Looking at a new system, spec me please.

GinG · 13 Mar 2013 at 19:54

Evening all,

Think after my wedding in June to treating myself to a new system to replace my Q6600 system (originally a E6300 system so is old!).

Looking for a budget of around £1,500 I think, would like the following:

100% gaming machine
AMD System (I think?!)
Crossfire (unless recommended otherwise)
Include Operating System
Customer watercooling to include CPU & GFX
Case??

Would like a new monitor if that is available in budget (currently gaming at 1050)
Keyboard & Mouse would be nice to, however having to find another £100 another time wouldnt be an issue.

As I have probabaly had my system for around 6-7 years (well since day 1 from the E6300 release day) I would like to think the system could last similar.

So people what options do I have, open to suggestions.

CinderzFTW · 13 Mar 2013 at 20:36

forget AMD for a pure gaming rig... intel beats it hands down by a large margain, let me see what i can do for you

CinderzFTW · 13 Mar 2013 at 20:56

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £359.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD256BW) £209.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £173.99
1 x IIyama Prolite E2473HS 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £149.99
1 x Asus P8Z77-M Pro Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £116.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM3) (CWCH100) £81.98
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 630W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £79.99
1 x Logitech G110 Illuminated Gaming Keyboard (920-002241) £64.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £47.99
1 x Logitech G300 Gaming Mouse (910-002489) £29.99
1 x Samsung SH-224BB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.95
Total : £1,349.83 (includes shipping : £12.50).

dacads · 13 Mar 2013 at 21:28

RAM in this spec can be OCed to 2133MHz

You can change the coolant to your liking

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £359.99
1 x OcUK Tech Lab - V12 Watercooling Kit 360 £203.02
- 1 x Mayhems Ultra Pure H20 Watercooling Fluid 1L £4.99
- 1 x XSPC RayStorm CPU WaterBlock (Intel) £51.98
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £173.99
1 x IIyama Prolite E2473HS 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £149.99
1 x NZXT Switch 810 Big Tower Case - White £139.99
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 £99.98
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £99.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £59.99
1 x Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3D/US) 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit £49.99
Total : £1,506.85 (includes shipping : FREE).

zakblood · 13 Mar 2013 at 22:13

neither has o/s or liquid cooled vga only liquid cooled cpu etc so doesn't match spec tbh

only one as a dvdrw in it, other one has none

dacads · 13 Mar 2013 at 22:23

I included the V12 kit which has a 360rad so is suitable for a crossfire/sli setup in the future. OP can upgrade his GPU to watercooling at a later time as well.

Completely forgot about the OS..

Updated:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £359.99
1 x OcUK Tech Lab - V12 Watercooling Kit 360 £203.02
- 1 x Mayhems Ultra Pure H20 Watercooling Fluid 1L £4.99
- 1 x XSPC RayStorm CPU WaterBlock (Intel) £51.98
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £173.99
1 x IIyama Prolite E2473HS 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £149.99
1 x NZXT Switch 810 Big Tower Case - White £139.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £99.95
1 x MSI Z77A-G45 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £59.99
1 x Adata XPG Gaming v1.0 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (AX3U1600GC4G9-2G) £35.99
Total : £1,549.84 (includes shipping : FREE).

OP hasn't specified whether an optical drive is required or not. Also slightly more over budget

Doomedspeed · 13 Mar 2013 at 22:56

I have 3 words (letters, characters) for you:

D-3-H

It's even on offer this week to make it easier..

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-391-GI

honosuseri · 13 Mar 2013 at 23:34

Come June it will make even more sense to wait for Haswell if it's not out by then anyway

For dual cards or more and watercooling I'd like to have a full tower case

YOUR BASKET
1 x BitFenix Shinobi XL Full Tower Gaming Windowed Case - Black £114.98
Total : £114.98 (includes shipping : FREE).

Find something you like then it's easier for us to spec the internals come the time

zakblood · 14 Mar 2013 at 05:31

GinG said:
Evening all,

Think after my wedding in June to treating myself to a new system to replace my Q6600 system (originally a E6300 system so is old!).

Looking for a budget of around £1,500 I think, would like the following:

100% gaming machine
AMD System (I think?!)
Crossfire (unless recommended otherwise)
Include Operating System
Customer watercooling to include CPU & GFX
Case??

Would like a new monitor if that is available in budget (currently gaming at 1050)
Keyboard & Mouse would be nice to, however having to find another £100 another time wouldnt be an issue.

As I have probabaly had my system for around 6-7 years (well since day 1 from the E6300 release day) I would like to think the system could last similar.

