144hz monitor or better CPU?

xiorell

xiorell

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Trying to decide here.
My budget allows for either a 60hz monitor and an i7 6700k

Or

A regular 144hz screen with i5 6600k

Gaming rig

Votes?
 
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whats your current CPU? Can't advise without knowing that.
Also don't you mean i5 and 144hz or i7 and 60hz?

Really depends what games you play. I don't play twitch based FPS games (certainly not "seriously") so wouldn't really benefit from the 144hz. 60FPS looks smooth to me.
Have you considered 1440p?

Personally my choice would be i5 and 1440p. If budget allows. (and GPU can handle)
 
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Totally depends on the type of Gamer you are really. Play a lot of CS-GO or battlefield? Go for 144hz.

Play a lot of Cities Skylines, FSX or League? Then I would take the i7 or 1440p all day.
 
About 1k give or take so its pretty tight
Thing is, I "want" a 240mm water cooler in there (pref h100i gtx), which means replacing my case (looking at aero 800)

Unless a seidon 120v will cool those CPUs maybe with a small over clock. That'd allow the current case to stay (old zalman z11)
 
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About 1k give or take so its pretty tight
Thing is, I "want" a 240mm water cooler in there (pref h100i gtx), which means replacing my case (looking at aero 800)

Unless a seidon 120v will cool those CPUs maybe with a small over clock. That'd allow the current case to stay (old zalman z11)
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you should save some cash and keep your current case and aircooler(depending what it is),AIO are no better than aircooler and are more expensive.

how about this with a 390 instead of a 970 and Freesync 144hz monitor?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £983.10
(includes shipping: £13.20)
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Could shave off about £60 quid if you dont need 16gb of ram or a psu that could handle multi gpu's in the future

Edit:Man a Grand can get a you a LOT of great hw these days lol
 
The thing is with air/water coolers.... And thus is daft I know but... I can't stop thinking it.
Air coolers look cack compared to nice tidy rads lol
 
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The thing is with air/water coolers.... And thus is daft I know but... I can't stop thinking it.
Air coolers look cack compared to nice tidy rads lol
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i guess,the only thing AIOS have over aircoolers is aesthetics,if your wanting to keep under a certain budget its deffo one the first things to cut tho IMO.

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Ah that was the other problem with the z11. Limited to GPU of 280mm maybe 290mm unless I start hacking out the cages
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How could i have forgotten about that(I have a z11 sitting next door) :eek:

In that case,most of the 390's wouldnt fit.So you could either spend the extra on one that will fit in a z11 or use that cash to get a new case instead.
The msi 390 would fit, its an extra £60.

You have any intention of running a dual GPU setup in the future?
 
New case, and a decent cooler that will look quite nice! :)

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,020.70
(includes shipping: £20.82)​
 
Yeah I was thinking sli/xfire down the line unless I squeeze in like... 980ti or 390x

See originally I was gonna go lower end, 990fx board, amd fx8350, r9 380x and just xfire that later.

Then I thougt that was a waste with no ddr4 etc. So then I was looking at decent z170+i3+gtx960 4gb, then later upgrading to i5/i7 and bigger GPU with the old parts (i3 and 960) being recycled into a mini ITX build

But then I figured its not that much more to just do it first time round
 
The original mission brief was to build something on the cheap(ish) that'd have a decent upgrade path, but beat my laptop and old PC (laptop was i5 5200u, 8gb, 840m 2gb - PC was, fx8350 16gb 7950 3gb)

That brief sort of morphed into building this other thing
 
Guys what do we think of the r9 380x? The overclocked sapphire nitro to be specific

That seems like a lot of card for sub 200quid, looks to outperform my old 3gb 7950 by a margin and that card was a monster at the time
 
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