Silverbeard said:
Phantom Kat said:
Silverbeard said:
While my brothers of the Master Race are all here offering the Hand of Wisdom to the Ascendants, let me get your opinion(s) on this machine:
CyberPower (not a brand I've used before)
4th gen I7 4770K 3.50 Ghz Intel processor
16 GB DDR 3 memory
2TB SATA hard drive
2GB Nvidia Geforce GTX 770
Win 7
The whole thing will cost me approximately 1500 USD, not counting taxes and transport and so on. IT honestly looks rather overkill for a PC gaming rig (16 GBs RAM and 2TB hard drive in particular) but I figure it would be better to get more than I need now rather than have to worry about getting more in a half-decade. I've been an ATI boy all my life so I'm a bit hesitant on switching to Nvidia but I figured 'why not?' Seems like most everyone is switching to Nvidia these days (note that I'm thoroughly ignorant of the rage that this casual comment might invite. Do forgive me, please, my brothers and sisters).
Opinions? All I need now is a monitor and then I'll be set!
You could look at getting a solid state drive for your operating system and one or two games you play frequently. It will give you much faster boot and load times though if you're not worried about that then you can ignore it.
As far as I am aware, I7 CPUs have a very marginal improvement over I5s unless you do a lot of multitasking or video editing so you could downgrade without much change in performance.
Also remember to get a good quality power supply that's at least 80+ bronze certified and (for your setup) shouldn't need to be higher than 750W though I think PCs with 770s require about 600W (not sure, I use Radeon cards normally).
I'm not too up on solid state drives. That whole phase kind of passed me by when I was in my 'laptops are superior' phase. Can you fill me in on the details? The greater Internet is not always reliable about this sort of thing.
Unfortunately, the i7 is part of the package. It's a prebuilt rig- I'd much rather have a good warranty rather than fiddle with the bits myself- and I really wanted the 770. The price isn't that much higher and I should be good for the rest of the decade (hopefully).
And you're right; 770s require 600W base supply. That's not really an issue for me at this point.
Really, I'm just having a bit of buyer anxiety. 'Tis good to get a few positive opinions to get me over the phase. Many thanks, mates!
A solid state drive is a relatively new kind of hard drive without moving parts. They're not necessary for a PC if you have a normal hard drive but they give a substantial reduction in start-up times and load times for the games installed to the SSD. The drawback is that large capacity SSDs are incredibly expensive and they can slow down with age. The sweet spot is around 128GB for most people and 256GB if you have money to through around. A lot of people use them by having the operating system installed to it and whatever games they play frequently and keep things like movies, music and less frequently played video games on the hard drive.
The build doesn't look bad. It's kind of at that awkward place where you could downgrade the CPU to an i5 with very little performance loss (if any) but not by enough to upgrade the GPU. I'd say if you have the money and aren't on a tight budget, it's fine, but if you want to save some money, you could downgrade the CPU to an i5-4670K and the RAM to 8GB with not much performance loss.
I checked the cyberpower website and all the power supplies they use in ~$1500 builds are at least 80+ certified so it should be OK. The RAM also seems to be mostly 1600MHz or 1866MHz which is pretty decent so no concerns there.
If you have a link to the particular build that would probably help people give you advice.