New Rig £1200-£1500

Doomedspeed said:
That zotac is a great match. I think that'd look great..
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Is there much difference performance between the Zotac and the titan? I don't mind the look of the titan ;)

not sure how much difference between 2GB and 4GB memory and a 2GB "OC" card...
 
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Performance wise im not sure, you may need to research that.

The design of the coolers are different though, the Zotac will blow air down out of the card (side of the card with thew fans on)

and the titan will blow air out of the back of the card.. (exhaust)

The differnce between the 4GB and 2GB OC is complex.

You can break a GPU down into chip, clock speed, memory spped and VRAM (there are a lot of other factor but these are the main drivers of performance).

The chips of the 2GB and 4GN will obviously be the same, GTX 780 chips. :)

The Clock speed and Memory speed is where the OC takes advantage, these OC versions have higher clock and memory than the stock stocks. Pre -overclocked if you will. :). This will increase the FPS seen in games.

VRAM helps when playing on bigger resolutions such as 1440p and 4k (if anyone does yet). It also helps with multi screen setups.

If you happy with 1 1080p/1200 monitor 2GB is more than enough.
 
Thank you Doomedspeed.

The only thing I think I want now is a CPU water cooler, i'd rather have new than reconditioned.

Any suggestions?
 
Doomedspeed said:
Choosing between the Z87X-OC and the Asus Hero is like choosing between Dairy milk and galaxy..

They are exactly the same in features and performance though they achieve it in different ways.

There is no wrong choice..

Just to even the battle i know two (highly respected) people on this forum, one (stulid) would go for the Z87X-OC and the other (idleman) would go for the Hero..

Personally that colour scheme looks so good i wouldn't bother changing it.. :)
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8 Pack does lean towards the OC board more than the Hero, must count for something?
 
What resolution will you be using OP and what games you gonna be playing? If your going with 1080p the 7970 will be fine, if your going 1440 or 1600p the 780 might be worth considering.

Personally I would save 20 quid and get the samsung 30nm 8GB kit of ram, and also I would go with a 3570k or 3770k if your planning on overclocking. If your not planning on overclocking the 4670k/4770k will be ok.

Reason I say this is Haswell overclocking is harder and more unpredictable as apposed to Ivy bridge.
 
I game on a single monitor at the mo but options going forward would be nice.

As far as the Haswell goes, I thought that was meant to be a fair bit better than ivybridge? Lots of people recommend/spec it??
 
No, Jaikon from what ive seen I wouldnt recommend haswell unless your not planning on overclocking much if any.

Ive seen people with 4770ks that cant even do like 4.2ghz without BSOD and/or high temp problems. Its not just one or two people either ive seen a lot of people with this problem.
 
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