Check before I buy - GTX670 & I5 haswell

malaki

malaki

malaki

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Hi, I am about to buy some bits and want to know if there is any tweaks that can be done to the build please. The build will be used for gaming and I do have about £100 extra I could add to the budget

I am not sure on the GFX card what with the 760 coming out today, although after some reading up it seems like the 760 performs worse than the 670.

If needed to reduce cost I've got a 60gb SSD atm so could pass on the 256gb SSD and get that later.

As for the 3TB HDD I've got 1TB of data I need to store waiting to go on it so I couldn't change that drive for anything less than 2TB really, I am a little concerned on the reliability of the HDD, it comes with a 2 year warranty but I've not used Toshiba before.

I have a 850w corsair PSU, monitor, mouse, keyboard, Win7 and CPU heatsink.

I am not sure if its worth the extra cost going for the faster memory would a pair of Samsung greens work out better?

I would like to get a good balance of performance vs cost, I aim to buy a second GTX670 for dual SLI later when I need more performance, but if i am better off investing in a 770 now and trimming my build down let me know what you think.

Thanks in advance for any help given :D

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 670 OC Twin Frozr Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £259.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £194.99
1 x MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £124.99
1 x SanDisk Pulse SSD 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (SDSSDP-256G-G25) £119.99
1 x Toshiba (7K3000.D) 3TB SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA300) HDD £89.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9R) £65.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £49.99
Total : £920.03 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 
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The case you picked needs to have the mesh/logo and fans added as its a striped back version to customise yourself.
 
I would consider going for a smaller SSD as we all use it mainly for OS installations & a couple of the most played games. So you could keep the one you currently have for the OS, and then perhaps a 120gb for the games you are focussing on at the time? Would save a bit of money, and could be invested in something else.

Also, never skimp on a case in my opinion, that is something you have to look at every day, so make sure you get something that looks sweet & runs cool.
 
Omaeka said:
Would drop the HDD and get a 3570k over a 4670k, and use the money saved for get a 256G SSD with a couple extra quid.
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I've got enough in my budget atm to get that list SSD included and have £100 spare, what would be the advantage of what you suggested, Is it better value for money going for the 3570k?
 
Spangles said:
I would consider going for a smaller SSD as we all use it mainly for OS installations & a couple of the most played games. So you could keep the one you currently have for the OS, and then perhaps a 120gb for the games you are focussing on at the time? Would save a bit of money, and could be invested in something else.

Also, never skimp on a case in my opinion, that is something you have to look at every day, so make sure you get something that looks sweet & runs cool.
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Thanks, I've got the 60gb one I'm using atm for that but keep finding it filling up with games perhaps a 120gb would be a better option, what do you recommend I use the savings on?
 
I've just noticed the KFA2 Geforce GTX 770 EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (77XPH6DV6KXZ) £299.99

It would give me a few boosts in performance to my chosen 670, for £40 would you add these specs too your card if you could?
Core Clock:+91Mhz
Core Boost Clock:+97Mhz
Memory Clock:+1002Mhz(effective)
Processing Cores:+192
Shader Clock:+290
but and extra 60watts at stock speed & rather than 2x 6pin ill need 1x8 1x6
As far as I know the 770 will have the GPU boost 2 over the 670's version 1 boost also, oh yeah but I loose one years warranty hmm
 
Nice looking card, its on a daily offer mind you so will go back to its normal price point at around 09.00hrs tomorrow morning.
 
Hi;

May as well go for the GTX770 particaly on an offer like OCuk has till tomoz, as its slightly faster than a 680.

There is nothing wrong with the 670, its just end of life ( and to get a 770 you don't need to pay much more)
 
Awesome news guys thanks, looks like ill be placing my order today then based on that offer, just checked my PSU Corsair TX850w looks like I've got enough cables 4x 6/8pins and just enough juice for when I want to go SLI later getting a nice little rush now I am closing in on the buy :)
 
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Well I placed my order, grabbed the 770 dropped the SSD as ive got the 60gb ill look into that one another later, switched the HDD to a WD green as I still remember deathstars I wanted to go with a better name switched the memory to a recommended teamgroup one should be here in a couple of days :D Thanks for the info and advice, I'll be back when I plan to overclock some bits!
YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 Geforce GTX 770 EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (77XPH6DV6KXZ) £299.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £194.99
1 x MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £124.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD30EZRX) HDD £97.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £47.99
Total : £846.04 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 
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