Good £500 upgrade?

[Thanatognomonic]

Hey guys,
I'm in the process of building a computer for college work, gaming, etc. I've already bought a GPU and a PSU and I've planned the rest of my components, this is what I might get.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£155.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£25.24 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G43 Gaming ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£79.99 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Mushkin Blackline 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£56.99 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£54.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 Ti 3GB Video Card (Purchased For £0.00)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case (£79.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (Purchased For £0.00)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£59.00 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £512.19
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-31 20:04 BST+0100)

My question is this:
Is there any changes that can be made to lower my cost? I'd like to keep the case and the color scheme the same, but is there anything what you guys would recommend I should change?

 

[Deleted member 1300495]

All the necessities without the PSU and GPU

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£155.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£25.24 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G41 PC Mate ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£58.35 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£60.34 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£54.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case (£59.98 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-222BB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£4.86 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£59.00 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £514.69
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-31 20:33 BST+0100)

The case was too small for the GPU. The RAM was not known that much in the gaming world. You need storage for things other than games and your OS. You also need an optical drive for uploading the OS onto your SSD

 

[andrei65]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£155.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler (£57.89 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G41 PC Mate ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£58.35 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£59.72 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£54.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: BitFenix Comrade ATX Mid Tower Case (£28.04 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-222BB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£4.86 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£59.00 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £478.84
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-31 20:50 BST+0100)
My two cents

 

[sora]

All the necessities without the PSU and GPU

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£155.99 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£25.24 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G41 PC Mate ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£58.35 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£60.34 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£54.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case (£59.98 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-222BB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£4.86 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£59.00 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £514.69
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-31 20:33 BST+0100)

The case was too small for the GPU. The RAM was not known that much in the gaming world. You need storage for things other than games and your OS. You also need an optical drive for uploading the OS onto your SSD

There is nothing wrong with Mushkin Blackline RAM though...

 

[Deleted member 1300495]

I never said there was. I just had some pretty bad experiences with their RAM so i've backed away from them. And G.Skill has an amazing color scheme so I can't get over that.

 

[coozie7]

Just a few points from a dinosaur: Dropping the Hyper 212 Evo and SSD takes close to 80 quid off the price.
Do you really need them?

 

[Deleted member 1300495]

Just a few points from a dinosaur: Dropping the Hyper 212 Evo and SSD takes close to 80 quid off the price.
Do you really need them?

Yes he does! the cooler will help when he is OCing. The SSD will dramatically improve boot times for games and Windows.

 

[coozie7]

The question is what would we do to save some cash and that is what I would do to save cash, my reasons are:
Overclocking that rig on a 450Watt PSU doesn't sound like a good idea, even if it is a good quality unit.
The time saved is seconds, hardly a major loss.

 

[andrei65]

Does he really need to overclock ? Can't he buy an SSD later ?

 

[Deleted member 1300495]

Does he really need to overclock ? Can't he buy an SSD later ?

We're going to have to ask him then. Otherwise, here is a non-OC non-cooler build

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£151.19 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£60.92 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£60.34 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case (£59.98 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-222BB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£14.95 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£49.00 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £432.32
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-06-01 18:53 BST+0100)

 

[Thanatognomonic]

I put the CPU cooler and SSD in for just convenience.
The cooler will help with lower temperatures at stock and when I do eventually come to over-clocking, I'd only have to upgrade my PSU.
I decided on the SSD, as mamamia said, for the better loading times across the board.

I know that having a hard drive straight away would be better just for storage, but 120GB would last me long enough to get £35-40 for a new hard drive and if it didn't, I could just strip out and wipe one of the two 500GB HDDs from my current computer until I could get the newer hard drive