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Battlefield 4 Purpose Built PC

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Hey Guys,

What do you think about this for a potential Battlefield 4 Purpose built machine? I intend to atleast play on High or Ultra still with decent frames :)

CPU: Intel I5 4670
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming ATX Motherboard
Ram: Corsair vengeance 8GB
Storage: 1TH WD
GPU: EVGA Geforce GTX 770 2GB Superclocked
Case: Aerocool Syclone2 Black
PSU: Corsair CX600W
 
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Cooler, mobo, storage, case and PSU have littel or nothing to do with BF4 : )
Some might argue that you NEEEEEEEED a 3GB memory Video card.....
Well it mostly depends of the resolution you are going to play!
But nice project! ;)
 

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Cooler, mobo, storage, case and PSU have littel or nothing to do with BF4 : )
Some might argue that you NEEEEEEEED a 3GB memory Video card.....
Well it mostly depends of the resolution you are going to play!
But nice project! ;)

Oh I know haha I just copied it and pasted from my word document xD

But thanks I might look into a 3gb card, trying to keep it under £1.100
 
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Hey Guys,

What do you think about this for a potential Battlefield 4 Purpose built machine? I intend to atleast play on High or Ultra still with decent frames :)

CPU: Intel I5 4670
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming ATX Motherboard
Ram: Corsair vengeance 8GB
Storage: 1TH WD
GPU: EVGA Geforce GTX 770 2GB Superclocked
Case: Aerocool Syclone2 Black
PSU: Corsair CX600W

I would recommend choosing a different MB, the gaming one from MSI didn't perform very good in gaming benchmarks (ironic) and for the same price you can look at more solid offerings from both Asus and ASRock.

I would also bump your ram to 16gb, 8gb is getting a bit on the low side these days with multitasking (voice chat, game, music, streaming, etc). I also don't see a SSD listed, if you are building a new machine for gaming it is an absolute requirement to have a SSD for your OS/game installs. This is a common suggestion, but I'd bump your storage drive to 2TB since the cost difference is almost nothing at this point and will give you some headroom in case you download a lot of media.

Overall a decent build, but it's worth looking at good sales and bumping most of your categories just slightly to increase the performance and longevity of your build. For instance a 750-860w corsair psu would allow you to run dual GPUs if you ever decided to SLI the 770 (which is a great card for the money). It might be worth holding out an extra month and saving for it...
 

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Get K chip, consider building around 3570K for the extra few pounds of savings and negligible difference elsewhere.
 

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I don't know about you, and I know cases are personal preference, but there are much better cases than that.

Also look into the Seasonic X650 PSU.
 

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I would recommend choosing a different MB, the gaming one from MSI didn't perform very good in gaming benchmarks (ironic) and for the same price you can look at more solid offerings from both Asus and ASRock.

I would also bump your ram to 16gb, 8gb is getting a bit on the low side these days with multitasking (voice chat, game, music, streaming, etc). I also don't see a SSD listed, if you are building a new machine for gaming it is an absolute requirement to have a SSD for your OS/game installs. This is a common suggestion, but I'd bump your storage drive to 2TB since the cost difference is almost nothing at this point and will give you some headroom in case you download a lot of media.

Overall a decent build, but it's worth looking at good sales and bumping most of your categories just slightly to increase the performance and longevity of your build. For instance a 750-860w corsair psu would allow you to run dual GPUs if you ever decided to SLI the 770 (which is a great card for the money). It might be worth holding out an extra month and saving for it...

Hmm thanks, I only chose that MB because my friend has it and it's apparently really good for money, I have listed and ssd because i didn't want to spend what I'm spending anyway, it's sort of a tight budget build but I'll start looking into things thanks a lot :D
 
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Get K chip, consider building around 3570K for the extra few pounds of savings and negligible difference elsewhere.

+1, unless you are not into Overclocking.

600w PSU has become very minimum. Since this is the most critical unit of the whole machine, try to get atleast quality 850w, so if you have the itch you can add another video card for SLI action.

