Theoretical next gen build

[yandaman]

Trying to come up with a build for later in the year (June or later) for when I head off to Uni and want it to be pretty good for gaming. So far what I've come up with is:

Corsair 650D case

Kingston Hyper-X 8 gigabytes (is it even worth going to 16 gb these days unless your doing rendering or something?)

OCZ 750W power supply (Not too sure if this is gonna be a waste for what I'm planning)

250gb OCZ Vertex 4 SSD

2TB Caviar Black HDD

Some bog standard CD drive, not too bothered about it.

Now here's where things get into a gray area:

For a CPU I'm thinking either more i7 4470k since the i5 4670k only has 4 cores and 4 threads, whereas the 4470 has 4 cores and 8 threads. (Basing this off the vr-zone leak).

Mobo wise I'm hoping for a Haswell version of the Z77 Sabertooth which just looks badass in my opinion.

Then for a GPU I was thinking about a GTX 770 or 760 ti going by the system they're using these days. Any opinions or advice on this would be appreciated :)

[Dim]

First question: No, no it is not.

Power Supply unnecessary. The 7xx series will theoretically use less power. A 550W or 600W will suffice.

Do you mean the 4770K? If so, the performance gain on the 3770K will not be very large. Only like 5-10%, like the 2700->3770.

Asus is good. :P

GTX 770 specs are not released, get a 780 if you're going to spend that much on the processor.

Getting a 4770K and a 770 is like getting 16GB of RAM--it's unnecessary unless you want to render. The 4570K will perform as well as the 4770K for gaming; if you want the best of the best, get the GTX 780.

[Dim]

Also, I'm assuming the platform will be LGA 1155 anyway.

You can just use a current-gen motherboard if you don't like the newer version.

[Bseagull]

DO NOT GET AN OZC POWER SUPPLY.

[Calum]

Also' date=' I'm assuming the platform will be LGA 1155 anyway. You can just use a current-gen motherboard if you don't like the newer version. [/quote']

I'm no expert but they say the 4000 CPU's will be LGA1150. Also some reports say 4000 series CPU's will not work older motherboards and will need a new power connectors.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1150 and http://technewspedia.com/rumor-socket-lga-1150-motherboards-bring-new-atx-power-connectors/-

[yandaman]

Thanks for the advice Dim :P Guess it will mostly depend on my budget then ahaha. I'm pretty sure they're changing to LGA 1150 or something like that for Haswell, which sorta makes sense since its a whole new architecture being a TOK rather than a tick.

DO NOT GET AN OZC POWER SUPPLY.

Whats so bad about OZC? no idea about PSUs.... would cooler master or corsair be a better choice?

[Calum]

DO NOT GET AN OZC POWER SUPPLY.

[/quote=yandaman]Whats so bad about OZC? no idea about PSUs.... would cooler master or corsair be a better choice?

Tbh, OCZ make great PSU's. Some people just get a bad apple, we all get bad apples sometimes. I've had both a PSU and SSD made from OCZ both worked great.

[Dim]

Also' date=' I'm assuming the platform will be LGA 1155 anyway. You can just use a current-gen motherboard if you don't like the newer version. [/quote'] I'm no expert but they say the 4000 CPU's will be LGA1150. Also some reports say 4000 series CPU's will not work older motherboards and will need a new power connectors. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1150 and http://technewspedia.com/rumor-socket-lga-1150-motherboards-bring-new-atx-power-connectors/-

You may be right.

I don't know, so we'll see... but you're probably right, since I haven't looked that much into Haswell

[Dim]

Thanks for the advice Dim :P Guess it will mostly depend on my budget then ahaha. I'm pretty sure they're changing to LGA 1150 or something like that for Haswell' date=' which sorta makes sense since its a whole new architecture being a TOK rather than a tick.

DO NOT GET AN OZC POWER SUPPLY.

Whats so bad about OZC? no idea about PSUs.... would cooler master or corsair be a better choice?

OCZ is, like all PSUs, hit and miss. Corsair is probably more hit than OCZ.

If you manage a hit rather than a miss, it's not really relevant.

[yandaman]

Ah okay so a bit like everything then. I'm running a OCZ Vertex 4 on my laptop right now and it's running perfectly. Hopefully everything I get when I actually get round to it is a hit. I''ll probably look around a bit and see what Linus seems to think works well too.

[Calum]

Thanks for the advice Dim :P Guess it will mostly depend on my budget then ahaha. I'm pretty sure they're changing to LGA 1150 or something like that for Haswell' date=' which sorta makes sense since its a whole new architecture being a TOK rather than a tick.

DO NOT GET AN OZC POWER SUPPLY.

Whats so bad about OZC? no idea about PSUs.... would cooler master or corsair be a better choice?

OCZ is, like all PSUs, hit and miss. Corsair is probably more hit than OCZ. If you manage a hit rather than a miss, it's not really relevant.

I agree. I've had 1 OCZ PSU (Now been sold to my friend) and i have a Corsair AX860i in my computer right now and a Corsair TX850. They have all worked fine, as he said, it's a hit or miss game.