Final PC build

[Gilliam]

Case

CORSAIR CARBIDE SERIES™ AIR 540 GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)

Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4790k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache

Motherboard

ASUS® Z97-A: ATX, USB3.0, SATA 6GB/S, SLi, XFIRE

Memory (RAM)

24GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (3 x 8GB)

Graphics Card

4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 - 1 DVI, 1 HDMI, 3 DP - 3D Vision Ready

1st Hard Disk

250GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)

2nd Hard Disk

1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive

24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Power Supply

CORSAIR 650W VS SERIES™ VS-650 POWER SUPPLY

Processor Cooling

Corsair H80i Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£69)

Sound Card

ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

USB Options

MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable

Operating System

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

Monitor

IIYAMA B2888UHSU-B1 28" 4K TN LED 3840x2160 Widescreen (£358)


TOTAL cost £1909.00

Let me know your thoughts please !!

 

[Gilliam]

All this goes into build phase today. Whats peoples thoughts on this system handling modded M/C with HD textures and recording at same time and also a good benchmark would be how well it could handle shaders packs

 

[Elec332]

Case

CORSAIR CARBIDE SERIES™ AIR 540 GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)

Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4790k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache

Motherboard

ASUS® Z97-A: ATX, USB3.0, SATA 6GB/S, SLi, XFIRE

Memory (RAM)

24GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (3 x 8GB)

Graphics Card

4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 - 1 DVI, 1 HDMI, 3 DP - 3D Vision Ready

1st Hard Disk

250GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)

2nd Hard Disk

1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive

24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Power Supply

CORSAIR 650W VS SERIES™ VS-650 POWER SUPPLY

Processor Cooling

Corsair H80i Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£69)

Sound Card

ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

USB Options

MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable

Operating System

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

Monitor

IIYAMA B2888UHSU-B1 28" 4K TN LED 3840x2160 Widescreen (£358)


TOTAL cost £1909.00

Let me know your thoughts please !!

Looks very cool,
The only thing I'd have changed is the MoBo, namely an: Gigabyte Z97-D3H GA-Z97-D3H

Very nice build

 

[tedyhere]

I would make double sure about that PSU being beefy enough to handle everything.

 

[midi_sec]

Any reason you're only running 3 sticks of ram? This processor's architecture does not support tri-channel, and by running 3 sticks you are actually going to hurt performance rather than help it. Either buy another stick, or only run 16gb ram.

@tedyhere the psu is fine. 54a on the +12v rail is more than ample power for virtually anything the OP would throw at it, up to and including SLi. Each GTX 980 consumes roughly 165w, which translates to about 14a @12v.

Other than that, the Asus board is fine. Asus makes good stuff. Gigabyte has been hit or miss with me for the past few years. They make boards with a lot of features, but if you intend on pushing your hardware at all, I would do your research on motherboards.

Speaking of pushing your hardware...why on earth do people insist on buying into these junk "hydro" cooling systems? If you're going to go watercooled, go to Danger Den and buy yourself some good hardware. If you're going to go through the hassle of maintaining a water loop, you may as well make it worth your while. I mean, the £69 you'd be wasting on Corsair's kit could be better spent on quality, and give your loop better performance.

 

[Gilliam]

Any reason you're only running 3 sticks of ram? This processor's architecture does not support tri-channel, and by running 3 sticks you are actually going to hurt performance rather than help it. Either buy another stick, or only run 16gb ram.

@tedyhere the psu is fine. 54a on the +12v rail is more than ample power for virtually anything the OP would throw at it, up to and including SLi. Each GTX 980 consumes roughly 165w, which translates to about 14a @12v.

Other than that, the Asus board is fine. Asus makes good stuff. Gigabyte has been hit or miss with me for the past few years. They make boards with a lot of features, but if you intend on pushing your hardware at all, I would do your research on motherboards.

Speaking of pushing your hardware...why on earth do people insist on buying into these junk "hydro" cooling systems? If you're going to go watercooled, go to Danger Den and buy yourself some good hardware. If you're going to go through the hassle of maintaining a water loop, you may as well make it worth your while. I mean, the £69 you'd be wasting on Corsair's kit could be better spent on quality, and give your loop better performance.

Thanks for feedback. Tbh I have no idea of spec builds and this was put together on a custom build PC website. I merely told them what I wanted to achieve as in a good spec PC for modded m/c and had textures. Also shaders mod. They actually said that 8gb would be ok but went for the 24gb ram to avoid out of memory issues I had with the new 5k iMac that I'm returning as it's not powerful enough to play say direwolf20 1.6 with 128bit sphax and screen record.

 

[midi_sec]

I have no idea why they would recommend 3 sticks of memory. I would be wary of that website, in that case.

 

[Gilliam]

Sorry. They wasn't recommending They was saying that 16gb would be ample. I selected the 3rd stick. But based on your advice I will go to 32 Gb

 

[Hambeau]

Sorry. They wasn't recommending They was saying that 16gb would be ample. I selected the 3rd stick. But based on your advice I will go to 32 Gb

By way of an explanation of why you should never use an odd number of memory modules...

Most quality mainboards use a technique called "interleave" with memory if there is an even number of modules. Using an odd number of modules forces the ram to be accessed sequentially... Ram0 is used first, then Ram1, then Ram2 (If you run software that uses that much memory).

With Interleave, memory is accessed in pairs of modules, with each address alternating between the modules. This means each module is only active for half the time, allowing faster access. Effectively, you access Ram0, Ram1, Ram0, Ram1 etc. until you have all that ram in use then you start using Ram2, Ram3, Ram2. Ram3 etc. if you have the second bank installed. To simplify, with an odd number of modules the ram is running at full speed since it has to be active for every address while with Interleave each module is only accessed every other address allowing either standard performance with slower parts or, with the proper motherboard, better parts to be run faster than standard, or to be stable in overclocked situations.