Ordering soon - spec check please

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YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus HD 7970 DirectCU II 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £329.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £245.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £173.99
1 x Seasonic 860w '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply £169.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8) £49.99
Total : £981.95 (includes shipping : £10.00).



I currently have a 4400+ and 8800 gts and have many unfinished games or ones I've barely played including Fallout New Vegas, GTA 4, Dragon Age 2, Bioshock 2, Metro 2033, Alan Wake and Skyrim which I'm very keen to mod. I'll also am looking forward to Last Night, gta 5, crysis 3, colonial marines, dragon age 3 and bioshock infinite.

I've been putting up with frame rates averaging 15 when I play and gta 4 is unplayable as it really needs quad core.

Is the above spec ok? Any changes you think I should make? I don't have a budget but I won't be upgrading for some time after this as you can see from my current spec I've put up with for so long. I game at 1920x1080 and for once I would like to game at max settings.

I chose the Seasonic PSU and Asus 7970 because they will help in keeping this build quiet. I chose the Gigabyte board because I've read their customer service/RMA is very good. I'm a bit concerned with jumping from nvidia to amd though as Skyrim is my number one game I'll be hammering away the hours with and I hear the 680 is the better card in terms of drivers and the faster card in terms of fps?

Thanks :D
 
 
the card will rock in skyrim, iv'e added all the best mods to make it look even more of a looker than normal and your choice of card and make it's fly, you will have fun, for me games like farcry3 needs some better drivers so i'd wait before adding that to your games folder even though its in your as a free game, hopefully 1.4 patch and some better drivers will sort out high end gaming issues with it, your build / rig will rock :) enjoy

ps i7 rocks, i5 does also if your overclock it...... and it's cheaper, either way both play well.
 
Thanks guys. :) I won't be overclocking as this will be a quiet build too so I want to keep temps low and therefore fans at a low rpm. Plus I shouldn't need to as I'm not gaming across multiple screens or at high resolution. So I thought in terms of RAM I may as well go for lowest latency and CPU I thought I may as well buy one with hyperthreading just in case future games or applications use the extra cores as my next upgrade probably won't be until at least 3 years time.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 670 OC Twin Frozr Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £311.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £129.98
1 x XFX 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £96.98
1 x Thermalright Silver Arrow SB-E CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £58.79
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C10D3B1K2/16G) £39.95
Total : £817.68 (includes shipping : £10.00).



I would suggest something like that for a well rounded rig built to last. THe difference between CAS 9 and 11 makes little odds in the real world. Hyperthreading is going to help with video encoding but not gaming, so I'd save your money and use the i5K. Using the Nvidia 670 you have CUDA support to help make up for the loss of hyperthreading. I included 16GB of RAM at a great price which happens to colour code with the mobos heatsinks. The cooler will let you overclock and still keep the rig quiet......just check it fits the case. I could have included a 128GB sataIII SSD (£90ish) and still be cheaper than your original spec. Hope this helps
 
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honosuseri said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 670 OC Twin Frozr Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £311.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £129.98
1 x XFX 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £96.98
1 x Thermalright Silver Arrow SB-E CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £58.79
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C10D3B1K2/16G) £39.95
Total : £817.68 (includes shipping : £10.00).



I would suggest something like that for a well rounded rig built to last. THe difference between CAS 9 and 11 makes little odds in the real world. Hyperthreading is going to help with video encoding but not gaming, so I'd save your money and use the i5K. Using the Nvidia 670 you have CUDA support to help make up for the loss of hyperthreading. I included 16GB of RAM at a great price which happens to colour code with the mobos heatsinks. The cooler will let you overclock and still keep the rig quiet......just check it fits the case. I could have included a 128GB sataIII SSD (£90ish) and still be cheaper than your original spec. Hope this helps
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+1, change the psu for http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-023-SS
 
 
lee32uk said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £359.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £129.98
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £83.99
1 x Antec High Current Gamer M 620W "80+ Bronze" Modular Power Supply £82.99
1 x Noctua NH-U12P SE2 Dual Fan Quiet CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £52.99
1 x Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3D/US) 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit £49.99
Total : £939.92 (includes shipping : £10.00).

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The samsung 830 is better than the 840 basic. The PSU isnt enough for Xfire and the RAM is overpriced, I got 16GB of RAM for less in my spec.
 
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