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I've been considering upgrades ahead of time for a while. Some of it is quite straight forward in what I want, but a couple of things I'm a bit cloudy on.
Though before I go on to all of that, I havent noticed any of the wrist straps for when doing anything within the computers case. Would be great if anyone could point me in the right direction? And also, I'd imagine some would have extended their warranty, just wondering how I would go about that if I was to do so?
All currently considered upgrades are as followed:
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Comes to roughly £900 for all of that. But since the most likely things to be dropped are the monitors, the price can be reduced to £771 without them, and further dropped to £748 with the cheapest headset I'm considering, though a 4GB 770 can take it down a nice bit - Down to £607 roughly.
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GPU & Additional Monitors:
I've got a new desk (finally) which is to be (eventually) put together for my room, and if it can manage I'm wanting two additional monitors for the PC. So for now, that's mostly just a consideration until I put the desk together and make sure it can have three monitors placed atop without any trouble, and then whether the GPU can handle it.The problem is, I have a GTX 670 and was considering SLI at some point and no 670 upgrade option any longer - but with the 7 series out I'm thinking a single 780. I can't SLI 770's or 780's without replacing the PSU, which I'd just prefer not to for now.
I'm wondering if a single 780 can handle games on a Tri-monitor set up, if anyone can help there? As a side note, I'm wanting to achieve as close to max settings as I can for a good time on, so if 3-monitors will make that a struggle for just the one 780, I'll easily decide against the additional monitors. I'm wanting the new GPU even if I just carry on with the one monitor, and I'm expecting the 790 to be madly expensive if the 690 was/is anything to go by, so I'm willing to go for the 780 at most I think - Two 4GB 770's would be nice, but there's the PSU thing then, and also jumps up by some over £200 above a single 780 without the higher PSU yet accounted for.
RAM:
I'm hoping to up the RAM with an additional 8GB 2x4, but there's no problem I've ran in to with that decision, and is the most solid decision along with the additional HDD.
Headset:
My current headset is a Turtle beach x12, while adequate for my needs, they get quite uncomfortable. The MadCatz Tritton AX 180 I was thinking (£52), but may consider getting something up to the Sennheiser 320's, which jumps to £75. Both from PCS. I mostly want decent sound, and good comfort for when using over prolonged lengths of time, and since the Sound Card turned out to be faulty, I'm thinking of just not using one at all and keeping with the on-board - I possibly wouldn't personally hear the difference in quality anyway.
HDD:
I'm wanting an additional 2TB Caviar black since I've already ate 400GB of the current 1TB (I don't really put anything on the SSD, besides anti-virus and applications that don't give the choice).
I wanted the 2TB from the start along with the 1TB, so I could have games exclusively, or at least mostly on the 2TB, with just about anything else on the 1TB (Music, documents, pictures etc) - But I think just putting mostly games on the 2TB from then on will have to do since they're often the most space demanding things, rather than trying to move masses of files from one to the other when I get it.
I'm hoping to do all the upgrades myself, since I need/want the experience. This all is probably quite some time away, since I need to make sure I can get the upgrades without shooting myself in the foot from spending too much at one time when money may be required elsewhere.
Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated, and general advice also. Hope it's not too headache provoking to read, tried to lay it out to look less annoying to the eyes.
Though before I go on to all of that, I havent noticed any of the wrist straps for when doing anything within the computers case. Would be great if anyone could point me in the right direction? And also, I'd imagine some would have extended their warranty, just wondering how I would go about that if I was to do so?
All currently considered upgrades are as followed:
- RAM 8GB 2x4 (Raising the current to 16 GB with this addition)
- GTX 780
- 2TB Caviar Black
- 2 x iiyama 22" Monitors (Mainly just an option of consideration for now)
- Sennheiser 320 headset (Highest considered price for now) or MadCatz Tritton 180 headset (cheapest considered)
^
Comes to roughly £900 for all of that. But since the most likely things to be dropped are the monitors, the price can be reduced to £771 without them, and further dropped to £748 with the cheapest headset I'm considering, though a 4GB 770 can take it down a nice bit - Down to £607 roughly.
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GPU & Additional Monitors:
I've got a new desk (finally) which is to be (eventually) put together for my room, and if it can manage I'm wanting two additional monitors for the PC. So for now, that's mostly just a consideration until I put the desk together and make sure it can have three monitors placed atop without any trouble, and then whether the GPU can handle it.The problem is, I have a GTX 670 and was considering SLI at some point and no 670 upgrade option any longer - but with the 7 series out I'm thinking a single 780. I can't SLI 770's or 780's without replacing the PSU, which I'd just prefer not to for now.
I'm wondering if a single 780 can handle games on a Tri-monitor set up, if anyone can help there? As a side note, I'm wanting to achieve as close to max settings as I can for a good time on, so if 3-monitors will make that a struggle for just the one 780, I'll easily decide against the additional monitors. I'm wanting the new GPU even if I just carry on with the one monitor, and I'm expecting the 790 to be madly expensive if the 690 was/is anything to go by, so I'm willing to go for the 780 at most I think - Two 4GB 770's would be nice, but there's the PSU thing then, and also jumps up by some over £200 above a single 780 without the higher PSU yet accounted for.
RAM:
I'm hoping to up the RAM with an additional 8GB 2x4, but there's no problem I've ran in to with that decision, and is the most solid decision along with the additional HDD.
Headset:
My current headset is a Turtle beach x12, while adequate for my needs, they get quite uncomfortable. The MadCatz Tritton AX 180 I was thinking (£52), but may consider getting something up to the Sennheiser 320's, which jumps to £75. Both from PCS. I mostly want decent sound, and good comfort for when using over prolonged lengths of time, and since the Sound Card turned out to be faulty, I'm thinking of just not using one at all and keeping with the on-board - I possibly wouldn't personally hear the difference in quality anyway.
HDD:
I'm wanting an additional 2TB Caviar black since I've already ate 400GB of the current 1TB (I don't really put anything on the SSD, besides anti-virus and applications that don't give the choice).
I wanted the 2TB from the start along with the 1TB, so I could have games exclusively, or at least mostly on the 2TB, with just about anything else on the 1TB (Music, documents, pictures etc) - But I think just putting mostly games on the 2TB from then on will have to do since they're often the most space demanding things, rather than trying to move masses of files from one to the other when I get it.
I'm hoping to do all the upgrades myself, since I need/want the experience. This all is probably quite some time away, since I need to make sure I can get the upgrades without shooting myself in the foot from spending too much at one time when money may be required elsewhere.
Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated, and general advice also. Hope it's not too headache provoking to read, tried to lay it out to look less annoying to the eyes.