About to buy - Final check on £1200 gaming pc?

[The_Ollienator]

So i've got £1200 burning a hole in my pocket for a nice new gaming PC and would appreciate checking over the build. I've posted before, but was advised to check when i was ready to buy, so here i am.

Already have the RAM, Case and Motherboard thanks to a cashback deal and snapping up deals where i could, but thought i'd include them anyway. I also have a copy of windows and peripherals etc.

I know the PSU is overkill, but I will 100% be adding a second GTX 780 in the future. I know SLI on the gaming 5 is restricted to PCI-E x8, but this makes minimal difference (maybe 2-3% performance drop) so i'm not bothered by that.
Any opinions would be great.


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£167.94 @ Scan.co.uk)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 93.3 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler (£62.63 @ Scan.co.uk)
Motherboard: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£106.76 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury Red Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£60.29 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£92.95 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 780 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£339.95 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT H440 (Red/Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£89.99 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£97.80 @ Scan.co.uk)
Monitor: Dell U2414H 60Hz 23.8" Monitor (£167.94 @ Aria PC)
Total: £1186.25
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

[jim]

You've already said it, but your PSU is overspec'd.

650W should be ample for dual 780 SLI, giving you 25% headroom or so.

[Domestic_Ginger]

Running a 60hz monitor are you going to need the extra frames from sli. A quick look at the hexus review and crysis 3 seems be the only sub 60fps at 1920*1080 with a slideshow like 55 fps.

[The_Ollienator]

Oh, I'm in absolutely no rush to do SLI, but I will put another GTX 780 in before I upgrade anything else in all likelihood. (We are talking a year or so down the line, post-800 series release when prices drop for the 700 series)

[Pob255]

The only thing I'd say is, is a 250gb ssd going to be enough? games will chew through your storage capacity fast, I'd add in an additional hard drive or reuse your current one (if your specs are correct) in addition to an ssd, maybe knock the ssd down to a 120gb one, and only put games you play regularly on the ssd.

[Xlucine]

You've already said it, but your PSU is overspec'd.

650W should be ample for dual 780 SLI, giving you 25% headroom or so.

Are you sure? Nvidia say the 780 has a 250W TDP, so with two of them and 100w for the processor, motherboard etc then that's 600W used already in a worse case scenario with no overclock applied to any components

[jim]

Are you sure? Nvidia say the 780 has a 250W TDP, so with two of them and 100w for the processor, motherboard etc then that's 600W used already in a worse case scenario with no overclock applied to any components

They may well say that, but it doesn't use anything like that much in reality.

[Skierbruce]

What you have there is a quality build and its better to spend more money and get an overly excessive psu for expandability in the future than spend less and get a bad one. I wish i had the money for this build!

[The_Ollienator]

Thanks all for the input, i've gone ahead and bought this now after your confirmations. Just the SSD left to buy, and i'll probably up it to a 500GB

[mikeo01]

I would of gone with THIS GPU myself. Save yourself £50, 4GB VRAM and better performance + 3 free games.

And probably a cheaper AIO water cooling solution or Phanteks U-type for £38 for that CPU for lower OC. It already boosts up to 3.9Ghz.

Personally

[KeyboardDemon]

The only thing I'd say is, is a 250gb ssd going to be enough? games will chew through your storage capacity fast, I'd add in an additional hard drive or reuse your current one (if your specs are correct) in addition to an ssd, maybe knock the ssd down to a 120gb one, and only put games you play regularly on the ssd.

I would consider spending a little extra and getting something like one of the new 512gb Crucial MX100 SSDs, I am strongly considering getting one of these for myself.

[The_Ollienator]

Are the new mx100s better than the samsungs Evos? I haven't got the ssd yet.

[Bonebreaker777]

Are the new mx100s better than the samsungs Evos? I haven't got the ssd yet.

Well, for less money you get more space plus very similar performance, in case you choose the MX100 over the Samsung EVO. They reliability should be the same. Your choice.

[KeyboardDemon]

Are the new mx100s better than the samsungs Evos? I haven't got the ssd yet.

A review was published by the guys at Hexus yesterday, have a read here.

[heinsmit]

PSU is overkill. Can save by downgrading on that and maybe switching to an AMD GPU.

[HDGamer]

I can vouch for the 780, as I have the identical MSI Twin Frozr model. Keeps it quiet and cool I can assure you, Enjoy!