Help with £2500 basket

If you insist on Z97 then you might as well drop to an i5 for gaming.

Yes I agree the case is bland, but the NZXT cases look horrible to me. There are better cases to be had.

27'' at 1080p is too blocky for me when sat closer to the screen. Wether it is 60/120/144 it don't matter. The pixels are too big. If you find the same too, well, that is a big waste of your budget.

So you might as well spend half as much on a 22" 120/144 monitor, which is the sweet spot the screen looking less pixelated when you are sat closer.


You could spend £1500 on this and be perfectly happy for gaming, a much more bang for buck approach...


YOUR BASKET
2 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11227-00-40G) £269.99 (£539.98)
1 x AOC G2460PQU 24" Widescreen 144Hz 1ms Gaming LED Monitor - Gunmetal £199.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Crucial MX100 512GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter CT512MX100SSD1) £144.98
1 x Silverstone Enthusiast Bundle - Tundra TD03 Liquid CPU Cooler & Raven 3 Full Tower Windowed Case £124.00
- 1 x No Power Supply Required £0.00
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 850W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £97.99
1 x Avexir MPower Yellow Series 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AVD3U24001004G-2CM) £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97-D3H Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £83.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
Total : £1,543.60 (includes shipping : £14.75).

 
You will get a lot of different opinions here,

It's all down to personal preference on peripherals, have a good read up on mouse/keyboards. The case is definitely a good choice.

Looks like it will be a good build when its done.

Good luck
 
Threepwood said:
27'' at 1080p is too blocky for me when sat closer to the screen. Wether it is 60/120/144 it don't matter. The pixels are too big. If you find the same too, well, that is a big waste of your budget.

So you might as well spend half as much on a 22" 120/144 monitor, which is the sweet spot the screen looking less pixelated when you are sat closer.

You could spend £1500 on this and be perfectly happy for gaming, a much more bang for buck approach...
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Thanks again, I guess I am trying to spec a rig that will be ready for 1440p when there are some more monitors on the market. From looking on the Monitor sub-forum, it seems like these are not too far away. Re 1080p monitor, I currently have a 27” TV on my desk for PS4 uses (sorry to mention a console!), so I was trying to kill 2 birds with one stone.

I reckon you’re still going to advise against it :P And say forget about including a PS4 in the discussion and just get a nice 1440p 60hz monitor and maybe upgrade it later. In which case I need I’m going to need a bigger desk!

zack1667 said:
You will get a lot of different opinions here,

It's all down to personal preference on peripherals, have a good read up on mouse/keyboards. The case is definitely a good choice.

Looks like it will be a good build when its done.

Good luck
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Thanks, I have done quite a bit, I like the look of Roccat so far!

djkav said:
With a z79 board, you might as well take advantage of the M.2 internal slot, and get a 256gb SSD M.2 card for the boot drive. Better than SATA3.
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So run the 256 SSD to boot from and then one 512 SSD as internal storage?
 
Wouldn't bother with M.2 right now. The price/performance is bang on with the Mx100's atm. Wait untill there's some better M.2 stuff out, at better prices.

Kind of the same with the monitor, if you already have something you can use for now... then this would be the time to wait and see what comes over the horizon.

But again, 24'' 144hz can be had for cheap. I'm not disagreeing with you, just saying that will more than do you and you can buy another kind of monitor in the future, whatever pops up.

I already have a 120hz monitor you see, and I would not replace it, it's great for the things I do on it (FPS games for the most part) I also love having a high refresh rate on my desktop too, and when playing java type games.

But I would add to it you see. I'm currently saving for the LG or whatever pops up over the horizon.

Like others have said, it is hard to get the perfect monitor, so you end up with more than one monitor...and it can end up getting expensive... this is why I am pleading you spend it wisely to start with, :)

so I would either go with the 1440p 144hz and part with the £££ now (I'm getting the hint you don't like the LG :p ), or get a cheap 144hz 1080p and keep your options open.. or just wait, and see! (hardest option tho),
 
Threepwood said:
Wouldn't bother with M.2 right now. The price/performance is bang on with the Mx100's atm. Wait untill there's some better M.2 stuff out, at better prices.

Kind of the same with the monitor, if you already have something you can use for now... then this would be the time to wait and see what comes over the horizon.

But again, 24'' 144hz can be had for cheap. I'm not disagreeing with you, just saying that will more than do you and you can buy another kind of monitor in the future, whatever pops up.

I already have a 120hz monitor you see, and I would not replace it, it's great for the things I do on it (FPS games for the most part) I also love having a high refresh rate on my desktop too, and when playing java type games.

But I would add to it you see. I'm currently saving for the LG or whatever pops up over the horizon.

Like others have said, it is hard to get the perfect monitor, so you end up with more than one monitor...and it can end up getting expensive... this is why I am pleading you spend it wisely to start with, :)

so I would either go with the 1440p 144hz and part with the £££ now (I'm getting the hint you don't like the LG :p ), or get a cheap 144hz 1080p and keep your options open.. or just wait, and see! (hardest option tho),
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Thanks for the reply dude, I think I am going to go with a cheap 144hz 1080p and keep my options open. Just seen that the ROG Swift's only input is 1x DisplayPort too.

Another question, the Nvidia GPU would be the best bet for the ROG Swift due to G-Sync. I assume that the upcoming competitor 1440p 144Hz monitors will be more GPU neutral? The dual AMD's do look like good value, and I can see the new Nvidia 980's being pricey to run two of them...
 
Just browsing cases again, what are peoples thoughts on the Corsair Graphite 780T Full Tower Case? Looks better than the Obsidian IMO
 
Yeah I quite like the 780T, but I think I would go for the bang for buck C70 Vengeance.

Nice side mounts on the C70, which are really effective when it comes to none reference sli/crossfire GPU awesomeness.
 
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