Hi there,
It seems to be quite a popular topic but I was wondering if anyone could give me any thoughts on these parts that I've chosen for my first ever build and help me to choose a graphics card (i've been looking at the radeon 7950 and im waiting for the 760ti). I'd like the rig to be able to run most games at close to if not highest resolutions and I also want lots of space to upgrade in the future.
At the moment my parts and prices are:
Case: Corsair Carbide 500r £95.98
CPU: Haswell i5 3.4GHz £185.46
GPU: tbc
PSU: Corsair Builder Series CXM (600W) £59.35
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LP White 8GB (CML8GX3M2A1600C9W) £58.94
HDD: WD 1TB Caviar Blue £49.99
SSD: SanDisk SSDSSDX 120GB £81.88
Motherboard: Asus Z87-A £119.99
Optical Drive; LG GH24NS95 £14.38
Monitor: LG IPS234V-PN.AEK (23") £119.99 (large monitor for watching films on from a distance)
Cooling: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 £15.99
I want to spend as little over £1000 and this totals to about £800 at the moment
Finally if anyone has any views about windows 7 or 8 they'd be massively appreciated as I'm really stuck between the two
Thanks in advance!
It seems to be quite a popular topic but I was wondering if anyone could give me any thoughts on these parts that I've chosen for my first ever build and help me to choose a graphics card (i've been looking at the radeon 7950 and im waiting for the 760ti). I'd like the rig to be able to run most games at close to if not highest resolutions and I also want lots of space to upgrade in the future.
At the moment my parts and prices are:
Case: Corsair Carbide 500r £95.98
CPU: Haswell i5 3.4GHz £185.46
GPU: tbc
PSU: Corsair Builder Series CXM (600W) £59.35
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LP White 8GB (CML8GX3M2A1600C9W) £58.94
HDD: WD 1TB Caviar Blue £49.99
SSD: SanDisk SSDSSDX 120GB £81.88
Motherboard: Asus Z87-A £119.99
Optical Drive; LG GH24NS95 £14.38
Monitor: LG IPS234V-PN.AEK (23") £119.99 (large monitor for watching films on from a distance)
Cooling: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 £15.99
I want to spend as little over £1000 and this totals to about £800 at the moment
Finally if anyone has any views about windows 7 or 8 they'd be massively appreciated as I'm really stuck between the two
Thanks in advance!
Which out of those coolers would you recommend? and any views on windows 7? Finally (sorry for so many questions!) I heard that the gtx 760 will probably come out on the 25th June but I'm hoping to build next weekend so do you think it'd be worth the wait?