£90 extra in budget

[korso]

I've got an extra £90 to invest in my budget after selling my projector.
I might have more by the end of the week depending on what sell I can shift in my hole of a house. I've got more than 200 kg (£3000) worth of Lego in the shed, but this is just gonna get more expensive with age
Case, PSU and fans are not required.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce 3x OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N770OC-2GD) £339.95
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £197.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-OC Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £179.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £148.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £65.99
1 x Noctua NH-D14 Dual Radiator CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £62.98
Total : £1,007.88 (includes shipping : £10.00).

 

[stulid]

Your choice of RAM for that lovely board+CPU is weak.

You need something like these,

YOUR BASKET
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C9 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38192M2400HC9NDC-L) £113.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-20800C10 2600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2600HC10QDC01) £97.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £65.99
Total : £287.57 (includes shipping : £8.00).



But then the height of the RAM may interfere with the NH-D14 cooler.


Or,

An orange themed spec,


YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce 3x OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N770OC-2GD) £339.95
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £197.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-OC Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £179.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £148.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC10TDC01) £89.99
1 x Thermalright Silver Arrow SB E Extreme CPU Cooler TY-143 Fans (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £53.99
Total : £1,022.89 (includes shipping : £10.00).

 

[ExRayTed]

I'd go for more ram rather than faster ram.

Whack an extra 8gb in there

 

[Doomedspeed]

I'd go for more ram rather than faster ram.

Whack an extra 8gb in there

If its just a gaming PC (which i assume it is) more RAM will make no difference what-so-ever.

I've never seen my RAM usage go anywhere near 8GB while gaming. CAD work and rendering is a different story though..

Faster RAM does make a very slight difference and it also looks good in benchmarks. It also improves overlocking ability (stability), if i recall correctly.

The K2 would look better in the build than the D14.

 

[Marine-RX179]

I've got an extra £90 to invest in my budget after selling my projector.
I might have more by the end of the week depending on what sell I can shift in my hole of a house. I've got more than 200 kg (£3000) worth of Lego in the shed, but this is just gonna get more expensive with age
Case, PSU and fans are not required.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce 3x OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N770OC-2GD) £339.95
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £197.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-OC Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £179.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £148.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £65.99
1 x Noctua NH-D14 Dual Radiator CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £62.98
Total : £1,007.88 (includes shipping : £10.00).

Depending on if you got a decent 750W+ PSU...I would pre-order two of these GTX670 than to go for the GTX770:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-170-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2294
As for the CPU cooler, I'd get the Thermalright Silver Arrow SB-E instead, as it's cooling is tiny bit better than the Noctua NH-D14 under load for a high overclocked CPU, not to mention a bit cheaper as well.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?catid=2330&groupid=701&sortby=priceAsc&subid=2352

 

[ExRayTed]

If its just a gaming PC (which i assume it is) more RAM will make no difference what-so-ever.

I've never seen my RAM usage go anywhere near 8GB while gaming. CAD work and rendering is a different story though..

Faster RAM does make a very slight difference and it also looks good in benchmarks. It also improves overlocking ability (stability), if i recall correctly.

The K2 would look better in the build than the D14.

Yes, you are correct right now

But software requirements never stay still and how long will it be before we're all recommending 16gb for the latest game?

I stand by my previous post. More ram rather than faster ram when running with a dedicated GPU

 

[Marine-RX179]

Yes, you are correct right now

But software requirements never stay still and how long will it be before we're all recommending 16gb for the latest game?

I stand by my previous post. More ram rather than faster ram when running with a dedicated GPU

Seriously...there's absolutely no need for more than 8GB of ram other than people do editing works with large audio or video files etc.

Getting extra 8GB for a gaming PC is a waste of money with no benefit. By the time 8GB is no longer enough for games, I'm pretty sure hardware platform would already moved onto DDR4 or whatever by then. Games plus OS+background apps altogether barely use more than 4GB of ram at the moment...it will be a long time before 8GB is not enough; and when we get to that point, I'm pretty sure the memory bandwidth of the DDR 3 1600MHz will not be fast enough and become a bottleneck, and having another 8GB of ram extra ain't gonna make much difference. The situation would be a bit like the Nvidia GK104 cards...they can throw extra 2GB, 4GB, 6GB vram onto the card all they want, but the memory bandwidth would still remain the same speed and the bigger bottleneck.

 

[korso]

Cheers guys, the RAM was pretty much a place holder on a price has I had yet to decide on my final choice.
The K2 and Silver Arrow are both good shouts, and cheaper!

Depending on if you got a decent 750W+ PSU...I would pre-order two of these GTX670 than to go for the GTX770:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-170-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2294
As for the CPU cooler, I'd get the Thermalright Silver Arrow SB-E instead, as it's cooling is tiny bit better than the Noctua NH-D14 under load for a high overclocked CPU, not to mention a bit cheaper as well.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?catid=2330&groupid=701&sortby=priceAsc&subid=2352

I have a Corsair TX650 so not sure I'd be able to run two of them in SLi power wise, and even then I'd have to consider the heat element and would it be worth x2 670 or x1 780?

I am not sure about the 8gb vs 16gb argument to be fair, I only really game and rarely do any 3D modelling / music production, I do however do a lot of drawing but its not very graphics intensive.

I might go back to the drawing board now, the x2 670 vs x1 780 is a massive shout especially when looking at a chart like this.
Might even consider investing for x2 7950's (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-190-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1673) if it was worth it.

 

[james_2k]

im just going from 16 to 8 gigs of faster ram.

8 is fine