Thinking about a new sytem

YOUR BASKET
2 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99 (£479.98)
1 x Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - OEM £235.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UD3 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £179.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £59.99
2 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G186C9K) £41.99 (£83.98)
Total : £1,152.50 (includes shipping : £10.50).



PSU is rebranded seasonic. 850W for literally a couple of quid more than the 750W version. It's semi modular too and 80+ silver rated for efficiency. I used the UD3 to keep inline with what you seemed happy to spend all in. Part of me wanted to use the MSI TFIII 7950 to have the black PCB to match the mobo ;)
 
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I have been looking and looking for the ultimate upgrade for my budget for the past few weeks (Didn't want to rush as this has got to last me 3 years again) I think I have come up with it now, does anyone see any problems with this setup?

Its going in a corsair 800D, and I already have SSD/Hard Drives

I want to run eyefinity over 3 screens hence the display adaptor, also will that cooler clear the memory ok?

also if you have any suggestions on changes then please feel free to suggest away :D

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail with Dead Space 3 PC Game £467.99
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7970 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £349.99
1 x Asus P9X79 PRO Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £219.95
1 x Corsair Vengeance Blue 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B) £107.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova NEX 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £94.99
1 x Phanteks PH-TC12DX CPU Cooler - Blue (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £44.98
1 x HIS Active Mini DisplayPort to Single Link-DVI Eyefinity Adapter (HMDPSDVIEYE) £23.99
1 x Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £8.99
Total : £1,330.86 (includes shipping : £10.00).

 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail with Dead Space 3 PC Game £467.99
2 x HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795QC3G2M) with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £251.99 (£503.98)
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £59.99
2 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G186C9K) £49.99 (£99.98)
1 x HIS Active Mini DisplayPort to Single Link-DVI Eyefinity Adapter (HMDPSDVIEYE) £23.99
Total : £1,478.50 (includes shipping : £10.50).



Overclock the 7950 the 7970 isn't really worth the extra. I've gone with an Xfire setup as you want to power three screens, you could start with just the single GPU though and go from there. RAM is faster and cheaper, easily fits under the cooler and it overclocks past 2000Mhz.
 
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would you go down the AMD route?

8 core CPU factory clocked at 4ghz and the best AMD board for under £200?

YOUR BASKET
2 x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III Boost Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **NEW REVISION** with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99 (£479.98)
1 x Asus Crosshair V Formula Z AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £194.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £155.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel kit (PV316G160C9K) £99.95
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 1220 Series 4 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (LGA1155 / LGA1156 / LGA1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM2+ / AM3+) £97.58
1 x HIS Active Mini DisplayPort to Single Link-DVI Eyefinity Adapter (HMDPSDVIEYE) £23.99
Total : £1,064.47 (includes shipping : £10.00).



oops forgot PSU :D
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-000-XF
 
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and AMD cpus and mobo's are backwards compatible so you can upgrade your CPU and use it in your existing mobo

also save you a few quid aswell
 
but its double the price, and if hes only gaming then he can upgrade the CPU in the future without having to get a new chipset.

dont get me wrong x79 is very good but a lot of dosh when you can get the same out of it when gaming
 
Has AMD specifically comfirmed they will still be using the AM3+ chipset and will those chips perform better than the Sandy-E?
 
I'm not against going down the AMD route, as long as by doing that and changing the 7970 to 2 x 7950 will give me better gaming performance.
 
well i know that if you go with AMD you can get the new CPUs when they ger released and drop it straight into that mobo

i dont know how it will perform against sandy-E but again its half the price
 
What would bottleneck first, the 2 x 7950 or the AMD cpu? Just trying to justify going down the amd route and make sure this rig is future proof, as it does need to see the next three years of future games.

I really would like to get this ordered this week but I'm even more in two minds than I was before lol.
 
The CPU will limit your two cards if anything..

(not that im saying it will, its just the CPU will be the one bottlenecking first rather than the cards).
 
the CPU is most likely will be, but that wont be for a long time but you can upgrade to the latest AMD and pop it in, so you save by not having to get another motherboard.

tbh im looking into a AMD rig myself, but i think im going to wait till the new AMD cpu's and Nvidia's new cards to be released :)

you cant go wrong with how cheap AMD is atm, 8 cores at 4GHZ for less than £200 just seems like a bargin to me and like ive said before, best board OCUK has for the AMD CPU is less than £200 lol
 
It doesn't look like it performs to bad, I am tempted to go down this route now, when does AMD bring out it's next range of CPU's ?
 
Ok so how does this look? Have I missed anything?

I have hard drives (ssd)
I have optical drives
I have a case (Corsair 800D)
Monitors (x3)


YOUR BASKET
2 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £259.99 (£519.98)
1 x Asus Crosshair V Formula Z AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £194.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £155.99
1 x GeIL EVO Veloce Hot-Rod Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEV316GB2133C11DC) £129.95
1 x EVGA SuperNova NEX 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £94.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 920 Series 4 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (LGA1155 / LGA1156 / LGA1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM2+ / AM3+) £84.98
1 x Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £8.99
Total : £1,201.87 (includes shipping : £10.00).

 
Actually, I think I will change the PSU to a Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 850W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020043-UK) to be future proof
 
Also changed the cooler to a Cooler Master V8, I think I prefer air over water, and my current V8 has served me well, I would re-use it but I have lost the old brackets.

So here is suggested build, can anyone see any problems with this? or recommend any changes, I'm going to order tomorrow

YOUR BASKET
2 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £259.99 (£519.98)
1 x Asus Crosshair V Formula Z AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £194.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £155.99
1 x GeIL EVO Veloce Hot-Rod Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEV316GB2133C11DC) £129.95
1 x Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 850W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020043-UK) £109.99
1 x Cooler Master V8 CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £54.98
1 x Phanteks 140mm Fan Red PH-F140TS_RD £16.99
1 x Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £8.99
Total : £1,204.46 (includes shipping : £10.50).

 
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So I have decided to go a different route and ordered these, the only thing I have not ordered is a cooler as I'm not sure which one to go for as I don't want to go down the water route (Does anyone have any suggestions on a CPU cooler for this setup?)


Product Name


1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £233.29 (£233.29)

2 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £216.66 (£433.32)

1 x Asus Z77 Maximus V Formula Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £199.99 (£199.99)

1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £83.32 (£83.32)

1 x GeIL EVO Veloce Hot-Rod Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (GEV316GB1866C9DC) £74.99 (£74.99)

AMD Reloaded - Crysis 3 & Bioshock Games FREE with 79xx series £0.00 2 £0.00
DPD Next Day Parcel: £10.50
VAT: £207.08
Order Total: £1242.49
 
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