My Gaming Build

killanena

Going to order my parts finally on Monday! What do you guys think? Im hoping to run BF4 on high/ultra graphics. and Im going to get another GTX 760 for sli when they come down in price a bit more

(Most bought on hardwareversand but I got some off amazon.co.uk to save a few euro where I could)

Ram: 8GB-Kit Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 MHz €73.99

CPU: AMD FX-8350 Processor €163.99

Graphics Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760 WindForce 3X OC, 2GB GDDR5 €217.32

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 €81.67

SSD: Samsung SSD 840 120GB SATA 6Gb/s €86.92

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200 1000GB, SATA 6Gb/s €52.29

Disk Drive: LG DVD-RW Drive €20.81

PSU: Corsair Builder Series CXM 600W Modular 80 PLUS €73.08

Monitor: LG Flatron IPS234V 23” €149.00

Speakers: Logitech Speaker System Z323 €38.14

Card Reader: LogiLink USB 2.0 all-in-one Card Reader €3.32

Case: Cooler Master Haf 912 Plus €70.03

Total Cost: €1030.56 (Before shipping)

EoinHef

Looks good man, I have same case and the previous revision of that monitor and im happy with both. The case is a little plain but it performs well for me cooling wise which i personally think is more important. You should check though that the psu would be powerful enough to sli 2 760's,other than that id say you'll be delighted with it:)

killanena

yea I used a calculatorand I should be able to OC my processor to 4.8 ghz and run 2 760's and all the rest above for 560 watts so should do the job. Glad to here the case is good , I know its not the best but what I hear from it, its sounds great for the price. I'm also going to add one of them corsair water coolers once amazon has them back in stock for cheap and I've a bit more money.

EoinHef

Cool, I made the mistake of buying a psu that didnt have enough watts for crossfire, or was close enough to make me not wanna risk it! Ended up havin to buy a second one with more juice, wasn cheap either!! Best of luck with the build man:)

Morf

I think it was probably Bloodbath who said that PSUs are far more efficient well within their power output. So although 600w covers your estimated max usage I think it's sensible to leave more leeway than that.

Up to yourself and I am only paraphrasing Bloodbath who actually knows their stuff.

Gumbi

I'd be lookin to get a 650 - 750 watt unit for that setup. 760 are more efficient than their AMD counterparts (though they are less bang for buck) but an overclocked 8350 is going to draw over 200 watts easily.

BloodBath

Agreed. You are pushing it tight there. Overclocked 8350's are absolute pigs for power. Your calculations for total power usage seem about right but psu's are most most efficient in the 40-60% range of their max capacity.

They will also be noisier when pushed near their limits and more likely to fail. I'd go for at least a 700w psu. The be-quiet system power 7 700w is only about €8 more and is silver rated.

-edit- I forgot to say you should get the samsung 840 evo instead. It's only a couple of euro more and a fair bit faster.

killanena

I'll go for the be-quiet system power 7 700w then and the samsung 840 evo SSD. Thanks fellas

EoinHef

killanena wrote: »

I'll go for the be-quiet system power 7 700w then and the samsung 840 evo SSD. Thanks fellas

Good decision man, definitely dont wanna scrimp on the PSU:)
I didnt really know what I was doing when I bought the first one and it wasn enough power for crossfire,I just put it down to a learning tax:(

Ive a similar spec system so im sure you be delighted with it when you get it going:)

killanena

Ok placed my order last night and they have received my payment now, How long will it take for my order to get here from Germany? They are using UPS I think.