Advice - New build

Leeroy · 2 Mar 2013 at 17:02

Hi i'm planning on having a new system built from overclockers.I already have an Asus GTX 690 in my old i7 920 system - so thats why there is no graphics card listed.
My current plan for my build is:
Cooler Master HAF X Gaming Tower Case - Black (RC-942) 1 £108.32 £108.32
CP-392-IN Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011
Processor - Retail
1 £391.66 £391.66
HS-020-AL Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 /
1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2)
1 £49.99 £49.99
MY-069-PA Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9
1600MHz Quad Channel Kit (PVI316G160C9QK)
1 £84.99 £84.99
HD-163-SA Samsung 500GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD500BW) 1 £229.16 £229.16
CD-003-OK OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM 1 £15.82 £15.82
SW-127-MS Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM
(GFC-02050)
1 £66.66 £66.66
CA-039-CS Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 850W V2 High Performance '80 Plus
Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020043-UK)
1 £91.66 £91.66
MB-488-AS Asus P9X79 PRO Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard 1 £194.16 £194.16
XX-062-OK Stage 4: Overclock of CPU/Memory - 25% Overclock (Proceesor
speed x1.25 / Max Attainable RAM SPEED)
1 £75.00 £75.00
FS-103-OP default system build charge 1 £75.00 £75.00
XX-065-OK Full Cable Management
XX-003-OP Standard Build Systems - Approximately 5-7 working days

I only have used about 300gb on my old 500 hard drive so I figured a 500ssd should meet my requirements for gamin and operating system and i plan to play on my 120mhz asus monitor at 1200*1090 up to 120 fps on games like planetside 2 and bf3.Do the parts ive chosen seem like a good choice or would anyone advise any changes.thx

zakblood · 2 Mar 2013 at 20:55

seem like a good/great setup, i wouldn't change anything, and good price on sdd as well

Doomedspeed · 2 Mar 2013 at 22:45

Just a gaming rig? If so, its a bit over the top.

In games you won't notice the difference between the 3930k and the 3770k. Maybe 1-2 fps here or there. As games are mainly a GPU thing. Either will be an improvement on your 920.

Components do seemed to be specced well though.

Leeroy · 2 Mar 2013 at 23:30

Thx for the advice so far lads.The main reason I was thinking of the 3930k as opposed to the 3770 was because i already have the one gtx 690 and I figured worse case scenario I could put a second one in the case in a year or 2 if reqd rather than full new motherboard /cpu/card upgrade or is that just wishful thinking?

Doomedspeed · 3 Mar 2013 at 00:07

Leeroy said:
Thx for the advice so far lads.The main reason I was thinking of the 3930k as opposed to the 3770 was because i already have the one gtx 690 and I figured worse case scenario I could put a second one in the case in a year or 2 if reqd rather than full new motherboard /cpu/card upgrade or is that just wishful thinking?

No, that is quite sensible thinking.. The 3770k will struggling with GTX 690 Quad SLI mainly due to the Z77 chipset.

Great Plan.. Though to save some money, (possibily to put towards a bigger power supply: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-011-XF) id suggest switching the SSD for this(http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-010-CR&groupid=701&catid=2104&subcat=2394) and using your stand HDD's as storage drives.