New Sandybridge E build

The Slayer_UK

The Slayer_UK

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Hi Everyone

Im new to this forum im hoping just after xmas to build a new computer mostly for gaming my current pc is

mobo: Gigabyte UD3LR 775 socket
CPU: quad core QX9650
graphics card: Geforce 8800 GTS
2GB of ram
2 x 300GB Maxtor Harddrives X 1TB harddrive
19" samsung monitor

as you can see i havent upgraded for a long time but i want to get back into gaming

the system i plan to build is

CPU: i7-3930K
CPU Cooler: Intel RTS200LC
Mobo: Asus X79 Sabertooth
Graphics Card: Asus GeForce GTX 580 DirectCU II 1536MB
Ram: G.Skill RipJawsZ 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Quad channel
SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 120GB 2.5
HDD: my exsisting 1TB
PSU: my exsisting Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 1000W '80 Plus Bronze'
Case: Antec 1200 V3
Monitor: Acer GN245HQbmid 120Hrz 3D Ready LCD LED 23.6 (3D Nvidia wirless glasses included)


think thats everthing ive worked out spreading this across 2 or 3 diffrent places i can build this for about £1800

does anyone have any suggestions to what i have put?

by the way im not wanting a normal sandy bridge.

i was looking at the Asus Rampage IV Extreme but realised the antec case did not support Extended ATX but the money i would save from getting the Asus sabertooth i have put towards looking at the Asus 3d monitor.

as i have said im looking to but just after xmas maybe the first week in january do you reckon there will be offers on then like january sales?
 
The Slayer_UK said:
Hi Everyone

Im new to this forum im hoping just after xmas to build a new computer mostly for gaming my current pc is

mobo: Gigabyte UD3LR 775 socket
CPU: quad core QX9650
graphics card: Geforce 8800 GTS
2GB of ram
2 x 300GB Maxtor Harddrives X 1TB harddrive
19" samsung monitor

as you can see i havent upgraded for a long time but i want to get back into gaming

the system i plan to build is

CPU: i7-3930K
CPU Cooler: Intel RTS200LC
Mobo: Asus X79 Sabertooth
Graphics Card: Asus GeForce GTX 580 DirectCU II 1536MB
Ram: G.Skill RipJawsZ 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Quad channel
SSD: OCZ Vertex 3 120GB 2.5
HDD: my exsisting 1TB
PSU: my exsisting Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 1000W '80 Plus Bronze'
Case: Antec 1200 V3
Monitor: Acer GN245HQbmid 120Hrz 3D Ready LCD LED 23.6 (3D Nvidia wirless glasses included)


think thats everthing ive worked out spreading this across 2 or 3 diffrent places i can build this for about £1800

does anyone have any suggestions to what i have put?

by the way im not wanting a normal sandy bridge.

i was looking at the Asus Rampage IV Extreme but realised the antec case did not support Extended ATX but the money i would save from getting the Asus sabertooth i have put towards looking at the Asus 3d monitor.

as i have said im looking to but just after xmas maybe the first week in january do you reckon there will be offers on then like january sales?
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Best to come back when you can buy, as like you said there will be different offers on. If you want Sandybridge-E go for it, but a 2500K is all you need for gaming. Also its best to buy from one place as savings from several are usualy outweighed by postage cost.
 
why do you want the sandybridge-E so much. heres a comparison of the i5 2500k against the i7 3960X, which is even better than the one your looking at.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=443
the scores you will be interested in are the FPS scores since your mostly gaming. i dont know about you, but i would not pay almost 3x as much for less of an improvement than that.

if your buying after the christmas sales then my graphics card choice could radically change, because the new ATI 7000 series cards might start tricling out by then.

heres my suggestion for a £1800 build. i know shopping around will probably cut the price a little, but i cant link to competitors so ive specced everything from here:


YOUR BASKET
2 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 WINDFORCE 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £419.99 (£839.98)
1 x Benq XL2410T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £284.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £159.98
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £151.99
1 x Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred (V3 with USB3.0) Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £149.99
1 x Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM3) £52.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £39.95
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM (Version B - with new Firmware) £15.98
Total : £1,892.47 (includes shipping : £22.20).

