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1/16/2014 1:35:02 AM
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Updating My Rig - Fancy a bit of feedback

This is my rig at the moment. It's the only picture I have of it from recent days, but you get the idea. It's a Cooler Master HAF X chassis with: i7 3770K running at stock speed 16GB of Corsair Vengeance RAM at stock speed 120GB Corsair Force GT SSD 2TB WD Caviar Green HDD MSI GTX 680 Twin Frozr OC edition MSI Z77A-GD65 motherboard XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular PSU So basically, it's pretty fly. However, because I do a lot of moving around the country, the HAF X case is just -blam!-ing stupidly big and takes up far too much room in the car, and in the smaller room I have when not at university. As a result, I've just bought a Thermaltake case which is a much smaller 43cm tall (compared to the 60cm HAF X). And seeing as I'm taking the thing apart and putting it in a smaller case, I'm thinking now would be a good time to get any upgrades I wanted doing, well, done. First things first is the graphics card. While I'm really happy with the performance of the GTX 680 on a 1080p monitor, on my 1440p monitor it really struggles. The cons of a 2GB VRAM unfortunately. Upgrade wise, I can afford any PC part imaginable, even those stupid combi-GPUs I forget the name of. Someone remind me. However, I'd want to save money where possible. In other words, I'd much rather a GTX 780 Ti over the Titan. And no to the AMD R9 290X, thanks. I've heard one of those and seen the temperatures they hit. No thanks. Of course, I can stick to the GPU I have and get a 1080p monitor/TV for a second screen, and use that for recording gameplay versus just playing normally on the 1440p. That'd certainly save me a bundle. The monitor I have at the moment doesn't downscale very well. Setting the resolution to 1080 on the 1440 monitor looks awful, so it's not really a solution. Then there's the HDD. Caviar Black instead of Green. Not really worth asking for tips on that, going to keep the Green as a video recording drive, and use the Black as a game boot drive. SSD-wise I'm happy with my Force GT as a boot drive. That's... well, that's about it really. I'm not planning any overclocking at the moment, but I suppose I could look into it for a performance boost. With some third-party cooling, too, seeing as I'm running stock at the mo. Gwan den BNet, let's hear it. Is the 780 Ti really worth the dolla? Or are there other options like SLI/Crossfire of less powerful cards I can use? Oh, and a minimum of 3GB VRAM please. I want to keep my 1440 monitor. Ta!

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