Spec for gaming?

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Jamed

Bronze Level Poster
Is this a good spec for high end gaming at 1080p?
All I will do on it is play games :)
My budget is about £1300 (plus £50 if need be) and I don't need a monitor or anything else. Just the PC.
Thanks.

Case
CORSAIR GRAPHITE SERIES™ 600T WHITE MID-TOWER CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-4670K (3.4GHz) 6MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® MAXIMUS VII GENE: RoG, PCI-e 3.0, SATA 3.0, USB3.0
Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 770 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item
FREE WATCH DOGS with GTX 660 & 7 Series GPUs!
1st Hard Disk
1TB SEAGATE ST1000DX001 1TB/8GB SSHD 64MB HYBRID DRIVE
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (£99)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100i Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£89)
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 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 8.1 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 11 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,350.00 including VAT and delivery.

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TheGeeza

Guest
It's a little unbalanced mate.
This is better for the budget you posted.
You could probably push for a 780ti if you downgraded the warranty and ssd but this is what I would go for in that budget.
The upgraded warranty is a must in my opinion.

Case
COOLERMASTER CM690 III ADVANCED CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-4690 (3.5GHz) 6MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® Z97-A: ATX, USB3.0, SATA 6GB/S, SLi, XFIRE
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 780 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item
FREE WATCH DOGS with GTX 660 & 7 Series GPUs!
1st Hard Disk
240GB INTEL® 530 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 490MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W VS SERIES™ VS-650 POWER SUPPLY
Processor Cooling
Corsair H60 Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£59)
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 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 8.1 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Warranty
3 Year Gold Warranty (2 Year Collect & Return, 2 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£69)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 11 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,340.00 including VAT and delivery.

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keynes

keynes

Multiverse Poster
You can do better for your budget. There are a few things that are not essential.
Case
CORSAIR GRAPHITE SERIES™ 600T WHITE MID-TOWER CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-4690 (3.5GHz) 6MB Cache
Motherboard
Gigabyte Z97-HD3: ATX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 780 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item
FREE WATCH DOGS with GTX 660 & 7 Series GPUs!
1st Hard Disk
240GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD2003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (£79)
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 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 8.1 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
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: £1,326.00 including VAT and delivery.

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Jamed

Bronze Level Poster
Thanks for the replies :)
I forgot to put that I did want the liquid cooling so it's quieter. Thanks for the input though bigben

Also, would I not need an i7 for gaming? And isn't the 16gb ram a must for modern gaming? Should I also get the faster ram?
Is the 780 good enough for modern games?
 
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TheGeeza

Guest
Jamed said:
Thanks for the replies :)
I forgot to put that I did want the liquid cooling so it's quieter. Thanks for the input though bigben

Also, would I not need an i7 for gaming? And isn't the 16gb ram a must for modern gaming? Should I also get the faster ram?
Is the 780 good enough for modern games?
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1.The i7 would offer a negligible performance advantage over the i5 for gaming. It also cost a fair bit more.
2.8gb it's fine for modern gaming and it's easy to upgrade if you ever needed to.
3.You will not notice the difference that the higher speed ram makes when gaming.
4. The 780 is easily capable of playing modern games on high settings. It makes more sense than the 780ti at the moment in terms of price to performance.
 
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johnsmith100

Active member
Jamed said:
Thanks for the replies :)
I forgot to put that I did want the liquid cooling so it's quieter. Thanks for the input though bigben

Also, would I not need an i7 for gaming? And isn't the 16gb ram a must for modern gaming? Should I also get the faster ram?
Is the 780 good enough for modern games?
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Get the i7. It should add about 10 fps while gaming.
 
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johnsmith100

Active member
I would swap the ssd for a a normal hdd and go for the i7 then. The i7 would make the pc faster than the ssd would at the moment.
 
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TheGeeza

Guest
johnsmith100 said:
I would swap the ssd for a a normal hdd and go for the i7 then. The i7 would make the pc faster than the ssd would at the moment.
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The i5 would suffice for the OPs intended use.
The SSD would have much more noticable performance benefits over the i7.
 
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Wozza63

Biblical Poster
The i7 is pretty pointless to get at this point only a 2-3 fps performance improvement and only 10fps max on games that are truly optimized for multi-threading, and there are very few of those. The SSD is much more worthwhile, reduces loading time for the operating system and all your programs, and with 240GB you could even fit a few games on there and improve the loading times for them. I have a couple of games on mine and its only 120GB and I currently have 15GB free
 
keynes

keynes

Multiverse Poster
johnsmith100 said:
I would swap the ssd for a a normal hdd and go for the i7 then. The i7 would make the pc faster than the ssd would at the moment.
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ummmmmmmm faster for what? SSD is faster at loading application and booting windows. For the majority of games the i7 wouldn't bring any noticeable improvement compare to the i5 at stock clock speed.
 
bigben

bigben

Master Poster
Jamed said:
I forgot to put that I did want the liquid cooling so it's quieter.
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I think that the H60 is notorious for being noisy. I have an air cooler with two 120mm fans and it's silent.

Don't bother with an i7, that person is mistaken. For gaming, the price : performance ratio for i5 : i7 is just not worth it. This article is worth a read, doesn't show fps but you get a decent idea.
 
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Wozza63

Biblical Poster
In terms of noise I don't see the point of getting a CPU watercooler, your GPU is going to be making more noise either way, I have dual fan CPU cooler and can't hear it whilst doing regular stuff or during gaming because its overpowered by the GPU(s)
 
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TheGeeza

Guest
I agree with Wozza and bigben here.
These days air coolers are just as good as liquid coolers for the most part :)

(Didn't know that about the H60.)
 
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