[New PC Build Recommendations] i7 4790K MSi GtX 970 4GB

[JackkLewis]

Hi just looking for possible changes to my rig that I'm saving for. I'm fairly sure after reading every review under the sun, my build is good for what I want to achieve with it.

This gaming rig will be used for Gaming, recording and rendering.

Just need any recommendations that i could apply to my build to make it that much better. I have a little flexibility in terms of my budget, possibly £50 more or less..

CPU: i7 4790K 4.0GHz
CPU Cooler: Corsair H60 Liquid Cooling
Motherboard: MSi Z97 Gaming 3
Memory: Corsair Vengeance PRO 16GB (2x8GB)
Storage #1: Kingston Hyper X 128GB SSD
Storage #2: Weston Digital HDD 1TB
GPU: MSi GTX 970 4GB (Twin Frozr V)
Case: NZXT H440 (Red/Black)
PSU: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium

 

[logainofhades]

Not a good choice for, cooling, PSU, or SSD. What is your budget?

 

[JackkLewis]

Not a good choice for, cooling, PSU, or SSD. What is your budget?

At the moment, this build is around £1050. My budget can probably extend between £1150-£1200 possibly. As cheap as possible around that budget would be golden.

 

[logainofhades]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (£249.98 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Nepton 240M 76.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£75.98 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£85.82 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury White 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£65.65 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£68.34 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Western Digital WD Blue 1TB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£47.54 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card (£249.54 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case (£82.55 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£64.98 @ Novatech)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 OEM (64-bit) (£67.95 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £1058.33
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-25 15:15 BST+0100

 

[pcdudedude]

I have almost this exact same set up. And I spent $1300 on mine, and I didn't even get liquid cooling. So I would say you are getting a good deal.
Anyway, my rig runs fine. Perfect actually, I had a few hiccups but they were my own fault and I fixed them easily.
My Temps are also very good and I have only a 20 dollar cooler.

 

[JackkLewis]

I have almost this exact same set up. And I spent $1300 on mine, and I didn't even get liquid cooling. So I would say you are getting a good deal.
Anyway, my rig runs fine. Perfect actually, I had a few hiccups but they were my own fault and I fixed them easily.
My Temps are also very good and I have only a 20 dollar cooler.

Hi pcdudedude, didn't mean to down vote your recommendation. Pretty new to the whole forum thing, so my bad!

What cooler would you recommend? As the Cooler I have been looking at, hasn't had any 'bad' reviews as of yet!

 

[JackkLewis]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (£249.98 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Nepton 240M 76.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£75.98 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£85.82 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury White 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£65.65 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£68.34 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Western Digital WD Blue 1TB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£47.54 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card (£249.54 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case (£82.55 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£64.98 @ Novatech)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 OEM (64-bit) (£67.95 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £1058.33
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-25 15:15 BST+0100

Hi logainofhades, didn't mean to down vote your answer, pretty new to this forum thing, so my bad!

Yeah the PC you have put together looks beast, the only trouble is, I have already bought the Case, Mobo and CPU. I was going for a red/black theme aswell (yes I know common, but still good!) So if you can adjust just the cooler, SSD and PSU It would be highly appreciative!

 

[logainofhades]

I had the same case you listed. Changed the motherboard, to the one you already bought, and changed the ram, to keep the color scheme. Also changed the GPU to match as well.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor (£249.98 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Nepton 240M 76.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£75.98 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: MSI Z97-Gaming 3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£93.56 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Red 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£34.58 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£68.34 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Western Digital WD Blue 1TB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£47.54 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card (£260.39 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case (£82.55 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£64.98 @ Novatech)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 OEM (64-bit) (£67.95 @ Ebuyer)
Total: £1045.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-25 16:33 BST+0100

 

[sora]

I have almost this exact same set up. And I spent $1300 on mine, and I didn't even get liquid cooling. So I would say you are getting a good deal.
Anyway, my rig runs fine. Perfect actually, I had a few hiccups but they were my own fault and I fixed them easily.
My Temps are also very good and I have only a 20 dollar cooler.

Hi pcdudedude, didn't mean to down vote your recommendation. Pretty new to the whole forum thing, so my bad!

What cooler would you recommend? As the Cooler I have been looking at, hasn't had any 'bad' reviews as of yet!

Are you looking for water cooling or air cooling?

 

[JackkLewis]

I have almost this exact same set up. And I spent $1300 on mine, and I didn't even get liquid cooling. So I would say you are getting a good deal.
Anyway, my rig runs fine. Perfect actually, I had a few hiccups but they were my own fault and I fixed them easily.
My Temps are also very good and I have only a 20 dollar cooler.

Hi pcdudedude, didn't mean to down vote your recommendation. Pretty new to the whole forum thing, so my bad!

What cooler would you recommend? As the Cooler I have been looking at, hasn't had any 'bad' reviews as of yet!

Are you looking for water cooling or air cooling?

What would be best?

 

[pcdudedude]

Air cooling will be fine as long as you don't do any extreme over clocking.

 

[JackkLewis]

Air cooling will be fine as long as you don't do any extreme over clocking.

I probably wont overclock, but I may do in the future as I have been advised to. I will probably go for watercooling, but wanted to make sure that everything in my rig will be alright to achieve what I want it to achieve. Such as, vvideo games on max settings, recording whilst playing, video editing and casual streaming.

 

[pcdudedude]

Air cooling will be fine as long as you don't do any extreme over clocking.

I probably wont overclock, but I may do in the future as I have been advised to. I will probably go for watercooling, but wanted to make sure that everything in my rig will be alright to achieve what I want it to achieve. Such as, vvideo games on max settings, recording whilst playing, video editing and casual streaming.

Oh yea, you are fine.

I currently Stream and use Shadowplay to capture video for the Witcher 3 on max settings and everything is smooth and fine.
Also I use premier pro to edit videos. The only problem I have ran into is when I screwed around with premier pro settings and tried to over process a video. It made my i7 get a little hotter than I like but still not over the Max.