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Retaliate

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Would this be a good gaming PC, If not please tell me what i should upgrade/or change.


CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-3930K Six-Core 3.20 GHz 12MB Intel Smart Cache LGA2011 (All Venom OC Certified) [+336]
HDD: 250 GB SAMSUNG 840 Series SATA-III 6.0Gb/s SSD - 540MB/s Read & 250MB/s Write [+80] (Single Drive)
MEMORY: 16GB (4GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Quad Channel Memory (Corsair or Major Brand)
MOTHERBOARD: (4-Way SLI/CrossFireX Support) ASUS Rampage IV Extreme Intel X79 Chipset Quad Channel DDR3 ATX w/ ROG Connect, BT GO, OC Key, Subzero Sense & 7.1 HD Audio, Intel GbLAN, 5 Gen3 PCIe X16 & 1 PCIe X1 [+282]
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card [+325] (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)
Power Supply Upgrade: 850 Watts - LEPA G850-MAS 80 Plus Gold Certified Modular Power Supply
 
What company are you buying it from if you aren't building it yourself? I think that's probably important too. What's the total price?

The specs look good to me. The only thing I would like to see is maybe a better soundcard, unless that motherboard has good integrated sound, or it's not important to you. You are probably also going to want a storage hard drive (1TB+) if you will need more space for movies, pictures, music, etc.

I'm also not familiar with that power supply, so I would want to research that and maybe read reviews.
 
The Total price is 2600, the company is Cyberpower and the power supply was referred to me by someone.
 
Retaliate said:
Would this be a good gaming PC, If not please tell me what i should upgrade/or change.


CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-3930K Six-Core 3.20 GHz 12MB Intel Smart Cache LGA2011 (All Venom OC Certified) [+336]
HDD: 250 GB SAMSUNG 840 Series SATA-III 6.0Gb/s SSD - 540MB/s Read & 250MB/s Write [+80] (Single Drive)
MEMORY: 16GB (4GBx4) DDR3/1600MHz Quad Channel Memory (Corsair or Major Brand)
MOTHERBOARD: (4-Way SLI/CrossFireX Support) ASUS Rampage IV Extreme Intel X79 Chipset Quad Channel DDR3 ATX w/ ROG Connect, BT GO, OC Key, Subzero Sense & 7.1 HD Audio, Intel GbLAN, 5 Gen3 PCIe X16 & 1 PCIe X1 [+282]
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card [+325] (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)
Power Supply Upgrade: 850 Watts - LEPA G850-MAS 80 Plus Gold Certified Modular Power Supply
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You can easily get by with an OCd 3770k. In no way are you going to get anymore when gaming from that vs an 3570k or 3770k. Save some money, because you need a few additional things. PSU should either be seasonic or corsair.

HDD1 is fine, but really only running an ssd? That's not going to be enough. Add in a second mass storage drive so you can store pictures, music, movies, games, etc. I mean currently I have 420gb of games on my main drive just from Steam. 250gb SSD is more than enough for the necessities, but there is no reason to run most games on an SSD because the only benefit the SSD provides is increasing load times. Buy a fast mass storage drive and the difference is minute. I'd recommend something fast like a 2tb WD Black drive. Very fast and will alleviate issues with having to delete stuff if you fill up the SSD too quickly which you would.

Lastly, you want a 680? Great, but if you are willing to spend $500-600 on a gpu then you sure as hell better get a great monitor or monitors to go with it. Preferably get a 120hz monitor so you can actually see some benefit from your 680, otherwise you will probably have to run vsync otherwise you will have tearing.
 
x2 on getting a 2nd hdd for storage, and look into that PSU, definitely not something you want to cheap out on.
 
Carbonblk46 said:
Be weary of Cyberpower have a personal friend going through hell with them about their RMA process.
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While personally I haven't experienced it I am dealing with a close online friend who is and after about two months of getting the run around he's eating the cost to just replace parts himself.

Retaliate, I'm not trying to put you down or anything because I understand that everyone has their own reasons for the parts they use, but you could make quite a few downgrades on this build and use it to improve things (like GPU). I'm not saying that it isn't a nice looking build, its just that you could get by with other parts (such as what hdawg06 said).

I will echo the need for another HD, I started out with one HD and quickly found I needed a second for storage and then a third for video capture and well hindsight being 20/20 I wish when I did the initial build I had of added in extra storage.

I do have one question for you though, is there any sort of aftermarket cooler coming with? Because it makes zero sense to get all of what you have planned and then run on a stock cpu cooler.
 
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iRevert said:
I do have one question for you though, is there any sort of aftermarket cooler coming with? Because it makes zero sense to get all of what you have planned and then run on a stock cpu cooler.
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Cyberpower I believe offers tons of aftermarket cooling options. Probably a good idea if he were to put on at minimum a 212 or a closed loop water system like the corsair h60 or the antec one. I have the h60 on my cpu at the moment, and am pleased. Temps rarely get over 45 and are mostly in the 42-43 range when under pressure. Although I haven't tried video ripping, just gaming.
 
hdawg06 said:
Cyberpower I believe offers tons of aftermarket cooling options. Probably a good idea if he were to put on at minimum a 212 or a closed loop water system like the corsair h60 or the antec one. I have the h60 on my cpu at the moment, and am pleased. Temps rarely get over 45 and are mostly in the 42-43 range when under pressure. Although I haven't tried video ripping, just gaming.
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Key words "At Minimum", when you have a $570 processor you shouldn't skimp on its cooling, let alone if you plan on overclocking. I would say to go for a Noctua D14 if its offered or at least something on similar terms of performance.

In terms of closed loop coolers it really is a personal preference, at the same price point and performance point you have the D14 so if you aren't keen on some of those closed loop coolers (I'm not on many of them) you can go with air and have the same performance.

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Actually you know what? I was just sitting here thinking about 2011 mobos and you need to check clearances on if the D14 would clear the RAM (depending on if it has heatsinks), granted he isn't the one dealing with that, but a closed loop might be the way to go.
 
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