Will these specs be alright for playing up to date demanding PC games?

[ianfry]

Case COOLERMASTER ELITE 310 BLUE CASE
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7-2700k Quad Core (3.50GHz, 8MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard ASUS® P8Z68-V LX: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, ATI®CrossFireX
Memory (RAM) 16GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (4 X 4GB)
Graphics Card 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti - 2 DVI,HDMI,VGA - 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics Card NONE
3rd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 2TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD20EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB (Special Offer)
2nd Hard Disk NONE
RAID NONE
SSD CACHE DRIVE NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive NONE
Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply 600W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)
Processor Cooling INTEL SOCKET LGA1155 STANDARD CPU COOLER
Fan Controller NONE
Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)
USB Options 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Modem NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND
Floppy Disk Drive NONE
Firewire & Video Editing NONE
TV Card NONE
Operating System NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Monitor 24" Widescreen TFT 1920 x1080 5MS, DVI, 23.6" Panel (£119)
2nd Monitor NONE
DVI-D & HDMI Monitor Cables NONE
Eyefinity / GeForce 3D Vision NONE
Keyboard & Mouse LOGITECH® MK250 WIRELESS KEYBOARD & MOUSE COMBO (£21)
Mouse NONE
Speakers LOGITECH S120 2.0 BLACK SPEAKER SYSTEM (£9)
Webcam Logitech® Webcam C210 - built-in-mic & VGA quality video sensor (£15)
Headsets (VOIP) NONE
Surge Protection NONE
Cable Tidy NONE
Printer NONE
External Hard Drive NONE
Warranty 3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Home Installation NONE
Data Recovery NONE
Delivery STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time Standard Build - Approximately 10 to 12 working days
Charity Calendar NONE

 

[Fear]

Can you post your max budget and then people can put together some more balanced specs for you which will be along the lines of a better cooling case, and a caviar black (performance drive) instead of the green which are more of a energy saving storage drive, you really won't need that 2700K and if you do not intend to overclock it you can also save money by getting 1 of the standard CPU's (K series are just unlocked ready for overclocking), unless you are doing some major HD video editing you won't need 16GB ram at the moment 4GB is enough for gaming and 8GB is good for future proofing (if the budget allows if not this is one of the cheapest and easiest upgrades to do when the time comes), next unless you are using multi monitors you won't need a 2GB GPU (good for 2 or more monitors) so a 1GB card is enough for a single monitor while i am on this bit you will also need to purchase a seperate DVI cable to link your monitor as the cheaper monitors do not come with one and don't miss out on the £5 silver warranty this will extend the 1 month collect and return to 1 year, so these are some of the things that can be improved/altered to banace the spec but if you let us know exactly what you are going to be using the PC for along with the budget people will see what they can come up with for you.

 

[ianfry]

I've already ordered it, and then had the shock horror of thinking have I got the right specs. It came to £1,093 which is fine but yeah I forgot to do the Silver Warranty and get the DVI cable. Is there any way to add these two things on to my order? It is still in Pre-Production.
I'm worried if I phone up and add these items that it will take even longer to process my order? Thanks

 

[keynes]

I've already ordered it, and then had the shock horror of thinking have I got the right specs. It came to £1,093 which is fine but yeah I forgot to do the Silver Warranty and get the DVI cable. Is there any way to add these two things on to my order? It is still in Pre-Production.
I'm worried if I phone up and add these items that it will take even longer to process my order? Thanks

Making amendments is pretty easy, just go to your account on the website , click on view orders and then amend your order

 

[keynes]

I should add that if your order reaches the building stage any additional changes will incur an additional £5

 

[ianfry]

I've just routed around and found the 'Amend Order' button. I've purchased the DVI cable and upgraded the Warranty to Silver now, and it said the changes will be added immediately to my original order so hopefully it wont effect build times.
I don't really want to start fiddling with the rest of the components as I can imagine this will effect build time. But with the specs I have chosen the i7 2700k, 16GB Ram, 2GB Graphics Card, etc. You mentioned something about them being unbalanced. Will that mean my computer will run a bit sluggish? Cheers for your help

 

[Fear]

The bottleneck on the system is going to be your caviar green HDD as i said in my earlier post this is designed as a storage drive so picking the top CPU will not speed your system up it will be idle also only a few games like FSX and F1 2011 will make use of the CPU the rest of the games mainly use the GPU, tbh for a gaming machine with the budget you have you want to be putting money into a system that is well covered for the future but will also be a solid even build now.

I would have a really good think about changing it to something more like this below.

Case
COOLERMASTER HAF 922 MID TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2500 Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z68-V LX: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, ATI®CrossFireX
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)
Graphics Card
1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 570 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Memory - 1[SUP]st[/SUP] Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1[SUP]st[/SUP] DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£69)
Processor Cooling
SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE INTEL CPU COOLER (£19)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Monitor
22" Widescreen TFT 1920 x1080 2MS D-Sub, DVI, 21.6" Panel (£99)
DVI-D & HDMI Monitor Cables
1 x 2 METRE DVI-D CABLE (£5)
Keyboard & Mouse
LOGITECH® MK250 WIRELESS KEYBOARD & MOUSE COMBO (£21)
Speakers
LOGITECH S120 2.0 BLACK SPEAKER SYSTEM (£9)
Webcam
Logitech® Webcam C210 - built-in-mic & VGA quality video sensor (£15)
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 10 to 12 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,076.00 including VAT and delivery.