main changes ive made are:

graphics card: because of the saving by ditching the sandybridge-E processor ive got you a second graphics card. just a slight improvement FPS wise:

also, the one you chose has a triple slot cooler so wouldnt have been very good in SLI, so i switched to the windforce. if you want to max out BF3 then you really want more than 1.5GB VRAM. some people cannot max it out at resolutions above 1080p with 4x 1.5GB 580s

SSD: slightly faster in the real world than the OCZ

memory: 1600Mhz is the sweet spot for price/performance. also, 16GB is overkill for gaming considering 99% of games cant even use more than 3GB RAM, even after messing around with the RAM limits. 8GB is more than enough

case: i would have gone for the silverstone raven 2, raven 3 or fortress 2, but they were all out of stock. i always say go for the case you like the looks of the best though, so if you prefer the antec then its all good

wasnt sure if you needed a new DVD drive atall, so i chucked one in.

i know almost nothing about monitors, so went for the only 24" 3D monitor i could find
 
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Reaper 392 said:
why do you want the sandybridge-E so much. heres a comparison of the i5 2500k against the i7 3960X, which is even better than the one your looking at.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=443
the scores you will be interested in are the FPS scores since your mostly gaming. i dont know about you, but i would not pay almost 3x as much for less of an improvement than that.

if your buying after the christmas sales then my graphics card choice could radically change, because the new ATI 7000 series cards might start tricling out by then.

heres my suggestion for a £1800 build. i know shopping around will probably cut the price a little, but i cant link to competitors so ive specced everything from here:


YOUR BASKET
2 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 WINDFORCE 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £419.99 (£839.98)
1 x Benq XL2410T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £284.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £159.98
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £151.99
1 x Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred (V3 with USB3.0) Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £149.99
1 x Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM3) £52.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £39.95
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM (Version B - with new Firmware) £15.98
Total : £1,892.47 (includes shipping : £22.20).

main changes ive made are:

graphics card: because of the saving by ditching the sandybridge-E processor ive got you a second graphics card. just a slight improvement FPS wise:

also, the one you chose has a triple slot cooler so wouldnt have been very good in SLI, so i switched to the windforce. if you want to max out BF3 then you really want more than 1.5GB VRAM. some people cannot max it out at resolutions above 1080p with 4x 1.5GB 580s

SSD: slightly faster in the real world than the OCZ

memory: 1600Mhz is the sweet spot for price/performance. also, 16GB is overkill for gaming considering 99% of games cant even use more than 3GB RAM, even after messing around with the RAM limits. 8GB is more than enough

case: i would have gone for the silverstone raven 2, raven 3 or fortress 2, but they were all out of stock. i always say go for the case you like the looks of the best though, so if you prefer the antec then its all good

wasnt sure if you needed a new DVD drive atall, so i chucked one in.

i know almost nothing about monitors, so went for the only 24" 3D monitor i could find
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I'm fairly sure the windforce is 3 slot too
 
Reaper 392 said:
why do you want the sandybridge-E so much. heres a comparison of the i5 2500k against the i7 3960X, which is even better than the one your looking at.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=443
the scores you will be interested in are the FPS scores since your mostly gaming. i dont know about you, but i would not pay almost 3x as much for less of an improvement than that.

if your buying after the christmas sales then my graphics card choice could radically change, because the new ATI 7000 series cards might start tricling out by then.

heres my suggestion for a £1800 build. i know shopping around will probably cut the price a little, but i cant link to competitors so ive specced everything from here:


YOUR BASKET
2 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 WINDFORCE 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £419.99 (£839.98)
1 x Benq XL2410T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £284.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £159.98
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £151.99
1 x Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred (V3 with USB3.0) Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £149.99
1 x Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM3) £52.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £39.95
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM (Version B - with new Firmware) £15.98
Total : £1,892.47 (includes shipping : £22.20).

main changes ive made are:

graphics card: because of the saving by ditching the sandybridge-E processor ive got you a second graphics card. just a slight improvement FPS wise:

also, the one you chose has a triple slot cooler so wouldnt have been very good in SLI, so i switched to the windforce. if you want to max out BF3 then you really want more than 1.5GB VRAM. some people cannot max it out at resolutions above 1080p with 4x 1.5GB 580s