Yeah SSD for OS and games (I would go with 2 x 120/8GB SSDs, 1 for OS and other for games)

770 is good for BF4.

Other things I am not sure.

If you have the budget and don't have one consider an external backup drive too.

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Fourstaff and suraswami, i5-3570k Ivy Bridge is LGA 1155 and i5-4670 Haswell is LGA1150 so the cpu won't fit in the socket, plus if Sneef's building a completely new system, why go for last generation when Haswell is already here?
 

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+1, unless you are not into Overclocking.

600w PSU has become very minimum. Since this is the most critical unit of the whole machine, try to get atleast quality 850w, so if you have the itch you can add another video card for SLI action.

Yeah SSD for OS and games (I would go with 2 x 120/8GB SSDs, 1 for OS and other for games)

770 is good for BF4.

Other things I am not sure.

If you have the budget and don't have one consider an external backup drive too.

:toast:

Thanks yeah I'm not into overclocking haha, I'm thinking of dropping it to a 760 superclocked and getting a ssd and more ram
 

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Thanks yeah I'm not into overclocking haha, I'm thinking of dropping it to a 760 superclocked and getting a ssd and more ram

These things are quite easy to OC and for the K chip you could probably just set multi at x42 and leave the rest on auto and be stable (after checking voltages with cpuz and bios).
 

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These things are quite easy to OC and for the K chip you could probably just set multi at x42 and leave the rest on auto and be stable (after checking voltages with cpuz and bios).

Yeah haha I've never over clocked in my life never looked into it either, if it's easy for beginners I look into it
 

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Yeah haha I've never over clocked in my life never looked into it either, if it's easy for beginners I look into it

from 3.4ghz to 4.2 is quite a huge jump for such minimal tweaking. There are many guides on here/
 
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Fourstaff and suraswami, i5-3570k Ivy Bridge is LGA 1155 and i5-4670 Haswell is LGA1150 so the cpu won't fit in the socket, plus if Sneef's building a completely new system, why go for last generation when Haswell is already here?

Sorry what I meant was go with a 'k' chip if overclocking.

And one more thing, can go for used chip from reputed sellers here and save some money for that 770!
 

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Fourstaff and suraswami, i5-3570k Ivy Bridge is LGA 1155 and i5-4670 Haswell is LGA1150 so the cpu won't fit in the socket, plus if Sneef's building a completely new system, why go for last generation when Haswell is already here?

Because you actually need to work hard to overclock Haswell, whereas you just up volt and multi for 3570K, something which can be done under a minute. I recommended building around 3570K, not just swap in 3570K.
 
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These things are quite easy to OC and for the K chip you could probably just set multi at x42 and leave the rest on auto and be stable (after checking voltages with cpuz and bios).

Not really with Haswell. Simple bump of the multi is not enough. Haswell is a different animal when it comes to good overclocking compared to Sandy and Ivy.

As said, K processor is a must, go last generation if you want to make your life easier. I'd go for a AMD videocard due to mantle. http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/forum/threadview/2955064762535913244/

Mantle hasn't even made any traction, let alone even released, and you are already recommending AMD cards just because of it? What if it becomes a complete flop?
 
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Your 600 watt PSU is fine if you are not going to get multiple GPUs. a 500 watt PSU is fine for just about any single card solution. I ran a GTX 560ti and AMD 965 and an Antec Earthwatts 500 just fine; my current i5 4670K and GTX670PE use less power than those. Though I do have an Earthwatts 650.

If you can afford it, get a WD Black 2TB drive. An SSD is nice but is not much of an improvement in my experience.

Get the 4670K. Going to 4GHZ should not be difficult.
 
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Mantle hasn't even made any traction, let alone even released, and you are already recommending AMD cards just because of it? What if it becomes a complete flop?

QFT

Mantle is not a reason to buy amd right now.. It'll go the way of all the other proprietary alternatives to directx and won't get used for anything outside of a handful of random applications.
 
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