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scorchedbee

scorchedbee

scorchedbee

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YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus PB278Q 27" Professional LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £449.99
2 x HIS HD 7970 IceQ X² GHz Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H797QMC3G2M) £299.99 (£599.98)
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £173.99
1 x Razer Blackwidow Ultimate 2014 Elite Mechanical USB Keyboard £124.99
1 x Razer Mamba 2012 4G 6400 DPI Wireless Mouse £109.99
1 x ASRock Z87 EXTREME3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £94.99
1 x Asus Xonar D2 7.1 PCI Sound Card £89.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Pro Silver 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (CMY8GX3M2A1600C9) £79.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 750W Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020061-UK) £79.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Red 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache WD20EFRX - OEM HDD £74.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler £59.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Case - Black (CC-9011014-WW) £59.99
1 x Kingston 60GB SSDNow KC380 Drive mSATA 6Gb/s 1.8" Solid State Hard Drive - (SKC380S3/60G) £56.99
4 x Corsair AF140 Quiet Series Low Noise High Airflow - Single Pack (CO-9050009-WW) £14.99 (£59.96)
1 x Samsung SH-118AB/BEBE SATA 18x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £12.95
Total : £2,155.39 (includes shipping : £22.20).



so heres my current set up, except i have gigabye windforce ghz 7970s. And some lovely harman kardon soundstick 3s which is my favorite part, love them!

but i have an itch, we all have had it, it comes with this hobby, and its not the sort some cream can sort out.

im pondering getting a 7990 for 200-250 and selling off one of my 7970s for some trifire. I will also up the psu to a corsair AX1200i.
would a 7990+7970 work well in trifire and give a decent boost, or would i be best waiting for a 295x2? or even still since its not having any trouble with anything i've thrown at it at 1440p, wait for the next series of gpu and maybe upgrade the ssd to 1tb resolve this itching problem!
 
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Get an i7 to feed your video cards properly and buy an extra 2TB hard drive and get a RAID 1 setup sorted. That should do as the rest of it looks pretty good.
 
The 7990 might not play well in the smallish case. Id get a bigger, faster ssd (240 gig) for games and tje os.

I agree with the 290 idea but would get 2 x the sapphire tri x.
 
so either 290 crossfire or 295 it looks like, and on the i7 to 'feed' my 7970s, would the 4790k be much better than my 4670k?

i thought cpu in games was marginal?
 
I wouldn't spend money on new gpu's if your current ones are running your games ok.

A bigger SSD makes sense though.
 
true, it was just seeing i could get a 7990 for around £200, thought might be a worthwhile upgrade.

might just replace my 2TB hd with a 1TB SSD for speed
 
Well, if the plan is to speed up your secondary storage, then it's a bit of a waste of money. If your planning on running a 1 tb ssb as the primary drive with the os installed and all your games and programs, then that's a much better idea.
 
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