Sub £500 Haswell build

[Cider_Monster]

Looking to build a value PC with less than £500 (excl OS).
I'm not into extreme gaming but do a fair bit with video files (e.g. Creating family DVDs with Roxio), pics and Home Architect.
Would welcome comments on the following spec:
Intel Core i5 4440 Quad Core CPU

Asus H81M-E Motherboard (Socket 1150, Intel H81, DDR3, S-ATA 600, Micro ATX, PCI Express 2.0, VGA, USB 3.0)

Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Graphics Card (2GB GDDR5, PCI Express 3.0, HDMI, DVI-I, VGA)

Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 Mhz CL9 XMP

CIT 550W Gold 12Cm Silent Atx Power Supply

Cooler Master RC-430-KWN1 Elite 430 Midi Tower with Window - Black

1TB Seagate SATA 3.5-inch Solid State Hybrid Desktop Drive (SSHD) 6Gbps 7200rpm 64MB cache

LiteOn IHOS104-32 4x Internal Blu-Ray BD-ROM -SATA

That comes out at £490 - toying with blowing the budget by a couple of quid for a i5-4570

 

[13thmonkey]

personally I'd go for one of the higher specced chipsets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1150

B85 minimum, and I'd not get a GPU, i'd use the onboard video, as i'm not sure if the GPU will actually give you any benefit for your non gaming needs. Get a better PSU, 550W is a good size in case you want to include a GPU at a later date. If you find that performance is not as expected then try a GPU but you might get away without one.

Otherwise if you do want to done something with gaming, then i'd follow the same path and see if the onboard video is good enough, and then update to a gpu if not.

Other than that build is fine except for a weak PSU, it's £20 something for a reason.

 

[Cider_Monster]

Thanks 13thM.
Something like the Asus B85-PLUS?? http://www.amazon.co.uk/B85-PLUS-C2-Motherboard-Socket-Express/dp/B00E5QLMC0/ref=sr_1_5?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1387893263&sr=1-5&keywords=asus+b85

 

[13thmonkey]

that'll do, there are better mobos out there, but normally the Z87 would be the way I would go as you can OC. But given a budget the B85 gives you access to nearly all of the haswell features particularly some video ones, the H81 was very constrained.

 

[Cider_Monster]

Thanks 13th
UPDATE!
Old system has died (broadly - re-install would need Vista followed by 7 upgrade and - TBH - can't be a*sed!) now looking at the following:

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor

CPU Cooler: Arctic Cooling UCACO-AP11301-BUA01 Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler

Motherboard: Asus Z87-PRO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard

Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory

Storage: Seagate 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive

Case: Zalman ZM-Z9 U3 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case

Power Supply: Be Quiet 500W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply

Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer

questions:

With a Z86 MoBo - Is it worth chucking in a 'value' GPU ( Video Card: Asus Radeon HD 5450 1GB Video Card)?

With the Seagate SSHD is it worth salvaging the 32gig Sandisk ready cache from old PC?

 

[13thmonkey]

I'd say that a value GPU would be no better than the iGPU, and so not worth it. The iGPU is ok for medium res low setting gaming, so if you just 'do a bit of gaming' it would probably be ok. PSU is probably ok, I want to like Be quiet as a brand but i've not seen any reviews.

I'd go std HDD and use the ready cache from the old one.

Can you reuse your old PSU? can you reuse your old case? or do you have plans for your old machine. Reuse old optical, if your old machine had ready cache what was it? you may not see much of a performance bump. If you can re use some components you might have enough for a kseries i5 or an i7, which for your purposes might be more useful and make it worthwhile.

 

[Cider_Monster]

Old case is Dell XPS-430 (ATX??) and research seems to indicate it's worth than useless on a new build. Old optical is cunningly hidden behind a door and am not really sweating the 17 quid for a new one.
The ready cache is a 32Gig San Disk - although I note e-buyer have a Sandisk 128GB Pulse SSD Slim (only £59.99) which might go better with a standard HDD? That said - the Seagate SSHD comes in at £55??

Noddy question time - what's the difference between the 4670 & the 4670K ??

 

[13thmonkey]

the sshd only works if you are doing the same thing repeatedly. so ssd + hdd would be better, but hdd + ready boost would be ok too. You could buy hdd now, and an ssd later, although you'd have to be careful to set the partitions up so it'd fit on the future ssd so it's an easy transfer.

the 4670k can be overclocked, just adjust the multiplier. I'm thinking for video editing the extra speed could be useful. Do your programs allow you to use CUDA, i.e. gpu compute?

yep the dell psu would be rubbish.