Thinking about ordering, need help.

[BlindFaith]

I am thinking about ordering the following Desktop.

I am a hardcore PC gamer, and this will be exclusively used for gaming. While I am a gamer I know next to nothing about PC hardware. I had a friend help me and this is what he put together for me. My budget is around £2500 - £2600.

If anyone has any thoughts or advice that would be great. I have not yet picked a case but I was thinking of getting this,

www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-007-BX

The Bitfenix Colossus Venom Green LED Big Tower Windowed Case. I did not see the case as one of the options you can choose while customising a PC, and was wondering if anyone knows if I can request a different case to the ones shown.

Anyway, here are the specs:

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-3820 (3.6GHz) 10MB Cache

Motherboard
ASUS® RAMPAGE IV EXTREME: INTEL X79, SOCKET 2011, R.O.G

Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON HYPERX GENESIS QUAD-DDR3 1600MHz X.M.P(4 x 4GB KIT)

Graphics Card
4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 680 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready

2nd Graphics Card
4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 680 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
120GB INTEL® 330 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 500MB/sR | 450MB/sW) --- I beleive he said this drive was for my operating system.

2nd Hard Disk
2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD2002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RA

Power Supply
CORSAIR 1050W PRO SERIES™ HX1050-80 PLUS® SILVER MODULAR

Processor Cooling
INTEL CERTIFIED LIQUID CPU COOLER FOR SOCKET LG2011

Sound Card
Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Professional

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 STANDAR

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence


Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated. Thankyou.



*Edit : I seem to have posted this in the wrong section. If a moderator sees this could he please move it to Check this spec!

 

[keynes]

Are you planning to game in 1 or 3 monitors? The GTX 680 4gb will bring a slight improvement when gaming in 3 monitors as opposed to the 2gb version. I rather go with a SLI GTX 670, cheaper and it would give you a close performance to the SLI set up you had selected.
The rampage iv extreme is a very high end motherboard and unless you are an extreme overclocker it may be a bit of an overkill.

 

[BlindFaith]

I am currently planning to play on 1 monitor. That may change.

I don't need the best PC, just one that can handle the current games without breaking a sweat. One that will hopefully play upcoming games just as well.

Battlefield 3, Shogun Total War 2,The Witcher 2, ARMA2, CSGO, Guild Wars 2.

These are the games I play at the moment.

My Budget is around £2500, but I by no means NEED to spend that. That was just a limit I gave myself.

*Edit: For some reason the customiser is telling me the GTX 670 is more expensive than the 4GB GTX 680. Any ideas what's up with that?

 

[keynes]

I am currently planning to play on 1 monitor. That may change.

I don't need the best PC, just one that can handle the current games without breaking a sweat. One that will hopefully play upcoming games just as well.

Battlefield 3, Shogun Total War 2,The Witcher 2, ARMA2, CSGO, Guild Wars 2.

These are the games I play at the moment.

My Budget is around £2500, but I by no means NEED to spend that. That was just a limit I gave myself.

*Edit: For some reason the customiser is telling me the GTX 670 is more expensive than the 4GB GTX 680. Any ideas what's up with that?

The website is also giving me the same error, the GTX 670 should be more than £100 cheaper than the GTX 680 4gb.

 

[Rakk]

The website is also giving me the same error, the GTX 670 should be more than £100 cheaper than the GTX 680 4gb.

I think there's a few calculation errors going on in the configurators at the moment, things seem to be showing up more expensive than they should be, hopefully it'll be sorted soon.

 

[BlindFaith]

Ok, I'll look at the 670's then because I am not planning on using 3 monitors anytime soon. Thankyou.

What motherboard would you recommend? I am not looking to overclock anything.

Does everything else look alright? Would you recommend any other changes?

 

[keynes]

Ok, I'll look at the 670's then because I am not planning on using 3 monitors anytime soon. Thankyou.

What motherboard would you recommend? I am not looking to overclock anything.

Does everything else look alright? Would you recommend any other changes?

I'd go with the i7-3770 instead of the i7-3820. I'd go with the ASUS P8Z77-V, it should allow you to sli with a 750w PSU.

 

[keynes]

Shogun 2 and Arma II are more cpu intensive than regular games so the i7-3770 should bring some improvement. 8gb memory is plenty for there is no noticeable difference in gaming between 1333mhz and 1600mhz.
Case
Send In Your Own Case
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-3770 (3.4GHz) 8MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z77-V: PCI-E 3.0 READY, WIFI, SLI, CROSSFIREX
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)
Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 670 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 670 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
120GB INTEL® 330 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 500MB/sR | 450MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD2002FAEX, 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 (£86)
Processor Cooling
SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE INTEL CPU COOLER (£19)
Sound Card
Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Professional (£78)*SPECIAL*
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
Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
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 10 to 12 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,687.00 including VAT and delivery.

Unique URL to re-configure: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/quotes/intel-ivy-bridge-pc/qI8BT8A7T9/