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My New Build - Insight appreciated.

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December 1, 2013 5:39:04 PM

Hi guys, I'm planning my next build as its been a few years since my C2Q and I was looking for any comments or improvements that would not impact the overall build cost. So far I'm pretty much bang on the £1000 mark and don't want to go over.

Case: Silverstone Raven RV03B
CPU: i5 4670k
Cooler: Be quiet! Dark Rock Advanced C1
MB: Asus z87-Pro
Ram: 16gb Corsair Vengeance Pro Gold
Hdd: 120Gb Corsair Force GT
PSU: Be quiet! 500W Straight Power E9
GPU: Asus GTX 760 DirectCU II OC
Aud: Asus Xonar D2X

I've gone for a black and gold theme, with mostly Corsair and Asus.

I was considering the Corsair Carbide 300R and the Asus z87-Deluxe but couldn't see any real improvements over the Pro. I also have be quiet! Shadow Wings fans for the case, an Asus BR-RW and a 2tb Hdd.

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December 1, 2013 6:31:17 PM

would probably ditch the soundcard and ssd in favor of a bigger 7200rpm hdd and faster GPU. a 120gb drive will fill up with OS and a few games and utilities. The only reason i can see to have a sound card is if your using quality headphones that need a headphone amp to drive enough volume to them.
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December 2, 2013 2:42:36 AM

iam2thecrowe said:
would probably ditch the soundcard and ssd in favor of a bigger 7200rpm hdd and faster GPU. a 120gb drive will fill up with OS and a few games and utilities. The only reason i can see to have a sound card is if your using quality headphones that need a headphone amp to drive enough volume to them.


I have a 2000Gb 7200rpm Hdd already and wanted the soundcard for optical 5.1 output to my amp but if you think I'd be better putting the money into a GPU thats a solid idea. Extra £50 goes up to a GTX 770.
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December 2, 2013 6:05:42 PM

Andrew Murdoch said:
iam2thecrowe said:
would probably ditch the soundcard and ssd in favor of a bigger 7200rpm hdd and faster GPU. a 120gb drive will fill up with OS and a few games and utilities. The only reason i can see to have a sound card is if your using quality headphones that need a headphone amp to drive enough volume to them.


I have a 2000Gb 7200rpm Hdd already and wanted the soundcard for optical 5.1 output to my amp but if you think I'd be better putting the money into a GPU thats a solid idea. Extra £50 goes up to a GTX 770.


you can use coax rather than optical into your amp, makes no difference in sound quality. or even use the digital hdmi audio on the video card. when you go through a digital connection, all processing is bypassed from the sound card. One thing to note, is that most games do not support dolby digital sound through digital outputs, you must get a sound card that is capable of reprocessing the multiple sound tracks back into a digital signal, or use the sound cards separate outputs for each channel. there are a couple of better sound cards, like soundblaster z or that d2x you mentioned, that can reprocess the tracks back into a digital output for your amp to receive, so you can get your 6+ channel sound. I have the soundblaster z, but got it mostly for headphones, EQ and the virtual surround on stereo headphones works really well. I have heard the xonars also have some driver bugs, and they offload processing to the cpu, where the soundblaster has its own quad core processor on-board.
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