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I sold recently or should I say give away some of my PC staff to family member and only got laptop left now with few bits and bobs so time for my new build, what I need it for is the usual web/ general pc/ gaming and only thing I'm looking at it is build to last for about 2-3 years with out upgrade unless something goes faulty, I have 22" monitor, mouse/ keyboard/, software all ready choose case and power supply 650w very similar what I had which is by corsair, I'm a bit not sure on graphics card as I'm not AMD man when I have last AMD card I only had problems but I have to be fear this been about 7 years ago, also not sure 660ti or the 680 with over 100 extra is worth it, so please give me advice on that I play games like COD/ skyrim and FSX oh and please do not spec anything from asus just don't like the brand at all and always had problems so will not buy nothing from them just personal preference, so will this last 2-3 years?

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III OC V2 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £259.99
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 660Ti Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
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) - Retail £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £73.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £49.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £29.99
1 x Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £8.99
Total : £1,142.90 (includes shipping : £10.00).

 
Obviously I havent done as much research as you have but I'm curious why your spending so little on memory and motherboard, especially compared to the budget of your gfx.
 
Done a slight change:


YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 670 EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £305.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Desktop and Notebook Kit - (MZ-7TD250KW) £159.98
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £73.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £49.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £29.99
Total : £889.92 (includes shipping : £10.00).



Kalearne said:
Obviously I havent done as much research as you have but I'm curious why your spending so little on memory and motherboard, especially compared to the budget of your gfx.
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Nothing wrong with the Gigabyte board and the Kingston ram :)
 
Kalearne said:
Obviously I havent done as much research as you have but I'm curious why your spending so little on memory and motherboard, especially compared to the budget of your gfx.
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Hmm from my point of view I won't use more then 8GB at the moment no point in wasting more money, and for motherboard the gigabyte offers everything I need so didn't thing I need to spend lot more money, I would like maybe asrock mb but can't see what will offer me that gigabyte can't at this price range.
 
 
 
 
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So if you had to choose between Nvidia cards which one would you take? the GTX680 is a bit out of budget, there is little difference in performance 660ti to 670, I'm still not sure about the reliability of the ATI card
 
I was just reading on the motherboard spec and something caught my eye "msata" is this connection to SSD if yes this only support 3Gb/s not 6, the Plextor SSD is backwards compatible but still would be nice to run the system as it should, or I'm getting things wrong
 
lee32uk said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £229.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 256GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5P) £173.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £73.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £49.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £29.99
1 x Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £8.99
Total : £836.92 (includes shipping : £10.00).

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thats a nice build right there man, if you really want nvidia the 670 is comparable to the 7950 which is cheaper, up to you
if you do want to go nvidia then i would get this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-195-EA&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2294
 
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