How good is this for gaming and design/video rendering use?

Mark719

Mark719

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Hey, Was just wondering your thoughts on this gaming/work computer set up and if there is anything different you can suggest or information you can give me, I use my computer for, gaming, design (Photoshop), video rendering and general use.

Case: NZXT PHANTOM 410 WHITE GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU): Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-3570K (3.4GHz) 6MB Cache
Motherboard: ASUS® P8Z77-V LX: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, ATI®CrossFireX
Memory (RAM): 16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (4 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card: 3GB AMD RADEON™ HD7970 - DVI,HDMI,2 mDP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable
Memory - 1st Hard Disk: 120GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk: 1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
Power Supply: CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX750 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE
Processor Cooling: Corsair H60 Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Operating System: Genuine Windows 8 Standard Edition 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence

Price £1187
 
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Case: NZXT PHANTOM 410 WHITE GAMING CASE - personal so not going to comment

Processor (CPU): Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-3570K (3.4GHz) 6MB Cache - A very good chip, if your doing a lot of heavy rendering work and can afford it push to a 3770k

Motherboard: ASUS® P8Z77-V LX: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, ATI®CrossFireX - good reviews though have not used it myself so who knows. maximus V Gene is great if you want to try something else.

Memory (RAM): 16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (4 x 4GB KIT) - If it were me i would get a 2x8Gb kit to give you an upgrade path in future

Graphics Card: 3GB AMD RADEON™ HD7970 - DVI,HDMI,2 mDP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable - Nice card but you can get similar performance for less getting a 7950 and OCing it, also if your using old adobe software CS5 or less you get CUDA support with nvidia, apparently CS5.5 uses something else so there's little in it between green and red team.

Memory - 1st Hard Disk: 120GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW) - Have the V+200 which i think is good and that one is supposed to be better.

2nd Hard Disk: 1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE - I would splash another £30-40 and get a 3Tb drive if it were me

Power Supply: CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX750 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE - no idea but i'm sure others will comment

Processor Cooling: Corsair H60 Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler - had the non-branded version of this its fairly quiet and keeps temps ok for OCing, consider using a filter on the intake fan though.

Operating System: Genuine Windows 8 Standard Edition 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence - Boooo win 7 is much better IMHO.

All in all should play all of today's games well and should be good for rendering.
 
Downgrade the PSU to a 500-600W model as the mobo doesn't support xfire/sli at x8 x8.
Or upgrade the mobo to a Gigabyte Z77X-D3H which does properly support it.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795QC3G2M) £249.95
1 x Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £229.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UD3 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £164.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £94.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £76.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Windowed Case - Black £69.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £59.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £53.99
2 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G186C9K) £41.99 (£83.98)
Total : £1,179.84 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
zakblood said:
design (Photoshop), video rendering you will need a i7, the one listed above by honosuseri will more than do the job, for me you need a lot more storage, but that would also add to the cost.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-256-SE&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1953

Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM

£97.99 inc VAT to replace the 1tb one for £40 more
Click to expand...

I've gone by the OPs spec.....how do you know what storage he needs? ;)

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795QC3G2M) £249.95
1 x Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £229.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UD3 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £164.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £94.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £78.98
1 x Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £76.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Case - Black £64.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £53.99
2 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G186C9K) £41.99 (£83.98)
Total : £1,193.84 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Happy now? lol
 
you don't use photoshop then im guessing?

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as files can be rather large, 1tb might be enough for gaming alone, then again i couldn't fit them on, but it isn't about me is it, i'd go for bigger, 1tb is tiny for some program alone now days unless when he says " gaming, design (Photoshop), video rendering and general use" means gaming 90% of the time and 10% usage for other apps, then 1tb will be fine :)

i have no idea what is needs are, but you have also altered your spec and put larger in so im guessing you also do use photoshop then :) and have altered it to make a more rounded pc.

as programs get larger and use more of the drive for scratch drive / ram drives / page files etc, more and more of the drive gets taken up by programs and we have even less to install on or use for storage.
 
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I just rebalanced his build Zak.

For all I know he has drives he is reusing. The HDD I used has double the cache. Gav had already suggested upping the HDD capacity, since you decided to echo his suggestion, I thought I'd show how to rebalance the spec to double the storage capacity and cache and still keep close to his budget.

The offers change later today so it will need rebalancing most likely anyway by the time he sees this and talks it through......nothing is set in stone fella ;)
 
thats true, i dont like the Seagate Barracuda myself, i use the WD ones, but would stick with your advice anyway

im not doing any more spec's until i've learnt abit more, what i thought i knew and what i know seems to be 2 totally different things tbh

will learn, just need to watch and listen some more, and read more up to date stuff.
 
The trick is reading between the lines fella.

I look at his wish list. It has the i5K, a mobo he thinks can Xfire and a high spec GPU with a hefty PSU in order to cover the Xfire requirement. It's slanted towards gaming more than anything in my eyes ;)

Pro users tend to spec the Pro version of windows to use more than 16GB of RAM. I don't want to get carried away spec'ing till I hear the guys thoughts but I tried to do a "semi-pro" build for his budget. No doubt he will ask why I have used the 2011 socket but we can talk about that later :)
 
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