New computer £1500 to spend
" I already had the 560ti but I would recommend it still as the bang for buck is still worthwhile & will free up cash to spend on other parts. I can run every game I play on max & have no problems with heat at all. Sure there are better but for the extra you pay you don't get the equivalent in performance. I am happy with my ASRock, not sure why you feel it's garbage. My system is good to go at being OC'd but I am perfectly happy with it's current performance so I haven't upped it just yet. It's a solid pc that doesn't go 5deg above idle temps & can run everything I throw at it in max settings. It cost me £650(ish) with free shipping & I am more than happy to recommend it to anyone looking for a price efficient gaming pc. |
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Pick up GTX 670 MSI edition, best GPU I have every purchased.
Also pick up Corsair vengeance ram, comes with heat spreaders for OC I recently got a Corsair GS 180 GB SSD and it is amazing! I have never seen such a boost in performance! I tossed my old raptors back in raid 0 as a secondary drive for every thing I don't want on my SSD. Make sure you MOBO has HDD/SSD controllers that let you run raid and AHCI off a single controller, it makes a difference. I am also running older intel core i7 extream 670's OC to 3 ghz normal 3.5 turbo, with my rig I have yet to run into a game that I get low FPS on, yes even you PoE with your massive fps drops! I go from 120 fps down to 60, so nothing your eye will really notice. Twitch.tv/Nithryok
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I don't know if you've made your decision or not, but going to this site is great if you want to build your own. Choose your country and it should take you to the sites with the prices and parts, and they're constantly adding more countries as time goes on.
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Try this site for a general idea on benchmarks on different computer components.
www.tomshardware.com And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit - The Tick
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" Awesome site, but ignore all synthetic benchmarks, only pay attention to benchmarks in games that you play or plan on playing since that's what will matter when you're actually... playing. |
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" Ya, the order thing was mostly top priority, middle priroty, low prioroty not 1 importance 9 importance More top priority middle priority Im not dumb... the GPU's RAM is prioritised anyway in games and 16 gb of ram or more is a complete waste...even 4gb is sufficient generally but 8 or 12 is solid. Besides i feel an SSD is probably the single most beneficial factor nowadays and so deserves the top spot. Its THE thing that improves performance the most if you have a semi decent rig especially on a game with a lot of asset loading (hmmmmmm what games do i play again)...... Anyway, thanks for the other responses, and keep em coming, i am not up to date with the "theres problems with this" and "this new technology is amazing" shit these days so it'll all help me. One thing though - I WILL NOT buy AMD graphics cards again. Every single new game that comes out it seems it takes them ages to catch up so you can play the game smoothly - D3 too ages - stuttering like hell and yes that was asset loading but I think the GPU had a lot to do with some of that too. Also if the new driver fucks it up even more - its not the easiest process in the world to roll back to a previous driver (you think you have ...... but in fact you have not and have to do loads of stupid shit). I have edited the original post with things that I am decided on thus far. I would like to think/see more opinions some more about the rest for now. Last edited by DexDeus on May 5, 2013, 5:50:47 PM
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" I found this really useful and since the components suggested here and in other reviews seem to match up to the ones they suggest, it gives me more confidence in trusting them on the other items. I'll still do more research but seems a solid suggesting site. | |
Stay far away from 500 series cards. 700 series is coming soon, meaning 600 will pricedrop.
If you get a 500 series, you will end up replacing it really fast. I myself have been using a GTX 570 for quite some time now, and i definitely am feeling the need to replace it with a 700 series card. Wait for 700 series to come out and either get a GTX 770/780 at full price, or a pricedropped 670./680 | |
" I did a bit of research as to exactly how soon and apparently the best estimates are 2014 - Tom's Hardware a reliable source. I cant wait that long. The plan is possibly to get 2 600 series cards Anyone thing this is not a good idea? | |
" Looks like a nice rig. I would have gone with and AMD 8320 or 8350 CPU but that's just my taste. Things you might want to consider are: upgrading to 12 gigs of memory to make a ramdrive for this game. -(it's on my to do list) headset gaming keyboard/pad webcam. And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit - The Tick Last edited by magree on May 6, 2013, 11:36:12 AM
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