Long story short - will this work and any suggestions for changes?
| Type | Item | Price NZD | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core i7-4790K 4Ghz | £250 | i7s have served me well and 4Ghz is no joke. With the drastic increase in CPU power I expect to be saving lots of little bits of time in lots of my workflow. |
| CPU Cooler | CM Hyper 212 | £25 | For security of mind and for a quieter desk, the cost is so negligible that I am just going to shrug and buy this well reviewed unit. |
| Graphics | NVIDIA GTX 980 | £400 | 2x 970s would be nice, but some people have reported problems using SLI in a Hackintosh and so I am choosing to avoid it. Any thoughts? |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD7 TH | £200 | Going to be filling up every SATA port I think. Erk. |
| RAM | Crucial 2x 8Gb DDR3 | £100 | I have Photoshop files that often hit 2-3 Gigabytes in size, the additional RAM feels like a worthy investment. I considered going for DDR4, but not sure if it's supported with my CPU. |
| Storage | 256Gb Crucial SSD | £110 | Ok. 2x 128Gb drives or 1x 256Gb drive? Tricky. Already going to be hitting my limits of SATA ports easily enough, but I kinda want the peace of mind 2x would give me. |
| Storage | 4x Various | N/A | I have a serious hodgepodge of old HDDs. I'm going to plug in 4 of them to available slots and have a wonderfully confusing array of HDDs totalling about 7Tb of Space. I somehow doubt it'll be enough. |
| Power Supply | Antec TPC 550W | £60 | Thanks to /r/buildapc for a better PSU suggestion. |
| Case | Fractal Define R5 Black Pearl | £80 | Simple. Minimal. My room is a gorgeous shade of white, so I cannot buy a white case as they would never match in a million years. |
| Keyboard | KBT Pure Pro | N/A | I love this Keyboard to bits and you won't change my mind on this gorgeous little thing. |
| Mouse | Razer Deathadder | N/A | This mouse, on the other hand, is a dark horse and we may be parting ways. The feet have come off and I'm now using a teflon tape which I have ended up supergluing to the bottom of the mouse. I am… displeased with Razer's shoddy support for a non-US customer. Probably going to end up buying a new one at some point. |
| Total | £1200 |
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