High end gaming pc (£1000 - £1250)

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Fzforze

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Currently looking for a high end gaming pc to run games on highest graphic settings at 60fps, prefer it to be as quiet as possible. Was also wondering if i need more than 650 watt power supply? Does a better soundcard affect sound quality through headphones? Is an SSD card worth the money for gaming PC's, does it help while playing games in any way? Is the case too big for what i need? i am slightly lenient on the change of price if it is worth the extra pound.
Thanks for any advice.


Case
COOLERMASTER CM STORM TROOPER - GAMING ENTHUSIAST CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-4440 (3.1GHz) 6MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® MAXIMUS VI GENE: RoG, PCI-e 3.0, SATA 3.0, USB3.0, THX
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 770 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item
FREE BATMAN: ARKHAM ORIGINS GAME with GTX 660 & 7 Series GPUs!
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
240GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply
CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ MODULAR TXM-750 V2-80 PLUS® (£89)
Processor Cooling
Super Quiet 22dBA Triple Copper Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler (£19)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 2 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 8 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
Microsoft® Office Home & Student 2013 (1 License & Disc) (£85)
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 11 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,324.00 including VAT and delivery.

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keynes

keynes

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I would go for a better cpu like the i5-4670, the z87-A is as good as the maximus and cheaper. You will need more than 750w PSU if you are planning in adding a 2nd GPU. The case is fine and an SSD is not going to give you better performance gaming wise only help with loading time with windows and other applications.
 
vanthus

vanthus

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The processor cooler will be fine,unless planning on overclocking.
Onboard sound is adequate for most users.
 
baron75mk2

baron75mk2

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Fzforze said:
Currently looking for a high end gaming pc to run games on highest graphic settiings at 60fps
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That GTX-770 alone wont play everything on ultra at 60fps - its quite an ask to be able to ultra all the top end games at ultra at 60fps
(i presume you are talikng about battlefield 3, crysis 3 , far cry 3, witcher 2 & these kinds of AAA high end games)

Even A GTX-Titan on its own wont do that , i had this same dilemma myself recently , it was a choice of 2X GTX-titans (at around £1600)
or 2X GTX-780s (for just a bit over £1000)

if its ultra & 60fps on everything like the AAA titles i presume you are talking about , these are the only Nvidia options for that
(apparently HD7990s are more powerful than a titan on paper , but that means quad crossfire , two way crossfire is bad enough - lol)

Thing is as tempting as the titans are ( so you can have two of the most powerful GPUs in your rig ) , if you do some digging around at various benchmarks online you will find that the GTX-780s are always (well in every bench / gampeplay bench i researched , & that was 3 whole days of it before i decided finally)
only between 5 -15 fps behind the titans (& thats only on 1 or two games) , so that £600 difference is a lot for only a really small performance gain over the GTX-780s , sure they have 6gb of v-ram over the GTX-780s 3gb , but i read of all sorts of players running 2 or 3 monitors on 3gb of ram & doing fine
( wasnt a factor really for me as i only play on one monitor at 1080p & my systems well overkill for that really , but like yourself i want ultra & 60fps at all times for at leased a few years)

maybe if your on 3 monitors with astronomical resolutions then the titans are for you - if its one monitor , then i would reccomend the GTX-780sli , they will deliver you what you want in the way of ultra & 60fps , only one game didnt run well for me & that was metro 2033 , seems lile a real dog to me as the better hardware i throw at it , it just gets worse , so the less said about that game the better.

That brings me to the PSU , if its either of these SLI setups you go for , yes sure a 750w pack is sufficiant , but i believe especially in these SLI setups its always good to have at leased 200 - 300 watts in resurve instead of running a pack almost to its full capacity all the time. so at leasd a 1000w pack id say , for headroom & future proofing

Processor is fine for 95% of all games on ultra & 60fps - but if your looking in to CPU bound things like the assassins creed collection for example , then i would reccomend an overclock definately , if you chose this i would reccomend a bigger cpu cooler , but thats not very expensive i got my titan fenrir for only £50 or so & it does an excellent job of cooling mine at 4.30GHZ.

Case is great for SLI - enough said on that point

Money can be saved on ditching that ssd drive , you might get slightly better load times & boot ups but thats it , wont really make any differnce for the games - this saving can be spent elsewhere in the build.

Its getting rather expensive though - but when its ultra on everything & 60fps its going to im afraid.

Hope this helps you decide on what kind of build you finally go for :eek:
 
moosEh

moosEh

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baron75mk2 said:
Even A GTX-Titan on its own wont do that , i had this same dilemma myself recently , it was a choice of 2X GTX-titans (at around £1600)
or 2X GTX-780s (for just a bit over £1000)
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780s out perform the titan in certain tasks/certain games. The only thing going for the Titan is the Vram.
 
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SlimCini

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Genuinely very useful and interesting read but kind of irrelevant in a £1000 - £1250 budget gaming PC no...?!

For that budget, a 2Gb 770 is your best bet.

And you will get very impressive visuals at very high frame rates. Don't let the false grail of 60fps at 'ultra' fool you. 55 fps at 'very high' will still look awesome and I bet you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
 
baron75mk2

baron75mk2

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moosEh said:
780s out perform the titan in certain tasks/certain games. The only thing going for the Titan is the Vram.
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Yes they do in certain games 3 or 4 of mine apparently are better on GTX-780s & apparently they scale better as well in SLI

I should have mentioned this , thanks moosEH for pointing this out :yes:
 
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