Opinions on my "soon to be" gaming PC please

[Mr_Tom]

Hi guys,

Hopefully by Saturday (my Birthday) I should of ordered this PC, check the specs below: Any opinions would be greatly appreciated. PC is mostly going to be used for gaming and a bit of work.

Case
InWIN GT1 BLACK GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4770 (3.4GHz) 8MB Cache

Motherboard
ASUS® Z87M-PLUS: m-ATX, USB3.0, SATA 6.0, XFIRE

Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)

Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 760 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item
Free Item
FREE BATMAN: ARKHAM ORIGINS GAME with GTX 660 & 7 Series GPUs!

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
180GB INTEL® 335 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)

2nd Hard Disk
500GB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD5003AZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

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)

Extra Case Fans
1 x 12CM Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof) (£5)

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

Wireless Router/HomePlugs
2 x HomePlug 200Mbps - Turn any Electrical Socket into a Network (£38)

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 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE

Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE

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)

Regards

 

[keynes]

I would get Tom's spec in out other thread instead if it is mainly for gaming .

 

[vanthus]

Nice build,might be worth getting the 1TB Caviar Black as the second hard disk for something like £9 more,and unless you need the i7 processor for your work,the i5-4670 might be a better choice.
Upgrading the motherboard a notch to the Z87-A would give more scope for future add ons/upgrades,as it has more expansion slots.

 

[Mr_Tom]

Nice build,might be worth getting the 1TB Caviar Black as the second hard disk for something like £9 more,and unless you need the i7 processor for your work,the i5-4670 might be a better choice.
Upgrading the motherboard a notch to the Z87-A would give more scope for future add ons/upgrades,as it has more expansion slots.

May as well change the hard driver to 1TB is its only £9 or so.

Probably keep the i7 as the PC will be mainly used for gaming., (eg battlefield 4 etc)

I will change the motherboard to the Z87-A as I can always SLI another card if I want to with this board.

Thanks for the reply.

 

[keynes]

Probably keep the i7 as the PC will be mainly used for gaming., (eg battlefield 4 etc)

battlefield and the majority of games won't benefit from an i7. If you want to see a noticeable difference in gaming get the r9-280x or gtx 770.

 

[Mr_Tom]

So you're saying I should go with an i5 instead of an i7? If I did go with the i7, what would that give me that an i5 wouldn't and vice versa.

If I do go with an i5 I can add more money to my graphics card, what would you recommend, a GTX 770 or 780?

Regards

*Edit - GTX 780 is out of my price range, looks like I will just stick with a GTX 770*

 

[keynes]

So you're saying I should go with an i5 instead of an i7? If I did go with the i7, what would that give me that an i5 wouldn't and vice versa.

The i7 will give you things you don't need for gaming like hyper threading, you can look for benchmarks online.

 

[Matrix510]

An i5 seems to be popular choice for gamers in desktops nowadays simply due to the fact games won't benefit highly from the added cost of an i7. It's more cost efficient to use the i5 and put the money into a better GPU, which will increase your performance more than an i7 over the i5.

I'd definitely recommend upping the HDD size though, as you will eat through 500GB very quickly indeed.