how cheap a cpu can i use.

[freemason]

Dear all

I'm building soon , with a budget of circa £1200 ill be purchasing a GeForce GTX 770

Possibly if i can save enough money i can buy 2 of them. But of course I'm stuck in a catch 22 situation

If i can save money buying an i5 and not i7 and buy 2 gpus will a Intel CPU i5-4670K 3.4GHz Socket 1150 be able to keep with the demand of 2 high end gpus?

Failing that will i be better off just running a GTX780. Would this get me better results

 

[freemason]

Definitely agree with going 7950s Crossfire. The way i see it, future games will likely hit the cap of 2gb Vram before you run out of GPU power juice (depending on the resolution). The 7950s are much cheaper. The cost for the higher Vram version of the 770 is enough to buy two 7950s.

If i were you i would get a build with just a single 7950 and a i7 4770k with a power supply that could handle another card. Then at a later date, you can cash in for another 7950 or just jump onto the next generation GPU. This way you can take full advantage of the 7950 having the best price/performance in that price bracket AND get an i7!

Thank you to you both.

Avenged7fold

Do you think the 7950 is able to play bf3/4 on high settings I'm not looking for super ultra but i would like to be able to play fairly high settings.

Admittedly I've been away from proper gaming and enthusiast components for about 2 years. I do apologise for the probably to you are simple questions

 

[freemason]

Thank you for all your help sir i shall get my pen and paper out and re-write my specs list and see what price i get with 2 7950's

I already have a hard drive and a few other small bits and bobs so its not like the 1200 pound is for everything which is a bonus

 

[freemason]

Only 128Gb storage for the WHOLE system?

A previous thread i said i already had a HDD from my old pc. 2TB WD

The ssd is just a bonus

Thank you for speccing Avenged7Fold

It would be a very good start. I would add water cooling later on and a few other bits when more money was free. But as a start it would be nice

The case i actually had in mind was the thermaltake level10 GT. but its expensive and eats into money i could use for core components