Hey, So after many years of faffing about with small upgrades it's time to retire the old dear's primary parts and put a new core of parts in place. My system is very old, but at the same time has been so very stable so I'm quite looking forward to this refresh. I currently have; Fractal Design R4 (Staying) CM Real Power 850W (Staying) Asus Rampage Formula (775) (Going) E6400 @ 3.24Ghz (Going) 8GB OCZ Reaper 8500 DDR2 (Going) EVGA GTX 460 (Would keep for 1 month or so with a 970 in mind) NEC Multisync 20WGX2 (Staying for now as it's still in brilliant order) 64GB Crucial C300 (Staying for OS) 1TB Samsung F3 (Staying) Asus Phoebus Solo Soundcard (Staying) Now as I haven't even looked at what developments have happened for an age my choices for replacement have been; Asus MAXIMUS VII RANGER Intel Z97, S1150, DDR3, PCIe 3.0 (x16), Quad SLi / CrossFireX, D-Sub (VGA) DVI-D HDMI, ATX. Intel Core i7 4790K, 1150, Haswell, 4 Core 4.4GHz Turbo, 5 GT/s DMI, 1.2GHz GPU, 40x Ratio, 84W, Retail *C0 Stepping* 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair DDR3 Vengeance Pro Series Red, PC3-17066 (2133), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 11-11-11-27, XMP, 1.5V Not sure if this makes sense, works together, fits in my case or would draw too much for the PSU so just after some sense checking and advice. Cheers, Plastic.
Nothing wrong with that at all. You PSU is more than powerful enough and would easily cope with a couple 970s on top of everything else so no issues there. It will fit just fine in your R4 case so once again no issues there. Not a lot more to say really. Those parts will do you just fine and last for a very long time I would imagine.
I'd be tempted to add a new, larger, harddrive, and move your current one to backup duties. It's something I do every so often and (touch wood) I've not had a harddrive fault that cost me any data for a long time.
