Planned build around 1k

matt1

matt1

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Already bought the 7850, the rest is still up for debate. Plan to clock the CPU and graphics card, not trying to break any records.

Any suggested changes?

YOUR BASKET
1 x **B Grade** Samsung S23A700D 23" 120Hz 3D Widescreen Gaming Monitor - Black £215.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £179.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 Power Edition Twin Frozr IV OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz & Dirt Showdown PC Games £167.99
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+ 750W '80+ Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020031-UK) £119.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-16000C9 2000MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A2000C9) £59.99
Total : £994.02 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 
Are you going to try and overclock it on a stock cooler from Intel? I wouldn't recommend that, unless you have a aftermarket CPU cooler in that list i can't see?

Other than that a very solid system.
 
I have made a few changes.


YOUR BASKET
1 x **B Grade** Samsung S23A700D 23" 120Hz 3D Widescreen Gaming Monitor - Black £215.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 Power Edition Twin Frozr IV OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz & Dirt Showdown PC Games £167.99
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 Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99
1 x Corsair Professional Series HX+ 650W '80+ Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020030-UK) £99.98
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38192M1600HC11DC) £29.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket LGA2011/1366/1155/1156/775/ AMD AM3/AM3+/AM2/AM2+/FM1) £29.99
Total : £1,012.91 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Gone for a retail CPU it has extra warranty, stock cooler, and should be worth a little more if you choose to sell it. Motherboard does 8 x 8 X-fire. Have dropped the PSU down to 650W, it is still overkill but should happily power two 7850s in X-fire, and added a CPU cooler to allow you to overclock.
 
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With that CPU cooler you will get some overclocking on it, you don't want to break records so im sure it will be fine maybe a 3.6GHz for safty, then push it until you become uncomfortable with the heats :) - I can't say you will but i believe with that cooler 4.0GHz should be attainable.
 
Fire_fly said:
Gone for a retail CPU it has extra warranty, stock cooler, and should be worth a little more if you choose to sell it. Motherboard does 8 x 8 X-fire. Have dropped the PSU down to 650W, it is still overkill but should happily power two 7850s in X-fire, and added a CPU cooler to allow you to overclock.
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I didn't notice I selected the OEM, as I'll obviously need a cooler. Forgot to look at the 3rd party coolers available too.

I will only ever run one graphics card so xfire/sli isn't important to me, should have mentioned that. I chose a quality 750W because it will last me a good while in terms of future builds. I know the requirements of that rig are somewhere around 500-550W taking into account overclocking, but thought a bit extra was worth it.
 
 
That is a serious CPU cooler, seriously expensive! Are you an owner of this cooler or have you read it's worth the outlay?
 
I have one of those Phantek coolers, in orange. They are not really worth it it unless you want to go chasing overclocks. A good quality £25 -30 cooler should let you get 4.2GHz to 4.4GHz as long as the chip will let you.
 
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