Build #1

[MasterFinnius]

Can anyone recommend changes with this build. The odd hard drive arrangement is representing what I have already from old PCs roughly, I am not going to buy them. This is to power 3 monitors at high and ultra settings. Thanks in advance

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/masterfinnius/saved/bMnj4D

[ilikemacandpc]

Which ones are old? Which ones are new? 

 

You don't need 16 gb of ram. The fans are overkill. 

 

Otherwise, it's pretty good. 

[pagani123]

what are you intentions with the 2 300 gb hard drives

[pagani123]

also what do you plan on using this for 

[MasterFinnius]

The hard drives I have are 1 500gb seagate barracuda 1 250 gb seagate barracuda and 1 300gb seagate barracuda which I am going to link so it acts as 1 single drive. The SSD I am getting this Christmas and the aim of this build is high settings gaming over 3 1080p monitors.

[Laputacake]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (Purchased For £152.00) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£24.97 @ Amazon UK) 

Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (Purchased For £51.76) 

Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£62.20 @ CCL Computers) 

Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£73.29 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Hitachi Travelstar Z5K500 500GB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£29.51 @ Ebuyer) 

Storage: Western Digital Scorpio Black 320GB 2.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£12.93 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 

Storage: Western Digital Scorpio Black 320GB 2.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£12.93 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 

Video Card: GALAX GeForce GTX 980 4GB SOC Video Card  (£429.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 

Case: Fractal Design Define R5 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£87.54 @ CCL Computers) 

Power Supply: XFX 850W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£77.26 @ More Computers) 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit)  (£73.71 @ Ebuyer) 

Total: £1087.69

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-13 17:56 GMT+0000

[MasterFinnius]

This is also what I plan to get in the future. To start off with I am only getting 8gb ram and 1 r9 290

[pagani123]

if your using them for one whole drive you should take the two western digital out and replace it with one larger drive that way there are less areas of storage for issues to happen and it is easier to diagnose an issue if there are less of the same components on said computer