£5k Budget, help please.

Mercutio said:
As per some other folks. I'd also consider dual 690's a bit pointless. I think anand did some testing and there's a noticeable lack of improvement as you add more.

If we are simply going to throw money at a build as it's available stick the big revodrive in there. It will make the machine fly in a much more noticable way than the 2 extra GPU cores will.

Revodrive, 2x moderately good 500GB SSD's in raid 0 on a Z77 board. i5 chip. 16GB RAM (you do NOT need more for gaming. With about 3 GAMES running it's hard to break 8GB even) etc. Build a decent machine rather than something for the price.
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Not getting an i7 in that build is ridiculous, future games are using more and more cores. Also the more GPU's the better they scale with more CPU cores, bf3 especially.
 
ok so I've taken a look for you I've left it at 1 690 as you have no need for 2 even if you can afford it you would be better off spending the money on other components and aesthetics :o

Here's my suggestion may be missing a few bits but you get the idea and the very blue theme :)

Can see a mistake should be a SR 120 not 140 on the single rad :o
YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK Tech Lab H2O Custom GTX 690 4096MB GDDR5 £878.98
- 1 x XSPC Razor GTX690 GPU Waterblock £109.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £459.95
1 x Gigabyte X79S-UP5-Wifi Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £279.98
1 x Silverstone Fortress FT02 USB3.0 Windowed Case - Black (SST-FT02B-W USB 3.0) £219.98
1 x Corsair Professional Series AX1200 High Performance 1200W Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply (CMPSU-1200AXUK) £214.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (PVI332G160C9QK) £200.39
2 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Series SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive - (MZ-7PC256B/WW) £149.99 (£299.98)
1 x OcUK Tech Lab - XSPC D5 Vario Pump & EK-D5 X-TOP CSQ Value Combo £89.98
1 x Pioneer BDR-S07XLT 12x BluRay / 16x DVD±RW 50GB Drive - Black (Retail) £79.99
1 x Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D PCI-E Soundcard - Retail (70SB135000002) £68.99
1 x Corsair Professional Series Gold AX1200 Individually Sleeved Modular Cable Kit - Blue (CP-8920004) £62.99
1 x XSPC RayStorm CPU WaterBlock (Intel) £49.98
1 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator GT Stealth 280 £45.98
1 x Hardware Labs Black ICE Radiator SR1 120 £41.99
1 x EK Multioption Reservoir X2 250 Advanced £38.99
2 x Aqua Computer Double Protect Ultra 1l - Blue £8.99 (£17.98)
2 x Aerocool Shark Blue Edition LED Fan - 140mm £7.99 (£15.98)
1 x Aerocool Shark Blue Edition LED Fan - 120mm £6.98
3 x XSPC 7/16" ID (16/11mm) High Flex Hose - Clear £2.99 (£8.97)
12 x OcUK 1/2" G1/4 - FatBoy Style - Black Nickel - Barb Fitting £1.69 (£20.28)
Total : £3,233.56 (includes shipping : £16.85).

 
Thanks all, currently looking into 7970 tri-fire water cooled, tri-fire with the latest drivers is scaling really nicely from what I can gather.
 
Uncle Petey said:
Not enough beef.

Triple 3960X is where it's at.
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Ive seen quad for xeon but not tripple... I might get old Opteron 4 socket mobo with very old CPU`s and very old coolers... and I shall troll my energy company and neighbours because amount of noise that thing would make...

Wait, I would probably end up bankrupt and homeless and my neighbours would hate me :( :( Thats how AMD ruins peoples lives.:mad:
 
Lazder said:
Ive seen quad for xeon but not tripple... I might get old Opteron 4 socket mobo with very old CPU`s and very old coolers... and I shall troll my energy company and neighbours because amount of noise that thing would make...

