New build... thoughts

[rich.searle91]

currently building a new computer, have got all the major components the minor ones are simply fans and cables. Price is around £1900 atm,

Plan on using it for a lot of gaming eve, battlefield 3, CS:GO, and a lot more in future so needs to last me, also will be used for Folding@home as my other computer bit the dust.

Anything you would change, price can grow ~ £200 or come down.

 

[Bacon?]

Personally would change the 680 for a 670 since the performance difference is tiny.

Unless you are doing video editing you can go for the i5 over the i7

Gigabyte board such as the:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-388-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2261
If you really wanna spend that much on a motherboard, it has a UK based RMA and longer warranty.

A Corsair or XFX PSU over a OCZ as they are made by Seasonic who are better than CWT.

And then a large air cooler over the H100 as it cheaper, quieter and cooler.

Oh and a Samsung SSD.

PS. Will you want playback software on the Bluray player?

 

[stulid]

YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 680 EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £399.95
2 x Benq XL2420T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Vision 2.0 Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red £269.99 (£539.98)
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £167.99
1 x Seasonic X-Series 850w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £149.99
1 x Corsair Graphite 600T Midi Tower Case - Limited Edition White £145.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) £89.99
1 x LG CH10LS28 BD-ROM 10x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £62.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 612S CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/1156/1155/775/AM3/AM2+/AM2) £32.99
Total : £1,622.92 (includes shipping : £27.55).




You already have RAM? is it low profile?

HDD's?

 

[Bacon?]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Sleeping Dogs PC Game £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x NZXT Switch 810 Big Tower Case - White £132.98
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard with FREE BOOGIE BUG XXL GAMING MOUSE MAT £129.98
1 x Corsair Enthusiast Series TX750M High Performance 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020003-UK) £94.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) £89.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £69.98
1 x LG CH10LS28 BD-ROM 10x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £62.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1156/1155/1366/AM2/AM2+/AM3/AM3+/FM1) £59.99
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £31.19
Total : £1,109.77 (includes shipping : £14.75).



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[rich.searle91]

Forgot the ram and I see what you mean about the 670 and i7 easily swapped out and I have other hdd's so the ssd can have the os and major games I play. For the blu ray yes, now you have pointed it out I didn't pick retail one. Thanks for the points ill take my build back to the drawing board and come back later

 

[Bacon?]

Forgot the ram and I see what you mean about the 670 and i7 easily swapped out and I have other hdd's so the ssd can have the os and major games I play. For the blu ray yes, now you have pointed it out I didn't pick retail one. Thanks for the points ill take my build back to the drawing board and come back later

Right now unless you are hell bent on 3D gaming I cant see much of a reason to go for Nvidia. With the recent price drops the 7950 which is near equivalent of the 670 when overclocked is much cheaper so you can easily afford SLI of 7950's/

Glad we can help.

 

[stulid]

How serious are you about folding? as the extra threads and cuda support of the i7+Nvidia may help.

 

[Bacon?]

How serious are you about folding? as the extra threads and cuda support of the i7+Nvidia may help.

I've never really understood folding so can you tell me how CUDA support would help it?

 

[stulid]

I've never really understood folding so can you tell me how CUDA support would help it?

You can run GPU clients along side CPU clients.

http://www.geforce.co.uk/games-applications/pc-games/foldinghome---cuda-optimized

 

[rich.searle91]

Quite serious about folding, ive used to have a good PPD but my laptop im using now just cant handle anything close, hence for nvidia 680 and i7.

also how do you link in the basket like both of you have done??

 

[Idleman]

YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 680 EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £399.95
2 x Benq XL2420T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Vision 2.0 Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red £269.99 (£539.98)
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £167.99
1 x Seasonic X-Series 850w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £149.99
1 x Corsair Graphite 600T Midi Tower Case - Limited Edition White £145.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) £89.99
1 x LG CH10LS28 BD-ROM 10x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £62.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 612S CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/1156/1155/775/AM3/AM2+/AM2) £32.99
Total : £1,622.92 (includes shipping : £27.55).




You already have RAM? is it low profile?

HDD's?

Going to be hard to run without a CPU.

 

[stulid]

Going to be hard to run without a CPU.

My spec was actually just to change the other parts
Maybe you will get me next time

 

[Idleman]

My spec was actually just to change the other parts
Maybe you will get me next time

Can but try.