My first PC - is it ok?

[frawlzfans]

Hi guys, just wanted to make sure this would work. This PC is purely for gaming so I know I could use an i5 not an i7 but I found a good deal on that motherboard bundled with an i7 also im happy to spend slightly more just so it goes with my red and black theme. 

 

Will be running a 1080p monitor so I went with the 970 instead of the 980 because I believe as there's no point getting the 980 as im not going over 1080p? 

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/w8VLnQ

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/w8VLnQ/by_merchant/

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£267.54 @ Aria PC) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 73.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£83.13 @ Amazon UK) 

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII RANGER ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£131.98 @ Dabs) 

Memory: Kingston Fury Red Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£52.48 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£84.97 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Seagate  1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive  (£58.99 @ CCL Computers) 

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card  (£279.98 @ Novatech) 

Case: Corsair 760T Black ATX Full Tower Case  (£143.94 @ Aria PC) 

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£63.31 @ Amazon UK) 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 3-Pack (OEM) (64-bit) 

Total: £1166.32

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-28 01:31 GMT+0000

 

Budget is around 1200 so ive just come slightly under but im happy to cut back in one area to strengthen another. Any advice would be great. Thank you all  . 

[matthewmarchant]

yeah pretty solid.

[matthewmarchant]

maybe go for windows 8.1 actually.

[Tonylu1595]

Just buy a Titan X and nothing else.

 

Make it run CPU fuctions on 8 of the cores and the other 3064 cores for GPU stuffs.
 

I'm sure the board on it will be fine.

[STRMfrmXMN]

 

Hi guys, just wanted to make sure this would work. This PC is purely for gaming so I know I could use an i5 not an i7 but I found a good deal on that motherboard bundled with an i7 also im happy to spend slightly more just so it goes with my red and black theme. 

 

Will be running a 1080p monitor so I went with the 970 instead of the 980 because I believe as there's no point getting the 980 as im not going over 1080p? 

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/w8VLnQ

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/w8VLnQ/by_merchant/

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£267.54 @ Aria PC) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 73.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£83.13 @ Amazon UK) 

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII RANGER ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£131.98 @ Dabs) 

Memory: Kingston Fury Red Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£52.48 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£84.97 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Seagate  1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive  (£58.99 @ CCL Computers) 

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card  (£279.98 @ Novatech) 

Case: Corsair 760T Black ATX Full Tower Case  (£143.94 @ Aria PC) 

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£63.31 @ Amazon UK) 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 3-Pack (OEM) (64-bit) 

Total: £1166.32

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-28 01:31 GMT+0000

 

Budget is around 1200 so ive just come slightly under but im happy to cut back in one area to strengthen another. Any advice would be great. Thank you all  . 

 

Grab a Seasonic PSU and you're solid. Supernova NEX isn't that great.

 

You also could maybe go for Windows 8.1 but you would never notice the performance difference with hardware like that and you get a free upgrade to 10 later. Your choice however you go about it.

 

Also, if all you're going to do is game you can save a lot of cash and get a 4690k instead. EDIT: Scratch that you said you got a deal.

[Atmos]

Grab a Seasonic PSU and you're solid. Supernova NEX isn't that great.

 

You also could maybe go for Windows 8.1 but you would never notice the performance difference with hardware like that and you get a free upgrade to 10 later. Your choice however you go about it.

 

Also, if all you're going to do is game you can save a lot of cash and get a 4690k instead. EDIT: Scratch that you said you got a deal.

 

Windows 7 still gets a free upgrade to 10 when it releases too, not just 8.1 and some of us out there still like not having to sacrifice convenience for touch-screen simplicity *cough live-tiles cough worst decision microsoft has ever made and its gone in desktop release of windows 10 cough*     I know you can get the start menu back, but we shouldnt have to download a third party mod to get something back that should have never been gone in the first place.

/Rant

 

 

 

 

@OP, shoulda checked out Reddit/r/microsoftsoftwareswap or G2A for a legit copy of windows at 1/10th the price.

[givingtnt]

id dump the hybrid hdd and get a seagate 2tb one instead

 

 

also. don't get the EVGA NEX  

get the EVGA Supernova G2 750W

[STRMfrmXMN]

Windows 7 still gets a free upgrade to 10 when it releases too, not just 8.1 and some of us out there still like not having to sacrifice convenience for touch-screen simplicity *cough live-tiles cough worst decision microsoft has ever made and its gone in desktop release of windows 10 cough*     I know you can get the start menu back, but we shouldnt have to download a third party mod to get something back that should have never been gone in the first place.

/Rant

 

 

 

 

@OP, shoulda checked out Reddit/r/microsoftsoftwareswap or G2A for a legit copy of windows at 1/10th the price.

Totally forgot to mention that. Yes, they both get a free upgrade.

[Atmos]

Totally forgot to mention that. Yes, they both get a free upgrade.

Yea you can get a windows 7 prof. key for $15 right now on softwareswap, its a crazy deal. i honestly dont know why you would do anything else

[CorCat87]

 

 

 

 

Hi guys, just wanted to make sure this would work. This PC is purely for gaming so I know I could use an i5 not an i7 but I found a good deal on that motherboard bundled with an i7 also im happy to spend slightly more just so it goes with my red and black theme. 

 

Will be running a 1080p monitor so I went with the 970 instead of the 980 because I believe as there's no point getting the 980 as im not going over 1080p? 

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/w8VLnQ

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/w8VLnQ/by_merchant/

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£267.54 @ Aria PC) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 73.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£83.13 @ Amazon UK) 

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII RANGER ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£131.98 @ Dabs) 

Memory: Kingston Fury Red Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£52.48 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£84.97 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Seagate  1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive  (£58.99 @ CCL Computers) 

Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card  (£279.98 @ Novatech) 

Case: Corsair 760T Black ATX Full Tower Case  (£143.94 @ Aria PC) 

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£63.31 @ Amazon UK) 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 3-Pack (OEM) (64-bit) 

Total: £1166.32

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-28 01:31 GMT+0000

 

Budget is around 1200 so ive just come slightly under but im happy to cut back in one area to strengthen another. Any advice would be great. Thank you all  . 

 

pretty awesome if you ask me

 

 

maybe go for windows 8.1 actually.

windows 7 is a little better for some older games if he plans on it, also wont really matter come june/july when Windows 10 will be a free upgrade