All,
Good day all! I built an ATX gaming machine three of years ago using the i5-2500k and the P67 motherboard. I held back on updating the socket 1155 cpu and/or mobo until the Haswell socket 1150 release to see if there were any huge performance gains. I am needing advice with taking an update path. Should I go with the new Haswell 1150 socket or stick with the 1155 socket? I originally wanted to shrink the case footprint and purchased a Prodigy Bitfenix mini itx case. I am not sure if I should keep ATX for better airflow and possible SLI/Crossfire, or if going mini-itx will give me same gaming performance as an atx board is limited to a single GPU?
This machine is primarily used for gaming FPS, RPGs and MMOs. I am wanting specs to keep up with newer games like Elder Scrolls Online, Call of Duty Ghosts, Battlefield 4, Titan Fall, etc... I would like the best bang for my buck and something that could last for 2-5 years. My price range is to keep the upgrades to $600-700 but stretching the budget to $1,200 is doable over a four month period. I plan to keep this for another couple of years for gaming but afterwards this machine will become a NAS, test, or media server.
My concerns are keeping temps as low as possible as well as the noise level. I am open to all manufacturers and brands. As for GPU’s I have not used an ATI/AMD cards since early 2000’s but I am open to their cards or if I should wait till AMD’s new release series as well as more NVidia’s 700 series. The GPU will also need to drive at least 3 ASUS monitors, currently only using one monitor for gaming the other two for web surfing and watching TV. I also would need cooling recommendations for the CPU’s. I plan on reusing the psu, memory (if compatible), monitors, keyboard, ssd hd, and mouse. Thank you again to all who help with this, it is greatly appreciated.
Current Hardware:
CPU: i5-2500k Quad Core http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072
CPU Cooler: Noctura NH-D14 120mm& 140mm SSO. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608018
Motherboard: MSI P67A-GD55: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130573
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231314
Hard Drive: SSD Crucial RealSSD C300 CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1. 128GB SataIII: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148348
GPU: GeForce GTX 560Ti (Fermi) 1GB Gigabyte brand (only gives me problems with BF3, fix is underclock the card): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125363
PSU: Cooler Master Silent Gold 800w RS800-80GAD3-US: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171057
Case: Corsair Graphite Series 600T Arctic White (USB hub on front doesn’t not work): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139005
Monitors (3) Asus VS Series VS247H-P 23.6” 2ms LED: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236174
OS: Windows 7 64bit Home
Good day all! I built an ATX gaming machine three of years ago using the i5-2500k and the P67 motherboard. I held back on updating the socket 1155 cpu and/or mobo until the Haswell socket 1150 release to see if there were any huge performance gains. I am needing advice with taking an update path. Should I go with the new Haswell 1150 socket or stick with the 1155 socket? I originally wanted to shrink the case footprint and purchased a Prodigy Bitfenix mini itx case. I am not sure if I should keep ATX for better airflow and possible SLI/Crossfire, or if going mini-itx will give me same gaming performance as an atx board is limited to a single GPU?
This machine is primarily used for gaming FPS, RPGs and MMOs. I am wanting specs to keep up with newer games like Elder Scrolls Online, Call of Duty Ghosts, Battlefield 4, Titan Fall, etc... I would like the best bang for my buck and something that could last for 2-5 years. My price range is to keep the upgrades to $600-700 but stretching the budget to $1,200 is doable over a four month period. I plan to keep this for another couple of years for gaming but afterwards this machine will become a NAS, test, or media server.
My concerns are keeping temps as low as possible as well as the noise level. I am open to all manufacturers and brands. As for GPU’s I have not used an ATI/AMD cards since early 2000’s but I am open to their cards or if I should wait till AMD’s new release series as well as more NVidia’s 700 series. The GPU will also need to drive at least 3 ASUS monitors, currently only using one monitor for gaming the other two for web surfing and watching TV. I also would need cooling recommendations for the CPU’s. I plan on reusing the psu, memory (if compatible), monitors, keyboard, ssd hd, and mouse. Thank you again to all who help with this, it is greatly appreciated.
Current Hardware:
CPU: i5-2500k Quad Core http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072
CPU Cooler: Noctura NH-D14 120mm& 140mm SSO. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608018
Motherboard: MSI P67A-GD55: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130573
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231314
Hard Drive: SSD Crucial RealSSD C300 CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1. 128GB SataIII: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148348
GPU: GeForce GTX 560Ti (Fermi) 1GB Gigabyte brand (only gives me problems with BF3, fix is underclock the card): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125363
PSU: Cooler Master Silent Gold 800w RS800-80GAD3-US: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171057
Case: Corsair Graphite Series 600T Arctic White (USB hub on front doesn’t not work): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139005
Monitors (3) Asus VS Series VS247H-P 23.6” 2ms LED: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236174
OS: Windows 7 64bit Home
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