New Computer

**Sanderson** · 03-05-12, 17:10

Ordered myself a new gaming PC ~ a week ago, thought i'd post the spec here to see if anything could be changed to benefit it

Case
COOLERMASTER HAF 932 FULL TOWER GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-3770K (3.5GHz) 8MB Cache

Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z77-V PRO: PCI-E 3.0 READY,WIFI, SLI, CROSSFIREX

Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (4 x 4GB KIT)

Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 680 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
120GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)

2nd 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

Power Supply
CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX750 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£87)

Processor Cooling
TITAN FENRIR EVO EXTREME HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£39)

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs

USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)

Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE

Monitor
IIYAMA E2473HDS 24" LED WIDESCREEN, 2 HDMI/DVI-D 1920x1080 (£159)

DVI-D & HDMI Monitor Cables
1 x 2 METRE DVI-D CABLE (£9)

**MadMan** · 03-05-12, 17:35

For a spec that powerful that i'd choose an led monitor.

**Corfate** · 03-05-12, 17:40

Also, put the SSD as the 1st HDD, the black as the 2nd.

Like Madman says, go for an LED monitor, such as the IIyama ones.

**Sanderson** · 03-05-12, 18:01

Changed the Hard drives around, for some reason it worked out cheaper? added the LED IIyama 24" as well

**tom_gr7** · 03-05-12, 18:22

sounds mint mate, but if i were you i'd drop to 8gig of ram, 16gb isnt really needed for gaming.

**vanthus** · 03-05-12, 18:36

Depends on what you want to use it for,if for video editing or something CPU intensive it looks good,
If just for gaming & general usage you could drop the CPU to an i5,the memory to 8GB & save yourself a few quid.

**Sanderson** · 03-05-12, 18:37

Originally Posted by tom_gr7

sounds mint mate, but if i were you i'd drop to 8gig of ram, 16gb isnt really needed for gaming.

Was originally going to go with 8gb, but 16gb wasn't much more at all so just went with the 16gb ^^

Currently on 11th Working Day still on Pre-Production so should hopefully have my PC within 2 weeks, will upload pictures then <3

Originally Posted by vanthus

Depends on what you want to use it for,if for video editing or something CPU intensive it looks good,
If just for gaming & general usage you could drop the CPU to an i5,the memory to 8GB & save yourself a few quid.

Will be using it for some editing but nothing intensive, money isn't really too much of a problem. Just wanted a beast of a pc to last me a few years of playing / frapsing games at high settings >

**vanthus** · 03-05-12, 18:44

Go for it then.

**Sanderson** · 08-05-12, 13:34

Just went onto building, will upload some pics when it arrives

**Sanderson** · 14-05-12, 14:26

Production Dates

Processed Date 18-04-2012

Pre-Production Date 23-04-2012

Build Date 08-05-2012

Currently still on building can only assume something was missing?

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