Please rate my gaming spec before I buy!

claypigeon101

claypigeon101

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Hey guys. Here's everyone's favourite forum post...

Rate my high spec gaming rig please?

Met my £1500 budget almost perfectly... have got a 1TB drive, keyboard and mouse already.

What I need is:
Case, SSD, monitor, CPU mobo RAM and cooler, PSU and GPU.

Have got these down so far... in some places for example where the GPU and PSU are concerned, I'm aware I can save a few bucks here and there on stuff from different manufacturers'.. however I have personal and friend recommendations to get those specific parts. Nevertheless, advice gratefully received!

So here we go...

YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 970 "Hall of Fame Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £319.99
1 x Acer Predator G277HU 27" ZeroFrame Gaming Widescreen Monitor - Black/Silver (UM.HG7EE.007) £289.99
1 x DEFCON 2i - Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 2 Configurable Overclocked Bundle £171.95
- 1 x Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £275.99
- 1 x Asetek 570LX 240mm High Performance CPU Cooler - 1150 £107.88
- 1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYED316G2133HC11ADC01) £94.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 650W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £87.95
1 x NZXT H440 Midi-Tower - Black / Blue £82.99
1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU) £79.99
1 x Noctua NA-SRC10 3-Pin Low-Noise Adaptors, 3 pack £4.99
Total : £1,516.72 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).



Thanks chaps. Building for a friend, so appreciate the input.
 
I can't really advise you about the graphics card. But the best monitor in that budget is going to be any of the 1440p IPS panel variable f.rate ones. Also I don't see the point of i7, get an i5 skylake. The RAM looks over-specc'd / over-priced. And the mobo is over-priced too.

So I guess the general take-away is that if you saved cash on those cited components, it aught to enable more expensive monitor and a more powerful GPU. You also might consider saving money on the cooler too depending if / what else. But I'm not going to recommend for you any specific cooler either as there are so many to choose from (depending upon your needs).
 
Sorry for not being clear enough. My main point with that comment was that you are still wasting money going for an i7. Dropping down to an i5 will let you put the difference towards a better GPU. And that is best for gaming.
 
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Sorry for not being clear enough. My main point with that comment was that you are still wasting money going for an i7. Dropping down to an i5 will let you put the difference towards a better GPU. And that is best for gaming.
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No worries.. true in a way, certainly for the current situation in time... however the i7 will have extra poke (due to virtual cores/threading) when streaming and/or recording games, when more intensive games begin to use up more and more physical cores.. etc etc.

If the difference was £150 or so then it could potentially improve my card to 980 territory.. but the 970 is a great card for 2K gaming and £80 saved on i7 couldn't improve my GPU enough to warrant it... is my belief. Swings and roundabouts I guess

What I'm trying to say, is £80 is negligible in a £1500 build when it's likely to make a noticeable difference in three, four years time perhaps.
(I should probably have mentioned that my friend has had her current config for ~3-4 years now and she's likely to keep this new one for the same or longer time.)
 
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Think i caught everything.
YOUR BASKET
1 x Acer Predator XB270HA 27" G-Sync 144Hz Gaming Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red £389.99
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 970 "Hall of Fame Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £319.99
1 x Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI - Intel Core i5 6600K Bundle **£20 Saving** £303.97
1 x EK Water Blocks Predator 240 All In One Watercooling Solution £168.95
1 x NZXT H440 Midi-Tower - Black / Blue £82.99
1 x Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1) £68.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G1 650W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (120-G1-0650-XR) £66.95
1 x Kingston Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX426C15FBK2/8) £49.99
1 x Noctua NA-SRC10 3-Pin Low-Noise Adaptors, 3 pack £4.99
Total : £1,456.81 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).



Can't seem to find a happy middle ground on the monitor (to get IPS and Gsync)

In terms of I5 vs I7, games now barely make any use of hyper thredding, i wouldn't expect that to change for awhile, DX12 will relieve the CPU of some tasks shifting them to the GPU. There is little reason to go I7 unless your doing X99 multiple GPU setups IMO.
Overclocking is pretty easy, once you've got it save it in the bios.
 
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As a random.

YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 980Ti "Infin8 Black Edition" 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £499.99
1 x AOC U2868PQU 28" 4K 60Hz 1MS Gaming Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £299.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £187.99
1 x EK Water Blocks Predator 240 All In One Watercooling Solution £168.95
1 x MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x NZXT H440 Midi-Tower - Black / Blue £82.99
1 x Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1) £68.99
1 x EVGA SuperNova G1 650W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (120-G1-0650-XR) £66.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAED38G2133HC11ADC01) £52.99
1 x Noctua NA-SRC10 3-Pin Low-Noise Adaptors, 3 pack £4.99
Total : £1,543.82 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).





Sell the MGS game and your pretty much on budget and im sure if the budget is immovable there are a ton of ways you could go here.
 
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