How does my build look? gaming/university graphics work

[bladius]

What are the changes there?

Edit: again, never mind

(I wanted Borderlands 2 anyway!! XD)

 

[tamzzy]

What are the changes there?

Edit: again, never mind

(I wanted Borderlands 2 anyway!! XD)

saved a good 20 quid then! ;p

 

[Rooster212]

Yes, if you are using Photoshop etc. they will benefit from Nvidia cards, so maybe a change to the 660Ti will do you well. Not that the AMD cards don't help, I have a 6950 and it is used by Photoshop CS6. Just Nvidia cards are better because they support CUDA instructions.

 

[honosuseri]

If I was to get a 7950 the MSI Frozr III with SIX games is very enticing. I was doing a spec and was going to mention CUDA support, I see it's been mentioned. You might even "get away" with the i5K, ok you lose Hyperthreading but CUDA helps make up for the loss and the 670 is a beast of a GPU for gaming.

YOUR BASKET
1 x POV-TGT GeForce GTX 670 Charged 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Borderlands 2 & Assassin's Creed III PC Games £259.99
1 x BenQ GW2750HM 27" Widescreen LED Professional Monitor - Black £179.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £159.95
1 x NZXT Phantom 410 Enthusiast Midi Tower Case - White £94.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket /LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/LGA2011/AM2/AM3/FM1/FM2) £91.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £86.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £81.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £69.95
1 x Corsair Enthusiast Series TX550M High Performance 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020001-UK) £59.99
1 x LG CH10LS28 BD-ROM 10x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (OEM) £49.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED316GM1600HC11DC01) £47.99
Total : £1,207.92 (includes shipping : £20.10).



Offers change tomoz so these specs wont be valid for long. I included a bluray drive so you could rip the HD content to the 2TB storage. Kept your case, I used the H100i as it's an improved version of the only CLC worth having (bar the antec 920). The P&C PSU would look nice in white but I've used the corsair as it has more power for the same price.

Some of this could be considered luxuries that could pay for the hyperthreading, how you balance the build is really down to you fella. Tammzy has shown well how to balance the budget Are you taking the rig away for uni? Maybe a mini-itx rig would be more portable? Using the Bitfenix Prodigy perhaps?

 

[tamzzy]

i <3 my prodigy lol. real pita in terms of cable management though, but that's mini itx.
tbh i wouldnt get benq screens, iirc dont they suffer from screen lag due to being *va?

 

[bladius]

Are you taking the rig away for uni? Maybe a mini-itx rig would be more portable? Using the Bitfenix Prodigy perhaps?

I'm already at uni so portability isn't too much of an issue, I'm currently here with no computer and it's killing me, so I decided to build this for use and a project

 

[honosuseri]

I'm already at uni so portability isn't too much of an issue, I'm currently here with no computer and it's killing me, so I decided to build this for use and a project

Cool.

We always love to see project logs with pretty pics here

 

[bladius]

Cool.

We always love to see project logs with pretty pics here

Hmmmm, I'll see what I can do!

 

[Bacon?]

Pretty pics with "good" cable management

 

[bladius]

Pretty pics with "good" cable management

I have technology OCD. Eveything will be marked and colour-coded, don't worry!

 

[Bacon?]

My reccomendation and at £1000

YOUR BASKET
1 x POV-TGT GeForce GTX 670 Charged 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Borderlands 2 & Assassin's Creed III PC Games £259.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £239.99
1 x NZXT Phantom 410 Enthusiast Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal £89.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £86.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £81.98
1 x Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £76.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £69.95
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1156/1155/1366/AM2/AM2+/AM3/AM3+/FM1) £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED316GM1600HC11DC01) £47.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £1,043.84 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 

[tamzzy]

My reccomendation and at £1000

it wont be once you add in the 27 inch monitor and peripherals ;p

 

[Bacon?]

You know I knew it was too good to be true! -.-

 

[tamzzy]

was gonna say lol. i couldnt get it down that far and you went ahead and plonked in an upgraded case/heatsink/psu! ;p

 

[Bacon?]

Doing it like a boss

 

[bladius]

YOUR BASKET
1 x POV-TGT GeForce GTX 670 Charged 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Borderlands 2 & Assassin's Creed III PC Games £259.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £239.99
1 x Asus VE276N 27" Widescreen LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £191.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Notebook/Apple Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128N/EU) £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £81.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £69.95
1 x PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III Series 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - White £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED316GM1600HC11DC01) £47.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x TT eSports Challenger Gamers Keyboard £29.99
1 x Logitech G400 3600DPI Gaming Mouse (910-002279) £25.99
1 x Thermalright True Spirit 120 REV A CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/1155/1156/AM2/AM3/FM1) £24.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £1,194.92 (includes shipping : £20.10).

This is what I went for. Thanks for all the help guys! I should have it up and running by the 15th!
I'll try to take pictures (at least) also!

 

[hellhasnofury]

I thought the Gigabyte Windforce 7950 was better than the Asus 7950 ?

 

[honosuseri]

I thought the Gigabyte Windforce 7950 was better than the Asus 7950 ?

It is mate. Some might be tempted by the MSI 7950 Frozr III as it has six free games but the Windforce 7950 has a better cooler (X3 fans too) and still comes with some great games, GB have a good RMA service too.