First Time Building Gaming Rig.

Kendros said:
Hello,



Now I just got a couple of questions which I hope you guys can help me with.

1)Is there a possible bottleneck in this build?
2)Is there anything I could get better/same for cheaper? even though I am willing to spend, I prefer to save where possible.
3)Is the case good?
4)Anything crucial that I am missing? I know I gotta get a wireless adapter and I got the monitors/keyboard/mouse sorted.

It is my first time ever building a gaming desktop and I am a novice at this, so I appreciate anyone able to help.

Thank you.
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I would say the GPU should have been brought up for point 2) and this should really have been suggested. Same performance for a lot less money. Unless PhysX and/or CUDA is essential for you:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £229.99
Total : £241.39 (includes shipping : £9.50).

 
Ah yeah, I remember seeing my friend play BL 2 with PhysX on and thinking "Wow this looks sweet", So I think I will go for the Graphics card with PhysX.
But is Nvidia the only one capable of doing that?
 
Kendros said:
Ah yeah, I remember seeing my friend play BL 2 with PhysX on and thinking "Wow this looks sweet", So I think I will go for the Graphics card with PhysX.
But is Nvidia the only one capable of doing that?
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Well there is a fix (I believe only with some games) that can force the CPU to run PhysX, the alternative is what you've been looking at ie. the 670

Don't forget - not all games use PhysX so have a look at the list of titles that do and if you don't really play those games, then I'd say it's not something worth paying £100 for which is like just under half the cost of the 7950......

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/physx/pc-games
 
True, I do play a few of those games, but if the 7950 gives the same performace at over £100 cheaper, it seems best just to save my money.
 
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