BUILD me a PC worthy of Mordor! I mean Lave!

[Nomadski]

My GPU is a Palit 780 GTX Super Jetstream 3gb. It rivals the Titan in benchmarked performance terms but costs a huge amount less.

My spec - Intel i7 4770k, Asus Z87-K, Corsair 16GB Vengeance ram, Palit 780 GTX, Samsung 1TB EVO SSD, Corsair Obsidian 750D, Hyper 212 EVO, Corsair 860W AX860i Platinum.

Now that above cost £1619.25 when I built it 6 months ago. You can save a little by buying the 500GB version SSD, and perhaps you could get away with 8GB ram, but I wouldn't personally change anything else.

That should see you to your budget, and from first hand experience is a kickass system.

Hexus review of the GPU - http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/57437-palit-geforce-gtx-780-super-jetstream/

(The blue fans and blue braided cables were me being exorbitant lol)

If you want an ultra quiet fan setup, my fans are Corsairs AF140. I kid you not I have 4 fans in my system, and its quieter than the noise from the street coming through my closed window.

 

[pocketmoon]

That asus screen is x1080 so I think a GTX 770 class GPU would be fine.

If you want to run 1200 or more then even the 770 struggles in things like BF4

Runs x1200 great in ED though.

 

[Bobtographer]

Thanks for the info.

I'm nowhere near loaded enough to spend that cash just for a gaming machine. It's also a video editing sweet, so I'll be stocking up on ram for Premiere Pro. But it's the ability to drive three screens that I was most concerned about.

Is it better to get two lesser GPUs running in SLI or one monster?

i7 it is then! and yeah RAM PP loves RAM, same as PS

lots of lovely fast SSD's too, 840's are amazing

 

[Bobtographer]

Went Shopping at Scan.co.uk

LN51170
Intel Core i7 4770K, 1150, Haswell, Quad Core, 3.5GHz, 3.9GHz Turbo, 1250MHz GPU, 35x Ratio, 84W, OEM
£243.80

LN55814
Corsair H100i Hydro Series CPU Cooler, LGA 115x, 1366, and 2011 & AM2, AM3, FM1 and FM2 *Factory Refurbished*
£62.52

LN57112
Gigabyte GA-G1.Sniper Z97, Intel Z97, S 1150, DDR3, SATA III 6Gb/s, RAID, PCIe 3.0 (x16), HDMI/DP, ATX
£119.96

LN48058
2x 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair DDR3 Vengeance Low Profile Jet Black PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-24, XMP, 1.5V
£237.98

LN52602
1TB Samsung 840 EVO Basic SSD 7mm SATA 6GB/s 3-core MEX Controller Read 540MB/s, Write 520MB/s 98K IOPS
£388.61

LN35757
750W XFX P1-750S-NLB9 Non-Modular, 80 PLUS Bronze, 1x135mm Fan, ATX PSU
£69.59

Total £1133.45

leave the choice of case and GPU to you

 

[OldSalt]

Thanks for the info.

I'm nowhere near loaded enough to spend that cash just for a gaming machine. It's also a video editing sweet, so I'll be stocking up on ram for Premiere Pro. But it's the ability to drive three screens that I was most concerned about.

Is it better to get two lesser GPUs running in SLI or one monster?

I tried sli and never really got the results I was looking for in flight sims and the way I see ED it has a lot in common with a sim. I ended up spending more on the setup and building in surplus cooling for lower overall results with 2x GTX 260's (back in the day !) than one 280. I think sli has come on since then and far more games support it but I always had the suspicion it was a cute way for Nvidia to sell more cards !

 

[Obosi]

Thanks for the info, one and all. Great stuff!

I'll let you know how it turns out.

 

[Alien]

I hope my BitFenix Prodigy case is this tidy when I've built my PC

 

[Nomadski]

I hope my BitFenix Prodigy case is this tidy when I've built my PC

Heh, on all my previous builds I've kinda made a half hearted effort with the cabling, but seeing as this was going to be my biggest and most expensive build to date I went all out on making it as neat as possible both on the visible side and the reverse too. Cable ties galore!

It does help if you have a case with lots of well located gromits to feed them through, and a modular power supply.