T or a 750D (CAN NEGOTIATE)
• CPU Cooler - Corsair H110 280mm 
• DVD - Some form of Blu-Ray Combo drive, probably LG.

I was going to stay firm on the 760t, but apparently the airflow in it isn't optimal for over clocking. I plan to try and over clock the CPU to at least 4.3 - 4.4ghz, and will be going mostly air-cooling, maybe water in the future. 

 

Also, I may go SLI on the 780ti's, but that's a big maybe. Will it be needed to be gaming in 5 years time, or is one good enough for the time being? 

 

I'm pretty flexible with most of these things, I just wanted to get the opinions of some established techies 

 

Thanks for reading

 

Alex

I would stick with the i5 4690K if you are just gaming. The i7 won't make a difference unless you are doing things like rendering etc.

 

You only need 8GB Ram for gaming. You won't get any performance gain by going with 16GB.

 

Swap that Corsair RM psu for something decent. The EVGA Supernova G2 750W or Superflower Leadex 750W are both better.

 

The WD Black drive isn't worth the money. I would advise just going for a WD Blue or Seagate etc.

 

I prefer the Samsung Evo SSD over the Intel. I don't care much for the Sandforce controller based SSD's.