MIghtyG
Well-known Member
......again.
Back int day I used to be a big PC gamer and had a lovely brushed aluminium Lian Li case.....damn I loved that case.
Anyway it died and with it went my love for PC gaming, I did the unthinkable and bought an iMac.....
Anyway, times move on and so have I, im falling out of love with console gaming and back in love with PC gaming (as much as I can with a 27-in i7 iMac, which is surprisingly good for gaming) anyway, I've now sold that so have a rather sizeable budget for gaming.
Im a little out of touch with tech for gaming etc but I have spent the past few days reading up various reviews, bench marks, head to heads etc etc etc and was wanting some opinions on the following build. Things im pointlessly spending too much money on, things I should spend more money on, brands im going for that have bad reps etc etc.
The attached is what I have sitting ready to order from OC UK, first off, how are OC UK to deal with? worth getting the lot from them or shop around for every component?
Secondly, I'll be shoe horning this all into a Fractal design define R4 case.
What I want the system for:
Gaming, gaming and gaming. I will do some minor photo re-touching on this the odd watching of movies, browsing the net and word processing/emails but 90% of this is for gaming.
I dont plan on overclocking straight off the bat, only when games start to get sluggish on the computer.
I want to be able to do multi screen gaming, probably 2 x 24" @ 1920 x 1080.
I'm not fussed about 3D gaming.
My plan is to have the OS and some regularly used programs on the SSD and the rest will be on the disk drive.
So, any recommendations on things I should change or am I wasting too much money on one component when I should be spending more on another?
The main bits I confess I know little about is the Mobo, Z77 vs H77 vs P67 vs Z68 etc etc. The only reason I have picked the AS rock is from a recommendation on a build video on youtube and I have read that the Z77 is the bes of the bunch on the socket 1155 mobos?
The PSU, how much watts do I need? do I need bronze, silver or gold?
The memory, how much does the memory speed affect performance, is 16gb really needed just now or is that future proofing? is 2133MHz memory over kill?
Hopefully on the rest im making the right choices. For the CPU I have went for the i5 rather than the i7 as I'm led to believe that the i7 is more for video rendering etc and offers little boosts to gaming rigs for the money. And fot the GPU I believe at this price point its a battle between the GTX 680 and the ati 7970, I believe again the GXT cards are come with cuda which is aimed at photoshop and adobe where the ati cards are better for gaming, looking at some benchmarks, particularly on Metro it looks like the ati cards out pace the nvidea cards for the same (or slightly less money) Also, I believe the ati cards seem to do multi monitor setups where the nvidea tend to do 3D gaming better?
any ideas, advice, guidance would be very appreciated!
Back int day I used to be a big PC gamer and had a lovely brushed aluminium Lian Li case.....damn I loved that case.
Anyway it died and with it went my love for PC gaming, I did the unthinkable and bought an iMac.....
Anyway, times move on and so have I, im falling out of love with console gaming and back in love with PC gaming (as much as I can with a 27-in i7 iMac, which is surprisingly good for gaming) anyway, I've now sold that so have a rather sizeable budget for gaming.
Im a little out of touch with tech for gaming etc but I have spent the past few days reading up various reviews, bench marks, head to heads etc etc etc and was wanting some opinions on the following build. Things im pointlessly spending too much money on, things I should spend more money on, brands im going for that have bad reps etc etc.
The attached is what I have sitting ready to order from OC UK, first off, how are OC UK to deal with? worth getting the lot from them or shop around for every component?
Secondly, I'll be shoe horning this all into a Fractal design define R4 case.
What I want the system for:
Gaming, gaming and gaming. I will do some minor photo re-touching on this the odd watching of movies, browsing the net and word processing/emails but 90% of this is for gaming.
I dont plan on overclocking straight off the bat, only when games start to get sluggish on the computer.
I want to be able to do multi screen gaming, probably 2 x 24" @ 1920 x 1080.
I'm not fussed about 3D gaming.
My plan is to have the OS and some regularly used programs on the SSD and the rest will be on the disk drive.
So, any recommendations on things I should change or am I wasting too much money on one component when I should be spending more on another?
The main bits I confess I know little about is the Mobo, Z77 vs H77 vs P67 vs Z68 etc etc. The only reason I have picked the AS rock is from a recommendation on a build video on youtube and I have read that the Z77 is the bes of the bunch on the socket 1155 mobos?
The PSU, how much watts do I need? do I need bronze, silver or gold?
The memory, how much does the memory speed affect performance, is 16gb really needed just now or is that future proofing? is 2133MHz memory over kill?
Hopefully on the rest im making the right choices. For the CPU I have went for the i5 rather than the i7 as I'm led to believe that the i7 is more for video rendering etc and offers little boosts to gaming rigs for the money. And fot the GPU I believe at this price point its a battle between the GTX 680 and the ati 7970, I believe again the GXT cards are come with cuda which is aimed at photoshop and adobe where the ati cards are better for gaming, looking at some benchmarks, particularly on Metro it looks like the ati cards out pace the nvidea cards for the same (or slightly less money) Also, I believe the ati cards seem to do multi monitor setups where the nvidea tend to do 3D gaming better?
any ideas, advice, guidance would be very appreciated!