Advice on a £1000 gaming rig

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My computer told me its time to upgrade by exploding lol so I saved up a £1000 to get a new gaming rig but its been a few years from when I last built my own system so I need advice on what components are worth buying now. I also need a new monitor mines around 10 years old and finally going lol it was a good one lasted that long.

I'm thinking of going intel this time and I don't mind which graphics card to pick what I would basically like to know what chipset to focus on and which processor is worth it everything else I can figure out from there but still any advice on other components would be a great help :)

Everything I need is hardware only I have all the software from my previous PC I am not going to bother salvaging any hardware not after what happened to it I would not trust even the case lol

Thanks for any help

Jason
 
what do you use the pc for, and i'll spec one for you, both above are good ones

i know you have put gaming, anything else and what type of games, as sometimes i'd alter something like a slow cpu or different type and better vga etc, space req so either a large slower hdd or a small solid state one etc
 
Thanks for advice what is interesting is what is similar between the two builds.

Its just a general gaming pc I play all sorts from fps to rpgs so I want something that can handle anything.

So lets see whats the same:

MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III OC V2 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with SIX FREE PC GAMES - Good card the same on both specs :)

Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail - Checked it on the list and the next processor, actually the same one but with hypertreading is £60 more so I take it that this is best for your cash you get before your sending more than your getting.

Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - Same motherboard should be good and am interested in crossfire but is it worth it?

Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) - Currently had a standard sata harddrive hope it survived lol so a ssd would be good to have :)

LG GH24NS95 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM - I have a few rewriters hanging around so i can skip this one.....do I even need one? Not sure when was the last time I used my old one :/

Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) - I was wondering are liquid cooling systems any good?

That's it for the ones that are the same so ill add the above to my basket but the rest are different i'll list them below and see which one is better I don't mind adding a bit extra its not the cost but rather performance i want to go after.

Samsung S24B300HL 23.6" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black
Samsung S24B300BS 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Glossy Black
Same Price and specs but one is .4" smaller so bigger one it is? Any other difference?

Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply
XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply
Hmmm 300w for an extra £20 are they both ok in reliability? If so ill go with the 850w encase i need more power later without spending on another psu.

TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01)
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX)
Another two with the same specs but different price but the kingston has something called Intel® XMP is that why there is a difference is it worth the extra? Is it worth adding another 8 gigs up to 16?

Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002)
Hmm the 1tb has 32mb rather than 16mb and has twice the capacity for an extra £15

Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black
BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black
From these two i like the Zalman better but other than looks not much difference between them I think.

Almost got the specs I am looking for just have to chose between the different components that there are two off, but its looking good thanks to the guys who offered the different specs :)
 
Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply
XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply
Hmmm 300w for an extra £20 are they both ok in reliability? If so ill go with the 850w encase i need more power later without spending on another psu.

Both are made by seasonic, so don't worry about changing to the xfx one. It's practically the same. If you don't plan to SLI/ Crossfire though you will be getting a worse efficiency than getting the 550w. That means spending more money on power bills

Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002)
Hmm the 1tb has 32mb rather than 16mb and has twice the capacity for an extra £15

If you have the money then go for it, you have a SSD so it won't make things any slower
 
There is no need for 16GB RAM for games. That is only useful if video editing or photo editing and the PC has to load huge files into the RAM.

My PC is very similar spec and games never use more than 4gb RAM.

+1 on the 7950 - it can be overclocked to surpass the 7970 if needed (not that you would, its already a monster)
Everything looks good IMO.
 

Looks just like the build i posted above with different monitor :D

as previous poster said, 16gb isn't need for gaming yet (crysis 3 might be first to push the limits of 8gb) but should you ever need an extra 8gb in a year or two. will be cheap as chips by then to upgrade.

also reason i put the 23.6" monitor is it has a hdmi connection. i personally prefer hdmi over dvi.
 
8gb RAM is more than enough.

The SSD in your current spec has terrible write speeds.

Go with this one. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=hd-000-sd

ssd's: sequential read write speeds have nothing to do with the speed of the ssd

all about the random read / write iops

go look up some speed tests comparing the ssd's 840 is one of the fastest and great quality ssd's.

random read chart

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/ssd-charts-2012/as-ssd-4k-random-read,2784.html

random write

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/ssd-charts-2012/AS-SSD-4K-Random-Write,2785.html
 
Don't get the MSI 7950 Twin Forzr III. Not worth the risk....

At current prices - get the Gigaybyte Windforce 3x or the HIS Ice Q Boost (Gigaybyte at current prices edges it slightly)
 
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