"Balanced" System?

Toaku · 22 Jul 2013 at 21:02

Would you guys say that this is a balanced system, to say i will be mostly gaming on it?

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Geforce GTX 770 Lightning 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £379.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £197.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £99.95
1 x Corsair Carbide 500R Midi Tower Case - Black/White (CC-9011013-WW) £99.95
1 x Toshiba SSD HG5D Series THNSNH 7mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - (THNSNH128GCST) £89.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x XFX Pro 850W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £74.99
1 x Avexir MPower Yellow Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U24001004G-2CM) £71.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £49.99
1 x Xigmatek PTI-G3606 Thermal Grease - (3g) £3.98
Total : £1,167.80 (includes shipping : £12.50).

Toaku · 22 Jul 2013 at 21:06

Oh sorry forgot to say i already brought the h100 because of the stock keeps going so quick

Toaku · 22 Jul 2013 at 21:28

i was thinking in the future i might want to sell my gpu and go SLI and run 3 monitors, so i thought it would be good to have the 850w

Toaku · 22 Jul 2013 at 21:39

so if i wanted to have 2 gpus in the future i wouldnt be able to because of my mobo?

Toaku · 22 Jul 2013 at 22:40

but if i had just the one MSI Geforce GTX 770 Lightning 2048MB would it be possible to run 3 monitors off it without having to do SLI

Toaku · 22 Jul 2013 at 22:52

well then, looks like im sorted, i swapped the 850w PSU for a 650w and i swapped the Gigabyte Z87-HD3 for the Gigabyte Z87X-D3H

Toaku · 23 Jul 2013 at 15:06

okay look, iv changed the colours of things as i was only going with a theme of yellow because of the gpu, but now i know when the gpu is in the only thing that shows is a blue circle on the bottom. So therefore iv changed what i am going to buy(keep in mind i have already pre ordered a refurbished H100 and that i have to have that psu because of me having a Haswell cpu)

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Geforce GTX 770 Lightning 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £379.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £197.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £149.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 500R Midi Tower Case - Black/White (CC-9011013-WW) £99.95
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £83.99
1 x Avexir Core Blue Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U24001004G-2CI) - Blue Light £71.99
1 x XFX Pro 650W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £64.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £49.99
1 x Three Fan Bundle - Corsair SP120 PWM Quiet Edition Fan 4 pin £31.99
Total : £1,145.87 (includes shipping : £12.50).

Toaku · 23 Jul 2013 at 15:10

snips86x said:
You'd need more VRAM if you were looking to run 2/3/4 monitors from a single card. SLi would be more comfortable or get the 4Gb version.

im not looking to do SLi just yet that will be some time in the future.

Toaku · 23 Jul 2013 at 15:24

snips86x said:
That's fine, but if you are looking to run multiple monitors, you'll need more VRAM from your card as it'll struggle. If you have the budget, I'd go for a 3GB 7950/7970 or 4Gb 770.

in the future ill sell my gpu and get 2 2gb gpus

Toaku · 23 Jul 2013 at 15:48

ATM im running one screen, however next year i will probably sell my MSI Geforce GTX 770 Lightning 2048MB then put some more money to it to get the Gainward GeForce GTX 770 Phantom 4096MB