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Resa69

Resa69

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I just ordered my phanteks enthoo primo and evga 1300 g2 power supply ready to plunge into enthusiast pc gaming however I still need to get rid of my ols parts.

What part should I buy next? Because I bought the case and psu since they will always be the last parts you replace no matter what. This project will be built over a few months and I don't want to buy anything then regret it because there os something cheaper/faster out but thats pc gaming right?

So anyway, a cheap 250gb SSD, a alphacool 480/60 &d5 watercooling kit or the CPU?
 
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Can you remove the question about selling, im not sure whether we should be discussing sales here, outside of the MM anyway.

We can help you with the other question though.

What budget do you have for all the remaining parts?

What will this rig be for? :)
 
Doomedspeed said:
Can you remove the question about selling, im not sure whether we should be discussing sales here, outside of the MM anyway.

We can help you with the other question though.

What budget do you have for all the remaining parts?

What will this rig be for? :)
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Sorry, I was just stating that to show how much money I can make roughly for the upgrades.

Remaining budget: no idea, as I said it's going to be an ongoing project, constant little additions until it is perfect. I'd say roughly £1000 more by the end of the summer. Then more in december time.

Uses for this rig: strictly SILENT gaming. Noise really bothers me, atm im on 1080p @60hz but once we see some sub £500 1440p monitors at 144hz ill jump in and that requires lots of gpu horsepower.
 
Resa69 said:
Sorry, I was just stating that to show how much money I can make roughly for the upgrades.

Remaining budget: no idea, as I said it's going to be an ongoing project, constant little additions until it is perfect. I'd say roughly £1000 more by the end of the summer. Then more in december time.

Uses for this rig: strictly SILENT gaming. Noise really bothers me, atm im on 1080p @60hz but once we see some sub £500 1440p monitors at 144hz ill jump in and that requires lots of gpu horsepower.
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That fine, Its just safer that way. :)

Okay, so silent Powerful GPU gaming.

Are you looking at WCing your GPU too? The Enthoo lends itself to Full WCing.

As for GPU's you can either go two ways (for 1440p/144hz). Go for a single Powerful card. 780ti (£500) or go for 2 high/mid range cards, R9 290's. WC wise, the 780ti will cost you less but if you go for 290's you can buy one now and then another later (when you have money/or find one secondhand).

Both (780ti, 290 [290 xfire]) will tear through 1080 60 hz. The single 290 may struggle at 1440p/144hz but will be half decent. But 290 Xfire and a single 780ti will handle 1440p/144hz pretty well. :)

IMO it's not worth buying a custom waterloop just to cool the CPU, just get a AIO instead.
 
Doomedspeed said:
That fine, Its just safer that way. :)

Okay, so silent Powerful GPU gaming.

Are you looking at WCing your GPU too? The Enthoo lends itself to Full WCing.

As for GPU's you can either go two ways (for 1440p/144hz). Go for a single Powerful card. 780ti (£500) or go for 2 high/mid range cards, R9 290's. WC wise, the 780ti will cost you less but if you go for 290's you can buy one now and then another later (when you have money/or find one secondhand).

Both (780ti, 290 [290 xfire]) will tear through 1080 60 hz. The single 290 may struggle at 1440p/144hz but will be half decent. But 290 Xfire and a single 780ti will handle 1440p/144hz pretty well. :)

IMO it's not worth buying a custom waterloop just to cool the CPU, just get a AIO instead.
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Yes I will definitely be adding the GPU to the loop as well, each gpu block and 2 fittings will cost £80 so its a no brainer ;)

290 seems to be the best value around currently but this time I really want to go Nvidia as ive only ever had amd cards (7770, 270x and 280x) but nvidia cards have too little vram and it scares me considering watchdogs requires over 3gb @1080p let alone 1440p.

Theres always a 6gb 780 but they dont have any decent ones for over 1.21 volts.
 
Resa69 said:
Yes I will definitely be adding the GPU to the loop as well, each gpu block and 2 fittings will cost £80 so its a no brainer ;)

290 seems to be the best value around currently but this time I really want to go Nvidia as ive only ever had amd cards (7770, 270x and 280x) but nvidia cards have too little vram and it scares me considering watchdogs requires over 3gb @1080p let alone 1440p.

Theres always a 6gb 780 but they dont have any decent ones for over 1.21 volts.
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Brilliant.

I wouldn't worry about VRAM, if you look at benchmarks the 780ti rifles through games at 4k easily, much better than the 290X, even with only 3GB of VRAM.

While games may use ALL the VRAM, the FPS 'production' won't stop, its the GPU speed (core and memory) that will help with games. Yes, Hitting the VRAM limit will affect thing but not noticeably. (Benchamarks back this up).

I think a single 780ti would be a good idea if you can push the budget that far. As they are pretty good value at under £500.
 
QUOTE=Doomedspeed;26618881]Brilliant.

I wouldn't worry about VRAM, if you look at benchmarks the 780ti rifles through games at 4k easily, much better than the 290X, even with only 3GB of VRAM.

While games may use ALL the VRAM, the FPS 'production' won't stop, its the GPU speed (core and memory) that will help with games. Yes, Hitting the VRAM limit will affect thing but not noticeably. (Benchamarks back this up).

I think a single 780ti would be a good idea if you can push the budget that far. As they are pretty good value at under £500.[/QUOTE]

I just found a brand new zotac 780 ti from (no competitor names) for £450.. that seems pretty good value if you ask me. Decisions decisions because I really cant be bothered with crossfire
 
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