Is this a good high end gaming setup?

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My Gaming Rig:
CPU: AMD (Piledriver) FX-8320 3.50GHz (4.00GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 8-Core Processor - Retail - OVERCLOCKED TO 4.0GHz
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Quiet CPU Cooler
GPU: Msi GTX770 4gb Twin Frozr
PSU: EVGA Supernova 850 G2 80 Plus Gold
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P
H.D.D : Western Digital 1TB
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro Series DDR3 2x8GB 16GB 2400MHz
CASE: MS-Tech Hornet
 
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It's a good gaming system. It's not high-end really. I don't think you'll find many people putting AMD chips in a "high end" system. The Core i7 4th CPU's typically dominate the high-end right now.

The 770 is a great card, but typically "high-end" is something with an x80 after it, like the 780, 980.

You have a great PSU

Your hard drive is not a high-end drive. SSD's are what we use for high-end machines and are many times faster than a standard HDD.

Your Case has a healthy dose of cooling, which is good, but the steel/plastic material is not high-end for cooling. All Aluminium cases like those from Lian Li and Silverstone are ideal for high-end builds.

A quiet CPU cooler is great, but high-end builds typically use closed...
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It's a good gaming system. It's not high-end really. I don't think you'll find many people putting AMD chips in a "high end" system. The Core i7 4th CPU's typically dominate the high-end right now.

The 770 is a great card, but typically "high-end" is something with an x80 after it, like the 780, 980.

You have a great PSU

Your hard drive is not a high-end drive. SSD's are what we use for high-end machines and are many times faster than a standard HDD.

Your Case has a healthy dose of cooling, which is good, but the steel/plastic material is not high-end for cooling. All Aluminium cases like those from Lian Li and Silverstone are ideal for high-end builds.

A quiet CPU cooler is great, but high-end builds typically use closed loop or custom liquid cooling like Corsair's H100i.

Your board can be purchased for about 70 bucks. Most boards for Intel CPU's in high-end systems typically have features like m2 SATA slots, thunderbolt and high-end capacitors and voltage regulators for CPU overclocking and stability.

Again, good mid-range gaming system, but high-end it is not.
 
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The new gtx 970 is better and for the same price as a 770.

850 watt is excessive if you dont plan on doing SLI (and most all 970 chipset boards do not support SLI).
Wiht a GTX 770 you can do a 650 watt psu and be just fine, or a 600 watt with a 970.

Everything else looks decent.
 
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For xmas and my b day I will be able to get more parts. On xmas I will be able to get £500 worth of things so what would you recommend I buy for my PC at xmas? I was also looking at a Corsair 750D as a new case as all my components hardly fit inside the case. I would get an SSD but they do not have a large space capacity and I was looking at buying 2x Western Digital Red 3TB 64MB.

I suppose I could get a Corsair Force 240GB SSD?
 
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Samsung EVO and Crucial M500/M550 is the best SSDs for the money right now.

For best performance have an SSD drive as your OS/Programs drive, and then use magnetic HDD for file storage.

If you are going to get more money for XMAS i would just wait then to buy.
You can get a better core i5 CPU for $50-60 more and proper motherboard for maybee $10 more.
But to buy the original build and then upgrade it will cost you $300.
In short it costs a lot less to build it good the first time, then build ok and upgrade parts latter.
 
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Yeah I brought it two years ago when I was like 12 or 13 (didnt really have much of a clue) from BEDIR shop on amazon. Cost £559
That Came with:
MOBO: ASUS M5A78LM_LX3
CPU: AMD FX4100 QUAD CORE
GPU: GTX560TI 1GB
RAM: G.SKILL 2X4GB 8GB
PSU: Techsolo 650W
H.D.D: WD 1TB

At Christmas what part for my PC should I buy?
 
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Ok,

It sounded like you were going to buy the parts listed in the first post, and then in a copule months after christmas you would have an additional 500 GBP to spend on parts as well.

So what you are saying is that you want to upgrade the current computer with the XMAS money??

The only thing worth keeping in that tower is the ram.
Frankley I would reset the tower and sell it for whatever you can get out of it, then use that money plus the XMAS money to build a new one.

When is the birthday money coming in?
 
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May 2015. Instead of selling it all at once what im going to do is buy something at XMAS with money and sell what ever i am going to replace at the time that way I can have until xmas to still play on it etc.. Because I would go for this build : Corsair Obsidian 350D
ASUS Rampage IV Gene X79
Intel Core i7 4930K @ 4.7GHz HT
Corsair Hydro H100i
Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB 2400MHz
EVGA GTX 780 Classified ACX 3GB
2x Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD @ RAID-0
2x Western Digital Red 3TB 64MB
Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro
Corsair AX1200i
 
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Here is a pretty good build in your price range assuming you can sell the old tower or come up with another 100 GBP

16GB for gaming is not usefull at all so I only did 8gb.
No need for more then 650 watt psu for a GTX-770.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor (£99.98 @ Novatech)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£23.86 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£62.09 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£62.00 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£35.94 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 770 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card (£199.99 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (£43.48 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: Corsair CSM 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£65.94 @ Aria PC)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£10.09 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £603.37 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-23 18:25 BST+0100
 
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If I was going to do that I would keep the CPU as I have it already and not sell it. Same with cooler. Get the mobo. Stick with current 16GB ram. get H.D.D. Stick with current GTX as its 4GB. get case. keep current PSU and get disk drive.
 
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