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Kyzou

Kyzou

Kyzou

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Hi all,

Housemate has employeed me to spec his new PC. He's going to spend roughly £2k on the tower, so this is what I have come up with. Any suggestions/improvements?

CPU: Intel Core i7-3930K 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£441.00)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H60 74.4 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£60.81)
Motherboard: Asus Rampage IV Extreme EATX LGA2011 Motherboard (£323.69)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£169.98)
Storage: Sandisk 256GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£115.97)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£64.98)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Video Card (£390.97)
Case: Cooler Master HAF X nVidia Edition ATX Full Tower Case (£157.00)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 1050W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£149.99)
Optical Drive: Asus BC-12B1ST/BLK/B/AS Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer (£46.31)
Total: £1920.70
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

Cheers,

K

EDIT: Case is only really in as a price place holder as I will let him choose it.
 
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Kyzou said:
Hi all,

Housemate has employeed me to spec his new PC. He's going to spend roughly £2k on the tower, so this is what I have come up with. Any suggestions/improvements?

CPU: Intel Core i7-3930K 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (£441.00)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H60 74.4 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£60.81)
Motherboard: Asus Rampage IV Extreme EATX LGA2011 Motherboard (£323.69)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£169.98)
Storage: Sandisk 256GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£115.97)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£64.98)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Video Card (£390.97)
Case: Cooler Master HAF X nVidia Edition ATX Full Tower Case (£157.00)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 1050W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply (£149.99)
Optical Drive: Asus BC-12B1ST/BLK/B/AS Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer (£46.31)
Total: £1920.70
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

Cheers,

K
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wow not gonna lie....kinda a jelly only change i would make is change the ssd for this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-159-SA it has faster read and write speeds
 
The cooler will struggle if you overclock it, the radiator is too small, a bigger dual 120 radiator cooler will be better
 
Graphics card is kind of weak for a £2k machine. Does he game much, or is it for work/number crunching?

Also 32GB RAM seems a bit...overkill. Though as above, if he uses it for heavy CAD or something, then I guess I can follow.
 
Yeah they are good coolers on non overclocked systems like the 3770, 3820 and even the 3930k at stock but when you start overclocking it cant really keep up. You really want a minimum of a H80 but ideally a H90 or H100. :)

Also if its mainly for gaming you could drop the CPU to the 3820 with 16Gb of memory and use the spare cash to add another 680 ;)
 
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Oh, now i'm on my PC and not my phone I just spotted something.

Can you remove the competitor links please.

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Any particular reason you went for such an expensive motherboard?

You'd also get more performance than a GTX680 with a 7970, despite 7970s being cheaper.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail with Dead Space 3 PC Game £467.99
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Superclocked 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Assassin's Creed III & FTP Currency £400.00
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD256BW) ** Cash Back Promo ** £179.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi Tower - Black £149.99
1 x Seasonic X-Series 750w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £124.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (4x4GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit (KHX24C11T3K4/16X) £119.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H110 280mm High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM3) (CW-9060014-WW) £94.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £73.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £1,857.40 (includes shipping : £13.75).




I spec'd something very similar to the above the other day.

Of note is the H110, it is bigger again and only fits certain cases.

Cashback on the SSD.
 
Leprechaun312 said:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/508?vs=555 actually in gaming the 680 wins benchmark wise the 7970 benches higher but in gaming the 680 is about 10 fps higher
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They were done on old drivers, which have since increased performance, and even if those bench marks were accurate, there's certainly not £100's worth of performance difference there, especially considering the 7970 is still faster in most things that aren't CPU limited.
 
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Cheers for the advice guys, PC is going to be a mix of CPU/RAM intensive work and gaming, so I will have a chat with him and see how much gaming he really will do!
 
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