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OhPascal

OhPascal

OhPascal

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Im fairly new around here but Im sure you must get hundreds of these threads...anyway just a little help with spec'ing my first proper build. Mostly gaming and music production (have the sound card already). I already have 2 hdd's. Budget no more than 1.2k
After doing some research I built this
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the ram might not fit under the cooler, will you be looking to go Crossfire in the future?
 
Just advice if anyone had any better suggestions price/spec wise. Side note really wanted the 650d because of the top mounted hot swap feature. Really handy with loads of audio HDD's !
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x OcUK Tech Labs - Corsair Obsidian 650D Midi Tower Case - Noise Dampened £154.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD128BW) £119.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £105.98
1 x Corsair Enthusiast Series TX750M High Performance 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020040-UK) £89.99
1 x Phanteks PH-TC14PE CPU Cooler - Silver (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £66.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £35.99
Total : £1,010.40 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x OcUK Tech Labs - Corsair Obsidian 650D Midi Tower Case - Noise Dampened £154.99
1 x Seasonic X-Series 750w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £124.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £105.98
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £89.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C10D3B1K2/16G) £59.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £29.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £1,016.40 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
Thanks triggerthat, a few questions..
- Why the z77x-d3h, I heard the ud3h had better build quality and saw that the Gene outperformed both.
- Why Samsung over Intel ? there seems to be an impossible myriad of conflicting info about ssd's. But Intel seemed to be the most proven in reliabilty.
- Would the bronze plus really be good enough ? and also I really wanted something modular.
- And finally is there really no point in having 16gb ram ? even for, dare I say it....'future proofing'?
Thanks for your help ! :)
 
Gigabyte have a UK RMA service, and their boards come highly recommended given the price. The Gene is £50 more, and you are not going to see any significant performance increase. If you want certain motherboard features, then it's worth spending the extra.

PSU - I added the wrong PSU (now modular). 750W is enough if you want to add another 7950 down the line. If not, then you can easily get away with a 500W PSU.

8GB is really enough for gaming. I included 16GB on the assumption that you wanted it (given your original post).

As for SSD, Samsung has a better controller over the Intel.
 
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