Spec me a few bits please.

infernox

infernox

infernox

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The time has come! Getting a few Blue screens lately so thought may aswell spend some money on my pc rather that plumetting it down the drain. Some might say it is though. :p

I currently have 550£

I would like a CPU, RAM, MOBO, GFX and a Samsung Evo SSD

I game at 1440p with my current 448 edition 560 it struggles

Someone better than me spec me stuff. I did it and bought msi everything because it looks good. And my budget kinda went silly.

I can spend more if I have to but really don't want too...
 
I'll post first as this challenge got me going!

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Dual-X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card £245.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Asus P8Z77-V LX Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £85.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £59.99
Total : £649.55 (includes shipping : £8.00).



It's £100 over but you get a 280x which I believe is a good buy for that resolution and an i5 using stock cooler as you didn't mention overclocking.
 
 
I would like to Overclock. I have a Titan EVO Cooler but I've lost the mounts. So yeah. New one please.

I also save 8 quid on shipping.

Would the extra be worth it for the 280x?
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM £169.99
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 270X Toxic OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card £167.99
1 x MSI Z87-G43 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard - FREE Alpenfohn Civetta Cooler!! £86.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
Total : £570.55 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Free cooler with motherboard and similar to Idleman's spec.

I went for the 280x as I went with an AMD build. I think it's advised if you can stretch comfortably to a 280x you should, but I'll let more people chime in now!
 
Just a thought, you say your old 560ti is struggling, what CPU, mobo do you currently have?

Could be that you just get a SSD and a better graphics card.
 
If you're gaming at 1440p I'd certainly try to get a 280X in there. Maybe you could hold off on the SSD for now?

Alternatively, an AMD build would get you closer to the £550 budget.
 
I have a Vertex 2 60GB. I can use that, but considering the new board comes with SATA 6Gbps I would wan't to utilize that fully.

But could purchase that after.

Considering I should have pointed out I also run 120hz. Ill price up without the SSD for now and see what I get at.
 
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Dazzo said:
I'll post first as this challenge got me going!

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Dual-X OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Card £245.99
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It would appear to have jumped up in price as it now shows £263.99. :eek:
Now I was certain I was seeing it cheaper this week (the price you quoted) and was starting to think I was going mad. Looks like they have sneaked the price up due to very little stock floating around anywhere at the moment. :rolleyes:
 
hlxbravo said:
It would appear to have jumped up in price as it now shows £263.99. :eek:
Now I was certain I was seeing it cheaper this week (the price you quoted) and was starting to think I was going mad. Looks like they have sneaked the price up due to very little stock floating around anywhere at the moment. :rolleyes:
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Holy crud so they did, obviously that was a mistake price?

I do think Op might want to push the GFX card choice as high as possible with the res and running at 120hz
 
AMD build to look at.
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI Radeon R9 290 "BF4 Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £335.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
1 x ASRock 990FX Extreme3 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £90.98
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £17.99
Total : £578.45 (includes shipping : £11.25).



This is with a 290 and a cheaper aftermarket cooler so you can still OC.

The board I think will also allow you to crossfire/SLI in the future which some of the cheaper ones won't.
 
infernox said:
Not sure Ill get much of an improvement though with AMD.
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You should get improvement over the 955 with the 8320 and a 290 and it will be better in some games but not others.

I'm also upgrading from a 955 to a 8320 with a 280x I will let you know whe nthe gfx card comes in and I get it set up what sort of performance I get from this.
 
Fallen god said:
Here is a nice review, you can compare the i5-2500k vs the FX-8350 and see how much of a difference you get, and given that your gaming at 1440p any difference well be destroyed with the difference between a 290 vs 280x at the res.

Not sure which games you play.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6985/choosing-a-gaming-cpu-at-1440p-adding-in-haswell-/5
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Thats very intresting, I suppose it was naive of me to assume that Intel is just the best for everything... Including gaming.
 
infernox said:
Thats very intresting, I suppose it was naive of me to assume that Intel is just the best for everything... Including gaming.
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Intel is the best, it destroys AMD in terms of CPU, in gaming the gap is less. But you need to balance your build a bit more since you well have excessive GPU needs.
 
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