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First upgrade in 5 years, my last rig was great but showing its age so i dismantled and sold it.
This is what I'm thinking. Have been out of the scene for a year.
The issue I'm having is mostly with the board. I'm looking for something around the £250 - £330 mark. Here's what i have looked at.
Computer will be mostly used for gaming @1440p wanting to take more advantage of RTX games also. Will be overclocking the CPU to maybe 5.0Ghz (or more if the 13700K is capable?)
Board options
Asus TUF Gaming Z790-Plus D4 (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard
MSI MAG Z790 TOMAHAWK WIFI DDR5 (LGA 1700) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard
CPU
Intel Core i7-13700K (Raptor Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail
Memory
Corsair Vengeance RGB EXPO 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C36 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black
Graphics Card
Asus GeForce RTX 4080 TUF OC 16GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card
Drive
Samsung 990 PRO 2TB. Will partition this, 300gb for windows 10 or 11 and 1.5tb for games (usually 1.8tb is allocated in total) after the drive is installed.
Case
Corsair 5000D RGB
Cooler
H150I ICUE elite
PSU
Help me spec this please Something 1000W Platinum grade maybe?
So basically stuck with my Board and Power Supply options. Will be grateful for any advice.
This is what I'm thinking. Have been out of the scene for a year.
The issue I'm having is mostly with the board. I'm looking for something around the £250 - £330 mark. Here's what i have looked at.
Computer will be mostly used for gaming @1440p wanting to take more advantage of RTX games also. Will be overclocking the CPU to maybe 5.0Ghz (or more if the 13700K is capable?)
Board options
Asus TUF Gaming Z790-Plus D4 (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard
MSI MAG Z790 TOMAHAWK WIFI DDR5 (LGA 1700) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard
CPU
Intel Core i7-13700K (Raptor Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail
Memory
Corsair Vengeance RGB EXPO 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C36 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black
Graphics Card
Asus GeForce RTX 4080 TUF OC 16GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card
Drive
Samsung 990 PRO 2TB. Will partition this, 300gb for windows 10 or 11 and 1.5tb for games (usually 1.8tb is allocated in total) after the drive is installed.
Case
Corsair 5000D RGB
Cooler
H150I ICUE elite
PSU
Help me spec this please Something 1000W Platinum grade maybe?
So basically stuck with my Board and Power Supply options. Will be grateful for any advice.
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