 

[Wozza63]

that spec above looks much better

 

[ianfry]

If I changed the HardDrive to the Caviar Black, will that make any difference? Or do I do need to make all those other changes too?

 

[Music Guy123]

Yes, that spec is well balanced. I will mention that i'd suggest homeplugs over the wifi card.

 

[ianfry]

So if I keep the specs I have chosen right at the top, and change the HardDrive to the Caviar Black, I shouldn't have any problems?

 

[ianfry]

I'm a little confused. I just been looking at the Graphics Cards, and the 1.25GB GEFORCE GTX 560Ti 448 core, is more expensive than the 2GB GEFORCE GTX 560Ti.

 

[Music Guy123]

Yes, it is faster. You could also just get the 1GB card, you won't need 2GB unless you are gaming on multiple monitors.

 

[Wozza63]

get fears spec, its much better for gaming and is also cheaper!

 

[Music Guy123]

Yes, I would agree. I really would cancel your order and just re-do it. You honestly won't regret it!

 

[Wozza63]

dont need to cancel it, that would make the wait much longer, just adjust it so its the same as fears spec

 

[ianfry]

Cheers for your help guys. Here are my new specs. I decided to upgrade the Graphics Card to the 570, and the HardDrive to a 1TB Caviar Black.

Case COOLERMASTER ELITE 310 BLUE CASE
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7-2700k Quad Core (3.50GHz, 8MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard ASUS® P8Z68-V LX: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, ATI®CrossFireX
Memory (RAM) 16GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (4 X 4GB)
Graphics Card 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti - 2 DVI,HDMI,VGA - 3D Vision Ready
Change to: 1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 570 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics Card NONE
3rd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 2TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD20EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB (Special Offer)
Change to: 1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
2nd Hard Disk NONE
RAID NONE
SSD CACHE DRIVE NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive NONE
Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply 600W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)
Processor Cooling INTEL SOCKET LGA1155 STANDARD CPU COOLER
Fan Controller NONE
Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)
USB Options 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Modem NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND
Floppy Disk Drive NONE
Firewire & Video Editing NONE
TV Card NONE
Operating System NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Monitor 24" Widescreen TFT 1920 x1080 5MS, DVI, 23.6" Panel (£119)
2nd Monitor NONE
DVI-D & HDMI Monitor Cables NONE
Change to: 1 x 2 METRE DVI-D CABLE (£5)
Eyefinity / GeForce 3D Vision NONE
Keyboard & Mouse LOGITECH® MK250 WIRELESS KEYBOARD & MOUSE COMBO (£21)
Mouse NONE
Speakers LOGITECH S120 2.0 BLACK SPEAKER SYSTEM (£9)
Webcam Logitech® Webcam C210 - built-in-mic & VGA quality video sensor (£15)
Headsets (VOIP) NONE
Surge Protection NONE
Cable Tidy NONE
Printer NONE
External Hard Drive NONE
Warranty 3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Change to: 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Home Installation NONE
Data Recovery NONE
Delivery STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time Standard Build - Approximately 10 to 12 working days
Charity Calendar NONE

 

[Wozza63]

upgrade the case to the 922 like fears

drop to the i7 2600, it will be way more than enough power

get the 1600MHz RAM if you are interested in looking inside the case, they look much better and run a bit cooler too

get the triple copper CPU cooler, great value

 

[Astute]

The memory of the GPU isn't an indicator of performance although there is a correlation, it just means it can cope with resolutions higher than 1920x1080 easier. If you aren't planning on running higher than a 1080p single monitor, the rest shouldn't matter.

The difference between the 2700k and the 2700 is that the "k" means you can overclock it. You don't currently have a cooler good enough to overclock it and so, provided you don't plan on doing it, you may as well drop to the 2700 at least. As Wozza says, if it's just gaming you want, drop to the 2600 if you want to save a bit. Nobody really needs anything more than an i5 (My new PC is in QC, i5-2500 and GTX 570) though, to be honest, is what I've been told. i7 just seems better for HD Video and stuff.

That's just my opinion anyway, I'm only new here myself, just letting you know what I discovered in my own spec refining process on PCS

 

[ianfry]

Sorry to keep bothering you guys, but this is my amended order. I have changed the case to the HAF 922, but in the images provided I noticed there were no slots on the back for audio, USB etc. Whereas on the 310 Elite they were shown?


Case COOLERMASTER HAF 922 MID TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7-2600 Quad Core (3.40GHz, 8MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard ASUS® P8Z68-V LX: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, ATI®CrossFireX
Memory (RAM) 16GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (4 X 4GB)
Graphics Card 1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 570 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
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 600W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)
Processor Cooling SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE INTEL CPU COOLER (£19)
Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)
USB Options 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Monitor 24" Widescreen TFT 1920 x1080 5MS, DVI, 23.6" Panel (£119)
DVI-D & HDMI Monitor Cables 1 x 2 METRE DVI-D CABLE (£5)
Keyboard & Mouse LOGITECH® MK250 WIRELESS KEYBOARD & MOUSE COMBO (£21)
Speakers LOGITECH S120 2.0 BLACK SPEAKER SYSTEM (£9)
Webcam Logitech® Webcam C210 - built-in-mic & VGA quality video sensor (£15)
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 10 to 12 working days