Custom pc build, help needed

[Sweetiebelle]

All comes to £2,100/ $3,302.2 with other things like 3 year warrants, anti virus, heandset, keyboard and mouse all thrown in.
I need to know whether it would be able to play games on max seetings, lik Crysis 2, BF3, Skyrim, Shogun total war, will it be able to play them on ultra if not how well will it perform?

I'm sort of leaning in favour of the 690 and lots of ram for future proofing

Another question is, is this a good build? and what are your thoughts on it

Thank you for anything you have to say?

specs


Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-3570K (3.4GHz) 6MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z77-M: MICRO-ATX, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, ATI®CrossFireX
Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON HYPERX GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 2133MHz X.M.P(4 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card
4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 690 DUAL GPU - 3 x DVI-I, 1 x mDP
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
180GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1050W PRO SERIES™ HX1050-80 PLUS® SILVER MODULAR (£158)
Processor Cooling
TITAN FENRIR EVO EXTREME HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£39)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence

 

[DSF]

Could you please answer the questions in the sticky?

I know parts are a little more expensive in the UK/Europe, but $3300 is a LOT to spend even for a high-end foreign gaming build with peripherals.

It sounds like you're having this built for you, is that right?

 

[lehtv]

Welcome to AT. As always, please answer some questions so we can help you out better.

£2100/$3300 is a sick price to pay for a rig of this performance level. I mean £500 or $1000 too expensive at least. I suppose the warranty counts for something though, but before I go on I need more information.

For what it's worth, gaming on Ultra settings rarely makes sense because you get very little improvement to image quality at a great cost to performance. Aiming for a smooth experience at ultra settings in the most demanding games is a sure way to make your rig very bad value for money.

 

[Sweetiebelle]

Well I was leaning in favour of ultra settings because I would like to get a really powerful pc now and hopefully not have to bother getting a new one for like 6 years and even then I would rather just buy a few new parts for it in favour of buying a new pc. The pc is being built for me which I know makes it more costly but it is the only place I can find anywhere that does a pay monthly payment method. I can not afford to buy a pc all in one go and on top of that I need a new one for September as I am returning to University. I shopped around on the internet and I didn't find many places that sold the parts for much cheaper, because the site I am getting it from gives you the individual prices of the parts then you just sort of pick what you want,

People have suggested just using 2 670's or 2 680's but I just think how long will they last before they go obsolete, it's not like I can just throwing a 3rd card because there's people that have doubts about running 2 cards nevermind 3

 

[lehtv]

It's hopelessly bad economic planning to spend £2K on a high end rig in the hopes that it'll last 6 years without needing upgrades. You're much better off spending £1K and then upgrading the CPU/mobo/ram and GPU every couple of years. You end up spending less overall and don't have to spend it all in one go, and you get better performance over time and get to enjoy on average newer hardware.

Still need answers to the questions! . What site are you planning to use to prebuild? If you're comfortable with upgrading parts on your own why not build it on your own to begin with to save cash? Why do you need a new PC for uni, can't you take the PC with you?

 

[Sweetiebelle]

I am using a site called PCSpecialist, And I would love to just have the money to build it myself but I am not good at building a pc I can about fit new ram and fit some things it but im not very good. I have sorta scaled down a few things since first asking help on a build a long time ago, on another note would an i5/i7 even run okay with a GTX 690?

 

[nsafreak]

Yes they'll both still run ok but the GTX 690 (probably the major portion of the cost at this point) is absolute overkill by a long stretch. Remember that's a pair of GTX 680s (at full speed) on one card. There is no way you'll need that much horsepower unless you're doing high resolution multi monitor gaming. Swap that card out to a GTX 680 and drop the PSU to a 600 watt.

 

[Ken g6]

OK, if you won't answer the questions, I'll post some guesses:

1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.

I need to know whether it would be able to play games on max seetings, lik Crysis 2, BF3, Skyrim, Shogun total war, will it be able to play them on ultra if not how well will it perform?

2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread

£2,100

3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
UK

4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc.
nVidia? Would you consider an AMD graphics card?

5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
No? Or do you have a monitor?

7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
No?

8. What resolution will you be using?
1080p?

9. WHEN do you plan to build it?
Note that it is usually not cost or time effective to choose your build more than a month before you actually plan to be using it.
Within a month?

X. Do you need to purchase any software to go with the system, such as Windows or Blu Ray playback software?
Windows?

At the end of the day it's your money. There's only so much we can do.

And now specific suggestions:

Processor (CPU): Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-3570K (3.4GHz) 6MB Cache: good.

Motherboard: ASUS® P8Z77-V LX. More slots, lets you crossfire or SLI someday.

Memory (RAM): 8GB Samsung DDR3-1333. Fancy RAM really doesn't help, and you can always add 8 or 16GB more later. (It's quite easy.)

Graphics Card: Would you accept AMD? If so, get the 7950. If not, get the GTX 670. You could always buy a second one later to get the equivalent of that 690. But you won't, I'm sure.

Memory - 1st Hard Disk: 120GB INTEL® 320 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW); I'd suggest a Crucial M4 or Samsung 830, but my choices are limited on that site. Note that you don't really need an SSD, and you can add one later for caching quite easily.

2nd Hard Disk: 1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE, fine, even as the only HDD.

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive: 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM: fine.

Power Supply: CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX750 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£86). Unless your electricity is like £0.2/KWh, silver isn't worth it. Modular might be if you were into changing your hardware around often, but you aren't.

Processor Cooling: Depends on if you want to overclock. If not, stock will work fine. If you want quiet, well, there's a "super quiet" cooler listed. (Again, choices here are very limited. )

Sound Card: ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD), good.

Operating System: Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence, good.

Did you need a monitor? The AOC 1920x1080 monitors are good; this ASUS is probably a little better.

You might also want the cheapest DVI-D cable, keyboard, and mouse.

Edit: I forgot, you need to select a case. I don't know cases very well, and I don't know what you'd like aesthetically. The HAF would work, for sure, but I think they're ugly.

 

[mfenn]

Well I was leaning in favour of ultra settings because I would like to get a really powerful pc now and hopefully not have to bother getting a new one for like 6 years and even then I would rather just buy a few new parts for it in favour of buying a new pc. The pc is being built for me which I know makes it more costly but it is the only place I can find anywhere that does a pay monthly payment method. I can not afford to buy a pc all in one go and on top of that I need a new one for September as I am returning to University. I shopped around on the internet and I didn't find many places that sold the parts for much cheaper, because the site I am getting it from gives you the individual prices of the parts then you just sort of pick what you want,

If you can't afford to pay cash for a relatively low-dollar item like a PC, that means you can't afford it. Never ever finance something that depreciates to 1/4 of its original value in 2 years.

How much cash do you actually have on hand for a PC? You'd be surprised what you can get for 1/3 of what you're paying for that monster system.

 

[Puppies04]

OP I would highly recommend spending between £800-£1200 and building this rig yourself, check out www.scan.co.uk they have all the components and people on this website will be more than willing to go over the build you choose to make sure everything is compatible/cost effective.

On a side note they do actually offer intrest free credit but I would suggest you save up the money and then purchase. As Mfenn has pointed out if you need to apply for credit then you can't afford it and maybe you should scale back your budget/ wait until you can afford it before you pull the trigger.