Good Gaming build?

[honosuseri]

not really, I guess like most occasional shoppers, you go with what you know most of the time...

interesting about the CPU difference, does having the Ivy bridge version of the i5 and no the the sandy bridge give it the same issues as the i7?

Also, with the 680 vs the 670, would you not recommend getting it if you could, and not have to justify the extra cash? If it's definitely not worth it then I'd consider going back to the 670, it's what I looked at 1st anyway)

Ivybridge uses less power and has a better IGP than sandybridge, it also does more clock for clock so dont worry about trying to match the overclocks.

The IGP is used by quicksync to help with video encoding and can be used by the lucidMVP software to boost the GPU performance too.

The 670 is a cutdown 680. They cut off very little though, a few cuda cores and a lower clock speed. You'll notice my suggested 670 is already heavily overclocked to counter this, the GB 670 is good too.

Remember with nvidia you also get cuda support, you really wont miss the hyperthreading the i7 gives you

 

[Roach75]

Well, thanks for the info chaps, I open to more suggestions too, as it will be a month or two before I get the cash in my hands... grrr

 

[honosuseri]

Well, thanks for the info chaps, I open to more suggestions too, as it will be a month or two before I get the cash in my hands... grrr

Might be worth waiting on Haswell early next year then perhaps?

 

[Remote_zero]

Well, thanks for the info chaps, I open to more suggestions too, as it will be a month or two before I get the cash in my hands... grrr

Repost when you've got the cash, it will all have changed by then

 

[Remote_zero]

This might be nice, just to take a different spin on it.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Hazro HZ27WB 10-Bit 27" Widescreen Professional Monitor - Black £379.99
2 x MSI GeForce GTX 670 OC Twin Frozr Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (N670GTX PE 2GD5/OC) £311.99 (£623.98)
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £94.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £69.98
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G) £64.99
1 x Antec P280 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black £64.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD10EZEX - OEM ** Single Platter ** £61.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket LGA2011/1366/1155/1156/775/ AMD AM3/AM3+/AM2/AM2+/FM1) £29.99
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £23.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £1,750.99 (includes shipping : £20.10).



EDIT: ok, not that different. I didn't notice GZA's 670 sli spec. 1440p would be sweet though.