hey everybody, looking to buy an entire new PC. I've been putting it off for years but I'm now seeing upcoming games with minimum system requirements beyond what I have.
Current system, built in 2005/06:
Motherboard - ASUS P5Q PRO
CPU - E8500 dual core
RAM - 4GB
GPU - 8800GTS
I'd like to buy a relatively futureproof PC capable of running near future games at atleast 1920x1080 with their higher graphics settings.
I don't really have a budget as I rarely upgrade, but of course I do not want to spend hundreds of extra pounds on unnecessary hardware.
I'm thinking of buying a prebuilt system, I know a lot of money can be saved by building a PC oneself, I put together several PCs when I was a kid but I now have very large, clumsy hands, no longer have the help of my father, and don't mind paying an extra £100-200 to avoid the hassle and small risk of foolishly messing it up.
After looking around different prebuilt sites OcUK seems decent value and despite the shorter warranty I get the impression they put some care into building their PCs.
My main questions:
With no budget but not wanting to waste money, which prebuilt system would you buy from OcUK selection for a single monitor setup and with which options? would you wait for new upcoming OcUK prebuilt systems? also OcUK doesn't seem to have a selection of prebuilt z97 chipset PCs yet, should I wait abit for them?
Is it a good time to buy or would it be worth waiting some more time?
Maybe for more intel Haswell CPUs to be released or even for Nvidia 800 series?
AMD 290 or Nvidia 700 series? I'm abit confused from seeing different benchmarking results from various reviewers. Generally I prefer Nvidia as I've had some dodgey and unreliable ATI cards in the past and my favoured game series tend to be Nvidia, but perhaps it is worth investing in mantle.
I'm thinking of possibly buying the "Titan Envy M" i7 4770K with a 770 or 780
www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-009-OG
If I buy a prebuilt could/should I ask for specific versions of MB/GPU/RAM?
Current system, built in 2005/06:
Motherboard - ASUS P5Q PRO
CPU - E8500 dual core
RAM - 4GB
GPU - 8800GTS
I'd like to buy a relatively futureproof PC capable of running near future games at atleast 1920x1080 with their higher graphics settings.
I don't really have a budget as I rarely upgrade, but of course I do not want to spend hundreds of extra pounds on unnecessary hardware.
I'm thinking of buying a prebuilt system, I know a lot of money can be saved by building a PC oneself, I put together several PCs when I was a kid but I now have very large, clumsy hands, no longer have the help of my father, and don't mind paying an extra £100-200 to avoid the hassle and small risk of foolishly messing it up.
After looking around different prebuilt sites OcUK seems decent value and despite the shorter warranty I get the impression they put some care into building their PCs.
My main questions:
With no budget but not wanting to waste money, which prebuilt system would you buy from OcUK selection for a single monitor setup and with which options? would you wait for new upcoming OcUK prebuilt systems? also OcUK doesn't seem to have a selection of prebuilt z97 chipset PCs yet, should I wait abit for them?
Is it a good time to buy or would it be worth waiting some more time?
Maybe for more intel Haswell CPUs to be released or even for Nvidia 800 series?
AMD 290 or Nvidia 700 series? I'm abit confused from seeing different benchmarking results from various reviewers. Generally I prefer Nvidia as I've had some dodgey and unreliable ATI cards in the past and my favoured game series tend to be Nvidia, but perhaps it is worth investing in mantle.
I'm thinking of possibly buying the "Titan Envy M" i7 4770K with a 770 or 780
www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-009-OG
If I buy a prebuilt could/should I ask for specific versions of MB/GPU/RAM?
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