First time build need advice.

Dark Lord of Tech

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£181.00 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Deepcool GAMMAXX S40 54.2 CFM CPU Cooler (£33.54 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI Z97-G55 SLI ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£88.99 @ Dabs)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£81.15 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial MX100 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£52.11 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X 3GB Vapor-X Video Card (£189.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Case: Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition ATX Full Tower Case (£176.52 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£76.78 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/RSBS DVD/CD Writer (£12.36 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £892.04
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-18 21:52 GMT+0000
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£181.00 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£25.70 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI Z97-G55 SLI ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£88.99 @ Dabs)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£59.50 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£96.97 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£34.45 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card (£269.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£46.39 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£45.49 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £848.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-18 22:30 GMT+0000
 

logainofhades

Titan
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I agree. Sacrificing performance, for fluff, is bad idea. Nothing wrong with a full tower case, but there are far less expensive options than that one. Overspending elsewhere, also. 128gb isn't much storage. Hope you have another drive, to store stuff on. This would be far better, but still recommend adding a 1-3tb HDD , for storage.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£181.00 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£25.70 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI Z97-G55 SLI ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£88.99 @ Dabs)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£52.82 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£79.98 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card (£259.99 @ Novatech)
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro ATX Full Tower Case (£89.06 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£72.90 @ Scan.co.uk)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/RSBS DVD/CD Writer (£12.36 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £862.80
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-18 22:17 GMT+0000

 

RYANoceros92

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Feb 18, 2015
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lol i like fluff ;) , but in all honesty i don't need a monster gaming rig i only play at 1080p and I'm quite happy at 40-60fps with highish settings.
Is that ram good cause i might think of getting that, as for the ssd i only use it for os so 128gb is enough and i have other drives for storage, i think 600w psu is more than enough for this rig and i heard that the cooler master cpu cooler and the deepcool cpu cooler were on par with each other so i chose the deepcool cause its blue :/
thanks for all your advice tho i will take it into consideration.