Another gaming pc...

[ousedaled]

I'm trying to choose specs for a gaming PC, but I know next to nothing unless the internet tells me it, so I'm turning to you guys for advice!

• This is roughly the budget I have available.
• I have a three monitor set-up.
• I have a big fancy speaker system to justify the sound card.
• This machine will be almost exclusively for gaming and light general use.

Please let me know if there's any part of the spec that looks wrong, or just provide some reassurance!


Case
FRACTAL DESIGN R3 - BLACK PEARL CASE
Overclocked CPU
Overclocked Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core (3.40GHz @ max 4.80GHz)
Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z68-V PRO: USB 3.0, SATA 6GB/s, NVIDIA®SLI™, ATI®CrossFireX™
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card
2GB AMD RADEON™ HD6970 - 2 DVI,HDMI,2 mDP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable
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
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX850 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£99)
Processor Cooling
TITAN FENRIR EVO EXTREME HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£39)
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Titanium (£59)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD 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)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)


Price: £1,232.00 including VAT and delivery.

 

[Teaz]

You dont really need an overclocked machine for gaming. the spec on its own can handle gaming perfectly fine with the overclock so the non k variant i7 an 1333mhz ram is fine suited. overclocking for gaming isnt really worthit.

an 750 or 650 watt psu is fine unless you want to hold onto the 850 for alot of upgrades or such but the 750w has plenty of room too.

 

[ousedaled]

Thanks for the advice. I was mostly choosing over-clocking since it didn't seem to change the price all that much and I figured why not.

And yeah, the PSU was mostly just because I'd rather upgrade than replace this time round