Need professional opinion before order

[Sno0p3r]

GREATBRITISHPOUNDS

 

Im trying to keep a £1200 budget on my PC. I dont care about how loud this will be I just need to squeeze all gaming performance I can out of it! Planning to SLI in the future and need a mouse. Going to be playing 1920x1080p on games like bf4/bo2/crysis and dont forget gmod

Pushing it (i7) : http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/FnxQcf

2- upgrade on GPU and extra fan (i5) : http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/DX4vdC

3- Downgrade gpu and extra fan+ssd (i7) : http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/96GRYJ

Please help

[sperkowsky]

are you planning on adding another card later for sli if thats a no tone down the psu

[Guest]

GREATBRITISHPOUNDS

 

Im trying to keep a £1200 budget on my PC. I dont care about how loud this will be I just need to squeeze all gaming performance I can out of it! Planning to SLI in the future and need a mouse. Going to be playing 1920x1080p on games like bf4/bo2/crysis and dont forget gmod

Pushing it (i7) : http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/FnxQcf

2- upgrade on GPU and extra fan (i5) : http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/DX4vdC

3- Downgrade gpu and extra fan+ssd (i7) : http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/96GRYJ

Please help

An i5 is perfectly fine for just a gaming rig. Are you open to AMD gpu's ? as you get better value for money.

[skullbringer]

An i5 is minimum for gaming, and if you want to do something else while gaming with your computer like say watching a livestream the 4 extra logical cores of an i7 are a must imho.

Also having an ssd is the biggest value upgrade in general usage speed you can get, so it is definitely recomended.

The third point I want to make is that the slighly lower tier of graphics card compared to the absolute high end is usually a much better value. So in your case a 780 (or 2 in the future) will deliver much more bang for the buck than the 780 ti.

 

Taking all of those thoughts into consideration, option 3 is clearly the best way to go.

oh, and unless you actually want to upgrade to up to 32GB of ram in the future, rather get 2x 4GB of sticks and another 2 later maybe. That way you can use your memory in dual channel which results in about a 10% increase in general performance.