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Advice please on a pc gaming build I am thinking of doing , it's been a while so am a bit rusty when it comes to new components. My budget is £1500 ish , this is what I was looking at :

Motherboard : gigabyte-z97x-ud7

Hard drive : kingston-240gb-ssd -v300

Processor : intel-core-i7-4790k-4-00ghz-8mb-s1150--devils-canyon

Memory : corsair-memory-16gb--vengeance-performance-ddr3-1600mhz-cl9

Graphics card :asus-geforce-gtx-780-3gb-pci-express-3-0-hdmi-poseidon-platinum

Cooler : corsair-hydro-series-h105-extreme-performance-liquid-cpu-cooler

Case : corsair obsidian-650d-mid-tower-black

DVD drive of some description.

OS : windows 8.1

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http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/nsF97P

Just shy of £1500 if you don't include the OS

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The specs I quoted come to 1565 on dabs with OS , so doesn't look like a better deal to me , correct me if I'm wrong ?

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The SSD needs changing as they recently changed the NAD on the V300

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Ok thanks , don't understand that though if you can elaborate ?

Just to add will this power supply be ok forgot to add it to the list , https://www.dabs.com/products/corsai...pply-8XVT.html

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this is what they did http://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/a...er-micron-nand

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the M500 is a good price on Dabs http://www.dabs.com/products/crucial...id=15004&src=3

But the Evo has the performance gain http://www.dabs.com/products/samsung...id=15004&src=2

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Thanks , just the answer I needed :) , is there anything in the build you would change / drop ?

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looks ok to me :)

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Looks more like you are trying to build an extreme overclocking machine than a gaming machine. Unless you are intent on squeezing every last micron of performance out of your components, you could save a good few hundred quid by buying better value kit that gives 90% the performance for 50% the price.

Just the other day we built a gaming machine capable of a full 60fps in many games at 4K resolution for under £1500. And £500 of that was for the 28" 4K monitor...

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Yes I do intend to overclock , but even so what changes would you make for better value just so I have options.

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Might want to add a couple of TB Hard drives to supplement your SSD.

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Yeah agree, what's the best way of managing the storage between the drives seeing as the ssd is only 250gb

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SSD solely for the OS, and the other drivers for program's and data

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Nope SSD is very much for games as well as the OS. If you play anything on line, especially stuff like FPS that have large map files to load the SSD is the only way to go on a performance PC. Indeed, unless you play only one or two games a 240GB SSD may now be undersized.

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Popping one of these into my new build next week:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/512gb...c-95mm-adapter

512GB NAND, 150 squid