New Build for Gaming

[NoOneNew]

I have a budget of around £700 (UK, obviously) possibly more and I'm looking to build a gaming rig.

I'm going to be building it for looks as well as performance. I'll be running two monitors off it but only one monitor gaming.

I'm upgrading because my current rig is quite slow in most games and mainly as a project for myself during the holidays.

 

Parts to get:

i5-4670K

 

Asus ROG maximus VI hero

 

Corsair Vengeance pro 8GB 1600MHz

 

Seasonic G series 550W PSU

 

Windows 7 (windows 8 hasn't given me any reasons to upgrade and I've heard a lot of bad things from it)

 

For the gpu I'm debating between the 760 and the 770 because I might want to spend some of the money on a watercooling upgrade later on or some things to the build look nice.

I'm thinking that the extra £100 might not be worth it so that I can afford stuff like a better SSD.

I have considered an AMD card but the ones available in the UK are either more expensive or look really ugly.

 

Parts I own:

Samsung 830 64GB SSD: for OS an some applications

 

Seagate Baracuda 500GB HDD for storage

 

Hitachi deskstar 320GB HDD (might not use)

 

Noctua NH-D14

 

TJ07 that I will be modding

 

Any feedback on changes that I can make would be appreciated.

[Guest GRRigger]

One option: if you are going to watercool cpu, then its worth dropping 770 and get 760. But then get beefier PSU, so you can SLI later 760s and get amazing performance for money. Looks like they scale pretty well for the money!

[Cacao]

Well I think the only thing you should use from those parts are the seagate HDD and the TJ07 (kind of strange that you have such a case, but sure :D )

I'll pick out some parts, tell me what you think:

 

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1cy36

 

You have all the other parts.

[Guest GRRigger]

760sli performance : http://www.techoftomorrow.com/2013/pc/nvidia-gtx-760-2-way-sli-performance-benchmarks-evga-gigabyte/

[NoOneNew]

One option: if you are going to watercool cpu, then its worth dropping 770 and get 760. But then get beefier PSU, so you can SLI later 760s and get amazing performance for money. Looks like they scale pretty well for the money!

Watercooling might not be the best option right now because I'm probably going to spend the extra ~£250 on bikes, desk, SSD and most definitely keyboards which at the moment it doesn't seem as if its worth the cost of it.

As for SLI, despite being more powerful than the 770, will add up to more than it and as previously mentioned, might not be affordable.

Both the watercooling and SLI will be good options for upgrades 6 months from now where I should be able to afford it. Watercooling would be great as I've had this awesome idea for a custom reservoir.

In the fight between to 760 and the 770, I'm leaning more toward to 760 as it will be cheaper to SLI later but I have one major visual issue with the card, the placement of the power pins. This does seem nit picky but something about it seems to bother, it doesn't look clean in comparison to the placement on the 770. Apart from that small point the EVGA ACX cooler looks awesome on the card and will most likely go with that.

I'm also trying to decide if I should go for the 2GB or 4GB card, I currently use a 1080p monitor so 2GB is enough, but with the price of 1440p going down and the fact that I use high res texture mods in games like skyrim and fallout, is it worth spending a little extra on the 4GB version?

[Guest GRRigger]

i think its worth it.

[ShadowRaven]

Here is my suggestions ;     http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1d9qm

[WoodenMarker]

Here you go: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1e1g1