Is this a good build?

If you're just going to be doing gaming, get a 7870. If you're going to be design work and rendering and stuff too, get a 660 Ti or a 670.

You've got a 750W Corsair PSU haven't you?
 
Get an i5 3570K and a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H and I say it's good. :)

Stick with the i7 if you want, but get that Gigabyte board over the ASRock.
 
spirit said:
Get an i5 3570K and a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H and I say it's good. :)

Stick with the i7 if you want, but get that Gigabyte board over the ASRock.
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May I ask why? I went to microcenter, which is a big computer supply center, and the guy told me it was good
 
I personally don't like ASRock. I tend to stick to ASUS and Gigabye myself. You can get the ASRock if you want, it'll work, I'd just recommend over boards over it.
 
Hello,
Never go with ASrock motherbords. I've seen a lot of computers with ASrock mobos that performed like crap. Also, (very) personal experience: i've seen someone recomending Gigabyte and Asus. Lose the Gigabyte (bad bad bad memories), keep the Asus...rock solid :P Or go for a MSI mobo.
The GPU is Ok. It, mostly, depends of the drivers, however.
16 Gb RAM!? Holly ... are you planing of running VSphere and a bunch of servers on that thing? Really...that's a lot! Gaming wise, you will not see an increase compared to 8GB of RAM.
 
Ok a couple of points.

CUDA is also used in Physx so if you are planning on gaming with Physx games its worth it. Also if you play on using CS6 for video editing (3d or HD), its worth it. Also, i frequently use nearly 16GB of RAM when video editing or using virtual machines. If you do either of these things you need to factor that in.

Secondly, we need to know what size monitor (resolution) you're planning on playing at, if its low, then the CpU will be the important factor (and GPU may be overkill) and if its high, the GPU needs to be able to cope both in a processing and a VRAM sense.
 
bigfellla said:
Ok a couple of points.

CUDA is also used in Physx so if you are planning on gaming with Physx games its worth it. Also if you play on using CS6 for video editing (3d or HD), its worth it. Also, i frequently use nearly 16GB of RAM when video editing or using virtual machines. If you do either of these things you need to factor that in.

Secondly, we need to know what size monitor (resolution) you're planning on playing at, if its low, then the CpU will be the important factor (and GPU may be overkill) and if its high, the GPU needs to be able to cope both in a processing and a VRAM sense.
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As I said, 1920 x 1080
 
max4334 said:
As I said, 1920 x 1080
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No, what you said is this...

max4334 said:
Well, the higher the better really, though I'm fine with sub 1080. Psu is corsair 750
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Quite different.

If you're going for 1920 x 1080, then you don't need anything close to some of those gpus, as they will provide above 60FPS. IF the monitor you wish to use is a 60Hz one, then you're wasting your money.
 
bigfellla said:
No, what you said is this...




Quite different.

If you're going for 1920 x 1080, then you don't need anything close to some of those gpus, as they will provide above 60FPS. IF the monitor you wish to use is a 60Hz one, then you're wasting your money.
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you're right. im sorry

if 1920x1080 doesn't provide the above 40fps im looking for, then 1408x792 or somewhat the equivalent would be fine
 
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