Rate My Gaming/Recording PC Spec

jasonchildss · 27 Nov 2012 at 10:15

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7850 Power Edition Twin Frozr IV OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ FARCRY3 & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £179.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £173.99
1 x Samsung S24B300HL 23.6" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £119.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) £81.98
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III Series 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - White £69.98
1 x Zalman Z11 Plus Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black £59.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £59.99
1 x Asus PCE-N15 300Mbps 802.11B/G/N Wireless PCI-E Network Adapter £29.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £29.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £918.56 (includes shipping : £14.75).

This will be used for games, recording and web developing.
Rate 1-10 - with reasons please!

JoeF1 · 27 Nov 2012 at 10:20

Id pick a better keyboard if im honest.

For what you want to do though. 7/10?

jasonchildss · 27 Nov 2012 at 10:22

I forgot to say, i'm buying that keyboard temporarily until January, i'll remove it

LukieBoy007 · 27 Nov 2012 at 17:33

Depends on what you are expecting out of it.
The cooler on the 7850 you picked is very good though.
The monitor is good, but could get better (IPS?).
SSD is a nice touch.
Nice choice of motherboard too.
Modular power supply is always good.
I'm not a big fan of the case myself (looks) but my mate has it and is great for the price imo.
I'm assuming your budget was £900, so therefore a 7.5/10

coupe69 · 27 Nov 2012 at 22:50

Have you got plans to back up your data on a separate external drive? Or are you going to put your faith in a single mechanical drive?

jasonchildss · 28 Nov 2012 at 07:44

Will have a total of 3 1TB HDD's all together.

SeraphX · 28 Nov 2012 at 08:08

a 1K rig and only 8gb of ram... lol

Wazz-1 · 28 Nov 2012 at 08:34

SeraphX said:
a 1K rig and only 8gb of ram... lol

do you think the op needs more?

SeraphX · 28 Nov 2012 at 08:37

Always!!

Ram is silly cheap at the moment, best time to pick more up!

Wazz-1 · 28 Nov 2012 at 08:39

Fair point

jasonchildss · 28 Nov 2012 at 19:10

SeraphX said:
a 1K rig and only 8gb of ram... lol

I actually already have 8gb unopened ram, exactly the same one as in my basket... lol

Bacon? · 28 Nov 2012 at 19:11

Sera just spouting randomly... In gaming there will be a 0% difference.

jasonchildss · 28 Nov 2012 at 21:30

It's not just for gaming, I will be multitasking between 3-4 monitors with games, recording and video editing software as well as movies. Will get another graphics card soon also and possibly upgrade CPU next year some time

Bacon? · 28 Nov 2012 at 21:32

Does the software you currently use , use over 8GB of RAM? Monitor wise it will make no difference.

jasonchildss · 28 Nov 2012 at 21:45

It uses around 6-8gb on a casual session, but will be a lot more when i'm getting this new build!

areksnumbr1sxylady · 29 Nov 2012 at 00:18

If ram is silly cheap today, dont think it will be worth more tomorrow... unless japan floods and same thing happens with ram as happened with HDD`s when 1tb would set you back around 120 quid.