Advice on New PC

Liamb2005

Liamb2005

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Ive been building up a PC via the OC website and as its been about 6 or 7 years since i built my own computer i thought i would ask for some advice.

im a web & graphic designer by trade so use my computer a lot so im wanting to go for a new 3rd gen i7 with 16gb and im also wanting to use my computer for general media, video editing possibly and am thinking about perhaps ditching my xbox and using it for games but its not a proiority so dont want to spend a fortune on a graphics card at this point.

Here is what ive been eyeing up i would love peoples opinions on anything they think might be out of of place or a bad match sort of thing & also if im missing anything (already have dvd writer)

so heres what im looking at

Krypton Z77 680i" Intel Core i7 3770K 3.50GHz @ 4.50GHz DDR3 Ivybridge Overclocked Bundle

Gigabyte GeForce GT 640 OC 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card

NZXT Phantom Enthusiast Full Tower Case - Black

OcUK Rage GT 700W PSU 80+ Dual Rail "80 Plus" Efficient Power Supply

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM

Intel 330 Series 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail

...also does anyone know if its possible to pay off 20 or 30% % on a card and 80% on finance at all ?
 
the 640 is no good for gaming seriously ? will the cpu not help that ?

i would have thought 130 quid on a gfx card would have been alright, makes me realise why i turned to he xbox in the 1st place, lol
 
sorry the cards 98 quid i realised id picked the wrong one, i totally see what you mean ive read the reviews on that card and they are terrible lol

is it worthwhile sticking with nvidia ? ive had ati last two cards but ive not been overly impressed with them so thought i would go with nvidia
 
Nvidia have good £150 and £300 GPU's, the bits between an below are owned by amd really. However Nvidia have CUDA support which you may or may not find useful.

Also there are some decent £100 GPU's out there like the 6850 and 460.
 
Bacon ? ive gone for the psu you recommended but ive noticed the 660 ti is out but its over £250 which i dont really fancy spending, what canrd would you recommend for upto 160 then ?
 
Overall the computer is excellent for what you need it for but if you need to cut corners 12GB of RAM with also serve the purpose that you need. Make sure you get low CAS latency RAM for video editing and heavy media applications as it does help i can recommend the Mushkin Redline Enhanced with a CAS Latency of 7-7-7-27 at 1600MHz, very fast RAM.

For gaming any i5 quad core will be excellent and the 3770K will blow pretty much anything out of the water. So just the graphics card really, i recommend getting either the newest Nvidia 660 cards as they've been ripping up the becnhmarks or get a last generation Nvidia 560 or 570 and AMD i suggest 6850 or higher :) the 6850 is about £120 or less i believe and maxes out a lot of games at 1920 x 1080 my mate uses it with a AMD Phenom II x6 1075T and another uses it with a Intel i7-2600K and they both perform amazing so always the last generation options as they are still great gaming.
 
12GB of RAM is pointless with Ivybridge or Sandybridge since it won't run properly. They use Dual Channel over Triple Channel.
Also the 660TI is priced way to high for what it is. Either go for a 560 TI or a 670.
Between those you have 6850, 7850 and 7950 etc, but as I have asked many times do you require CUDA support?
 
Bacon? said:
12GB of RAM is pointless with Ivybridge or Sandybridge since it won't run properly. They use Dual Channel over Triple Channel.
Also the 660TI is priced way to high for what it is. Either go for a 560 TI or a 670.
Between those you have 6850, 7850 and 7950 etc, but as I have asked many times do you require CUDA support?
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True i overlooked the channels of the Ivy Bridge, stick to dual channel 8GB or 16GB then. I said the 660Ti was ripping up the benchmarks i didn't say it was cheap, its about £280 so yeah its not a cheap card. I got my HD6970 brand new a few years ago for £260.

The card to go with is the 570 personally, CUDA, PhysX, great high end gaming card, can't go wrong
 
Hi there I really dot have a lot of money but I want to build a decent gaming pc that would run wow and Diablo both on ultra without any bother at all there the only 2 games I really play and I need a new budget gaming pc to run them well please help thanks
 
Could you make a separate post in the General Hardware please and specify exactly what you need and the budget cheers.
 
oik this is what ive got now



Krypton Z77 665i" Intel Core i5 3570K 3.40GHz @ 4.40GHz DDR3 Ivybridge Overclocked Bundle

Options applied to the above product:
Corsair Dominator 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMP16GX3M2A1600C10)


KFA2 GeForce GTX 660TI EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Corsair Enthusiast Series TX650M High Performance 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020002-UK)


NZXT Phantom Enthusiast Full Tower Case - Black

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS)

OCZ Petrol 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (PTL1-25SAT3-128G)

am not missing anything am i ?
 
actually made a mistake there

this is the system




Krypton Z77 680i" Intel Core i7 3770K 3.50GHz @ 4.50GHz DDR3 Ivybridge Overclocked Bundle with 16GB of Dual Channel DDR3 memory

EVGA GeForce GTX 560TI Dual Shock Superclocked 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (01G-P3-1567-KR)

Corsair Enthusiast Series TX650M High Performance 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020002-UK)

NZXT Phantom Enthusiast Full Tower Case - Black

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS)

OCZ Petrol 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (PTL1-25SAT3-128G)
 
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