£1000 gaming build help

Sorry for the late reply guys, was at the girlfriends house before she disappears for a few days on some trip.

After looking at those benchmarks for the CPU the 2500k definitely seems like the better choice now and its faster than my dads i7 860 as well for games and even encoding etc so a no brainer there really. Still unsure about what cooler to get but it depends on the RAM I end up choosing I suppose although if you say the corsair XMS3 series stuff fits all I'll just opt for that instead. Unsure about which graphics card to go for also at the moment and the same with the monitor. Would I really notice much of a difference between an IPS and TN panel?
 
If you do lots of photography work where colour accuracy is important then a IPS panel is superior, apart from that, they both cope with fast moving images without any ghosting and there is no input lag with them either.
 
stulid said:
If you do lots of photography work where colour accuracy is important then a IPS panel is superior, apart from that, they both cope with fast moving images without any ghosting and there is no input lag with them either.
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So as a gamer, not worth it?
 
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No.

I have had four Samsung screens now, started of with a 20", acquired a 22" to go next to it, but upgraded both to a 23"+ 24" which I use now, both are perfect.
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I'd disagree, as would many people who use an IPS for gaming. I preferred IPS so much, I bought a 2311H over a 2233RZ, even though the latter is 120Hz.

I'm assuming of course, but stulid, I'm guessing you haven't used an IPS next to a TN before? I did use a TN panel next to my 2311H (before I bought my current monitor) and the difference was night and day, the whites were much crisper on the IPS, the colours more vibrant, and the range of colours more realistic. Ok, the TN was nothing special, but it sets the trend.

And, sk82jack, yes I was... I'd just finished putting together my rig into my newly sprayed case, and was a little annoyed at pulling the odd bit of braiding from the heatshrink, so I did something lengthy and menial to take my mind off it...
 
Marvin said:
I'd disagree, as would many people who use an IPS for gaming. I preferred IPS so much, I bought a 2311H over a 2233RZ, even though the latter is 120Hz.

I'm assuming of course, but stulid, I'm guessing you haven't used an IPS next to a TN before? I did use a TN panel next to my 2311H (before I bought my current monitor) and the difference was night and day, the whites were much crisper on the IPS, the colours more vibrant, and the range of colours more realistic. Ok, the TN was nothing special, but it sets the trend.

And, sk82jack, yes I was... I'd just finished putting together my rig into my newly sprayed case, and was a little annoyed at pulling the odd bit of braiding from the heatshrink, so I did something lengthy and menial to take my mind off it...
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The Samsungs are fine, I have high end dells at work.

The magic menus of the Samsungs have many options to improve vibrancy and such.

And you said the TN panel you used was nothing special, so you cant compare it to a higher class Samsung.
 
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No, but conversely the improvement over the 2233RZ, which is hardly poor, was also extremely noticeable.
 
Well my two Samsungs are perfect, there is no colour light bleed, uniform colours when displaying a single colour, great dark tones, and the shadows in games are very definable without any banding
 
stulid said:
Well my two Samsungs are perfect, there is no colour light bleed, uniform colours when displaying a single colour, great dark tones, and the shadows in games are very definable without any banding
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None of those potential faults are common among TN or IPS, I was more referring to how (for want of a better way of putting it) nice the images look on the screen. EG: The colours are more vibrant on an IPS, and there's often a wider range and so on.

To be honest, this bit is getting a little out of hand, it's probably best if we argue over the spec, and let the OP talk to some monitor experts in that section...
 
Marvin said:
None of those potential faults are common among TN or IPS, I was more referring to how (for want of a better way of putting it) nice the images look on the screen. EG: The colours are more vibrant on an IPS, and there's often a wider range and so on.

To be honest, this bit is getting a little out of hand, it's probably best if we argue over the spec, and let the OP talk to some monitor experts in that section...
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I find it sad, that the OP has come here with a £1K budget, admittedly without a screen, and the two+ specs by both of us have exceeded this by around 20-30% perhaps a re-think is in order.
 
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A bit of both?
 
Right getting abit closer to what I'm gonna settle on now guys. Been doing abit of reading around and the iiyama monitors are still extremely good build quality and seriously good for games, so opting for one of those over a samsung. Not decided exactly on which gcard to settle on yet but I've got the funds spare regardless in my savings account so no biggy really.

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Gainward GeForce GTX 580 "GOOD Edition" 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £347.99
(£289.99) £347.99
(£289.99)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £161.99
(£134.99) £161.99
(£134.99)
IIyama Prolite E2271HDS 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £139.99
(£116.66) £139.99
(£116.66)
MSI P67A-GD65 Intel P67 (socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £132.00
(£110.00) £132.00
(£110.00)
Corsair HX 750W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750HXUK) £109.98
(£91.65) £109.98
(£91.65)
Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive **INTRODUCTORY ONLY PRICE** £89.99
(£74.99) £89.99
(£74.99)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Advanced Dominator Case - Black £73.98
(£61.65) £73.98
(£61.65)
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1002FAEX) £66.98
(£55.82) £66.98
(£55.82)
Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3) £38.99
(£32.49) £38.99
(£32.49)
TP-Link 300Mbps High-Gain Wireless-N USB Adapter (TL-WN822N) £16.99
(£14.16) £16.99
(£14.16)
OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.39
(£11.99) £14.39
(£11.99)
Sub Total : £1,127.71
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £20.10
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £229.56

Total : £1,377.37

To note, the WD hard drive has some rather good figures behind it for performance, but I didn't see much on the availability of reliability. Added the wireless adapter on due to reviews and actually needing one to connect to my home network in this house and my next one and the monitor size of 22inches suits the desk size in my new place really well.

Opinions? Will everything there work properly together without any major ****ing about? lol
 
stulid said:
Everything works, but a 22" screen is a little disappointing, even if the res is the same as a bigger one.
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Yeah true and the 580 is probably overkill for the res. I keep hearing the age old argument of "future proofing" in my head which is making me look at the "best" components which I know for a fact isn't strictly needed, just a matter of telling myself that lol. And this is someone who built a core2duo system, overclocked it by 1.2ghz more than stock and stuck a 8800GT (g92) next to it and was laughing at my budget but awesome spec all those years back...!!! lol
 
Same build as I did above, but a GTX570 to combat any heat/noise issues.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
MSI GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
(£199.99) £239.99
(£199.99)
Dell Ultrasharp U2311H 23" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey £229.99
(£191.66) £229.99
(£191.66)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £161.99
(£134.99) £161.99
(£134.99)
MSI P67A-C45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive **INTRODUCTORY ONLY PRICE** £89.99
(£74.99) £89.99
(£74.99)
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
(£57.00) £68.40
(£57.00)
Options applied to the above product:
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £28.87
(£24.06) £28.87
(£24.06)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £57.98
(£48.32) £57.98
(£48.32)
OCZ StealthXStream 2 600W Power Supply £50.99
(£42.49) £50.99
(£42.49)
Sony Optiarc AD-7260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.59
(£12.99) £15.59
(£12.99)
Sub Total : £936.47
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £22.20
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £191.73
Total : £1,150.40

No SLI support, when the card ever gets to slow, swap it.
 
James J said:
Does that build still have the HSF for the cpu in it or are you factoring in the retail one?
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It comes with a retail one.

Its just wrong when you started of at £1K, and its now nearly £1.4K!!! if Big.Wayne was around he would be throwing kittens.
 
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