2000 £ gaiming pc for newbie

 
orbitalwalsh said:
Wouldn't touch that Evga ti model, runs hot and loud , go FTW model

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £2,799.06 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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By EVGA ti do you mean the EVGA SC2? I like the SC2 ti. I have read that the Zotac AMP isn't a great performer for its size and the Gigabyte card can often coil whine. Palit is a solid cooler, but would be put off by the 2 year warranty and RMA terms.
 
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southernorth said:
By EVGA ti do you mean the EVGA SC2? I like the SC2 ti. I have read that the Zotac AMP isn't a great performer for its size and the Gigabyte card can often coil whine. Palit is a solid cooler, but would be put off by the 2 year warranty and RMA terms.
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Zotac am isn't a great performer ... If you like the Palit cooler.. the AMP XTREME linked above is it on roids ! The standard AMP is like the Evga SC2. 80mm Dual fans with a 2 slot design cant handle the heat , why evga did the triple cooler even though it's still 2 slot instead of doing normal larger 90mm fans .
Even MSI has released their triple fan 2.5 slot as the standard design didn't quite match the rest . Again, like EVGA for FTW.

Gigabyte can coil whine, but every card does. I always run 2 hours of unigine valley and FireStrike to lessen the whine, but every card will whine with these benchmarks, games should be non existent .
That card, if recommended slapping thermal Grizzlie as it takes temps down by 5c+ which helps the default fan profile greatly , and is needed

Palit and zotac RMA is a pain, either 2 years only or the remaining 2/3 is Hong Kong

Every card has advantages and disadvantages :)
 
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Poloniaecor said:
Nice conversation, im would like my pc has enough power to run games in 2560x1440 on max details. I read that R7 has problem with single thread games. Also i need full tower case for cpu watercooling (maybe in future, save my time and money for case swap). Question why 8700k, overclocking, never did this before but want to try.
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CPU side is rather easy to "future proof" for some 4-5 years with sluggish single core/thread performance increase.
At least for Intel. In fact 8xxx-serie is just previous Kaby Lake with more cores, which was tiny tweak from 6xxx-serie Skylake.
Again AMD didn't have time/resources to fully develop everything in Zen "1" so Zen 2 CPUs can actually have quite good single thread performance increase.

Graphics cards again will lose most of their value after couple years, no matter how expensive card you get.
Hence you get rather bad "future proofing" ROI from more expensive luxury cards.


While well chosen case can indeed be used over life time of many components saving money in long term.
My case is fair 9 years old and don't see any reason to change it in any foreseeable future.
(could likely get new I/O port module soon with C-type USB to keep it up to date in connectors)
So definitely think it through thoroughly.

For example do you want case to be able to muffle sound of components?
If case leaks noises out only way to lower noise is to lower speed of fans.
Also current fad is that because optical drives aren't used that much anymore cases don't need 5.25" bays.
While there are also many other devices which can demand 5.25" bay...
Up to connector panels if there's new USB connectors (like that USB C) or some entirely new connector and you can't update ports of the case itself.


Also for gaming there's other side of immersion besides graphics: Sound reproduction.
So you have there proper surround speaker set or are youy going with some tiny "multimedia" speakers or cheap headset?
Audio equipment keeps its value very well compared to graphics cards and even CPUs.
With headphones it's even possible to get to very good level with only fraction of cost of one graphics card.
 
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