£1300 gaming build...!?

It's a bit of a lottery, much like CPUs. If you buy an already overclocked card, then you know you already got that boost.
But yeah, just get a good brand of card with a custom cooler on it. Whatever's on offer this week is usually the way to go.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7970 IceQ X² 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H797QM3G2M) with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £323.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Dell Studio S2340L 23" IPS Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £161.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Series SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive - (MZ-7PC256B/WW) £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £108.98
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £94.99
1 x Antec P280 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black £64.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD10EZRX) **SINGLE PLATTER** £57.98
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB2133C11DC) £39.95
1 x Thermalright HR-02 Macho CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1155/LGA1366) £29.18
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
1 x Boogie Bug AimB.Pad "Extreme" XXL Gaming Mouse Surface £11.99
Total : £1,243.72 (includes shipping : £14.75).



Ok well thats what i've come up with tonight. Abit left to play with but could always put that towards a keyboard or something.

Any thoughts? anything people would change?

Cheers for all the help so far guys, was absolutely lost before.
 
Demons UK said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7970 IceQ X² 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H797QM3G2M) with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £323.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Dell Studio S2340L 23" IPS Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £161.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Series SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive - (MZ-7PC256B/WW) £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £108.98
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £94.99
1 x Antec P280 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black £64.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD10EZRX) **SINGLE PLATTER** £57.98
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB2133C11DC) £39.95
1 x Thermalright HR-02 Macho CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1155/LGA1366) £29.18
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
1 x Boogie Bug AimB.Pad "Extreme" XXL Gaming Mouse Surface £11.99
Total : £1,243.72 (includes shipping : £14.75).



Ok well thats what i've come up with tonight. Abit left to play with but could always put that towards a keyboard or something.

Any thoughts? anything people would change?

Cheers for all the help so far guys, was absolutely lost before.
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I'd recommend switching to a better CPU cooler e.g. a Noctua NH-D14. Since the cooler is an integral part of your overclock and general CPU health it is important to get it right.

Your RAM will definitely offer no advantage over 1600MHz for gaming, so that is an area where you can save money with 0 performance cost.

The new OCZ Vertex 4 SSD has extremely high random read speeds which is what you want for an OS drive.

Otherwise, the HD 7950 would offer almost all the performance of the 7970 for significantly less, but if you do want the best stick with the 7970 of course.
 
Ok thanks mate, will swap the RAM later to something 1600mhz.

I'm not to sure on the heat sink either, I was thinking about the dark knight sd-1283? I know it's even cheaper then the one selected but it's seems to has pretty good review.. Plus it looks sweet :D

Will take a look at the ssd's later, cheers.
 
I would definitely go down the 120hz/7950 route, a lot more bang for your buck. You'll then have a 120hz 1080p monitor for future gpu's to make mince meat of.
 
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I can understand the 7950 as its £90 odd cheaper then the HIS 7970 and will perform pretty much the same in any games I'm going to play. I don't think the extra is better spent on 120hrz though as i don't just play FPS games i also do a lot of random desktop work and think an IPS panel would suit..

I'm still messing with the spec but with the 7950 its coming under budget, with only a slight performance decrease, not to mention the MSI looks better then the HIS :p
 
I've pretty much decided i'm an ATI guy, can't help it.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III OC V2 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £249.95
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Dell Studio S2340L 23" IPS Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £161.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Series SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive - (MZ-7PC256B/WW) £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £108.98
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £94.99
1 x Antec P280 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black £64.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD10EZRX) **SINGLE PLATTER** £57.98
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £29.99
1 x Xigmatek Dark Knight SD-1283 Night Hawk Edition CPU Cooler (Socket LGA 2011/1366/1156/1155/775 and AMD FM1/AM3/AM2+/AM2) £28.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
1 x Boogie Bug AimB.Pad "Extreme" XXL Gaming Mouse Surface £11.99
Total : £1,159.52 (includes shipping : £14.75).



Now this comes under budget but i think its pretty good for the price, can always put the 7970 back in and its still £60 under budget!
 
Thanks for that, changed it.

Think I'll stick with the 7870 just because I can and it's still in the budget. The rest can go on a keyboard :p
 
Sweet, swapped it over.

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7970 IceQ X² Turbo 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H797QMT3G2M) with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £329.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Dell Studio S2340L 23" IPS Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £161.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Series SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive - (MZ-7PC256B/WW) £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £108.98
1 x Silverstone Strider Plus 750W Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply (ST75F-P) £104.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £66.66
1 x Antec P280 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black £64.99
1 x Xigmatek Dark Knight SD-1283 Night Hawk Edition CPU Cooler (Socket LGA 2011/1366/1156/1155/775 and AMD FM1/AM3/AM2+/AM2) £28.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £25.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
1 x Boogie Bug AimB.Pad "Extreme" XXL Gaming Mouse Surface £11.99
Total : £1,253.04 (includes shipping : £13.75).



Pretty sure i've got the spec all sorted, only thing is i expect i'll change the HD back as i've never been the biggest fan of seagate.

Also i could swap the SSD to this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-150-SA&groupid=701&catid=2104&subcat=2394 ?

Same specs apart from being made for a laptop..? saves afew quid?
 
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