Partial new haswell build any opinions on part selectiion appreciated

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jamesd1981

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Partial new haswell build any opinions on part selection appreciated

Hi everyone, just sold my current system and i am planning a new haswell build.

The budget i am on, I can`t finish the whole build in one go just want the bare essentials to get up and running with the best possible motherboard and cpu, I will add gpu and storage drive as i go on.

I am looking at the 2 below motherboards.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-439-GI

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-434-GI

The cpu i am looking at is the i7 4770k

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-471-IN

Also looking at this ssd

http://www.ebuyer.com/387080-sandisk-128gb-pulse-ssd-slim-sdssdp-128g-g25
 
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OK so I assume you have a power supply and a case and the other stuff too?

Board wise, I'd go for the Z87X-OC, just because it's ATX. IMO, mATX is just a pain and not worth the time. You could however save yourself some money whilst not losing out on quality and get yourself a UD3H http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-435-GI

CPU is good, but may be overkill. Depending on what you do, an i5 4670K will be perfectly fine. What are you doing with this system?

SSD is good, but I'd probably go for a SanDisk Extreme. Likely the faster drive.

It's easier to buy it all from one place too. I'm sure which stores in the UK are good, Overclockers is a good one. I like Novatech myself. :)
 
Those OCZ ZS power supplies are pretty good. My ZS 650 has been going for getting on for 18 months now and I've not had a problem. Powering a 5870 too which is a hungry card.

When my Dad got a Z77X-UD5H he got a 3.5" USB 3.0 expansion thingy with it, which you can slide into the 3.5" drive bay at the front of the case, so you may want to see if the Z87 boards from Gigabyte are still shipping with those.
 
Yes well that`s why i have stuck with ocz, my current system had ocz fatality and it was great really quiet and ran the system no problems.

As far as cpu goes my plan was to get the best cpu i could manage from the point of better to have the power there if it is needed than to need and not have enough.

The main things i do are, photo & video editing, copy quite a few dvd`s as i like to back them all up to drive to save wearing out the discs, also got into gaming on pc a lot more recently.
 
For editing the i7 will be great. It's true I edit video and photos on my i5 (photography and videography are my hobbies) but I wish I had an i7.

Make sure you get aftermarket cooling at some point and overclock it too for some extra performance gain.

What RAM are you going for and how much? For editing, I'd recommend 16GB. Sometimes in Photoshop I get up to around 11 or 12GB of RAM usage and in Premiere about the same.
 
Yes that's good RAM. Can you get it in 1866MHz? The price difference between 1600MHz and 1866MHz isn't much I don't think.

Good idea to get 2x8GB as well, makes upgrading to 32GB easier if you need to.
 
 
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Nice stuff! Throw a GPU in there, get some more RAM and a nicer case and it'll be great! :good:
 
Yes graphics is next priority maybe in a couple of weeks, any recommendation on a card, the 6850 I had performed well but under stress made this really annoying sound.
 
If you want to stick with AMD then the 7770 or the 7850 should run fine on your ZS 500 I think. I wouldn't go any more powerful than a 7850 with a 550W PSU though.

You mentioned photo and video editing earlier - I think in that case an NVIDIA card would benefit you because of CUDA, which can decrease render times. The GTX 650 Ti would be good. :)
 
Yeah but for rendering video the CUDA technology on the GeForce should help you out a bit, even if the 650 is a bit slower for games.
 
What software do you use to edit photos and video with? I think only some software supports CUDA.
 
It might use CUDA, but I'm not sure. It seems like (ironically), X3 does. Looks like Photoshop CS3 supports CUDA though.
 
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