Feedback on my gamming pc

[nickpokesyou]

Asus Rampage IV gene

i7 3820

WD 1TB

Kingson HyperX 8GB (2x4GB)

Seasonic Xseries 760W

Cooler Master H60

GTX 670

Cooler Master Enforcer

i need feedback to my plans,

[Glenwing]

For a gaming PC, no reason to go socket 2011 really. Above the i5-3570K there's not much of a performance increase in games. 550W is also plenty enough power for any single GPU.

[MTROB]

I have similar rig and it works great on games such as planetside 2 ( same GPU).

As glenwing mentioned you don't really need LGA2011, so you could get a i7 3770K with a Asus Sabertooth Z77 mobo and then add a SSD for a OS. I think stay with a 760watt PSU so that in the future you can upgrade your system and maybe put two GTX670s in SLI.

[Pookieraaj]

Ya i'm with Glenwing on this one, I would personally ditch the 2011 chipset and go for something much cheaper, maybe would leave you some extra cash to get an SSD for a boot drive. Or even you could look into boosting up your GPU to a power edition, or even a 680. (however a power edition 670 with oc will basically be a 680) I'd rock a i7-3570K with a better GPU and you'll be laughing, no current games are going to be bottlenecked with a 3570, especially with a little OC'n ;)

[nickpokesyou]

i do some video editing too. so which one to go ? 3770k or 3820

cause i counted both almost the same price in my country

[Guest]

3770K gets my vote :)

With your CPU cooler, those basic H models are a waste of time, money and effort. I'd look into one of the following: CM 212Plus if you're on a budget, H80i, Noctua D14 or H100i. Have you looked into which particular 670 you're getting? My vote would go to the MSI GTX670 PE OC'd - brilliant cooling solution, good overclocking ability and all round general performance is great. I would also downgrade the board to an Asus P8Z77 (models up to you) or P8Z79 depending on 1155 vs 2011 unless you really like the aesthetics of the RoG board. As also mentioned, look into a SSD for a boot disk; makes things a lot faster. Intel 330 and 520, Samsung 830 and 840Pro, Sandisk Extremes and Crucial M4's are my normal picks. With your HDD: which WD drive were you looking at?

[nickpokesyou]

@windspeed36, GTX 660 Ti & OC whats the different? i still planning with everything, cheap useful reliable for both gaming & video editing.

maybe i will just forget about H80 & get a Antec Kuhler 920, performace not much differents but the price is cheaper by $30SGD.

as for WD Harddrive, thinking of getting 7200rpm 64 cache, but dk what the blue green black means.

[Guest]

@windspeed36' date=' GTX 660 Ti & OC whats the different?[/quote']

I don't quite get what you mean, are you meaning the difference between a 660TI and a 660TI OC or 670 OC? The TI is just an upgraded model of an existing card; 650/650TI and 660/660TI which apparenetly stands for Titanium Version. The OC means overclocked whereby they take a reference card and overclock it to get more power from the same chip however it then runs hotter which is why beefy cooling systems such as MSI's Twin Frozr, Gigabyte Windforce and Asus Direct CUII systems are implemented.

i still planning with everything, cheap useful reliable for both gaming & video editing. maybe i will just forget about H80 & get a Antec Kuhler 920, performance not much different but the price is cheaper by $30SGD. as for WD hard drive, thinking of getting 7200rpm 64 cache, but dk what the blue green black means.

The differences between the WD drives are as follows; Greens are environmentally friendly drives that consume less power and through a variety of ways; mainly between distributor and retailer, consume less packaging materials. However they come at the cost of speed. Blacks are workstation and enterprise drives with high relability but you pay a fair bit more. Red drives are more designed for NAS use where power saving and supreme RAID reliability are paramount Blues are their every day drives, found in a variety of form factors(2.5" and 3.5") in both laptop and desktop systems.

Out of the WD drives I'd pick WD Blacks over Blues because they're more reliable. Otherwise another option are Seagate Barracudas.

Hopefully this has answered your question(s).

[nickpokesyou]

@windspeed36 so which are 7200rpm and 64cache?

[Guest]

@windspeed36 so which are 7200rpm and 64cache?

Seagate Barracuda's, WD Blacks, Red's and I think Green's as well however don't quote me on the Greens. The Blues run a 16mb cache, I have a 2.5" Blue in a laptop I use and it is insanely slow.

[wpirobotbuilder]

Socket 2011 mobos are more expensive by a good amount, you could get the same performance out of a 3770K and spend the money you save on the mobo to get a 680. Depends on your usage, if you do intend on doing video editing the 3770K will be beneficial, but if you really need all the PCI-e lanes and memory bandwidth of 2011 then go for that, and you'll do just fine in games