Silent gaming PC + 144hz G-Sync Monitor £1500?

[Aryuvei]

Is this possible for £1500? I want a PC that can run BF4 at 144+fps and monitor that supports G-Sync. I want as much comptetive advantages as possible (so if I've missed anything out please let me know), I heard G-Sync and 144hz will give you a few ms advantage and reduce stutter/tearing (or anything distracting).

Since BF4 takes a million years to load I also want to invest in 2x RAID 0 Plexor SSD's (I heard that's a fast set up?)

The other thing I'm thinking about is a Silent PC since my old one was so loud I missed people knocking at the door, possibly thinking about water cooling the CPU and GPU?

Any suggestions would be great, thanks.

 

[Aryuvei]

Your requirements will be hard pushed at £1500, some sacrifices may be made.

Can you build your own? You'd save money allowing a better range of components.

I've been watching/reading on how to build a PC, I'll be attempting to do it, sounds fun.

If I wait until September ish I'll have around £3000-4000 budget if it's worth the investment and patience, it's mostly just for first person shooters, I do play other games for fun, but the main design for me is as much millisecond advantage over the other player as possible. So I'd be willing to buy a really good monitor for that purpose.

I heard there is a new Intel processor coming out too, worth waiting for it?

 

[Aryuvei]

Personally, I'm not sure waiting will make that much of a difference. The base clock is slightly higher when compared to the previous, but not really noticeable when gaming.

Your budget does allow some decent components, here is what I've come up with so far:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Geforce GTX 780 Gaming Edition OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £349.99
1 x Iiyama ProLite GB2488HSU-B1 24" 144Hz 1ms Widescreen LED Super Slim Bezel Monitor - Black £221.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £167.99
2 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/240G) £97.94 (£195.88)
1 x MSI Z97 Gaming 3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £94.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060009-WW) £88
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 650W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £79.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD20EZRX) HDD £69.95
1 x Antec P100 Mid Tower Silenced Computing Case £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD38G2133HC11ADC01) £59.99
2 x Akasa AK-FN058 Apache Black Super Silent 120mm Fan - 4 Pin PWM £7.99 (£15.98)
Total : £1,421.24 (includes shipping : £13.75).

thanks, that's perfect. just to make sure, the monitor supports G Sync right?

 

[Aryuvei]

That's not a G Sync monitor they're not out yet. My suggestion would be to wait till September as it'll allow a much better spec. The new Intel chips will have better thermals so prepare for a bigger overclock With 3 or 4k I would be looking at a SLI/Crossfire build

I'll probably wait until then I guess, but I might not go too heavy on the graphics side of things and save up for Nvidia Pascal series, I heard the bandwidth or something on those things are revolutionary

 

[Aryuvei]

With regards to the noise issue, you can't do better than a Nofan CPU cooler and a Silverpower PSU. However, you want 144 FPS so you'll likely require 2 GPUs, and the Silverpower doesn't supply enough power. And say goodbye to overclocking. Zalman used to do a 1250W PSU that was silent up to ~500W but that's been discontinued

For noise reduction I recommend a rotated case like the Silverstone FT02 or FT03 and GPUs with blower fans.

But if you can muster £3-4K at the end of the year, you'll get a far better PC.

I've sorted things out now (http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18603643), going for the pre-built Ultima Dedsec, slightly modified to include Watercooling on the card as well. That should pretty much be as quiet as I need it to be (fingers crossed)

Either getting the AOC in June or the Asus ROG in July.

in total it's going to be around £2500-2750

I hope it will last me enough until DDR4, 8 core Intel, 4k monitors become cheaper and at least until the Nvidia Pascal series is out.