so with the new haswell pentium anniversary chip out, and the subsequent article that appeared on the toms hardware page, I decided what the hell - let's see what people think of this.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/gqvhmG
yes i'm aware of potential limitations from multi-core utilising games in the future. But this chip is so overclockable that right now and probably for the next 3 years or so - it'll play all the games that I want it to. I could get away with a 770 for smooth fps but hey, its a 780 - even with the decrease in fps for the CPU it more than keeps it smooth
The build does use about £50 extra to make sure that the motherboard doesn't look like a mess of blue on red ( dat colour clash)
The case has 5 fan slots and 2 areas that have room for a 240mm radiator - could even have seperate ones for the CPU and GPU, though I have no idea why you would. It's not a solid case, but its a nice budget favourite.
Black case with red LED's will look awesome as well as potential red fluid? though that's supposedly hard to clean...
its all quite minimalistic, with cooling and SSD put aside from later, but for £650 it seems like an interesting idea.
Thoughts?
for anyone who didn't see the article: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/pentium-g3258-overclocking-performance,review-32974.html
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/gqvhmG
yes i'm aware of potential limitations from multi-core utilising games in the future. But this chip is so overclockable that right now and probably for the next 3 years or so - it'll play all the games that I want it to. I could get away with a 770 for smooth fps but hey, its a 780 - even with the decrease in fps for the CPU it more than keeps it smooth
The build does use about £50 extra to make sure that the motherboard doesn't look like a mess of blue on red ( dat colour clash)
The case has 5 fan slots and 2 areas that have room for a 240mm radiator - could even have seperate ones for the CPU and GPU, though I have no idea why you would. It's not a solid case, but its a nice budget favourite.
Black case with red LED's will look awesome as well as potential red fluid? though that's supposedly hard to clean...
its all quite minimalistic, with cooling and SSD put aside from later, but for £650 it seems like an interesting idea.
Thoughts?
for anyone who didn't see the article: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/pentium-g3258-overclocking-performance,review-32974.html
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