vray and cad PC first build, £1150 budget

yardy

yardy

yardy

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Hi, this is my first build so I may have made mistakes. Is it all compatible? is the cooling sufficient? Sorry about paste, I'm using my Droid. Thanks!

Palit GeForce GTX 670 Jetstream 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £309.95
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Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £269.99
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MSI X79A-GD45 (8D) Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £153.98
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OCZ ZS Series 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £72.98
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OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-120G) £71.99
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TeamGroup Elite 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED316G1600HC11DC) £64.99
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BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - White/Black £49.99
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Arctic Cooling Freezer i30 Intel Cooler (Socket LGA2011/1155/1156) £32.99
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It's not all compatible, your mobo is Socket X79, but your chip is socket LGA1155, so you either need a X79 chip or 1155 board. Personally if it's only used for gaming I would get an i5-3570k, which is just as fast as the i7 for gaming. Only get the i7 if you're doing heavy rendering/video editing or the like. Get a good Z77 mobo with it like the Asus Sabertooth or Gigabyte UD-5H.

Graphics wise I would perhaps go for a slightly better cooled card, apparently the Palit gets very noisy under load (and is a triple slot so you could run into Sli issues.) Look at the gigabyte or kfa2 cards.

I would get a modular PSU, something from Seasonic, XFX or Corsair, as they will be quieter and better generally.

You only really need 16gb of RAM if you're rendering etc, gaming 8gb is fine.

Cooler wise I would look at something like the Alpenfohn matterhorn pure or the coolermaster hyper 612s.

I assume you don't need monitor, os, peripherals etc?
 
Thanks, yes rendering and 3d cad is my main concern. Games come second. I wanted to leave room for sli since gpu render engines are getting better. How difficult is this as a first build?

Outside of the main budget:
I'll need a decent keyboard but not too large since desk space is valuable and I prefer low profile keys personally. I have a good mouse.

the display I'm looking at is Iiyama ProLite E2409HDS-1 24 Inch , purchased elsewhere for about £150. It seems to have good brightness, refresh and colour accuracy.

I have windows 7 already
 
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yardy said:
Thanks, yes rendering and 3d cad is my main concern. Games come second. I wanted to leave room for sli since gpu render engines are getting better. How difficult is this as a first build?
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impossible with them parts^^

take your time im sure ull be ok, its not so hard

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1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 Windforce 3X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £349.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £269.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Notebook/Apple Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC256N/EU) **BTS £20 CASHBACK** £149.99
1 x Seasonic X-Series 660w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £110.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £108.98
1 x Fractal Design Define R4 Midi Tower Case - Black Pearl £99.98
1 x TeamGroup Elite 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED316G1600HC11DC) £64.99
1 x Thermalright True Spirit 120 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/1155/1156/AM2/AM3/FM1) £24.98
Total : £1,193.40 (includes shipping : £11.25).



different case, no storage drive, change how you want^^
 
Hi. thanks for your comments:D

Would it be better to get 8 gig of higher quality ram to begin with?

Is the wifi adaptor okay (I have a "up to" 30mb broadband connection but I have to use wifi at the moment, would a cheaper adapter do?)

Cooler okay? I was looking at the H80 since I want this PC to last but I may consider OCing the CPU some day...

Case mods, suggestions?

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1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 Windforce 3X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £349.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £269.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £108.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £84.98
1 x OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-120G) £71.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED316G1600HC11DC) £64.99
1 x OcUK Battle 750W Dual Rail High Efficiency Modular '80 Plus' Power Supply £56.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - White/Black £49.99
1 x Prolimatech Panther CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1155/1156/AM2/AM2+/AM3) £32.99
1 x Asus PCE-N15 300Mbps 802.11B/G/N Wireless PCI-E Network Adapter £29.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
1 x Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £8.99
1 x BitFenix Optical Drive Bay Stealth Cover - White £3.98
Total : £1,164.35 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
that psu and ssd not the best choices
i use an agility3 myself in my laptop and its been great but i wouldnt put the risk on other people^^
 
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