SPec for gaming & work pc - £850/£900

arthurwellsley

arthurwellsley

arthurwellsley

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(1)I use MS office - word, excel, powerpoint, outlook, nothing strenuous there. (if there is a deal on newish edition of Office I will buy a copy in addition to the pc price (the £850-900 above) - I presently run office 2000)
(2) I need Windows pro for the link to our contract IT providers (so include Win 7 or 8 pro in price please).
(3) RAM - 8 or 16 not really sure.
(4) Need a good network card, but do not need wifi.
(5) I want to have 120gb ssd, and
(6) a second drive (speed more important than size).
(7) I wear headphones so no real need for sound card, could play off onboard sound? (on their website the game says that it requires "Sound card: DirectX 9.0c compatible") so maybe I do need a sound card
(9) relatively quiet fan, but will accept noise to get within price and best available graphics card.
(10) Primarily I play World of Tanks, with Teamspeak on as well. I want the highest frames per second for that game - I guess this will be decided by the graphics card rather than the RAM or the number of cores, but I'm no expert please advise me. I have been fairly loyal to Nvidia over the years, and the Nvidia GeForce Experience is supposed to let you optimise WoT (only it does not work with Windows XP so I cannot)
(11) For comparison the present tower is; Intel Core Duo CPU E6750 @2.66ghz, with 4 gb RAM running Windows XP professional. It shows as having Realtech and Nvidia sound drivers and has a sound card, and came with 5.1 speakers (long discarded). The graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti, cannot recall the RAM think it was 516? I originally had another graphics card in it, but that one died and this is the replacement. As World of Tanks has been upgraded this PC has become less tolerant of the graphics.
 
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I am hoping to send this back up to the top. This was a query I had before Christmas, and as money was tight at the time, all I did was buy the Geforce 770 from your recommendations and slot it into my old computer. Which is a larger tower with powerful fans.

Now I am thinking of changing the motherboard, and adding a Haswell processor as well as adding Windows 8.

So what I was thinking of buying was;
1.Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail
(http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=cp-471-in&tool=3) £245.99
2. gigabyte z87x-d3h intel z87 (socket 1150) ddr3 atx motherboard
(http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=mb-436-gi&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2574) £91.99
3.crucial ballistix sport 16gb (2x8gb) ddr3 pc3-12800c9 1600mhz dual channel kit
(http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=my-173-cr&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=2427) £119.99

i should add that world of tanks seems to have known issues for (a) not using multi-cores properly, and (b) playing poorly on amd systems. i have just read the attached below and am now thinking about getting an i5 rather than the i7.

http://www.techspot.com/news/55893-...-2-and-league-of-legends-tested.html#comments

If I got an i5 I looked at;
Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £169.99
(http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-470-IN&tool=3) and save £76.

Would those three items work together? Or should I be looking at something else?

They appear to cost a total of £457.97.
 
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Update, I have put all the pieces together (my first build), and have been pleased with the result and OC service. I used all the old bits to build a pc for my son (my second build!). In conclusion therefore I would say, although when you open a computer and there are wires everywhere, and it all looks very intimidating, it's actually not as difficult as it would at first seem.
 
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