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JesusOnEez

JesusOnEez
Note sure this is in the right place, so feel free to move if necessary...

I have a budget of £800 (that's the stretched top-end and I can't go to £800.01).

I've put together this specification, given that I have a 3TB 7200rpm Samsung Barracuda waiting at home to go with it.

Comments or suggestions?
 

Tanith Low

Tanith Low
That's pretty much exactly what my system looks like, except I have 16GB of RAM. I've yet to find a current game I can't max.
 

JesusOnEez

JesusOnEez
That's what I'm hoping for. Being Skylake it'll be upgradeable for quite some time as well. I couldn't quite stretch to 16GB but 8GB should be plenty for now.
 

CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE

CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE
Looks good. If it were me I'd go for a fully-modular PSU but that's just my OCD I hate having too many cables :)

p.s. there is a hardware forum section here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=41 where you may or may not get more opinions.

EDIT: does that case come with fans?

And will you be using the stock CPU cooler or an after-market one? Will you be overclocking?
 
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Crimson Kaim

Crimson Kaim
Definately no problems with ED except if you go for supersampling x2 :D


But other than that you should even be able to record in 1080p 60 FPS without any problems.

However, I would check your power supply twice. My 530 W wasn't enough to support my new 970 GTX and I upgarded to 730 W or even 800 W just for my GPU. I am not sure if 600 W are enough.
Depending on what you plan to support with that PSU I would seriously check your power consumption just as you do in Elite: Dangerous with your ship :p
 

the100thmonkey

the100thmonkey
There is such a thing as buying a system at the wrong time. My bones tell me that this is the wrong time. Can you seriously not wait? Pascal looks like it's going to be a serious improvement over Maxwell, which is getting a bit long in the tooth. Can you not wait six months?
 

JesusOnEez

JesusOnEez
the100thmonkey said:
There is such a thing as buying a system at the wrong time. My bones tell me that this is the wrong time. Can you seriously not wait? Pascal looks like it's going to be a serious improvement over Maxwell, which is getting a bit long in the tooth. Can you not wait six months?
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First, I don't know what a Maxwell or a Pascal is. I know Skylake is pretty new. But most importantly, I'm currently without a computer (right now, I'm on my work PC). So no, I can't wait six months. I'm not a massive gamer and Elite is about as recent as my gaming is likely to get. I don't play COD or any of that ilk. X-Com 2 might get a look mind...

Also, I'll be using the stock cooler (I always have and have never had problems) and am not interested in overclocking.

The parts state that should be plenty of power...

EDIT: Googled Maxwell vs. Pascal and I take your point. But being the latest GPUs, they're likely to be well out of my budget in much the same way as the 980/Ti currently is...
 
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Aewarin Jameson

Aewarin Jameson
the100thmonkey said:
Can you not wait six months?
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Problem with this line of thinking is that:

(a) never a good time to upgrade as there's always something on the horizon (viscious circle)
(b) he won't be able to afford a Pascal GPU card (equivalent to top end price today IMO) and the card he is going for is medium-high end
(c) the number of games out today that require so much processing power are few. FPS games perhaps, but certainly not ED

That said waiting 6 months will mean top end cards of today will come down so for the same amount of money ( £800 ) it will go further.

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Conch said:
I dont think anyone got SS on times 2.
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Not 100% I know what that means - but if via GForce Experience you select a resolution higher than your monitor and it down renders, then it depends on your monitor. (8K --> 4K I imagine it would be painful but on my rig 4K --> HD works perfectly)
 

lysan

lysan
JesusOnEez said:
Note sure this is in the right place, so feel free to move if necessary...

I have a budget of £800 (that's the stretched top-end and I can't go to £800.01).

I've put together this specification, given that I have a 3TB 7200rpm Samsung Barracuda waiting at home to go with it.

Comments or suggestions?
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This will be a fine game platform for sure.

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Conch said:
I dont think anyone got SS on times 2.

Ive tried it on 1 monitor with settings on max.
only got 30fps with titan x in sli.
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got it on 1.5, FPS are locked to 60 FPS.
 

CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE

CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE
Liqua said:
(b) he won't be able to afford a Pascal GPU card (equivalent to top end price today IMO) and the card he is going for is medium-high end
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The Pascal cards won't just be high-end cards though, they will be at all segments i.e. entry/mid-range/high-end. Most likely it will be the entry and mid-range cards launching first but the enthusiast level cards featuring HBM2 most likely won't be out until end of this year, more likely Q1 next year.
 

Aewarin Jameson

Aewarin Jameson
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The Pascal cards won't just be high-end cards though, they will be at all segments i.e. entry/mid-range/high-end. Most likely it will be the entry and mid-range cards launching first but the enthusiast level cards featuring HBM2 most likely won't be out until end of this year, more likely Q1 next year.
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Oh I see ... well, I sit corrected :)
 

Hilight

Hilight
JesusOnEez said:
Note sure this is in the right place, so feel free to move if necessary...

I have a budget of £800 (that's the stretched top-end and I can't go to £800.01).

I've put together this specification, given that I have a 3TB 7200rpm Samsung Barracuda waiting at home to go with it.

Comments or suggestions?
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That looks very good to me. I think you will also receive a free upgrade to Win 10 when you buy Win 8.1, but I'm not certain
 

Riktar

Riktar
Hilight said:
That looks very good to me. I think you will also receive a free upgrade to Win 10 when you buy Win 8.1, but I'm not certain
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Unless something has changed, M$ will be offering free upgrades until July something.

So if you are planning on going to Windows 10, get the cheapest version of Windows 64 bit you can find.

If not, I am curious why you would not go with Win 7 Pro 64bit instead of the Windows 8.1?
 

JesusOnEez

JesusOnEez
Riktar said:
Unless something has changed, M$ will be offering free upgrades until July something.

So if you are planning on going to Windows 10, get the cheapest version of Windows 64 bit you can find.

If not, I am curious why you would not go with Win 7 Pro 64bit instead of the Windows 8.1?
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The Windows 8.1 is with a view to immediately upgrading to Windows 10. It's the cheapest version of Windows on PC Part Picker so that's what I went with, but if I can get it cheaper elsewhere I will (then I'd be able to go for 16GB RAM or a more powerful PSU).
 
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