Is this a high-end gaming computer?

engsodegard

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Hello.

I'm just a bit curious whether or not my PC is defined as a high-end pc or not.
The specs are;

CM Storm Stryker Gaming Big Tower
Corsair CX 750M, 750W PSU
Intel Core i5-4670K
Cooler Master Seidon 120V CPU Kjøler
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming, Socket-1150
HyperX Fury DDR3 1600MHz 8GB Red
MSI GeForce GTX 770 Gaming 4GB PhysX (will get another one in the future)
Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB BK OEM
Seagate Barracuda® 3TB
Price: $2000

Is this a mid-range pc or high-end pc?
 

lostsurfer

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I'd classify this as lower high-end. Where you could go i7 you don't need to that i5 is more then enough for high end gaming as is the video card. Everything else looks decent and not one component is over kill as compared to the rest of the build.
 
Did you buy it prebuilt? That's a ton of money for a 770 build.

I would classify it as medium-high lol The i5 and 770 will max out 1080p. Definitely great for gaming :)

And I would upgrade the power supply before doing SLI in the future. The CX is built with inferior capacitors - not something I would want powering an overclocked CPU and 2 GPUs.
 

engsodegard

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Alright, thanks! I know the PSU is not the best, but I could only choose between 5 PSU's, and the one that was better than this one was like $200 more. There is a company making this computer for me as we speak, hence the price. And I live in Norway, it's really expensive here.
 

engsodegard

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Good to hear :) But one question.. Can I overclock the i5 with my current PSU, or should I wait until I get a better one? I don't wanna risk damaging anything.
 
I wouldn't recommend touching the voltage that much, if at all, but you might play around with the CPU. If you can get a 3.8-4.0 without having to mess with the voltage more than a few mV, you should be fine. As your build right now will only hover around 325w at full load, you won't be stressing the 750 too terribly much. Just don't want to overpower it.
 

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Alright, thanks.
 

Karadjgne

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That costs extra to OC, and if something were to go wrong in the future, the down time accrued between arguing, settling, shipping, waiting, multiple phonecalls, twiddling thumbs, reshipping (overland freight last possible class of course) just to find out all they did was reset the fuse! Is usually more trouble than its worth.
 

plaintuts

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i wont recommend overclocking on a pre-built system..

it doesn't matter what others may say, but..
you can buy separate components in norway, you can learn to build a computer, you can research about the components and performance you want.. all of this takes time and patience, so does overclocking..

for you the best is to set the MSI tuning on auto.
 
The MSI 'OC Genie' they call it is awful, just like all auto-OC, as they add way too much voltage, and fluctuate way too much.

This isn't a 'pre-built' system, it's a custom system built by a third party. You shouldn't overclock pre-built OEM systems, as they include poor power supplies, poor cooling, and poor motherboards, that rarely even allow overclocking.
 

plaintuts

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wow you summarized the build exactly...

let me rephrase, pre-built is what i mean by "an overpriced computer you didn't build yourself"
 
Shops that build custom parts usually only tack on a flat rate, which is usually pretty good. There would be 0 difference between him buying those exact parts and building himself, so there is no reason as to why overclocking should be avoided for the sole reason that he didn't personally build it.

At any rate, recommending the crappy built-in auto-OC is always a bad idea, and is worse than manual overclocking. Why recommend doing that if not going to recommend the safer option?
 

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I won't go into the whole overclocking thing, as it seems preference or for extreme miners or whatnot anyway

the case is XL-ATX so it will easily accomodate any upgrades of ANY hardware current. So that's boss. It doesn't have integrated fan controls, but you can get one cheap anyway.

The psu is awesome, don't change it if you plan to use sli, more hard drives, or multiple powerdrawing usb devices. You can easily compute your power requirements by searching "calculate psu" in any search engine, so research and get a feel for what you want there. As for high end, the rig I want to build requires 1300 and I'm going to compensate with 16 just because I couldn't add the exact hardware to the calculator (tomshardware approved).

Your core i5 speaks for itself, as long as it has the 1150 socket, it is one of the lower highend cpu's out now.

The cooler is a cooler...

Your board is sick for gaming, at the top of the build spec.

Your ram is lacking, as that very board can have 64 gb, so I would invest in higher count if I were you.

Your vidcard is good, but the titan black is out there at 1000 dollars, so you aren't quite too high end

Your HDD and SSD are pretty good for the moment but the evo 1tb ssd is better.

Bottom line, for gaming, you're about halfway to top. Throw a couple of Blacks, evo OC'd and sli'd, get max ram, and you'll impress.

But since you didn't define the semantics of "high end",

Origin PC offers a workstation for 3d modelling and game creation for 31000 dollars, specs = \/

a two cpu mobo with 4ghz (turbo'd) each
256gb eec
two quadros k6000 (I think, been a while...) non sli for a max of 8 hires displays
a total of 22 (again, I think) tb drivespace with 5 hotswap bays (very nice for that line of work...)
1.5kw psu
(found the specs, yay)
a stand alone physx card nvidia tesla with 12 gb to play with
and Asus xonar essence STX

So, by those calc's: no, your's, mine, and everyone elses are garbage...

Edit: Like an idiot, missed the very name of the thread, so I am sorry for the last part. Was going to just delete the whole semantics thing, but apologizing and leaving my mistake up seems better... I did edit to correctly spell semantics though because that was just stoopid...
 

Karadjgne

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Case: decent
Psu: boat anchor. Oversized for a single gpu, lowest end corsair , won't sli 2x 770's
CPU: very good.
Cooler: not worth the money, and I like CLC's.
Mobo: very good.
Ram: decent size, 1866 or 2133 would be better
Gpu: respectable, will not need more for a single 1080p monitor.
Ssd: very good
HDD: better off with 2-3x 1Tb drives

For good gaming, you are on the right road at least, now all you need to do is avoid the potholes.