Quote from: Pepsi on April 25, 2016, 03:19:58 PMQuote from: Decimator Omega on April 25, 2016, 02:01:14 PMQuote from: Mr. Psychologist on April 25, 2016, 01:56:56 PMQuote from: Decimator Omega on April 25, 2016, 01:48:34 PMQuote from: Mr. Psychologist on April 25, 2016, 01:45:33 PMhttp://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/XHM2K8hope the link worksthrew that together with some of the suggestions ITT (i7/970 etc) but the rest is pretty much chosen off review tier and best guessesprice estimate on that isn't gonna be right either because there is already a hundred quid saved by buying the CPU/GPU off newegg so ehthoughts/revisions?I would swap 2 things. Motherboard would be Gigabyte brand instead of Asus and I'd swap MSI with Nvidia personally. Otherwise you have a pretty decent setup.I'm quite fine with any switches, whatever ends up with a better PC at the end of it.What would be the difference between an MSI and a Nvidia 970? I thought it was all nvidia anyway?Okay there is a mishap on my part. I mean EVGA for the long run since MSI is also an Nvidia series. Apparently EVGA has better aftermarket support. Mine is an EVGA Nvidia 550ti.I'll leave this up to you to decide since some say MSI is better than EVGA and vice versa.https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/572726/-which-is-better-quality-evga-or-msi-nvidia-geforce-gtx-760/As for the motherboard, I do recommend Gigabyte, but I haven't used Asus, in fact I've never even heard of that brand of a motherboard, but I'm biased so... EVGA cards are usually more expensive, and they do supposedly have better customer supportthat said you'll only really need customer support if there's something wrong with your cardI'm also surprised you haven't heard of ASUS, they're a pretty big name for laptops, GPUs and motherboards especially, and they're pretty high up on customer support ratingsother than that no GPU will be particularly different from any reseller, ASUS, Palit, Zotac, EVGA, Gigabyte, they'll all perform identicalalso have a look at the GPU coolers if you're not planning to have any watercooling (which is probably not suitable for your budget), you'll either get a blower or open-air, open-air is generally quieter and better at keeping your GPU cool, blowers are usually loud but overall the computer will be cooler on the inside as it also acts as an outtakeA GPU cooler in addition to the standard fan?
Quote from: Decimator Omega on April 25, 2016, 02:01:14 PMQuote from: Mr. Psychologist on April 25, 2016, 01:56:56 PMQuote from: Decimator Omega on April 25, 2016, 01:48:34 PMQuote from: Mr. Psychologist on April 25, 2016, 01:45:33 PMhttp://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/XHM2K8hope the link worksthrew that together with some of the suggestions ITT (i7/970 etc) but the rest is pretty much chosen off review tier and best guessesprice estimate on that isn't gonna be right either because there is already a hundred quid saved by buying the CPU/GPU off newegg so ehthoughts/revisions?I would swap 2 things. Motherboard would be Gigabyte brand instead of Asus and I'd swap MSI with Nvidia personally. Otherwise you have a pretty decent setup.I'm quite fine with any switches, whatever ends up with a better PC at the end of it.What would be the difference between an MSI and a Nvidia 970? I thought it was all nvidia anyway?Okay there is a mishap on my part. I mean EVGA for the long run since MSI is also an Nvidia series. Apparently EVGA has better aftermarket support. Mine is an EVGA Nvidia 550ti.I'll leave this up to you to decide since some say MSI is better than EVGA and vice versa.https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/572726/-which-is-better-quality-evga-or-msi-nvidia-geforce-gtx-760/As for the motherboard, I do recommend Gigabyte, but I haven't used Asus, in fact I've never even heard of that brand of a motherboard, but I'm biased so... EVGA cards are usually more expensive, and they do supposedly have better customer supportthat said you'll only really need customer support if there's something wrong with your cardI'm also surprised you haven't heard of ASUS, they're a pretty big name for laptops, GPUs and motherboards especially, and they're pretty high up on customer support ratingsother than that no GPU will be particularly different from any reseller, ASUS, Palit, Zotac, EVGA, Gigabyte, they'll all perform identicalalso have a look at the GPU coolers if you're not planning to have any watercooling (which is probably not suitable for your budget), you'll either get a blower or open-air, open-air is generally quieter and better at keeping your GPU cool, blowers are usually loud but overall the computer will be cooler on the inside as it also acts as an outtake
Quote from: Mr. Psychologist on April 25, 2016, 01:56:56 PMQuote from: Decimator Omega on April 25, 2016, 01:48:34 PMQuote from: Mr. Psychologist on April 25, 2016, 01:45:33 PMhttp://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/XHM2K8hope the link worksthrew that together with some of the suggestions ITT (i7/970 etc) but the rest is pretty much chosen off review tier and best guessesprice estimate on that isn't gonna be right either because there is already a hundred quid saved by buying the CPU/GPU off newegg so ehthoughts/revisions?I would swap 2 things. Motherboard would be Gigabyte brand instead of Asus and I'd swap MSI with Nvidia personally. Otherwise you have a pretty decent setup.I'm quite fine with any switches, whatever ends up with a better PC at the end of it.What would be the difference between an MSI and a Nvidia 970? I thought it was all nvidia anyway?Okay there is a mishap on my part. I mean EVGA for the long run since MSI is also an Nvidia series. Apparently EVGA has better aftermarket support. Mine is an EVGA Nvidia 550ti.I'll leave this up to you to decide since some say MSI is better than EVGA and vice versa.https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/572726/-which-is-better-quality-evga-or-msi-nvidia-geforce-gtx-760/As for the motherboard, I do recommend Gigabyte, but I haven't used Asus, in fact I've never even heard of that brand of a motherboard, but I'm biased so...
Quote from: Decimator Omega on April 25, 2016, 01:48:34 PMQuote from: Mr. Psychologist on April 25, 2016, 01:45:33 PMhttp://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/XHM2K8hope the link worksthrew that together with some of the suggestions ITT (i7/970 etc) but the rest is pretty much chosen off review tier and best guessesprice estimate on that isn't gonna be right either because there is already a hundred quid saved by buying the CPU/GPU off newegg so ehthoughts/revisions?I would swap 2 things. Motherboard would be Gigabyte brand instead of Asus and I'd swap MSI with Nvidia personally. Otherwise you have a pretty decent setup.I'm quite fine with any switches, whatever ends up with a better PC at the end of it.What would be the difference between an MSI and a Nvidia 970? I thought it was all nvidia anyway?
Quote from: Mr. Psychologist on April 25, 2016, 01:45:33 PMhttp://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/XHM2K8hope the link worksthrew that together with some of the suggestions ITT (i7/970 etc) but the rest is pretty much chosen off review tier and best guessesprice estimate on that isn't gonna be right either because there is already a hundred quid saved by buying the CPU/GPU off newegg so ehthoughts/revisions?I would swap 2 things. Motherboard would be Gigabyte brand instead of Asus and I'd swap MSI with Nvidia personally. Otherwise you have a pretty decent setup.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/XHM2K8hope the link worksthrew that together with some of the suggestions ITT (i7/970 etc) but the rest is pretty much chosen off review tier and best guessesprice estimate on that isn't gonna be right either because there is already a hundred quid saved by buying the CPU/GPU off newegg so ehthoughts/revisions?
PC build planning - suggestions please