Wait, I would probably end up bankrupt and homeless and my neighbours would hate me :( :( Thats how AMD ruins peoples lives.:mad:
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What are you babbling on about :confused:
 
I honestly think this is ridiculous for a gaming rig, but each to his own :)

If anyone wants to fill in the gaps with WC fittings and raid etc, then go nuts. There's a bit left in the budget to do all that.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £459.95
1 x Logitech Z906 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker System - 500W RMS (980-000469) £319.99
3 x HIS HD 7970 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Sleeping Dogs PC Game £299.99 (£899.97)
1 x XFX Triple Display Monitor Stand £287.99
1 x XSPC RayStorm D5 EX360 WaterCooling Kit £254.99
3 x Benq XL2410T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £239.99 (£719.97)
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
1 x NZXT Switch 810 Big Tower Case - Matt Black £159.95
2 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Series SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive - (MZ-7PC256B/WW) £149.99 (£299.98)
1 x Silverstone Strider 1200W Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply (SST-ST1200-G) £129.98
1 x Qpad MK-85 LED Pro Backlit Mechanical Gaming Keyboard - UK Layout £122.99
1 x Avexir Blitz Series 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C8 1866MHz Quad Channel Kit (AVD3U18660804G-4GI) £89.99
1 x Pioneer BDR-207EBK 12x BluRay RW / 16x DVD±RW 128GB - Retail £85.99
3 x EK Water Blocks EK-FC7970 - Acetal CSQ £71.99 (£215.97)
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £65.99
1 x XSPC EX240 120mm Radiator - Black £39.98
1 x Logitech G500 5700DPI Gaming Mouse (910-001262) £36.98
3 x EK-FC7970 Backplate - Black CSQ £20.99 (£62.97)
1 x EK-FC Bridge TRIPLE Parallel £16.99
10 x Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm 1850 RPM - 3 Pin £14.98 (£149.80)
2 x Akasa FLEXA FP5S 5 Fan PWM Controller (AK-CBFA07-45) £5.99 (£11.98)
Total : £4,694.64 (includes shipping : £43.60).



You'll probably want some braided cables too.

How about 6gb cards?

YOUR BASKET
3 x Sapphire HD 7970 VAPOR-X GHZ 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Sleeping Dogs PC Game £479.99 (£1,439.97)
1 x Logitech Z906 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker System - 500W RMS (980-000469) £319.99
1 x XFX Triple Display Monitor Stand £287.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £263.99
1 x Asus P8Z77 WS Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £259.99
1 x XSPC RayStorm D5 EX360 WaterCooling Kit £254.99
3 x Benq XL2410T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £239.99 (£719.97)
1 x NZXT Switch 810 Big Tower Case - Matt Black £159.95
2 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Series SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive - (MZ-7PC256B/WW) £149.99 (£299.98)
1 x Silverstone Strider 1200W Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply (SST-ST1200-G) £129.98
1 x Qpad MK-85 LED Pro Backlit Mechanical Gaming Keyboard - UK Layout £122.99
1 x GeIL EVO Veloce Hot-Rod Red 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEV316GB1866C10DC) £79.99
3 x EK Water Blocks EK-FC7970 - Acetal CSQ £71.99 (£215.97)
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £65.99
1 x XSPC EX240 120mm Radiator - Black £39.98
1 x Logitech G500 5700DPI Gaming Mouse (910-001262) £36.98
3 x EK-FC7970 Backplate - Black CSQ £20.99 (£62.97)
1 x EK-FC Bridge TRIPLE Parallel £16.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
10 x Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm 1850 RPM - 3 Pin £14.98 (£149.80)
2 x Akasa FLEXA FP5S 5 Fan PWM Controller (AK-CBFA07-45) £5.99 (£11.98)
Total : £5,007.68 (includes shipping : £43.60).



Might want one of these instead :http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-274-EK&groupid=962&catid=1529&subcat=2267
 
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Diwrnach said:
Thanks all, currently looking into 7970 tri-fire water cooled, tri-fire with the latest drivers is scaling really nicely from what I can gather.
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Becareful with AMD cards mate,i had 2x7970 in xfire and i had constant stuttering,took me ages to get things running smoothly and even then it was not great,ill never buy AMD cards again,they make great cards but once you go xfire the drivers really suck bigtime,never again,however with 1 card they worked great,didnt like it how a new driver breaks previous older games(1 step forward 2 steps back...?)that was my experience anyhow and i wont be buying ever again,dont care how much cheaper that they are,you get what you pay for at the end of the day.

