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fade
Brisbane, Queensland
7423 posts
As the title suggest, I'm a lot behind on current hardware/setups and would like anyone in the know to critique my potential build. It is for working from home (hence 2 monitors) but also want to be able to play games (d3). I don't want to have to upgrade for another 2-3 years.

Intel S2011 Core i7 3820 3.60GHz 4x Core CPU (No Heatsink included)
Gigabyte S2011 ATX GA-X79-UD3 Motherboard
DDR3 32GB (4x8G) G.Skill RipjawsZ 1600MHz Ram Kit
2TB Seagate 3.5" 5900rpm SATA 6Gb/s HDD (PN ST2000DL003)
128GB OCZ 2.5" Octane SATA 6Gb/s SSD Drive (PN OCT1-25SAT3-128)
NVIDIA GTX560 Ti 1GB Gigabyte Overclocked PCIe Video Card PN GV-N560OC-1GI
23" Samsung S23B300H LED Monitor
23" Samsung S23B300H LED Monitor
Thermaltake ATX Level 10 GTS Case Black (No PSU) PN VO300A1W2N
775 Watt Thermaltake Toughpower XT Modular Power Supply (PN TPX-775MPCAU)
* No Keyboard
DVD Writer LiteOn 24x SATA Black
Integrated Sound Card
* No Speakers
Integrated Gigabit Network Connection
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64bit OEM
* No Microsoft Office Software
Intel Heatsink and Fan for Socket 2011 (PN BXRTS2011AC)
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Trauma
Melbourne, Victoria
2596 posts
If you're wanting 2-3 years (of gaming I presume) then you should get a GTX670 imo. Also dafuq do you need 32gb of RAM for?

Luxury items I would go for would be a second SSD for game installs and a sound card.
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fade
Brisbane, Queensland
7424 posts
Dunno. I may change it to 16gb @ 2133mhz
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Trauma
Melbourne, Victoria
2597 posts
Dunno. I may change it to 16gb @ 2133mhz

Yea I would, speed over wasted space FTW.
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Trauma
Melbourne, Victoria
2598 posts
Also the motherboard listed supports PCI express 3.0, GTX560ti is 2.0, GTX670 is 3.0. Moar bandwidth.
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step
Brisbane, Queensland
2476 posts
Change the SSD and reduce the ram, 32gb is a waste. Even 16GB is for most people.

Most of that system will last your 2-3 years, but you'll more than likely buy a nice value card to replace the 560 down the track.
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Spook
Brisbane, Queensland
33762 posts
asus mobo, fuck off the green drive, fuck off 16g of ram, consider i5 for cpu
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paveway
Brisbane, Queensland
16783 posts
why would you consider i5 if you want something that is going to last 3 years?
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TiT
Brisbane, Queensland
4916 posts
i have 670 and its awesome do it!
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copuis
Brisbane, Queensland
2817 posts
2nd the 670, it uses about the same amount of power and take around the same amount of room as the 560, however it is so much more powerful
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fade
Brisbane, Queensland
7425 posts
Cheers guys. I'm going to go with the 670.
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