What do you guys think?

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Xpo

Member
I'm thinking of purchasing this rig, however, I am wondering what others might think about making a couple changes.

The machine will be used for heavy gaming.

This would be the basic starter and I would plan to upgrade it in the future months such as the memory, GFX card, sound card etc.

However I was wondering if you think it would be worth upgrading to the 4960X as opposed to the 4930K? Would I notice much difference?

I know the memory is low but I plan to upgrade it in the future, I just kept it at 8gb to keep the price low.

Anyway here are the specs:

Case
CORSAIR OBSIDIAN SERIES™ 750D FULL TOWER CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor i7-4930K (3.4GHz) 12MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® RAMPAGE IV BLACK EDITION: INTEL X79, SOCKET 2011, R.O.G
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X BEAST DUAL-DDR3 2133MHz X.M.P (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 660 - 2 x DVI, HDMI, - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item
FREE WATCH DOGS with GTX 660 & 7 Series GPUs!
1st Hard Disk
240GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (£99)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100i Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£89)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Fan Controller
AeroCool Touch 2000 LCD Touch Screen 4 Fan Controller + 2 x Front USB
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 8.1 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

Price: £1,681.00 including VAT and delivery.

Cheers.
 
keynes

keynes

Multiverse Poster
For £1600 as a gaming spec seems unbalanced to me. You don't need the i7-4930k or 4960x. You have an average gpu, a motherboard that is overkill and won't bring any gain gaming wise, high memory bandwidth that doesn't provide any gains in performance compare to the 1600mhz. For your budget I would expect at least a gtx 780 ti.
 
Boozad

Boozad

Prolific Poster
This is miles better than your build.

Case
CORSAIR OBSIDIAN SERIES™ 750D FULL TOWER CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4770 (3.4GHz) 8MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® Z87-A: ATX, USB3.0, SATA6GB/S, SLi, XFIRE
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 780 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item
FREE WATCH DOGS with GTX 660 & 7 Series GPUs!
1st Hard Disk
240GB KINGSTON V300 SSD, SATA 6 Gb (450MB/R, 450MB/W)
2nd Hard Disk
2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD2003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (£99)
Processor Cooling
Super Quiet 22dBA Triple Copper Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler (£19)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
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 1 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
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 11 to 13 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,400.00 including VAT and delivery.

Unique URL to re-configure: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/quotes/intel-haswell-pc/WFZ_7h0nE0/
 
X

Xpo

Member
Boozad Is this build better for saving £281 or performance wise? as for just under £300 I would have thought it would have been far better.

Cheers.
 
Rakk

Rakk

The Awesome
Moderator
Xpo said:
Boozad Is this build better for saving £281 or performance wise? as for just under £300 I would have thought it would have been far better.
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Boozads spec has a much much better graphics card and since that determines how well your games will play, it means that Boozads spec will be better, his spec is also much better balanced and he has taken out things that are unnecessary for gaming
 
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Xpo

Member
Motherboard purchase help!

Hello, I am thinking between these mobo's purely for gaming and Photophop, Web design and a small amount of video editing, either the

Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel Ivy Bridge-E chipset

Or..

ASUS® SABERTOOTH X79

Or

ASUS® Z87-A: ATX, USB3.0, SATA6GB/S, SLi, XFIRE

Primarily used for gaming.

Any thoughts? suggestions? help?

Greatly appreciated.

I have posted this in the "PC Gaming" Topic as I could not find a component topic. Hope I have posted in the correct place.

Thank you and much appreciated.
 
Rakk

Rakk

The Awesome
Moderator
I've merged your two threads together, since knowing the other details of the spec will prove benefical to anyone answering.

Personally I'd go for the Z97-A (the newer version of the Z87-A)
Edit: which CPU are you actually going for - this may change my answer as the one you first suggested needs a different motherboard to the one Boozad suggested
 
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keynes

keynes

Multiverse Poster
Xpo said:
Hello, I am thinking between these mobo's purely for gaming and Photophop, Web design and a small amount of video editing, either the

Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel Ivy Bridge-E chipset

Or..

ASUS® SABERTOOTH X79

Or

ASUS® Z87-A: ATX, USB3.0, SATA6GB/S, SLi, XFIRE

Primarily used for gaming.

Any thoughts? suggestions? help?

Greatly appreciated.

I have posted this in the "PC Gaming" Topic as I could not find a component topic. Hope I have posted in the correct place.

Thank you and much appreciated.
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Since any will do the job I would go with the cheapest one
 
A

A314159

Super Star
Don't get any more than a regular i7!!!! You don't need it!!!
Also motherboard specs...... Pfft, they barely exist. If it has enough spaces to put what you want on it it's fine.
 
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