out of touch with gaming technology what can i spec for £1200

ok guys I decided to stick with just changing my graphics cards...

I'm going to overclock the nuts off my i5 2500k sandy (its currently sat at 4.6ghz @1.3V I MIGHT be able to get it to 4.8ghz 5ghz is a dream shot... if it causes bottleneck I will go and buy 2600/2700k CPU's)

also what graphics shall I go for hot 290 in Crossfire (cheaper main selling point) or cool running 780gtx in SLI OR a single 780ti

another question my MOBO is the PCI 2.0 series would it be a disadvantage to the PCI 3.0 (is it worth upgrading the mobo for the PCI 3.0)

I decided this because thought I "hold out" until the next GPU architecture
 
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Geekazoid said:
ok guys I decided to stick with just changing my graphics cards...

I'm going to overclock the nuts off my i5 2500k sandy (its currently sat at 4.6ghz @1.3V I MIGHT be able to get it to 4.8ghz 5ghz is a dream shot... if it causes bottleneck I will go and buy 2600/2700k CPU's)

also what graphics shall I go for hot 290 in Crossfire (cheaper main selling point) or cool running 780gtx in SLI OR a single 780ti

another question my MOBO is the PCI 2.0 series would it be a disadvantage to the PCI 3.0 (is it worth upgrading the mobo for the PCI 3.0)

I decided this because thought I "hold out" until the next GPU architecture
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CPU wont be a bottleneck
I would recommend 780gtx in SLI
No, its not worth upgrading the motherboard
 
any idea if I can SLI

MSI Geforce GTX 780 Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5

with my motherboard

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the top blue and white sockets are PCI 2.0 16X the black ones are PCI 8X
so the two cards need to be on the top 2 sockets do I have enough gap?

because the cards will vent into the case is a haf X going to cope keeping the temps down?

I have 2 options enclosed water-cooling loop for my CPU or seriously beef up the fans... what do you suggest
 
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You should be fine with a decent set of fans/airflow

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I thought the only difference is hyper-threading on the i7 which is not used for gaming.

Again, feel free to post stats of an i7 blowing an i5 out the water and I will believe you.

until then...

http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1061&page=9

sleeping dogs



http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1061&page=6

crysis 3
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Just following what almost everyone says, which is for dual gpu/more cards i7 is the way to go :confused: - games like BF4 use hyper-threading anyhow, but yeah as you said not many games
 
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