Dual screen gaming setup £600

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MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti Twin FrozR II 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £169.99
(£141.66) £169.99
(£141.66)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £164.99
(£137.49) £164.99
(£137.49)
MSI P67A-C45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £89.98
(£74.98) £89.98
(£74.98)
OCZ StealthXStream 2 600W Power Supply £50.99
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Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £39.98
(£33.32) £39.98
(£33.32)
Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £33.98
(£28.32) £33.98
(£28.32)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500413AS) £27.98
(£23.32) £27.98
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Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
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Sub Total : £494.90
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Stulid, out of interest, how well does that motherboard overclock? My knowledge on the Sandybridge CPUs/motherboards is very lacking. A friend of mine is thinking of a similar build.
 
Obviously I have never used one, but all the reviews i seen suggest its fine, the price is killer!!!
 
kalvindeane said:
Stulid, out of interest, how well does that motherboard overclock? My knowledge on the Sandybridge CPUs/motherboards is very lacking. A friend of mine is thinking of a similar build.
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Stullid specced me the same mobo and cpu combo and the board overclocks really well. You can't touch the base clockrate on sandybridge cpus without frying them so its pure multiplier abuse. I bought a corsair H60 cooler for my i5 2500k chip and its currently fully stable at 4.5ghz at 1.27vcore so still plenty left in it :)

Highly recommend the board and cpu (+ a good cooler!)
 
Thanks, but I'm never getting an MSI motherboard again.
Any alternatives?
And IF I do go triple screen would the 560 still be enough? Don't I need more video ram?

I'm currently on a 4890 and its struggling on dual. although maybe that's got to do with the CPU being very slow.
Also I would prefer 8GB of ram.

how is this? a bit of compromise on the CPU.


Asus ATI Radeon HD 6950 DirectCU II 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £199.99
(£166.66) £199.99
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AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.40GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.40GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
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Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £88.99
(£74.16) £88.99
(£74.16)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £71.99
(£59.99) £71.99
(£59.99)
OCZ StealthXStream 2 700W Power Supply OCZ StealthXStream 2 700W Power Supply £60.98
(£50.82) £60.98
(£50.82)
Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £33.98
(£28.32) £33.98
(£28.32)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £32.99
(£27.49) £32.99
(£27.49)
Sony DDU1681S-0B 18x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM Sony DDU1681S-0B 18x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £13.99
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Sub Total : £502.42
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Total : £615.50
 
£600 and you want to buy AMD? lol wut?

theres a Gigabyte P67 board at £114
 
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Yeah I just reminded myself of the benchmarks.
That wasn't very clever.

But I was trying to fit 8GB of memory and a 2GB graphics card. Everything else is pretty much set in stone price wise.
 
If you really dont want an MSI board? god knows why?

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti Twin FrozR II 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £169.99
(£141.66) £169.99
(£141.66)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £164.99
(£137.49) £164.99
(£137.49)
Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 Intel P67 Chipset (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £114.98
(£95.82) £114.98
(£95.82)
Corsair Builder Series CX 500W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-500CXUK) £47.99
(£39.99) £47.99
(£39.99)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £39.98
(£33.32) £39.98
(£33.32)
Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £33.98
(£28.32) £33.98
(£28.32)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500413AS) £30.98
(£25.82) £30.98
(£25.82)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
(£13.32) £15.98
(£13.32)
Sub Total : £515.74
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Total : £632.39


With Nvidia you need two cards in SLI to get three screens.

With ATI you can use one card to power three screens. as long as you use a Active display port adapter ( which converts the display port into DVI) or you use a monitor with a displayport input, so you dont need the adapter.

OR!!

you can use one of these cards,

http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?leg=&psn=000101&pid=1099
http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?leg=&psn=000101&pid=1084

Whch because they are FLEX can power three monitors at the same res without using the displayport adapter or a monitor with displayport input.
 
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stulid said:
8GB of ram, is this PC for video encoding? or gaming? because the title says gaming.
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Yeah sorry, I didn't have the full info at the beginning. Machines not for me, its for my cousin. I was told a gaming machine. So i just asked and the extra memory is for a game called Eve online where you can run multiple clients simultaneously which uses up loads of RAM.

He has 4GB on his AM2+ system now and its not enough.

As for MSI boards, I've been building PCs for a long long while, and i just had a bad batch run that's put me off them.
 
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well, done another build above, and some explanation on how to get three screens working as one (i.e a single large surface)
 
Thanks.
So instead of the 560 shoulfn't I get at least a 6950 1Gb to cover a 3 screen option rather than an Nvidia?
or is the 560 much faster?
 
sswats said:
Thanks.
So instead of the 560 shoulfn't I get at least a 6950 1Gb to cover a 3 screen option rather than an Nvidia?
or is the 560 much faster?
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Like I said, you need two cards in SLI for three screens from Nvidia.

You either need a single ATI card using a expensive Active (not passive) displayport adaptor, or at least one of the monitors needs to have a displayport input.

Or use a FLEX card, and just use three monitors with DVI, HDMI mix and match
 
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