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Thanks for the help. How much difference would not using a quatro make? I ask because I have a usable monitor here, and could put some more money towards it if it was really important. Or is it such a huge jump in price that I shouldn't consider it?

Thanks for the help. How much difference would not using a quatro make? I ask because I have a usable monitor here, and could put some more money towards it if it was really important. Or is it such a huge jump in price that I shouldn't consider it?

Thanks for the help. How much difference would not using a quatro make? I ask because I have a usable monitor here, and could put some more money towards it if it was really important. Or is it such a huge jump in price that I shouldn't consider it?

Pretty similar to the build I'm about to do. Have you thought about a non reference 670 for a little extra? Asus DirectCU top or gigabyte windforce are both really good, I'm going for the Asus.

NEW MACBOOK PRO 15" WITH RETINA DISPLAY WITH 2.6GHz

OR
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Gaming_Powerhouse/G75VW/


GOT THE MOONIES BUT NOT A FINAL DECISION! :/

That's a hard choice to be honest.........I'm more of a windows guy and certainly do like Asus, hence why i would say the Asus.

But it all depends on what you wanna do with your laptop

I plan on using bootcamp on the mac to have best of both worlds!

I will be using to
Game on fifa, cod, gta and other such games
video editing for my youtube channel
school/ uni work
music
movies
general web surfing
etc

NEW MACBOOK PRO 15" WITH RETINA DISPLAY WITH 2.6GHz

OR
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Gaming_Powerhouse/G75VW/


GOT THE MOONIES BUT NOT A FINAL DECISION! :/

Yeah basically, the Veloce i7 is really top of the range stuff - would be an excellent PC.

I just priced up the Veloce i7 (I'm building a very similar machine) and they've put an extra £150-200 premium on it which isn't so bad really, and my build didn't include windows 7 so it could be argued they're adding a £100-150 premium Just depends if you need to buy windows 7 or not.

If you do decide to build, you can PM me if you want because I've researched loads of prices and stuff for that build so I could link you things

Since you were so informative last time I've decided to quote you for this post, feel free to reply at your pleasure.

So my parents have agreed to fund me for a new PC, but they're against the idea of me building it, and I'm rather lazy as it is. I think I'm willing to give a £100-200 premium if it means I have a 3 year warranty in case anything goes wrong.

So, I've decided to buy one. I've been on Dino PC since it seems like the most reasonable place to buy one.

I have a few questions, though: (this is a gaming PC, want to run games like Guild Wars 2, Skyrim and anything new that comes out in the next 6-7 years on medium/low settings)

1. Is the i7 worth the investment over the i5? Will it give a massive boost in performance?

2. I'm thinking the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670, but if I opt for the NVIDIA GTX 570, is this a massive downgrade compared to both the AMD HD 7870/7950? Or am I not missing out on much? Is the GTX670 worth the investment in the long haul (5-6 years)?

3. Any point getting a water cooling system? Is it MUCH quieter than a fan?

Thanks guys, I really appreciate this.

1. In terms of gaming, very little, even worse cos of hyper threading
2. It certainly would be the new range from Nvidia certainly do much better, even better than the 580 and is a good investment, play anything that is coming out on top settings.
3.Well apart from being quite expensive, you could just get a after market cooler to keep temps down.

Which one you buying?

Cheers! In that case I'll stick to i5. Should be fine.

Thinking of the Mass Effect i5 (I cringe at the fact that they named it this, but anyway), but upgraded with:

Corsair H60 Water Cooler
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2GB
600W Xigmatek

Which leaves me at £980.

Noob question: Is it worth getting the i5 overclocked as soon as I buy or is it just a hassle?

Since you were so informative last time I've decided to quote you for this post, feel free to reply at your pleasure.

So my parents have agreed to fund me for a new PC, but they're against the idea of me building it, and I'm rather lazy as it is. I think I'm willing to give a £100-200 premium if it means I have a 3 year warranty in case anything goes wrong.

So, I've decided to buy one. I've been on Dino PC since it seems like the most reasonable place to buy one.

I have a few questions, though: (this is a gaming PC, want to run games like Guild Wars 2, Skyrim and anything new that comes out in the next 6-7 years on medium/low settings)

1. Is the i7 worth the investment over the i5? Will it give a massive boost in performance?

2. I'm thinking the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670, but if I opt for the NVIDIA GTX 570, is this a massive downgrade compared to both the AMD HD 7870/7950? Or am I not missing out on much? Is the GTX670 worth the investment in the long haul (5-6 years)?

3. Any point getting a water cooling system? Is it MUCH quieter than a fan?

Thanks guys, I really appreciate this.

Oh and overclocking is super easy - takes about 10 seconds and you're done You probably won't need to at first but if you're looking for that extra little bit of performance it doesn't hurt

Haha, that reminds me of building my first PC (I was 10, and I'm a little older than most on here) when a new motherboard/CPU combination meant half an hour checking you had the jumpers for FSB and multiplier and all the rest to avoid blowing it up! Mind you, back then I remember reading in PC World magazine that motherboards, cases and graphics cards weren't interesting enough to review..

To be fair, I just priced up the first one for about £600-£650 to build. So expensive but not 'we need to inform the authorities' expensive

But the amazon ones are seriously got issues, people are being writing a fake review to warn people about it loool