The reason why I got the k series for mine wasn't to overclock, it came at a higher base clock speed than the regular processor and Amazon had it for £30 less than the regular one.
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The reason why I got the k series for mine wasn't to overclock, it came at a higher base clock speed than the regular processor and Amazon had it for £30 less than the regular one.
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You got a good deal then.
In my view its like having a sports car...... You don't HAVE to drive them fast they do just fine at low speeds..... But if you don't you are missing out on a lot of the point of having them
Congratulations !!!! for you new pc... a new computer is a very amazing moment !
And you bought a powerful one i see - with the geforce 780 ...wow a lot of money spent for the hardware.
A very powerful expensive pc.
I am going to buy a new pc me too soon..
probably the only same thing i'll buy it will be the powersupply (lol).
p.s. i don't understand why you should need an overclocking with that pc.. you don't need it, it just enough and much more for Elite and other games..
And you bought a powerful one i see - with the geforce 780 ...wow a lot of money spent for the hardware.
A very powerful expensive pc.
I am going to buy a new pc me too soon..
probably the only same thing i'll buy it will be the powersupply (lol).
p.s. i don't understand why you should need an overclocking with that pc.. you don't need it, it just enough and much more for Elite and other games..
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That PC will be fine for a good few years. 16Gb is also plenty.
One question though...why the 2tb HD?
One question though...why the 2tb HD?
And why not? 256GB SSD for system and soft and HDD for everything else.
2 x 256Gb Sata 3 SSD, or in my case 2 x 128Gb Sata3 SSD
1 for OS, 1 for everything else.
If you have that much data you need a 2Tb drive then you really should be looking at a NAS box.
Although, people may want to run things like HyperV on their machine so in some cases I can see the need for a 2Tb drive.
I've only used SSDs in my dev/gaming rigs for the last 4+ years.
Leave the large 2+tb drives for my NAS box and HyperV servers.
I doubt that you can buy NAS for the same money as a 2TB HDD.
I have 2tb main drive in my PC and it is close to 3\4 full. Those steam sales play havoc with storage. I only have 60gb ssdd and it is too small really but I get by
I specced up something very similar to this the other day (but Z97/4790K, and 2133 RAM, and a soundblaster) for the princely sum of £1370 via Cyberpower.
Does anyone have any idea if they are a decent outfit?
If I simply ordered the components seperately (eg pc part picker) would it be a tough job to assemble or is there generally good compatibility between case/mobo/water cooler/fans etc? The attraction of getting one pre-assembled would be to avoid a huge howler!
Does anyone have any idea if they are a decent outfit?
If I simply ordered the components seperately (eg pc part picker) would it be a tough job to assemble or is there generally good compatibility between case/mobo/water cooler/fans etc? The attraction of getting one pre-assembled would be to avoid a huge howler!
Exactly.
The amount that's been spent on that rig already an extra £100 or so for a NAS and another SSD is nothing.
Stick the SSD in your gaming rig and the 2Tb drive in the NAS.
PCs are fairly easy to build nowadays. Cables only able to plug into one socket etc...plus full instructions.
Watercooler is taking it to the next level, but depending on what you're doing it's still pretty straight forward.
A lot of people build them themselves purely for the enjoyment of it...and it doesn't take that long once you know what you're doing.
The "tricky" part is making sure you order the correct CPU, Memory, MB combination.
don't worry about the motherboard and processor lol .....
the ones you have bought will last for years, no game is anywhere near requiring that much processing power atm, you will have changed your GTX 780 twice by the time you need a new board or processor.
not to mention you can overclock the chip when the time comes that u need to.
the ones you have bought will last for years, no game is anywhere near requiring that much processing power atm, you will have changed your GTX 780 twice by the time you need a new board or processor.
not to mention you can overclock the chip when the time comes that u need to.
Nice rig. Wierd choice for SSD in my book.
Don't count money the other person have.
Sometimes people do not have extra £100 and in most of the cases they spend more time on a new PC than they have originally planned.