Opinions on new gaming build under £1k

[Charlie Allombert]

Hello,

Buying a new build and wanted to go for something like this:


Customizations:
CPU: 2230 - NEW! Intel Core i5 4690K
CPU Cooler: 3027 - Cooler Master Seidon 120V Water Cooler
Operating System: No OS
Motherboard: 4223 - NEW! Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 3
RAM: 5041 - 8GB Corsair 1600mhz Vengeance (2x4GB)
Hard Drive: 6074 - NEW! Kingston 120GB SSD
Secondary Hard Drive: 6028 - 1TB S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s
Optical Drive: 7003 - 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA
Graphics card: 8135 - NEW! NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB
Sound card: 10001 - Onboard 7.1 Audio
Case: 17081 - Cooler Master 690 III
PSU: 18062 - NEW! 750W Corsair CS Modular


Cost: £962


Does that sound okay for the price?

I tend to game whilst having 15 chrome tabs opened, will that RAM be okay?

 

[-HH-]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£174.00 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 3 113.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler (£49.98 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£88.76 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury White Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.59 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£72.40 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£101.20 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB SSC ACX 2.0 Video Card (£287.66 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£57.41 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£69.70 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1002.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-08 10:57 BST+0100

£2 over budget... Can you settle that though?

Black and white build, 16gb RAM and it's super powerful and awesome!

 

[-HH-]

Doesnt the SLI Krait have a high failure rate?

Not that I have heard of?

I just made a black and white build I thought would be great at everything.

 

[deadmc26]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£174.00 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 3 113.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler (£49.98 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£88.76 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury White Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.59 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£72.40 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£101.20 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB SSC ACX 2.0 Video Card (£287.66 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£57.41 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£69.70 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1002.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-08 10:57 BST+0100

£2 over budget... Can you settle that though?

Black and white build, 16gb RAM and it's super powerful and awesome!

the i5 only handle dual channel ram

 

[-HH-]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£174.00 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 3 113.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler (£49.98 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£88.76 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury White Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.59 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£72.40 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£101.20 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB SSC ACX 2.0 Video Card (£287.66 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£57.41 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£69.70 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1002.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-08 10:57 BST+0100

£2 over budget... Can you settle that though?

Black and white build, 16gb RAM and it's super powerful and awesome!

the i5 only handle dual channel ram

I'm pretty sure it was optimal is duel channel RAM then the performance degrades a bit. All Socket 1150's are best with duel channel RAM but I'm evidently sure that they can do Quad channel easily, assuming that PCPartPicker picks up any build issues anyway...

Works out to be a couple quid cheaper.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£174.90 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 3 113.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler (£46.57 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£88.76 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.08 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Kingston Fury White Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.84 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£72.40 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£101.20 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB SSC ACX 2.0 Video Card (£287.66 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£57.41 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£69.70 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £997.52
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-08 12:01 BST+0100

 

[Charlie Allombert]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£174.00 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 3 113.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler (£49.98 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£88.76 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury White Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.59 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£72.40 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£101.20 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB SSC ACX 2.0 Video Card (£287.66 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£57.41 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£69.70 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1002.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-08 10:57 BST+0100

£2 over budget... Can you settle that though?

Black and white build, 16gb RAM and it's super powerful and awesome!

the i5 only handle dual channel ram

I'm pretty sure it was optimal is duel channel RAM then the performance degrades a bit. All Socket 1150's are best with duel channel RAM but I'm evidently sure that they can do Quad channel easily, assuming that PCPartPicker picks up any build issues anyway...

Works out to be a couple quid cheaper.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£174.90 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 3 113.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler (£46.57 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£88.76 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.08 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Kingston Fury White Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.84 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£72.40 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£101.20 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB SSC ACX 2.0 Video Card (£287.66 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£57.41 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£69.70 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £997.52
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-08 12:01 BST+0100

Okay, I'm buying this now. I only ever built a mining rig but it can't be much harder to build inside a case, can it?

 

[-HH-]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£174.00 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 3 113.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler (£49.98 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£88.76 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury White Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.59 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£72.40 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£101.20 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB SSC ACX 2.0 Video Card (£287.66 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£57.41 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£69.70 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1002.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-08 10:57 BST+0100

£2 over budget... Can you settle that though?

Black and white build, 16gb RAM and it's super powerful and awesome!

the i5 only handle dual channel ram

I'm pretty sure it was optimal is duel channel RAM then the performance degrades a bit. All Socket 1150's are best with duel channel RAM but I'm evidently sure that they can do Quad channel easily, assuming that PCPartPicker picks up any build issues anyway...

Works out to be a couple quid cheaper.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£174.90 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 3 113.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler (£46.57 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£88.76 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.08 @ CCL Computers)
Memory: Kingston Fury White Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.84 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£72.40 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£101.20 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB SSC ACX 2.0 Video Card (£287.66 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£57.41 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£69.70 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £997.52
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-08 12:01 BST+0100

Okay, I'm buying this now. I only ever built a mining rig but it can't be much harder to build inside a case, can it?

Nope, just have to keep attention on cable management a bit more, that's why I personally put a modular PSU on there.

 

[sora]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£174.00 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 3 113.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler (£49.98 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£88.76 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury White Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.59 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£72.40 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£101.20 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB SSC ACX 2.0 Video Card (£287.66 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£57.41 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£69.70 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1002.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-08 10:57 BST+0100

£2 over budget... Can you settle that though?

Black and white build, 16gb RAM and it's super powerful and awesome!

16GB RAM isn't really needed today though haha. Great build nonetheless!

 

[-HH-]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£174.00 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 3 113.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler (£49.98 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£88.76 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury White Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£51.59 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£49.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£72.40 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£101.20 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB SSC ACX 2.0 Video Card (£287.66 @ Aria PC)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£57.41 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: XFX XTR 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£69.70 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1002.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-04-08 10:57 BST+0100

£2 over budget... Can you settle that though?

Black and white build, 16gb RAM and it's super powerful and awesome!

16GB RAM isn't really needed today though haha. Great build nonetheless!

Thanks , it sounded like what he was doing is RAM intensive and will deal with multi tasking a little better than 8GB, I personally use around 10GB on my rig.