New build - Updated plan.

[Essemm]

So I posted 2 months ago about building a PC for £1200: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/347212-new-pc-build-%C2%A31200-budget/

 

Since then I've managed to work a lot so my budget can be raised to maybe £1500 (preferably £1450).

 

This was what I had previously:

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/FG27qs

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/FG27qs/by_merchant/

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£249.98 @ Aria PC) 

CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC14PE_RD 78.1 CFM CPU Cooler  (£67.38 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Motherboard: Asus Z97 PRO GAMER ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£107.12 @ Ebuyer) 

Memory: Kingston Fury Red Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£86.83 @ More Computers) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£77.90 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£39.00 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card  (£277.97 @ Amazon UK) 

Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£89.39 @ Aria PC) 

Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£89.95 @ Aria PC) 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit)  (£75.34 @ CCL Computers) 

Total: £1160.86

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-07 15:34 BST+0100

 

 

 

 

 

So I was thinking with the extra £300 I could get a 980Ti? Are any non-stock ones appearing yet?

Also people keep telling me I can get windows cheaper than £75 some places, is this true?

 

Thanks for any help I get.

 

Current Build: 

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/9F7zdC

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/9F7zdC/by_merchant/

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£249.95 @ Aria PC) 

CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC14PE_RD 78.1 CFM CPU Cooler  (£67.38 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Motherboard: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£106.99 @ Novatech) 

Memory: Kingston Fury Red Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£86.57 @ More Computers) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£77.90 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£53.94 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card  (£585.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 

Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£89.39 @ Aria PC) 

Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£99.98 @ Amazon UK) 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit)  (£75.34 @ CCL Computers) 

Total: £1493.03

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-08 13:33 BST+0100

 

[Fluxx]

Upgrading the card to a 980 ti is completely up to you but if your not going to be using it for at least 1440p its kind of a waste.

 

There are websites like G2A which sell windows cheap but its kind of sketchy and I wouldn't recommend it

 

Also if this is just purely a gaming rig then you could also just downgrade to a 4690k to save some money.

[Essemm]

I'm pretty set on the 4790k from the previous discussion I think.

[Essemm]

Bump as I didn't realise an edit didn't move this thread up.

[Essemm]

How about this?

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

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpick...ZL/by_merchant/

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£249.98 @ Aria PC) 

CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC14PE_RD 78.1 CFM CPU Cooler  (£67.38 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Motherboard: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£106.99 @ Novatech) 

Memory: Kingston Fury Red Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£86.83 @ More Computers) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£77.90 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£39.00 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card  (£549.00 @ Amazon UK) 

Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£89.39 @ Aria PC) 

Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£99.98 @ Amazon UK) 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit)  (£75.34 @ CCL Computers) 

Total: £1441.79

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-07 16:56 BST+0100

 

Video card is placeholder, I'm hoping the MSI Gaming one is not too much more.

[AliveGhost13]

What resolution will you be playing?

[Guest]

Overclockers have the Gaming edition for pre-order at £575.99 + postage

 

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-287-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1402

[Essemm]

What resolution will you be playing?

 

1080p for a few months, so yeah overkill. But aiming to buy a nice 1440p monitor as soon as I can, how much is a good one as I have about £200 set aside already?

Overclockers have the Gaming edition for pre-order at £575.99 + postage

 

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-287-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1402

Awesome, thank you.

[Essemm]

I think the cooler I chose isn't actually compatible.

Anyone know of any other Red/Black air coolers?

Otherwise I might get a 240mm water one to keep the case clean looking.

[Guest]

I think the cooler I chose isn't actually compatible.

Anyone know of any other Red/Black air coolers?

Otherwise I might get a 240mm water one to keep the case clean looking.

Not compatible in what way ?

[Essemm]

Not compatible in what way ?

Well, on the partpicker page it says it is 1150 compatible,

But on the SCAN product page it never mentions that socket in particular. (Unless I don't know what all the numbers mean which is entirely likely)

Did they just miss it out?

 

Also, it's quite large in general so might restrict RAM slots?

[Guest]

Well, on the partpicker page it says it is 1150 compatible,

But on the SCAN product page it never mentions that socket in particular. (Unless I don't know what all the numbers mean which is entirely likely)

Did they just miss it out?

 

Also, it's quite large in general so might restrict RAM slots?

It will work with 1150. They have the same mounting holes as far as I know. Also Phanteks product page lists 1150.

 

http://www.phanteks.com/PH-TC14PE.html

 

The Kingston Ram is low profile so you shouldn't have any issue with clearance. I have Kingston Ram with a BeQuiet Dark Rock 2 cooler and it goes under no problem.

[Essemm]

It will work with 1150. They have the same mounting holes as far as I know. Also Phanteks product page lists 1150.

 

http://www.phanteks.com/PH-TC14PE.html

 

The Kingston Ram is low profile so you shouldn't have any issue with clearance. I have Kingston Ram with a BeQuiet Dark Rock 2 cooler and it goes under no problem.

Awesome, can I replace the fans with black ones? If so, what would be good?

 

in other news, I managed to get the CPU for just £220 and have also ordered the SSD, HDD and case.

Just need to finalise the motherboard and cooler and wait for the GPU to come out.

[Guest]

Awesome, can I replace the fans with black ones? If so, what would be good?

 

in other news, I managed to get the CPU for just £220 and have also ordered the SSD, HDD and case.

Just need to finalise the motherboard and cooler and wait for the GPU to come out.

 

Bitfenix do the Spectre Pro fans which you can get in all Black if you do decide to swap them out. I would try the Phanteks ones first though as they are good fans.