So people what options do I have, open to suggestions.

not going to get all of above on budget either, liquid cooled cpu and video in a good case with even a i5 costs too much with a o/s i tried to use the win 8 upgrade to save money etc and a monitor as well as other bits like kb/ mouse etc, drop the monitor and o/s and peripherals etc then yes it can be done.

1 x OcUK Tech Lab - V12 Watercooled Case - BitFenix Shinobi XL Full Tower - Black £359.98
- 1 x Mayhems Ultra Pure H20 Watercooling Fluid 1L £4.99
- 1 x Intel Bracket Fitted £0.00
1 x OcUK Tech Lab H2O Custom HD 7970 3072MB GDDR5 £324.58
- 1 x EK Water Blocks EK-FC7970 - Nickel Plexi CSQ £79.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 256GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5P) £185.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) HDD £104.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Windows 8 Pro Upgrade Edition - from XP SP3 / Vista / Windows 7 £44.99
Total : £1,508.96 (includes shipping : £13.75).

would still need some parts to even get this up and running, dvdrw, some memory and setup for liquid video to connect to system etc, but the very basic is there, just to give you a idea tbh, not even added a monitor, going AMD doesn't even make it happen, as too many bits and budget too low for all of setup, so need to alter what you would like and then add some things later, alter to a cheaper case, smaller psu, smaller hdd and sdd, and a less powerful video card liquid still makes it over budget.

option 2

1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £245.99
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99
1 x BenQ GW2750HM 27" Widescreen LED Professional Monitor - Black £199.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 256GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5P) £185.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi XL Full Tower Gaming Case - Black £124.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) HDD £104.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3D/US) 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit £49.99
1 x Windows 8 Pro Upgrade Edition - from XP SP3 / Vista / Windows 7 £44.99
1 x Asus 24x DVD±RW DRW-24B5ST SATA ReWriter - Black (OEM) £18.95
Total : £1,455.48 (includes shipping : £22.20).

none liquid cooled video, do it at a later date etc, as case to fit it all in when needed is bought now, a big enough psu that you can crossfire later when budget allows, a good sdd and big enough standard hdd for storage, a half decent big display to watch it all on, using a windows 8 upgrade disk to save you the pennies, a i7 not a i5 to give you a bit more power with not that more cost as you seem to keep your systems longer, you could go i5 now then upgrade later but some games will use the i7 now so i've stuck one in and have that liquid cooled so at a later date can over clock it, twin fan so will be quite and cool, picked the 7950 not 70 as it over clocks well so better value and can pick another one later as there also cheaper than the 70's.

enjoy what ever you go for

and congratulations for the up coming wedding

(please remember a pc is for a few years but a wife can be forever hehehehehe)

GinG · 14 Mar 2013 at 07:39

Thanks very much guys, appreciate it.

So sadly AMD is way behind again?

Don't worry about CDrom drive as already have a BD Drive, with regards to the watercooling ideally I would like to have everything cooled without having to change/add things...what would the budget need to be? Even if it meant not having a display as I could keep with my 22" for time being.

Oh and zakblood...must remember about the wife bit, forgot they are not upgradable (or are they?!)

zakblood · 14 Mar 2013 at 08:18

always, each year i look for a newer model, but tbh the costs are very high

and to get everything you may be looking at nearer £2k at max

1 x OcUK Tech Lab - V12 Watercooled Case - BitFenix Shinobi XL Full Tower - Black £359.98
- 1 x Mayhems Ultra Pure H20 Watercooling Fluid 1L £4.99
- 1 x Intel Bracket Fitted £0.00
1 x OcUK Tech Lab H2O Custom HD 7970 3072MB GDDR5 £324.58
- 1 x EK Water Blocks EK-FC7970 - Nickel Plexi CSQ £79.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £245.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 256GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5P) £185.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) HDD £104.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
2 x Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3D/US) 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit £49.99 (£99.98)
1 x Windows 8 Pro Upgrade Edition - from XP SP3 / Vista / Windows 7 £44.99
1 x Gigabyte Force K3 Gaming Keyboard £29.99
1 x Gigabyte M6900 3200DPI Gaming Mouse £16.99
1 x OcUK Mega Mat Medium Elite Tactical Gaming Surface £9.98
Total : £1,737.91 (includes shipping : £13.75).

you will still need a rad and stuff and if you want a full version of a o/s etc and maybe dual card to start off with?

and the AMD is an option, just for many the i5/i7 solution is better

there is always way better people than me to spec water cooled stuff, ive never done one myself so hopefully someone who has will come along and do a proper one for you, good luck