Spec Check 1k Gaming PC

CarlosB · 1 Sep 2013 at 22:51

Hello,

Please could someone kindly look over this spec? It's for a friend who will just be playing games. He has a hard drive that can be carried over for storage as well as a monitor (1920 x 1080), keyboard and mouse. OS is needed.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7970 GHz Twin FrozR OC BE 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE GAMES £269.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £197.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £84.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 330R Silent Mid Tower Case - Black £74.95
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 620W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £69.95
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual CHannel Kit (PV38G213C1K) £65.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £982.79 (includes shipping : £12.50).

Thank you!

tamzzy · 1 Sep 2013 at 22:54

dunno if the 7970 would justify a 80 quid premium.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £197.99
1 x HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795QC3G2M) £189.95
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £95.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £84.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 330R Silent Mid Tower Case - Black £74.95
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Seasonic S12II 520W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler £26.99
1 x LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £909.77 (includes shipping : £12.50).

CarlosB · 1 Sep 2013 at 23:01

Thank you for your reply. Would the 520w be enough power should a second card be added?

teppic · 1 Sep 2013 at 23:05

CarlosB said:
Thank you for you reply. Would the 520w be enough power should a second card be added?

If you want Crossfire in the future I'd go for a board that supports 8x/8x instead. You'll want 750w for Crossfire.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-571-AS
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-436-GI

RJC · 1 Sep 2013 at 23:05

Personally I would look at a slightly better motherboard, one that can do dual 8x bandwidth, even though the performance gains would I think around 2-3%.

Also you would need a bigger PSU.

tamzzy · 1 Sep 2013 at 23:09

no. but then the motherboards in both our specs do not do dual gpus.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £197.99
1 x HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795QC3G2M) £189.95
1 x Seasonic X-Series 750w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £129.95
1 x Asus Z87-A Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £119.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £84.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 330R Silent Mid Tower Case - Black £74.95
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler £26.99
1 x LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £1,003.73 (includes shipping : £12.50).

if u wanna dual gpu in the future

CarlosB · 1 Sep 2013 at 23:28

tamzzy said:
dunno if the 7970 would justify a 80 quid premium.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £197.99
1 x HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795QC3G2M) £189.95
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £95.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £84.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 330R Silent Mid Tower Case - Black £74.95
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £65.99
1 x Seasonic S12II 520W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler £26.99
1 x LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £909.77 (includes shipping : £12.50).

I wrongly assumed that if a board supports xfire it would manage both cards well, I didn't consider the bandwidth.

I think I will go with the quoted spec, unless there are any other suggestions?

Thank you all for your feedback

Edit - Going to stick with Single GPU can't see my friend at a later date adding a second card.

teppic · 1 Sep 2013 at 23:31

They both support Crossfire (not SLI), just one of the slots can only do 4x. The board in the quoted spec still has the limitation, in the post I made above there are two that do it at 8x8x.

I'd suggest this PSU for Crossfire:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-005-XF