Hi folks, My 6 year old pc is in need of a refresh, the original was built from recommendations from this forum and has performed admirably for all that time. As always I'm looking for the best bang per buck. Budget: 600-800 Main uses of intended build: Gaming (CSGO), programming, Web browsing Parts required: CPU Motherboard Ram GFX SSD Previous build information (list details of parts): CPU: I have a Q6600 over clocked to 3.4ghz MB: Asus p5e x38 RAM: Corsair cx750 Hdd: 36 Gb Raptor + 2 x Samsung 75gb in raid 0 Sound: Xonar Dsg Monitor: Samsung 226bw Gfx: 650ti Monitor resolution: 1900x1200 Storage requirements: Will keep Samsung hdds will you be overclocking: yes Any motherboard requirements (no. of USB, Xfire/SLI, fan headers): not really nothing out of the ordinary. Extra information about desired system: I am looking at getting the iiyama 2248 to replace my monitor which I have taken out of my budget already. So leaves 600-800 for all the other bits. Thanks for any input
Ok so i started to spent sometime researching and came up with this http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/twun/saved/XYbV3C I have a coolermaster stacker 830 case, which is a good air cooler to go for that will fit I want to do some mild overclocking? are there any parts you would change? thanks again
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well i finally bought all my parts, with the black friday + cyber weekend i managed to get this build for £700, saving of just over £100. cant wait to put it together
Nice, very expensive but nice build. i think i7 is overkill for gaming and for single gpu you won't need oc and evga was a bad choice, the cooler on the 900 series evga cards are misplaced ( they re-used them from other vgas). As far as i know the only good 900 vgas are from Gigabyte (the G1 gaming) and Asus. (evga crap cooler, msi cheap stuffs and loud coil whine)
yeah i know the i7 is overkill, but i didnt find any deals on i5s and for the same price as i got i54690k + msi mb i could get the i74790k and the Asus MAXIMUS VII RANGER, so to me there is no loss. ok thanks about the evga cards, this is the first i have heard of that problem, i will look more into it.
looked into it a bit more, there is a link in the 970GTX thread on this forum http://forums.evga.com/EVGA-GTX-970-ACX-Firmware-Update-v11-m2228516.aspx seems to resolve all problems.
