Reccomendation for new system

[rwhunited]

I am looking to buy a new system for gaming. Could you provide any suggestions? I have a budget of around £1000 and would like to use it for gaming. I do not want an SSD as I find little to do in the few seconds saved at start-up. I would like intel as I have used it religiously since I bought a laptop with AMD and hated it. I have been looking at the overclocked i5-3570k or the retail 3770 (possibly buy the 3770k and overclock myself). I would like something around the spec of the nVidia GTX 660ti for the GPU. I would like a 1tb HDD, every time I configured a system I used the WD Caviar Black 7200rpm. This price does not include a monitor or peripherals but I have found a monitor I want, and I probably purchase the mouse and keyboard with the system off here. Obviously the less I spend the better but I don't want to have a system that lacks in an area to save money, but at the same time because the budget comes to £900 I don't want an SSD to fill the extra £100 as I could use this to purchase a second monitor.

Any advice would help!

Many thanks
Ryan

 

[keynes]

Hi,
if it is just for gaming overclocking the CPU wouldn't provide a significant improvement for most games as well as an i7. I'd suggest the i5-3570 with the triple copper heatpipe CPU cooler + Gtx 670.

 

[Chriso]

Case
COOLERMASTER CM690 MKII ADVANCED CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-3570K (3.4GHz) 6MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z77-V LX: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, ATI®CrossFireX
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 670 - 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
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£69)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H40 Hydro Series High Performance 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 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
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £991.00 including VAT and delivery.

 

[Chriso]

Hi,
if it is just for gaming overclocking the CPU wouldn't provide a significant improvement for most games as well as an i7. I'd suggest the i5-3570 with the triple copper heatpipe CPU cooler + Gtx 670.

Keynes always gives best advise just change the CPU cooler and the overclocked i5 3570k is only a few quid more then the k but you will save money not OCing.

£958 if you switch the K cpu for just the 3570 and the cooler to the Super quiet cooler.

 

[rwhunited]

Thinking about it now I suppose most games don't require more than 4ghz, would it be practical to do a mid range overclock myself? Would the H40 be ok to keep it cool at say 4ghz?

Thanks!

 

[Chriso]

H40 would do the job yes but games but you don't benefit from overclocking it only really benefits things such as rendering etc. And I'd recommend getting PCS overclock if you do since it will be covered my PCS if it goes bust. There is no need to OC processor though really if you want higher FPS you overclock the GPU but an I5 and 670 would play most games on ultra no problem.

 

[rwhunited]

Oh right! Yeah I don't plan on rendering so it would be wasted probably, so would this play such games as GTA 4 on ultra as I know my laptop can reach about mid range then starts to lag...

 

[Chriso]

GTA 4 system requirments are here and you will see i5 and 670 is enough.

Recommended:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz, AMD Phenom X3 2.1Ghz
Memory: 2GB (Windows XP) 2.5GB (Windows Vista)

Free Hard Drive Space: 18GB

Video Card: 512MB NVIDIA 8600 / 512MB ATI 3870

 

[rwhunited]

Yeah I have more than that on my laptop now but it wont play on ultra. Thanks for the system advice saved me a bit of money and hassle!

 

[rwhunited]

Check please

This is the system I have possibly decided on, any suggestions? This will be used for gaming such as Warcraft/GTA 5/ Minecraft etc. Will the graphics card be a bit overkill? Would I get away with the 660ti?

Case
PCS MAELSTROM T900 BLACK GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-3570 (3.4GHz) 6MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z77-V LX: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, ATI®CrossFireX
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPERX GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1866MHz X.M.P(2 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 670 - 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
4x BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, 16x DVD ROM (£26)
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
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
WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI-E CARD (£16)
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 8 Professional 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£109)
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
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,001.00 including VAT and delivery.

Unique URL to re-configure: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/quotes/intel-ivy-bridge-pc/FP7qUgLw29/

Thanks
Ryan

 

[Karnor00]

Unless you have a specific reason for wanting Windows 8 Professional, you could save £30 by going with the standard version. Certainly for gaming you only need the standard version.

As for the GPU, the GTX 670 is a very good card, but for the games you listed it probably would be overkill. Really it depends whether you have any plans to get a new first person perspective game (which tend to be the most graphically demanding). If not then the 660ti would be fine.

 

[Chriso]

Thats a nice spec:tank:. You could always consider ssd aswell for fast boot and a few games im putting wow on my ssd aswell as OS.

 

[Toxophilix]

Will the graphics card be a bit overkill? Would I get away with the 660ti?

The price/performance ratio of the 670 is so good, I would stick with it if you can afford it. Even if the 660ti will handle anything you play right now, who knows what you'll be playing next month

 

[rwhunited]

I just ordered my new system actually, it is the Vanquish XT680. I thought I would splash out a little.