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Great to hear you found the problem.

An i7 2700k is a legendary cpu but it sure as hell isn't worth £200, you could really buy something better and much newer. If you plan on only doing casual gaming your i3 should still be fine, rather just get the 750ti and put a £100 towards your new system.

Guess you would probably be able to run the system on a 300w psu but if the system starts crashing and rebooting under heavy loads then you really don't have much of a choice.

A cheap solution is to overclock your monitor to around 75hz, the 960 won't be able to push games far pass 80 fps anyway on decent settings, speaking from personal experience and I love my 960. Its really easy to do and works a charm. You can just go into the NVidia control panel and set a...

You really are pushing the limits of your psu, I would really advice against it. Rather pick yourself up a cx 430 from newegg for $40. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139026&cm_re=cx_430-_-17-139-026-_-Product

The cx 430 would be more than enough for your build, the fan space is also fine btw, hope you enjoy the build.

Most motherboards have built in features to control fan speed based on the temperature of the components so that shouldn't be a problem. If you decide to plug the fans into the psu their going to be blowing at full rpm's permanently. You could get a fan controller which costs like $30 max if its...

Sweet build bud, you could save some money and rather get a 500w powersupply though , 600w isn't really enough to even power sli 960's which is what I'm guessing you would want to upgrade to later on, you can't sli 750 ti's btw. I'd recommend getting a 500w now and later just upgrading to a...

If you do plan on swopping out the fans consider Noctua, I have no personal experience with them but I have heard they are absolutely awesome.

Oh, sorry misread that.

The 5820k is still 30 pound more expensive in the uk, might just be cheaper in the us.

Guess you kind of answered your own question by correcting me, the 6700k has newer architecture and should perform the same in most games since they don't utilize all the cores.

The best thing to do would probably be to take it to the shops and let them check it out.

Most people just like buying the latest and flashiest hardware they can, and some clueless youtubers that have massive followings like levelcap telling his audience that a 6700k outperforms a 5960x in games.

With sli 960's you should be able to run just about anything except minesweeper, here's a benchmark btw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThk4RXiMR0