Help with gaming build £1000 budget

yes they would

tweaked build

kept blue / black theme throughout

I5 retail, comes with stock cooler and extra 2 years warranty

850 watt PSU overkill for the system, but if you plan on sli in future then this would be perfect

i prefer samsung SSD

gigabyte motherboard can do sli,

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 680 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Borderlands 2 & Assassin's Creed III PC Games £359.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £94.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £77.99
1 x Phanteks PH-TC14PE CPU Cooler - Blue (Socket LGA 2011/1155/1156/1366/775/AMD AM2/2+/AM3) £66.98
1 x Cooler Master CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £62.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G160C9K) £29.99
1 x OCZ 2.5" to 3.5" SSD Adaptor - (OCZACSSDBRKT2) £7.99
Total : £1,015.40 (includes shipping : £13.75).



and lets youput £100 into beer fund / another ssd / mechanical hdd /
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7970 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £349.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £129.98
1 x Corsair Enthusiast Series TX750M High Performance 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020040-UK) £89.99
1 x NZXT Phantom 410 Enthusiast Midi Tower Case - Black £79.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £77.99
1 x Xigmatek Dark Knight SD-1283 Night Hawk Edition CPU Cooler (Socket LGA 2011/1366/1156/1155/775 and AMD FM1/AM3/AM2+/AM2) £34.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £29.99
Total : £992.92 (includes shipping : £12.50).





The 7970 is faster.

The case is better.
 
thanks for the help, why do you guys prefer the samsung ssd? i thought crucial m4 is supposed to be the best

is there a big performance difference?

and also in battlefield the comparisons show the 680 outperforming the 7970.
 
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storm45 said:
is there a big performance difference?

and also in battlefield the comparisons show the 680 outperforming the 7970.
Click to expand...
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/508?vs=555
This compares the two.

considering you are only playing at 1080p though, both cards get over 50fps on all the games (apart from crysis warhead where the 7970 beats the 680), so the difference isn't huge.

Battlefield DOES play better on the 680 (as it is optimised for Nvidia, just as some games are optimised for AMD), but when it's at over 50fps it doesn't make a noticeable difference.

the 3gb RAM of the 7970 is a more future proof than the 2gb of the 680.

the 7970 is a monster and beats the 680 6/10 times at 5760*1200 resolution.
 
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ordered this in the end, thanks for help
 
Guys I'm sorry to bring up a day old thread and also to ask another question (however it is related, kinda) but I tried creating a thread, twice, and neither showed up.

This thread was really helpful but I have about an extra £200 to spend, and was wondering what you guys reccomend spending it on? I live in quite a hot country and have had 2 high-end cards burn out on me in the past few years, and I would quite like to prevent that happening to this one. So any thoughts on that would be great.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7970 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £349.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £129.98
1 x Corsair Enthusiast Series TX750M High Performance 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020040-UK) £89.99
1 x NZXT Phantom 410 Enthusiast Midi Tower Case - Black £79.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £77.99
1 x Xigmatek Dark Knight SD-1283 Night Hawk Edition CPU Cooler (Socket LGA 2011/1366/1156/1155/775 and AMD FM1/AM3/AM2+/AM2) £34.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £29.99
Total : £992.92 (includes shipping : £12.50).
 
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