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Zeonix
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Ok so im going to be building my first pc in the near future and was just wondering on this partlist. At first i was going to go with an i5 but decided to go with an i7 since i would be doing some editing and the i7 will be more benificial. Also i was looking to get an NH-D15 but dont know if there is a better performance boost in comparison to the NH-D14. Anyway thanks in advance for the advice.

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2NTmHx

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2NTmHx/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (£271.38 @ Amazon UK)

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler (£54.32 @ Amazon UK)

Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£89.99 @ Amazon UK)

Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£99.26 @ More Computers)

Storage: Kingston Fury 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£47.00 @ Amazon UK)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£42.95 @ CCL Computers)

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (£274.98 @ Dabs)

Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case (£58.79 @ Aria PC)

Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£58.73 @ CCL Computers)

Total: £997.40

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

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It looks good but I think you would benefit by going with a 2-3TB HDD.  A Xeon E3 1230 is an alternative to that i7 if you want the i5 price.  (not sure about UK prices)

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It looks good but I think you would benefit by going with a 2-3TB HDD. A Xeon E3 1230 is an alternative to that i7 if you want the i5 price. (not sure about UK prices)

I would be doing a bit of gaming aswell. Would there be a difference between the xeon and i7?

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No except that you cannot overclock.

For the Best builds and Price lists here is a world where many points of the price have been predefined already for your convenience!

The Xeon E3 1231 V3 IS BETTER Than the Core i5 4690K and a Significantly better value for the non-overclockers or value shoppers.

The OS is like a kind food, Try it before saying if you like it or don't.

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I would be doing a bit of gaming aswell. Would there be a difference between the xeon and i7?

not really. if you are comparing the processors at stock it will be really small difference. 

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I would be doing a bit of gaming aswell. 

What's the system primarily used for and what kind of editing are you doing?

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CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£261.00 @ Aria PC) 


Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£89.99 @ Amazon UK) 

Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£98.44 @ More Computers) 

Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£77.94 @ Aria PC) 


Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB WINDFORCE 3X Video Card  (£274.98 @ Dabs) 

Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case  (£58.79 @ Aria PC) 


Total: £998.55

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

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It will mostly be used for heavy video editing and graphic edits.

Please elaborate--what kind of content are you working on and what programs are you using?

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Get a better PSU than the CX600M at least

 

 
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£261.00 @ Aria PC) 
CPU Cooler: RAIJINTEK THEMIS 65.7 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  (£19.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£104.99 @ Novatech) 
Memory: Kingston Savage 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-2133 Memory  (£104.35 @ CCL Computers) 
Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£73.95 @ Ebuyer) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card  (£272.20 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: BitFenix Ronin ATX Mid Tower Case  (£69.70 @ CCL Computers) 
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£51.54 @ Aria PC) 
Total: £1000.67
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Kept it red themed as well with the cooler which will beat the 212 Evo hands down for less money (red + white fan), red RAM, red accents on board, red accents on MSI 970

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Ill be working on 3d animation so After Effects, C4D, Photoshop and Premier.

Are you working from a NAS or something of the sort? 120GB isn't much space to work off of as a scratchdisk and 1TB isn't much space you're really doing 'heavy video editing'.

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