New Gaming Project


  1. Apprentrice5
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    New Gaming Project


    Hi Guys,

    I'm soon (hopefully) going to be getting a decent paid job and am hoping to do one final PC build before puting money together to save for a house of my own lol. i have been browsing the web for a few days and have come up with the following spec. im aiming to spend no more than £2000, im currently coming in under that, but just wondering what your opinions on the build will be and if you have any improvements i could make to it.

    CPU - i5 3570
    Motherboard - Asrock Z77 Extreme6
    RAM - Corsair 16Gb 1866 Vengeance
    Primary Drive - Samsung 256Gb 840 Pro Series
    GPU - 2 EVGA GTX 660ti Superclocked+ 3GB (SLI)
    PSU - OCZ ZX Series 1250 Fully Modular

    I'm Stuck on 3 Cases:
    NZXT Phantom (White)
    Coolermaster Cosmos 2
    CM Storm Stryker

    For CPU Cooling with the NZXT and the Stryker i'd be looking at a BEQuiet Dark PRO 2, and with the Cosmos i'd look at the H100.

    Any response will be greatly appreciated :)
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  3. Erick Aguilar
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    Why get 2 660's when you can get a 680 or a 7970?
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  4. Apprentrice5
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    I'd kinda like a dual card setup
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  6. paulpicks21
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    You could save a bit on the psu, 1250watt is overkill. A high quality Corsair or Antec 850watt will be plenty.
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  7. Apprentrice5
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    Always up for saving money :) any particular one you would suggest. I'm looking for a fully modular one
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  8. chris1neji
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    As someone else mention I would consider a single powerful card over two running in sli/crossfire configuration. I personally haven't seen or ran into this issue but I visit other forums people with duo cards do run into more problems or issues. point being single = works better and is less headaches.

    Another thing are you sure 256GB will be enough storage for you especially with music, games, videos, documents ? Some modern games today are easily 10 - 20 GB's.
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  10. Apprentrice5
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    Thanks for the reply chris, regarding the hard drive i will be using some from my current machine (apologies forgot to put it in OP)

    And for the GPU what card would you suggest ?
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  11. Apprentrice5
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    Slight Alteration to the original spec, no difference in price but with a few different things

    CPU - i7 3820
    MOBO - Asus P9X79 Deluxe
    CPU Cooler - Corsair H100
    RAM - 16Gb Corsair Vengeanced 1866Mhz
    Boot Drive - OCZ Vector 256Gb
    GPU - EVGA GTX 680 FTW 4Gb
    PSU - Corsair Professional AX860
    CASE - NZXT Phantom

    Any thoughts?
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  12. Gary
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    Looks good, I prefer HAF cases by Coolermaster though

    http://www.coolermaster.com/category...tegory_id=3584
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  13. Spidey1976
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    I have the same mobo and a Corsair AX series PSU (AX850) - Built this spec back in May '12 and went with the i7-3930K and the GTX580 - been very happy with the set up so far... running Skyrim on ultra and creating Blu Ray disks from a 1080p video cam.

    I don't know much about the sandy's, but I keep hearing good things about the 3770K
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