Hello!
I currently have a fairly big Gaming rig whit these specs:
Intel i5-3550 (3.6 Ghz)
Zotac GTX 560 ti amp
Asus P8H61-V ( Bios : 4302)
Corsair SSD 120gb
Kingston Hyper X 8Gb
WD 1tb HDD
Corsair 600w psu
And the problem is that i attend alot of lan parties. And taking a big case that is "hard" to carry kinda bothers me. oh yes and upgrading on the otherhand.
I'm down to 2 options.
1. Gaming laptop. Well it has mobility written all over it, its just that i don't really feel like that all my parts are so outdated (for example i think i can stick whit my Intel i5 pretty far since what i've understood that CPU is good for gaming pretty far.
Well i have planned on switching my GPU out eventually.
A candidate for this category :
http://bit.ly/XORGoO
(You may suggest another one if you find a better one)
Oh yes i know that nvidia has released the 700m series, worth to wait for it or buy a 600 series at discount?
2. Small formfactor M-ATX build. ( a case whit a handle like NZXT vulcan).
This is the kinda option that i'm leaning to.
Mobility issue is somewhat cleared if i do this but then there are the part picking.
Sofar my thought is that i keep my current CPU.
Buy a Mobo ( for example Gigabyte sniper m5 m-Atx)
And eventually if not immediately buy a new GPU too ( 670 or 7950, maby even crossfire/Sli?) Should i wait for the 700 series here and the 8000 series?
And well how badly will an intel i5-3550 bottleneck the crossfire/sli 7950 or 660ti/670?
I've allso notised that if i build in a m-ATX case airflow is key, its just that i cant really find a blower fan type 7950 ( which i could buy 2 of in crossfire).
And ideas/toughs/suggestions around this topic are greatly accepted!
Any other m-atx lan cases and gaming laptops are good suggestions too.
Ps. im kinda new into these kinda things so i apologize if some o this sounds just stupid. (: