I don't know much about building computers (I know a bit about components) but my cousin has built a few before so he's gonna help me put it together.
Anyway I've done some scouting around and found the following components that add up to around £785 (pounds not dollars).
- i7-3770k
- Nvidia GTX 660 graphics card
- 3rd gen intel Compatible quality motherboard
- Kingston 8GB DDR3 ram
- Creative soundblaster quality 5.1 sound card
- 600W power supply <- will this be enough? Or too much perhaps?
- 250GB Samsung SSD
- Blu ray drive
- Wifi card
- Tower case with plenty of room
- Windows 7 Home Premium (I don't want win 8)
Am I missing anything important? Perhaps a surge protector or something? And do you think this is a decent price to pay for the spec or could I do better? I haven't bought anything yet. Thanks in advance
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It really just depends on what you will be doing with the PC. If you are going to use it manly for lots of video editing, programs like Adobe creative, or if you do alot of graphic designing then yes the 3770k is a really go CPU for those types of applications.
If you are mainly going to use it as a gaming PC, I recommend getting the 3570k as hyperthreading does not take advantage of most games on the market to date.
I would put the extra $100 would will save in buying the 660ti, the 660ti is a great GPU, it is close to being a 670 and when overclocked it comes very close to being a 680 performance wise.
600w will be enough power to run everything you have picked, but I recommend at least getting a 650w PSU just so you have a little leeway with what you will be running and if you add any other component in the future you will not have to worry if your PSU is will be able to handle it.
Everything else looks great in my opinion.
P.S. The only way I would recommend upgrading to the 4670k and a Z87 platform, is if you do not already have a socket 1155 platform of some sort. Haswell is only has a 10% performance boost over Ivy-Bridge and you will not be able to tell the difference between the 3570k and the 4670k in real world performances,so spending the $500-$600 to upgrade the motherboard and CPU if you already have a Ivy-Bridge platform would not be worth the upgrade, but if you are building a new PC with all new components, including the motherboard, go with the 4670k What Haswell does bring to the table that Ivy-Bridge does not all lye's in the Z87 motherboards, such as, more USB 3.0 on board,all sata ports are natively 6GB per a second, more overclocking abilities,and better power phases.
Note: Do not get the Sockets mixed up with Ivy-Bridge and Haswell as they do not use the same socket nor are they backwards compatible with eachother. Haswell is on a (socket 1150 Platform ) and Ivy-Bridge is on (socket 1155 Platform)
Hope this helped you,
ericlee30
~Member Of The Intel Response Squad~
Wy go with last generation i7?Get a 4770K.And a Z87 motherboard.
Get Windows 7 Professional X64,or you will not be able to upgrade the ram to 16/32GB in the future(the specs wrote 16GB max ram,but many reported 8 is the Maximum)
The rest is fine.