Also you dont need to spend 5k for a badass gaming machine,around 2k will do you nicely,wether you spend 5k or 2k your gonna get exactly the same performance in gaming as your hexacore cpu wont do **** for you as i have one of those and i wish i never bought it for gaming,waste of money,spend 2-2.5k and you can save your money for your next build or go on holiday or something.

If you want the ultimate case for watercooling buy a caselabs and dont bother with stupid 1x120 rads,there as good as high end air cooling,go dual rads minimum,possible triple or higher for supreme performance especially if your gonna be spending a lot of money which you intend to do.

Also go custom cooling,get premium parts and forget about the kits as there not as good as custom parts,do your research and you will see for yourself.
 
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PFS said:
Becareful with AMD cards mate,i had 2x7970 in xfire and i had constant stuttering,took me ages to get things running smoothly and even then it was not great,ill never buy AMD cards again,they make great cards but once you go xfire the drivers really suck bigtime,never again,however with 1 card they worked great,didnt like it how a new driver breaks previous older games(1 step forward 2 steps back...?)that was my experience anyhow and i wont be buying ever again,dont care how much cheaper that they are,you get what you pay for at the end of the day.
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To be fair, both AMD xfire and nvidia SLI can suffer from annoying micro-stutter (although not with everyone), it's not just exclusive to AMD. Also both AMD and nVidia have had their fair share of driver issues (although luckily i've not experienced anything major with either)... I say you can't really go wrong picking either GPU brands at the moment as both deliver great performance :cool:.
 
PowerPie5000 said:
To be fair, both AMD xfire and nvidia SLI can suffer from annoying micro-stutter (although not with everyone), it's not just exclusive to AMD. Also both AMD and nVidia have had their fair share of driver issues (although luckily i've not experienced anything major with either)... I say you can't really go wrong picking either GPU brands at the moment as both deliver great performance :cool:.
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yes they can If you have to have more power buy a 690 :) sli can be really annoying
 
That powercolour devil13 7990 got good reviews from TTL. With 3GB of VRAM per GPU thats enough for some tri screen stuff surely. A good alternative to the 690 at the high rez stuff.
 
PowerPie5000 said:
To be fair, both AMD xfire and nvidia SLI can suffer from annoying micro-stutter (although not with everyone), it's not just exclusive to AMD. Also both AMD and nVidia have had their fair share of driver issues (although luckily i've not experienced anything major with either)... I say you can't really go wrong picking either GPU brands at the moment as both deliver great performance :cool:.
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Ive had more problems with ATI cards than Nvidia,even though nvidia arnt perfect,there drivers do work much much better in my experience,the driver is the driving force behind card obviously and nvidia do a better job at this i feel,you also have physx which in most games does not really matter but in borderlands 2 it makes a big difference.
 
jakspyder said:
That powercolour devil13 7990 got good reviews from TTL. With 3GB of VRAM per GPU thats enough for some tri screen stuff surely. A good alternative to the 690 at the high rez stuff.
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Both the 690 and 7990 will be great for multi-monitor setups ;). The 7990 should theoretically have the edge for higher resolutions and highr levels of AA due to it's 384-bit wide memory bus (compared to nVidia's 256-bit bus), but i don't think it makes too much difference with current games.
 
Lazder said:
How come?? It is 1155 socket though :confused:

what about Asus Z9PE-D8
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The desktop 2011 i7s were not designed to work in dual+ CPU configurations. There is a hardware limitation preventing this.

Its only the top end server chips (Xeons) that allow multi CPU support.

So the SRX and that ASUS dual CPU board both require Xeons.

On the bright side. the xeon i linked is 8 core 16 thread PER chip :D YUM YUM
 
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