help spec gaming rig

[ghutchison14078]

The monitors and graphics card problem when you get into very high end territory can become a bit of a catch-22.

If you want a very high resolution monitor (i.e 27" or 30") or an eyefinity setup you need a lot of GPU horsepower to play games on them......

.....the other side of the coin is that if you purchase a system with high-end graphics capabilities there is no point hooking up a run-of-the-mill 22" lcd and wasting all your systems graphics potential...

....you need to find the balance between what you can afford, the size of screen you really need / want and a gfx card powerful enough to render your games on it.

 

[R088ieS86]

If you did want to go for the whole hog

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £299.99
(£249.99) £599.98
(£499.98)
Benq XL2410T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £299.99
(£249.99) £899.97
(£749.97)
Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £263.99
(£219.99) £263.99
(£219.99)
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (VTX3-25SAT3-120G) £219.98
(£183.32) £219.98
(£183.32)
Asus P8P67 DELUXE Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £199.99
(£166.66) £199.99
(£166.66)
Corsair Professional Series™ Gold AX850 High Performance 850W Power Supply (CMPSU-850AXUK) £157.99
(£131.66) £157.99
(£131.66)
Coolermaster HAF X Gaming Tower Case - Black (RC-942) £132.98
(£110.82) £132.98
(£110.82)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Retail (Full Version)(GFC-00025) £124.99
(£104.16) £124.99
(£104.16)
Nvidia GeForce 3D Vision Extra Glasses £85.99
(£71.66) £85.99
(£71.66)
Corsair Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMD4GX3M2A1600C9) £71.99
(£59.99) £71.99
(£59.99)
Samsung SH-B123L/BSBP 12x BluRay ROM DVDRW DL & RAM Lightscribe SATAII Optical Drive - Retail Black £56.99
(£47.49) £56.99
(£47.49)
Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler (Socket Intel LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AMD AM2 / AM3 / AM2+ / AM3+) £50.99
(£42.49) £50.99
(£42.49)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £42.98
(£35.82) £85.96
(£71.64)
Sub Total : £2,459.83
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £32.90
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £498.55
Total : £2,991.28

That would be a fun system to play with. Eat some 3D gaming.
If only we all had that money for a system....

 

[EXMailman]

R088ieS86 i was looking into 120Hz monitors, but someone said it was a waste, as you wouldnt get enough graphics power to run them at 120fps.