Hey guys, I'm new to the forums and I would like to begin by posting the specifications of a gaming pc I am saving up for, and will hopefully be able to afford in 2 months. The price came to £1,379.00.
Here are the specifications that I have chosen:
Case
CORSAIR GRAPHITE SERIES™ 600T WHITE MID-TOWER CASE
Overclocked CPU
Overclocked Intel® Core™i5-4670k Quad Core (3.40GHz @ max 4.20GHz)
Motherboard
ASUS® Z87-A: ATX, USB2.0, USB3.0, SATA6GB/S, SLi, XFIRE
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPERX BEAST DUAL-DDR3 2400MHz X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 770 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item
FREE SPLINTER CELL BLACKLIST GAME with GTX 660 & 7 Series GPUs!
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
120GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/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™ MODULAR TXM-750 V2-80 PLUS® (£89)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100i Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£89)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Sound Card
Asus Xonar DGX 5.1-Channel Gaming Audio Card (£27)
Network Facilities
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 2 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
PCS EXTRA-CARE DIAMOND DELIVERY - MON-FRI, PRE-NOON (£9)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days
So, to clear things up, this computer will be used every day for high-end gaming, especially the next-gen games such as Battlefield 4, CoD: Ghosts and many more. I won't be doing much video/image editing, so an i7 processor is definitely a miss for me. I would like 60fps at the highest settings on all games and am not sure if I should get the Geforce GTX 770 or save up a little longer and get the Geforce GTX 780. I have noticed the 780 does have quite a bit of extra performance, but is it really worth double the price of the 770? I have thought of getting the 770 then when the next series is released in the future, I can upgrade, but I would like a second opinion.
The next thing I would like an opinion on is the Sound Card. I'm not sure which to get, especially since I will be playing games and listening to music a lot. What do you think of the sound card I selected?
And finally, is the extra £9 for Extra-care diamond delivery needed? I added that since I am paranoid that such an expensive computer could be handled badly. Did your computer arrive okay with standard?
Thank you for your time reading this, please point out anything else that I may of missed, I look forward to your replies!
Here are the specifications that I have chosen:
Case
CORSAIR GRAPHITE SERIES™ 600T WHITE MID-TOWER CASE
Overclocked CPU
Overclocked Intel® Core™i5-4670k Quad Core (3.40GHz @ max 4.20GHz)
Motherboard
ASUS® Z87-A: ATX, USB2.0, USB3.0, SATA6GB/S, SLi, XFIRE
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPERX BEAST DUAL-DDR3 2400MHz X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 770 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item
FREE SPLINTER CELL BLACKLIST GAME with GTX 660 & 7 Series GPUs!
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
120GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/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™ MODULAR TXM-750 V2-80 PLUS® (£89)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100i Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£89)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Sound Card
Asus Xonar DGX 5.1-Channel Gaming Audio Card (£27)
Network Facilities
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 2 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
PCS EXTRA-CARE DIAMOND DELIVERY - MON-FRI, PRE-NOON (£9)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days
So, to clear things up, this computer will be used every day for high-end gaming, especially the next-gen games such as Battlefield 4, CoD: Ghosts and many more. I won't be doing much video/image editing, so an i7 processor is definitely a miss for me. I would like 60fps at the highest settings on all games and am not sure if I should get the Geforce GTX 770 or save up a little longer and get the Geforce GTX 780. I have noticed the 780 does have quite a bit of extra performance, but is it really worth double the price of the 770? I have thought of getting the 770 then when the next series is released in the future, I can upgrade, but I would like a second opinion.
The next thing I would like an opinion on is the Sound Card. I'm not sure which to get, especially since I will be playing games and listening to music a lot. What do you think of the sound card I selected?
And finally, is the extra £9 for Extra-care diamond delivery needed? I added that since I am paranoid that such an expensive computer could be handled badly. Did your computer arrive okay with standard?
Thank you for your time reading this, please point out anything else that I may of missed, I look forward to your replies!