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 Post subject: Re: Graphic card advice
PostPosted: 11 Nov 2014 19:36 

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Ok, Well I'd buy neither of those.

For £800 I'd be looking for a Radeon R280X atleast.
Always spend twice on your GPU what you spend on your CPU, for a budget build you want AMD, more performance per currency unit.

Were I building a £800 rig for myself this is what I'd put in it:

AMD FX-4350 (Quad core) yeah sure you can get eight cores or 6 but at the cost of overall clock speed, for gaming you want less cores at a higher clock
Radeon R9 290X with 4GB onboard GDDR5 (directly comparable to a GTX 780 which costs 60% more)
8GB of HyperFury X RAM @1866MHz, You really don't need more than that for gaming
ASUS M5A97 motherboard, solid board for price with capacity to take upgraded CPU and overclock in the future
120GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD for OS and games
2TB Western Digital Blue for other data, movies documents and so on.
CoolerMaster V750VSM 80+ Gold 750W PSU

Onboard LAN and Audio will do just fine

Air cool it for less hassle, you need to maintain water cooled systems and it's not recommended for those who don't know that they are doing.



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 Post subject: Re: Graphic card advice
PostPosted: 11 Nov 2014 19:37 
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Build one, well guide you through it. It's VERY easy !

Watch some YT vids, and ask on here before you plug anything in


Seriously. It's VERY doable !



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 Post subject: Re: Graphic card advice
PostPosted: 11 Nov 2014 19:39 

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P.S to whoever suggested that a GTX 745 beats a R9 280 just because it has a bigger frame buffer: Sorry but no it definately does not.



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 Post subject: Re: Graphic card advice
PostPosted: 11 Nov 2014 19:43 

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STEALTH NINJA {l Wrote}:
Build one, well guide you through it. It's VERY easy !

Watch some YT vids, and ask on here before you plug anything in


Seriously. It's VERY doable !




I second that, I'll guide you through the whole build if you choose to go down this route.



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 Post subject: Re: Graphic card advice
PostPosted: 11 Nov 2014 19:55 
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If you can plug a graphics card in, you can build a pc. Just buy compatible parts ( check with us first)
And yer away :)



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 Post subject: Re: Graphic card advice
PostPosted: 11 Nov 2014 20:03 

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https://www.komplett.se/k/config.aspx?C ... emId=10846

This build is close to what I said, has the R9 290X from MSI as an option.

I disagree with the 8 core CPU though, again 4 cores with a higher clock will be better for games.


P.S. I can't read Swedish but from the tech specs it looks like an alright deal.



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 Post subject: Re: Graphic card advice
PostPosted: 15 Nov 2014 10:51 
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http://www.scan.co.uk/todayonly/

Thats a good deal, only need to buy a gfx card and get them to ship it over to you :D



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 Post subject: Re: Graphic card advice
PostPosted: 15 Nov 2014 23:08 

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noob. where in sweden do you live? ill fecking come and build it for yah! :D hahah


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 Post subject: Re: Graphic card advice
PostPosted: 18 Nov 2014 15:13 

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LOL!

Live in Stockholm... rather a long drive from Norway here :P.

Will buy one before Christmas :)


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 Post subject: Re: Graphic card advice
PostPosted: 19 Nov 2014 18:22 

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only like 5-6 hours from me lol


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