New gaming pc

[bobkelso]

Hi I'm looking to make a new pc and upgrade to 1440p I have a mouse and keyboard. Pc is just for gaming.

CPU amd fx 8350 £143.99
MOBO asus sabertooth 990FX r2 £124.90
RAM 8gb corsair vengeance LP 2133mhz £53.49 have ordered this
GPU gigabyte R9 290 £325.55
cpu cooler corsair H100 manufacturer refurbished £44 (after research and constraints of a budget)
PSU I have a antec truepower new 650w
CASE NZXT phantom 530 £99.04
Total £790.97
Also I may use my 560ti for now and see what comes in the next few weeks gpu wise.
(not at 1440p ofc)

 

[NeverBackDown]

Looks good but i would change the following..

Get a Fractal Arc Midi R2. Personally IMO it is a superior case and cheaper.. i have an R4 and i wish i would have gotten a Midi.

Since the Midi has a window though you should upgrade the d14 to a H80i or h100i for aesthetics(and slight performance increase).

As you also said i would personally would wait for the GPU side of things.

 

[WhiskeyOnFire]

Be carefull about those ram speeds. The FX chips have a tendency to only run about 1866mhz. But it looks good dude. Good luck with the build

 

[Feronix]

Looks good but i would change the following..

Get a Fractal Arc Midi R2. Personally IMO it is a superior case and cheaper.. i have an R4 and i wish i would have gotten a Midi.

Since the Midi has a window though you should upgrade the d14 to a H80i or h100i for aesthetics(and slight performance increase).

As you also said i would personally would wait for the GPU side of things.

Agreed with all of this.

Also; Don't expect to go SLI in the future on that AMD platform, not even with a PSU supply upgrade. Just saying

 

[bobkelso]

Thanks for the replies, about the case I wanted the define R4 because I was looking for a quiet pc this time around.
I was not looking to go sli but thanks for the heads up. And on the ram front there are also these which I have looked at, personal preference towards the kingston beast.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-Te...&sr=1-1-fkmr1&keywords=kingston+beast+8gb+2x4

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00AZMDROE/?tag=pcp0f-21

Oh and the cooler yea the H100i is only just over £10 more than the H80i so I'd go for that thx.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Thanks for the replies, about the case I wanted the define R4 because I was looking for a quiet pc this time around.
I was not looking to go sli but thanks for the heads up. And on the ram front there are also these which I have looked at, personal preference towards the kingston beast.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-Te...&sr=1-1-fkmr1&keywords=kingston+beast+8gb+2x4

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00AZMDROE/?tag=pcp0f-21

Oh and the cooler yea the H100i is only just over £10 more than the H80i so I'd go for that thx.

The R4 with a window doesn't dampen the sound much because well... It's half plastic. The non-window version will help much more but then it is just a normal size case that costs quite a bit. Arc Midi R2 is the better overall case. Plus with an h100i you could run the fans slow and still keep the case(computer) pretty quite.

 

[Feronix]

What about a Nanoxia case then?

http://www.nanoxia-world.com/allproducts/1/Gehäuse/

Or maybe a Corsair 330r which is in the same price range, I think.

 

[bobkelso]

So a few new things which I edited my first post for. I've been looking the phantom 530 I like the look of it but still would like opinions, and don't want to spend more than £100 on a case especially if I need to get more fans which I would for this case.

 

[barnsley]

in terms of SLI with this processor I'd say the max config you could have without the cpu starting to bottleneck it is two 770s.