First time build, any good?

aaronie

aaronie

aaronie

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Hello folks, I'm looking to build my first PC. It will mostly be used for Gaming & i do plan to overclock. I've a budget of around £2000 MAX and this is including the monitor, keyboard & mouse etc. Here's the parts I'm currently going for, your suggestions / improvements that could be made to the system + some ways to save money without affecting performance are most definitely welcome.

Intel i7 3770k
Asus MAXIMUS V FORMULA Mobo
Corair H80 CPU Cooler.
Asus GTX 670 2GB
Kingston 16GB DDR3 2400MHz HyperX XMP Beast Series
Samsung 840 SSD
Seagate 3TB Barracuda Internal Hard Drive
Corsair 850W AX850 Modular PSU
Corsair Carbide 300R Case with Window
Acer S243HLAbmii LCD LED 24" HDMI Monitor
Corsair Vengeance K60 Performance, FPS Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
Corsair Vengeance M65 Performance Fps Laser Gaming Mouse (gunmetal Black)
 
You planning to crossfire/SLI?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £173.99
1 x BenQ GL2450 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £149.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) HDD £104.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £99.95
1 x Corsair Vengeance K60 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard (CH-9000004-UK) £89.99
1 x XFX Pro Series 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £84.98
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £82.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Windowed Case - Black £69.98
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £59.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance M65 Laser Gaming Mouse - Black (CH-9000022-EU) £49.99
1 x Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3D/US) 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit £49.99
Total : £1,280.94 (includes shipping : £20.10).

 
You'll be wanting the Corsair H80i rather than the H80. It costs £7 extra but comes with better fans and built in Corsair Link software which lets you change a bunch of settings (fan speed, pump speed etc) and monitor performance.
 
I'm not planing on going SLI now but probably in the future when funds allow... I want it to be a near high end computer so I'm sort of set on the i7 & the 670. I going to go for the H80I as well, cheers valkynaz.
 
for gaming purposes you wont really notice much of a difference between the i5 and i7, of course there will be some difference but the i5 saves you a bit of cash and if you plan on overclocking you wont have a problem, if you plan on video editing etc then go for the i7 :)
 
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