New Gaming Build £2500 budget

EnderXi · 4 Sep 2012 at 16:56

Hi Guys,

The title says it all, I am looking at upgrading my gaming rig, mostly I use it for gaming but I work in IT consultancy so sometimes its used for running virtual machines for building and testing software, working on testing new patches for clients software etc.

I have a budget of £2500 and I don't need a computer case as a I have a corsair 800d, I want to water cool the graphics card or cards and the CPU anyone got any suggestions?

stulid · 4 Sep 2012 at 17:05

So start again but keeping the case?

Need an OS/Monitor etc?

YOUR BASKET
2 x OcUK Tech Lab H2O Custom GTX 670 2048MB GDDR5 £320.98 (£641.96)
- 2 x EK 670 Full Cover Waterblock - Nickel Acetal £73.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UP5 TH Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £259.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £251.99
1 x EK-KIT H3O 360 HFX High Performance Watercooling Kit £202.99
1 x OCZ Vertex 4 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (VTX4-25SAT3-256G) £179.99
1 x Seasonic X-Series 850w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £149.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16Gb (4X4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Quad Channel kit (PV316G186C9QK) £119.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £99.98
1 x LG BH10LS38 10x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Lightscribe Drive - Black (Retail) £79.98
Total : £2,148.34 (includes shipping : £11.25).

But, I dont know that much about custom water cooling, maybe best to ask in the correct water cooling forum.

Also I cant see why you cant just change a few things on your current rig and pocket the cash for a decent upgrade?

Idleman · 4 Sep 2012 at 17:08

Any components from your old rig you can reuse. Sata hdd`s, dvd, Psu, OS,etc,.

In regards to watercooling, you would be better opening a thread here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=133

Uncle Petey · 4 Sep 2012 at 17:08

Quad channel RAM?

stulid · 4 Sep 2012 at 17:09

Uncle Petey said:
Quad channel RAM?

Yeah, why? still works in dual channel you know.

Uncle Petey · 4 Sep 2012 at 17:10

Cool, just asking. Would've gone with two 8gb sticks myself.

stulid · 4 Sep 2012 at 17:54

Uncle Petey said:
Cool, just asking. Would've gone with two 8gb sticks myself.

Very expensive, I was trying to find colour matching parts.

Uncle Petey · 4 Sep 2012 at 17:59

Nice, I always hated having the empty slots too

leoncao · 4 Sep 2012 at 18:03

Anyone has hand on experience with those custom 670?

Trusty · 4 Sep 2012 at 18:04

Is that your old rig in your sig?

EnderXi · 4 Sep 2012 at 19:00

Yeah thats what im using currently, I would be looking at getting a New SSD, I will need a new PSU as the old rig gets turned into a hand me down to my family for them to use (i will probably sell one of the 5870's as they dont need 2 of them)

I have a couple of DVD writers that i will be keeping into the new rig

Oh and i have a Dell 24" monitor that is still going okay so i dont really need a new monitor just yet.

scrlk · 4 Sep 2012 at 19:05

Aqua Computer blocks over EK any day IMHO.

Trusty · 4 Sep 2012 at 19:14

EnderXi said:
as the old rig gets turned into a hand me down to my family for them to use

Ah...ok....was wondering why you were upgrading.

Uncle Petey · 4 Sep 2012 at 21:16

If you wanna go slightly more nuts...

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £437.99
2 x OcUK Tech Lab H2O Custom GTX 670 2048MB GDDR5 £320.98 (£641.96)
- 2 x Aqua Computer AquaGraFX - GTX 670 Water Block £76.99
1 x Asus X79 Sabertooth Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £262.99
1 x EK-KIT H3O 360 HFX High Performance Watercooling Kit £202.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Notebook/Apple Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC256N/EU) **BTS £20 CASHBACK** £155.99
1 x Corsair Professional Series HX+ 850W '80+ Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020032-UK) £139.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (4X4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Quad Channel kit (PV316G213C1QK) £129.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) £129.98
1 x LG BH10LS38 10x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Lightscribe Drive - Black (Retail) £79.98
Total : £2,349.34 (includes shipping : £11.25).

Bacon? · 4 Sep 2012 at 21:27

No they aren't?

Idleman · 4 Sep 2012 at 22:07

Bacon? said:
No they aren't?

Actually, they are. Took me 10 secs. to find.