£4000 rig help needed please.

[rjsj9803]

Hi All, having spent endless days reading reviews, specs, minute details, I have come to the conclusion I am none the wiser, so I am looking for a bit of advice on the following, it appears to configure ok.
I have a £4000 budget and I am looking to keep it for considerable time, I will mainly be gaming hopefully on Ultra, mainly second life and WOW.
I couldn't seem to add extra fans I think I might need more, the rig has been put together in this site, any alternatives or advice very much appreciated.

Regards Steve.

Case
COOLERMASTER HAF-X FULL TOWER GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor Extreme i7-4960X (3.6GHz) 15MB Cache

Motherboard
ASUS® RAMPAGE IV BLACK EDITION: INTEL X79, SOCKET 2011, R.O.G

Memory (RAM)
32GB KINGSTON HYPER-X BEAST DUAL-DDR3 2133MHz X.M.P (4 x 8GB)

Graphics Card
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 780 Ti - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready

2nd Graphics Card
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 780 Ti - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready

1st Hard Disk
1TB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)

2nd Hard Disk
4TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 5900RPM 64MB CACHE

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Power Supply
CORSAIR 1200W PRO SERIES™ PLATINUM AX1200i DIGITAL MODULAR PSU (£239)

Processor Cooling
Corsair H100i Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£89)

Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)

Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs

USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS

Operating System
Genuine Windows 8.1 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

Anti-Virus
NORTON ANTI-VIRUS 2014 - 1 Year Licence for 1 PC (£10) *SPECIAL*

 

[Rakk]

Instead of spending 4k on a PC, a better plan would be to spend less than half of that and then either upgrade after a few years or just get a brand new PC which the money you didn't spend in the first place. No matter how much you put into a PC now, it will still need upgrading after a few years just because of how much tech is advancing.

So my suggestion:


Case
COOLERMASTER HAF-X FULL TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-4670 (3.4GHz) 6MB Cache - for gaming an i5 will be fine, go for the i7-4770 if you really want to futureproof but whether it may not improve gaming over the i5 for current games - unless said games are CPU dependent (rather the GPU)
Motherboard
ASUS® Z87-A: ATX, USB3.0, SATA6GB/S, SLi, XFIRE
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (1 x 8GB) -for gaming you would really never use 32GB of RAM, 8GB should be plenty or you can add in a few years if you nmeed more
Graphics Card
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 780 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready - are you going to be multi-monitor gaming - if not the 780 will be fine, if you are, pick the 780Ti instead
Free Item
FREE WATCH DOGS with GTX 660 & 7 Series GPUs!
1st Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW) [b-] this should be enough for your OS and a WOW and some other bits and pieces[/b]
2nd Hard Disk
4TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD4003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (£79) if you want to SLI at any point this will need to be changed to a bigger PSU
Processor Cooling
Super Quiet 22dBA Triple Copper Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler (£19)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 8.1 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NORTON ANTI-VIRUS 2014 - 1 Year Licence for 1 PC (£10) *SPECIAL*
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 11 to 13 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,425.00 including VAT and delivery. - lot cheaper than 4k

Unique URL to re-configure: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/quotes/intel-haswell-pc/QmkpFmFmjN/

 

[GeorgeHillier]

I agree with what Rakk said, no point spending 4k when you don't need to, although with your budget I would get the i7-4770 and consider the 780ti as it'll still be cheaper than 4k

 

[rjsj9803]

Thanks for the advice, going with the i7 4770k OC seems the best option as you say, I am however looking at getting a 4k monitor soon.
Silly £2000 prices at the moment and a supplier is getting delivery 1st June for a more realistic £600, I do want a nvidia gtx 780 ti x2 though, but now undecided on the Nvidia or the Radeon r9 295 x2, there is maybe a modest difference in price, and the tests that I have seen the 295 comes out on top and water cooled, but as of now very much untested by a big market, kind of put off by the fact that there is limited info in real world daily usage and the odd bugs i heard about.
This computer stuff is far more complicted than I thought, give me race cars to strip and rebuild I can do it in my sleep!!!, Horses for courses I guess, feed back very much appreciated.
Regards Steve.

 

[keynes]

Silly £2000 prices at the moment and a supplier is getting delivery 1st June for a more realistic £600,

If you don't mind me asking which monitor is it?

 

[GeorgeHillier]

Thanks for the advice, going with the i7 4770k OC seems the best option as you say, I am however looking at getting a 4k monitor soon.
Silly £2000 prices at the moment and a supplier is getting delivery 1st June for a more realistic £600, I do want a nvidia gtx 780 ti x2 though, but now undecided on the Nvidia or the Radeon r9 295 x2, there is maybe a modest difference in price, and the tests that I have seen the 295 comes out on top and water cooled, but as of now very much untested by a big market, kind of put off by the fact that there is limited info in real world daily usage and the odd bugs i heard about.
This computer stuff is far more complicted than I thought, give me race cars to strip and rebuild I can do it in my sleep!!!, Horses for courses I guess, feed back very much appreciated.
Regards Steve.

I wouldn't bother with 4k yet, you'd have to get 2x780ti or a R9 295X2, which will both be very expensive. I would wait another year before considering 4k as the price will probably have dropped a lot by then, plus there will be better graphics cards capable of 4k.

Also, why get an overclocked i7? Is there some reason it must be overclocked? It won't make much of a difference in gaming, it could just run hotter.

 

[steaky360]

If you don't mind me asking which monitor is it?

I'm going to guess its the Asus PB287Q.

Just for note - there are 3 affordable 'gaming' 4K monitors coming out soon (£500-£600). Not sure if PCS plan to stock them or not but they are:
Samsung U28D590
AOC U2868PQU
and
Asus PB287Q

 

[keynes]

Nope, Dell. I haven't seen a good review from a £500/600 4k monitor yet. There is a reason why other monitors are +£2000

 

[steaky360]

Nope, Dell. I haven't seen a good review from a £500/600 4k monitor yet. There is a reason why other monitors are +£2000

Are you saying the OP is getting a Dell?

The Samsung got a pretty good review from linus tech tips. I haven't seen any other 4k monitors for <£1000 really, never mind reviews of them haha. The reason the others are so expensive is because they are professional grade monitors which are of a much higher standard than typical monitors (including gaming ...)

 

[keynes]

Yes, the OP is getting a dell. You got a link for the review?

 

[steaky360]

Yes, the OP is getting a dell. You got a link for the review?

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