SSD: slightly faster in the real world than the OCZ

memory: 1600Mhz is the sweet spot for price/performance. also, 16GB is overkill for gaming considering 99% of games cant even use more than 3GB RAM, even after messing around with the RAM limits. 8GB is more than enough

case: i would have gone for the silverstone raven 2, raven 3 or fortress 2, but they were all out of stock. i always say go for the case you like the looks of the best though, so if you prefer the antec then its all good

wasnt sure if you needed a new DVD drive atall, so i chucked one in.

i know almost nothing about monitors, so went for the only 24" 3D monitor i could find
Click to expand...


im not really looking at the 2500k ive just set my sights on a sandy bridge e build as i could drop an Ivy bridge E into it later plus i think sandybridge E would last me a good few years.

i see your point on the windforce do you know if this card is fairly quite?

i did look at postage as well and across the 3 diffrent places i found it was cheaper than just one place
 
I think one 580 would be alright?

If youre planning on waiting to buy the next series of GPUs may be out by the time you come to buy.

Most games are GPU intensive these days so an i5 would do. But I see your point if you have your sights set on something!
 
The Slayer_UK said:
im not really looking at the 2500k ive just set my sights on a sandy bridge e build as i could drop an Ivy bridge E into it later plus i think sandybridge E would last me a good few years.

i see your point on the windforce do you know if this card is fairly quite?

i did look at postage as well and across the 3 diffrent places i found it was cheaper than just one place
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No idea sorry. I really suggest waiting til you can buy, as things change so it's pointless recommending stuff now
 
joem1983 said:
I think one 580 would be alright?

If youre planning on waiting to buy the next series of GPUs may be out by the time you come to buy.
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Im planning to buy this hopfully the 1st week of january and from what ive seen the new main Nvidia cards arent out till later next year im not sure on ATI i havent really followed ATI ive always kept with Nvidia

i was thinking of getting a GTX 580 and wait till the new gen cards come out and seeing if i could get another GTX 580 on the cheap or would a next gen single card beat GTX 580 SLI?
 
joem1983 said:
I think one 580 would be alright?

If youre planning on waiting to buy the next series of GPUs may be out by the time you come to buy.

Most games are GPU intensive these days so an i5 would do. But I see your point if you have your sights set on something!
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i know an i5 would do but my way of thinking is ive got to buy all new stuff anyway so for an i5 i would spend 250 ish on a mobo the same amount on ram as i would for the sandy bridge e build so the only thing im spending extra on is the cpu which im willing to spean an extra 300 on to have a sandy bridge e if this all makes sense lol :)
 
The Slayer_UK said:
Im planning to buy this hopfully the 1st week of january and from what ive seen the new main Nvidia cards arent out till later next year im not sure on ATI i havent really followed ATI ive always kept with Nvidia

i was thinking of getting a GTX 580 and wait till the new gen cards come out and seeing if i could get another GTX 580 on the cheap or would a next gen single card beat GTX 580 SLI?
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It would be hard to know as they're not out yet! I'm not sure it's a good idea to spend loads on GPUs now if you can wait, as next gen will be better of course.
 
The Slayer_UK said:
i know an i5 would do but my way of thinking is ive got to buy all new stuff anyway so for an i5 i would spend 250 ish on a mobo the same amount on ram as i would for the sandy bridge e build so the only thing im spending extra on is the cpu which im willing to spean an extra 300 on to have a sandy bridge e if this all makes sense lol :)
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unless your planning on going tri-SLI at some point then theres no reason to go for anything more expensive than the asrock mobo ive specced at £160. its quite happy running two cards in SLI, a PCIe X4 device, a PCIe X1 device and a bunch of stuff on its sata 6GB/s and USB3 ports.

unless you plan on using more than 16GB (which would be a massive waste of money for gaming) then the RAM cost will be the same for both options as well
 
Reaper 392 said:
unless your planning on going tri-SLI at some point then theres no reason to go for anything more expensive than the asrock mobo ive specced at £160. its quite happy running two cards in SLI, a PCIe X4 device, a PCIe X1 device and a bunch of stuff on its sata 6GB/s and USB3 ports.

unless you plan on using more than 16GB (which would be a massive waste of money for gaming) then the RAM cost will be the same for both options as well
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well it depends on how cheap the GTX 580s go when the next gen comes out

ive just got my sights set on a sandy bridge e build not really interested in a normal sandy bridge i know a lot of people think its a waste of money but i think what the hell its my money :D

and the ram im going to 16GB to take advantage of the quad channel
 
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