New rig time...

[Sparko]

Hi guys,

It seems i have now saved enough cash to warrant getting/building a new rig :yahoo:

The thing is im not sure whether i have the time or know how nowadays to build from scratch and was wondering what your thoughts where on buying a 3rd party custom build i.e from someone like overclockers so they can do all the hard work etc ( i know thats part of the fun etc etc but been there done that plenty of times)

Its more the time i dont have to be honest but just thought i had better get some feedback from you guys first in case i would be making a massive mistake.  Budget would be around £1500 (at a push) but i want something that will last me a while and that i wouldnt have to upgrade too much in the next 2 or 3 years bar the odd memory upgrade or gfx card upgrade if needed.

Not too fussed about any fancy water cooling or anything but would definitely like an I7 and only an Nvidia Geforce card (780 probably) and at least 16gb of RAM.

I think i have said before im not exactly a massive hardware guru, i know the basics and i know how things work with each other, so any advice would be appreciated.

Also need to get it done pretty sharp-ish otherwise the wife will suddenly stumble across a lovely 2 week holiday deal on an exotic island somewhere

Cheers guys

[Khrispykhicken]

That budget would defo get you something to last you awhile and stuff like RAM and Hard drives are really cheap, with all the spare cash just go huge on the GPU and CPU.
I'm abit outdated on CPU's at the moment havent a clue which is the newest intel one.
With your GPU I'd recommend something with at least 2GB worth of RAM I've got with a HD 7950 3GB OC card and nothing really using the other gig but with how games are going to be with the new consoles its best to be future proof.

[sulky_uk]

here you go mate..and you dont even have to build it...I went £11 over though

​http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-432-OE&groupid=43&catid=2475

[BrotherTobious]

NOt with that case you dont want it mate

[smilodon]

No the case is crap, unless you want a portable LAN rig? I went for a pre-built as I couldn't be bothered with a self build or installing Windows 8 etc. I kept bumping RAM and the GPU until I hit my cash limit.

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[Sparko]

Nah not after a LAN rig but thanks sulky.

[Sparko]

What about this spec?

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Might be a tad small to read:g:

I already have an ssd so can pop that in

[smilodon]

If you can get all that for £1500 I'd jump at it. I found this which is a bit lower spec I think.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?catid=&prodid=FS-362-OE

Looks pretty solid to me. Full tower case (red black or white), i4770 CPU, 8 gig RAM, GTX 780, 500 Gb SSD, 1 Tb HDD, Windows 8.1, pre-built by Overclockers, delivered complete with two year warranty. £1484.84 plus about £18 delivery 7 day turn around. Sorted.

This is how I bought my PC and I was totally happy. They even threw in a few bags of fizzy Cola -Cubes in the box, although that might have been an Xmas thing

[Sparko]

It's comes to about £1650 so would have to sacrifice I few changes I made but I'm liking the look of it...
It also comes with a standard 3 year warranty too which is nice.

Yeah that's the one I was looking at on OC's just would have preferred more memory and it doesn't give you the option and I didn't want to install more if it invalidated the warranty :g:

[Sparko]

well....its ordered :yahoo:

This is what i managed to get (slightly over budget)

Case: NZXT Phantom White
Power Supply: Corsair CX750 750W
Processor: Intel Core i7 4770K 3.5Ghz - Highly Overclockable
Overclocking: Moderate
Processor Cooler: Corsair H100i Water Cooling System
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz/PC12800
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth Z87
Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 1TB Hard Drive 7200rpm 32MB Cache (have SSD already for OS)
Sound card: Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B5ST 24x DVD/CD ± Re-Writer Black
Network card: Integrated 10/100/1000Mbps
Wireless Card: Asus N15 300MBPS
Extra Ports: 2 x USB 2.0 Rear Ports

...now just a 10 day wait...

[smilodon]

The NZXT Phantom is a nice box, it's what I picked. Very easy to work in, lots of space and plenty of cable routing options. The rest of the rig looks very nice too.

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[BrotherTobious]

Very nice mate it will be epic

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[Sparko]

She's arrived :yahoo:

Apologies for the poor picture quality

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That should suffice

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It is slightly louder than my previous rig but o would expect that as there are more fans. They had preinstalled windows which annoyed me a little as I wanted to have my OS on my SSD but thankfully the install wasn't an image of there's and they sent me the disc so have spent this afternoon installing it again on my SSD.

Now for the painful downloads...

Also as a bonus they gave me Assassins Creed Black Flag, Splinter Cell Blacklist and Batman: Arkham Origins for free so happy days

[sulky_uk]

If you install steam and then delete the new folder copy your old steam folder onto the same drives  & start steam it Will detect that you have the files saving the massive download. Thats what I did and it worked a treat.

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[Tutonic]

Very nice Sparko