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Thanks for the information guys, the case i just want a nice roomy one with plenty of room for fans to keep it cool. Doesn't have to look pretty. For the graphic card I'm thinking the 6850 is not enough and probably not that future proof would rather spend a bit more money for a card that will be good for a few years (for my usage). The 7850 is pricey but like you guys said its a very good card, is there like a card in the middle between the 6850 and 7850? If you could just list the cards you would recomend me aslong as they are under £200 I'm happy to pay that much if they are really good :). I was also thinking of getting the Asus P8Z68-V/GEN 3 as it as very good reviews and got PCIe 3.0 is there much difference between the 2.0 and 3.0?
 
thenameDS said:
Thanks for the information guys, the case i just want a nice roomy one with plenty of room for fans to keep it cool. Doesn't have to look pretty. For the graphic card I'm thinking the 6850 is not enough and probably not that future proof would rather spend a bit more money for a card that will be good for a few years (for my usage). The 7850 is pricey but like you guys said its a very good card, is there like a card in the middle between the 6850 and 7850? If you could just list the cards you would recomend me aslong as they are under £200 I'm happy to pay that much if they are really good :). I was also thinking of getting the Asus P8Z68-V/GEN 3 as it as very good reviews and got PCIe 3.0 is there much difference between the 2.0 and 3.0?
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In between a 6850 and 7850 would probably be something like a 6950 or 560Ti, though a 7850 isn't much more and is the better than both of those options. I bought a 6850 because it was only £76, and so I can justify upgrading it in a short time because it was such a small outlay. It can still run most games at maxed or near maxed settings on a standard 1920x1080 screen and get playable frame rates, so it'll do me for a year. If I had spent £200, I would want to keep it for at least 2 or 3 years to justify the cost, by which time I would have a more powerful GPU than the £200 one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK4ip08auGg
So you may want to just go with a 6850, and upgrade it in a years time, when you will be able to buy a better graphics card than a 7850, for less. You will still be able to sell your 6850 for some money as well.
As for motherboard, you should go with a Z77 board to get all the feature out of the 3570k, I would recommend the equivalent Z77 board of the one you chose, the P8Z77-V, which has lots of nice features, I like mine very much.
 
honosuseri said:
Warface will be using cryengine3 which is the graphics engine for crysis 2. That is a free to play FPS because he isn't buying the games it helps justify spending a lil more on a GPU that will run these games comfortably in high res at high settings. The 7850 has more VRAM for a start than the 6850, 2GB is quickly becoming the standard and future games will start to expect this.

The 6850 for £80 is a great budget GPU, on a Z77 mobo it will get a boost from lucid MVP and it can be overclocked to nigh on 6870 performance. I would consider it the bare minimum for a gaming rig, if the OP can afford to get a 7850 (which overclock very well btw) I doubt he would regret it.
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I see what your saying Hon, It is a good £100 more, But it is much more "future-proof" and would probably run quieter/cooler.

Other than that looks good :)
 
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