PC gamer and build your own PC?

DKLS

No

michael243 wrote: »

Its much more fun building it yourself!

Its much more fun getting the wife to build than yourself, plus she has dainty little hands and a good sense of order so can build a better PC than me.

Percy1983

Yes

DKLS wrote: »

Its much more fun getting the wife to build than yourself, plus she has dainty little hands and a good sense of order so can build a better PC than me.

I could only imagine the look I would get if I dropped a pile of PC bits in front of the wife and said off you go. :rotfl:

DKLS

No

Percy1983 wrote: »

I could only imagine the look I would get if I dropped a pile of PC bits in front of the wife and said off you go. :rotfl:

Probably with a similar look that I recieved from my wife, but with a little guidance and having hands that fitted where mine wouldnt she was full of pride when it booted up for the first time.

Retrogamer

Yes

Percy1983 wrote: »

Ouch, why did you not get a 290x, more power and less money.

Too noisy and too hot.
780gtx has 3 x 80mm fans for the model i opted for and it was on a sale as well.

Percy1983

Yes

Retrogamer wrote: »

Too noisy and too hot.
780gtx has 3 x 80mm fans for the model i opted for and it was on a sale as well.

Noise fair enough, but I would have waited a little lomger for the cards with the aftermarket coolers and the prices to settle.

As for heat, who cares as long as its running within its safe temps?

I guess you paid around the £400-£450 mark in on sale which does bring it more inline with what it should cost.

I do have the gigabyte windforce 7950 and will say the cooler is epic (3 fan job).

Retrogamer

Yes

Percy1983 wrote: »

Ouch, why did you not get a 290x, more power and less money.

Percy1983 wrote: »

Noise fair enough, but I would have waited a little lomger for the cards with the aftermarket coolers and the prices to settle.

As for heat, who cares as long as its running within its safe temps?

I guess you paid around the £400-£450 mark in on sale which does bring it more inline with what it should cost.

I do have the gigabyte windforce 7950 and will say the cooler is epic (3 fan job).

I remember i switched from nVidia to ATI years ago with a build and i had no end of graphics driver issues. Something with the registrys so had to format in the end. That helped my decision a little as well.

Heat's a big issue for me because my sound card sits directly above the graphics card. I had to remove it after i went SLI due to it getting cooked. (top card hits 98oC in some games)

I got it for £479 and hoping to salvage £200+ for my 2x 580gtx to soften the blow.

My friend has 2 of the 7950's as well with the same cooler on them as yours. After i heard how quiet they were, i decided i wanted one with a similar cooler. The 780GTX i went for is Gigabyte with the Windforce type cooler as well so meant to be good for noise and overclocking.

Due to arrive tomorrow

Retrogamer

Yes

The 780GTX cards are down to £400ish now due to the release of the new AMD cards. I got a nice refund from where i bougtht mines since it would have meant i'd have been £80 worse off before i'd even fitted it into my PC

Percy1983

Yes

Good buy on the windforce I really can't rate the cooler enough.

Its too soon for me to upgrade as my 7950 isn't stuggling with anything so I may end up skipping the 780 and x290.

savemoney

No

I just bought a customised pc from scan its watercooled, overclocked and has the Nvidia overclocked GT780 card made by Evo. Took advantage of the drop the other day which came with 3 games. I didn't want to build my own any more plus some of the parts are cheaper than if you bought separately

Been waiting a long time for a new upgrade. My previous card is a Nvida GTX260 have to say its still fairly good

theforumking

Yes

I am thinking about getting a new gaming PC - I want something extremely fast and powerful (well as powerful as budget will allow) -

Latest games such as COD, BF4, Sins of a Solar Empire and AOE I need to run without any stutter or lag whatsoever...

Ideally a core i7 processor, HIGH RAM, excellent graphic and sound cards, hard drive etc.

Do you think this is achievable on £900?

If so any recommendations?