New Build Sanity Check

Stompalomp

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Mar 8, 2015
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Hi guys.

Long time Tom's reader here but new poster, hoping for a quick sanity check on my new build before I order parts. Planned build is as follows

GPU: i5 4690k
GPU Cooler: Coolermaster Siedon All in One Water Cooler
MoBo: Gigabyte Z97x Gaming 5
GPU: SLI GTX 970
RAM: 16GB Hyperx Savage 1866mhz
SSD: Kingston 120GB SSDNow
Hard Drive: 1TB 3.5" SATA from old machine
Case: Aerocool DS 200
PSU: EVGA 750W Supernova
Optical: DVD/RW From old machine

I am also planning on replacing the stock fans with high airflow/low noise 120mm fans.

Total build price is approx £1080 (or $1625 for our US friends) excluding OS which I already have.

Basically I was just hoping that the community would be kind enough to sanity check thisbuild and make sure that I am not badly missing anything. Equally, if I am missing a value for money part or picking a component that will let me down I would appreciate the heads up.

Thanks in advance!

Stomp
 
What's it for? Good air cooling can be quieter, or as good as, and quieter than AOI. In particular, I do not think that a 120mm radiator AOI is better than a good air cooler. Air also helps cool the motherboard and VRMs in many configurations. I'd use a bigger SSD. (I do!) 240Gb+ for OS, Applications, and save-files. The PSU needs to be a G2 or B2 before I would recommend it. What features of the motherboard do you like? There may be others that suit your needs better.