Advice on a new PC

[SharpeXB]

I would like some advice on putting together a new PC, my own skill and experience level at this is just above zero. That's why my first impulse is to order this retail rather than build it myself, I would have to pay CompUSA or someone to do that, haven't looked at what that would cost yet for comparison.
The goal is to be able to run Cliffs on full max settings at 60fps on a single 1920x1080 monitor
I would like to have a bit of future expansion capability in RAM and the ability to add another graphics card.
Thanks in advance for your advice.

Maingear Vybe Super Stock
(what leads me to the Vybe is it's size and weight. I am amazed looking at some other PCs like the Velocity Micro Z90 or the Maingear F131 that weigh 60-75 lbs! What on earth in a PC could weigh that much?!)

Motherboard: Asus® P8Z77-V LK Featuring Lucid Virtu MVP, CrossFire and SLI

Processor: Intel Core i7 3770 3.4GHz/3.8GHz Turbo 8MB L3 Cache HD 4000

Processor Cooling: MAINGEAR EPIC 120 Supercooler

Memory: 8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600 (2x4GB)
(has the potential for 16GB but I hear 8 is enough for now)

Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 w/Eyefinity
(is this card enough or do I need two? I understand from reading forum posts that CoD needs about 2.7GB total)

Power Supply: 660 Watt Seasonic® X-660 80+ Gold Certified Modular Power Supply
(would like the ability to handle two of the above cards for expansion in the future)

SSD Caching: 45GB Corsair® Accelerator™ SSD Caching Drive

Hard Drive: 1TB Western Digital 7200rpm 32GB SATA 6G

Audio: 7.1 Channel High Definition Surround Sound Supporting S/DIF Optical Out

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

System is overclocked

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by SharpeXB

I would like some advice on putting together a new PC

I would recomend you PM the members of this forum who claim to be having alot of problems and ask them for their systems specs..

Than make sure you don't buy what they have!

[U505]

it seems to be a good choice of component althought i would recomend you to buy a more " confortable PSU" ( for me at least 850 watts). So when you will upgrade your PC (with another or a second graphic card ) you won't have to buy an another one.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Buy an Nvidea card for the love of dog!!!

[JG5_emil]

Originally Posted by 5./jg27.farber

buy an nvidea card for the love of dog!!!

yes!

[SharpeXB]

Originally Posted by JG5_emil

yes!

which one? the graphics card is obviously the big question.
What does it take to handle CoD at max settings?
probably hard to know this untill it gets fully patched though I imagine

[vranac]

GTX670 just came out, it is faster then 7950, you can find a lot of reviews.

http://videocardz.com/32846/geforce-...-cards-roundup

I would recommend you models with big PCB.

And if you going to OC ( which is easy ) models with 8+6 pin power connectors.

If you intend to use your PC only for gaming and not for rendering or heavy video editing you can go with i5-3570K,
and save some money.

You should invest in a 120hz monitor . Lordy what a difference it makes in games. Can't look at 60hz screens again.

[AdamB]

Originally Posted by catsrfun

You should invest in a 120hz monitor . Lordy what a difference it makes in games. Can't look at 60hz screens again.

well seeing as the refresh rate is faster than the rate a human eye can see i dont see the point in getting a 120hz monitor unless you want 3d images

(i hope what ive said is correct but being a physicist you might not be able to understand me)

TBH ive always prefered Nvidia over AMD (this does not make me a fanboy), i just think that because, imo, Nvidia have a better GFX card brand their products have better compatibility (apart from SLI in COD, but unless you want to play with more than 1 monitor SLI is pretty much useless for high end video cards for today)
Also there is almost no difference in performance from the sandy bridge and ivy bridge so if you are spending to a bugdet go for the cheaper sandybridge even thought they have a +20W TDP over the TDP ofo ivy bridge (Sandybridge =95W and IVy = 77W) but definately go for a 4-6 core processor

the gtx670 enough based on benchmarks to plough through any game at 1080p to 1440p once above that you start to see a bigger loss in fps but i doubt youll be using higher res. than this. and like i said i prefer nvidia over amd so nvidia cards are what i would advise.

also psu wise i would goo for the corsair 850w HX its fully modular and can support cards like the 690 580 and 590 at a push any more than that is overkill unless your going to overclock but with anything like a 680 or 670 you should have plenty of room (power wise) for overclocking.

[SharpeXB]

Originally Posted by vranac

GTX670 just came out, it is faster then 7950, you can find a lot of reviews.

http://videocardz.com/32846/geforce-...-cards-roundup

I would recommend you models with big PCB.

And if you going to OC ( which is easy ) models with 8+6 pin power connectors.

If you intend to use your PC only for gaming and not for rendering or heavy video editing you can go with i5-3570K,
and save some money.

Can the 2 GB GTX 680 max the graphics at 1080x1920, even when flying over London?