Build Help, please

Serix

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Build Assistance, Please
The wife spilled tea all over my first pc build a couple of weeks ago so I have the joy of rebuilding it. I am trying to not buy a new case; the case I have is a NZXT Phantom 410 Series CA-PH410-W1 Black/White Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case. I will probably my a K version of the Haswell i5 (3.4 GHz).

So far I have purchased:

G.SKILL Trident X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2400 (PC3 19200) Desktop Memory Model F3-2400C10D-8GTX

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ASUS MAXIMUS VII HERO LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

I am thinking about buying this graphics card: EVGA SuperClocked w/ ACX Cooling 02G-P4-2774-KR GeForce GTX 770 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card

So I have a few concerns/questions:

1. I am thinking I will need at least a decent 850w PSU. Could I get away with less?
2. Trying to find a decent cooler, water or air, that will fit along with my memory, mobo and planned graphics card.

Any help/suggestions would very much appreciated!
 
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Dunlop0078

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850watts? lol who told you that? Get a good quality 550watt psu like a seasonic or xfx. And noctua make good coolers the noctua NH-U9B is a good smaller one. the cooler master hyper 212 is very large but also very cheap and it keeps the cpu nice and cool.
 

minato212

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The video card is great . A 550w PSU that is 80+ gold from seasonic or cooler master will do the job if u are not thinking of upgrading it later of course, and for water cooling , I recommend the corsair H80i or if you want air cooling go for a Noctua , but u can get something cheaper if you are not going to overclock the CPU , that i always recommend because you can squeeze 25% more performance from it . Have fun :D.
 

Serix

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These are helpful answers but don't fully answer my concerns. If I get something like a noctua d14 will fit on my board in my case with the ram I'm getting? I just wanna make sure if the parts I get will fit in my case.

How is 550w high enough....the card alone needs 600w. I will want to OC everything.
 

Dunlop0078

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The card does not need anywhere near 600watts they just say that bc people like to buy 30 dollar ebay psu's and think everything is gonna work okay. And we have no way of knowing if that cooler will fit your specific board with your specific ram in your specific case.
 

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If you are going to use only one of that cards (GTX 770) a 650W PSU is enough (Max wattage: 250 GPU, 120 OCed CPU, approx. 70 mobo, 20 RAM and that only during a few seconds, 40 if two HDDs, and 20 if three fans => less than 650, and that only if everything it's at max load).

The cooler depends on your OC expectatives. I have the Raijintek Aidos, as it's very cheap and effective, but I won't be able to OC above 4,3 stably.
Cooler Master 212 evo is the best in performance/price.

R9 280X is nowadays better in performance/price, also. They have similar performance, but the r9 is usually cheaper.
 

minato212

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Don't worry , everything will fit perfectly in your case.It's a great ATX case and if u live in a place where it gets pretty hot you should get 1 or 2 more fans , because with the case ,they come only 3 fans that by what I see will do negative case pressure (that means that more air enters and less , leaves the case (its not that big of a deal but a cold case means a fast PC)) And they lie about needing that much of wattage its not needed for nothing , u'll be fine with 550w but they need tobe high quality like it would be a seasonic 80+ gold PSU.
 

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