a budget build that's gotten out of hand

[Conspicuous]

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3ogRc

 

ok so i want a dual monitor build but I'm unwilling to spend over £800. Am I being silly with this budget or is it possible. Is the processor/monitors a bit too expensive??? help

[reepicheep]

Wouldn't it be more worth it to leave out one monitor and get one nice card? You could easily get a GTX 770 (you'd come out 60 quid or so cheaper, in fact). I've got an i5-4670 and a GTX 770 and it works great.

[Conspicuous]

Wouldn't it be more worth it to leave out one monitor and get one nice card? You could easily get a GTX 770 (you'd come out 60 quid or so cheaper, in fact). I've got an i5-4670 and a GTX 770 and it works great.

 

ya but two monitors is so useful!!! one screen youtube second screen sims3/fallout/minecraft/insert other game

[reepicheep]

Wouldn't it be more worth it to leave out one monitor and get one nice card? You could easily get a GTX 770 (you'd come out 60 quid or so cheaper, in fact). I've got an i5-4670 and a GTX 770 and it works great.

 

ya but two monitors is so useful!!! one screen youtube second screen sims3/fallout/minecraft/insert other game

Sure, but you could always get a new monitor later whereas it'd be more costly to upgrade later. Don't get me wrong, two monitors are great, but having a good computer is probably more worth it. I don't suppose you don't have an old one gathering dust somewhere?

[Conspicuous]

Wouldn't it be more worth it to leave out one monitor and get one nice card? You could easily get a GTX 770 (you'd come out 60 quid or so cheaper, in fact). I've got an i5-4670 and a GTX 770 and it works great.

 

ya but two monitors is so useful!!! one screen youtube second screen sims3/fallout/minecraft/insert other game

Sure, but you could always get a new monitor later whereas it'd be more costly to upgrade later. Don't get me wrong, two monitors are great, but having a good computer is probably more worth it. I don't suppose you don't have an old one gathering dust somewhere?

 

gave that one away. that old one was about 13 years old, it ran on a very old athlon and a gfx card that i couldn't recognise lol. Yeah I could do that, however getting the second gtx770 and monitor may take me quite a while and if I was gonna go for a single monitor set up, I'd prefer to not spend more than £600 tbh

[reepicheep]

Wouldn't it be more worth it to leave out one monitor and get one nice card? You could easily get a GTX 770 (you'd come out 60 quid or so cheaper, in fact). I've got an i5-4670 and a GTX 770 and it works great.

 

ya but two monitors is so useful!!! one screen youtube second screen sims3/fallout/minecraft/insert other game

Sure, but you could always get a new monitor later whereas it'd be more costly to upgrade later. Don't get me wrong, two monitors are great, but having a good computer is probably more worth it. I don't suppose you don't have an old one gathering dust somewhere?

 

gave that one away. that old one was about 13 years old, it ran on a very old athlon and a gfx card that i couldn't recognise lol. Yeah I could do that, however getting the second gtx770 and monitor may take me quite a while and if I was gonna go for a single monitor set up, I'd prefer to not spend more than £600 tbh

Maybe give this a try? Or alternatively, this. To me it looks like you're using a CPU that is overpowered for that system anyway. Don't forget that games rely more on GPU than CPU, so if you're looking to game (which, presumably, you are, given that you're spending a decent amount of cash on GPUs anyway). I'm assuming that you don't want to spend more than £600 for the computer itself? Because I would stick with one monitor, get a slightly better computer now and pick up a second monitor when you've saved up for it. Also, I'd avoid crossfiring/ SLIing. I question whether the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. I'm not an expert, but not every application takes advantage of more than one card, having more than one card is less stable plus you can have microstuttering issues. I'd save myself the headache and just get one good card, performance difference be damned. I'd especially be concerned with the fact that your 7770s have only 1GB of VRAM, although I'm not sure to what extent that is a problem.

Edited April 8, 2014 by reepicheep

[O hai im KAMIL]

Ditch the crossfire and go with a single stronger card. I'd choose the R9 270. It's essentially two 7770's in one from a performance standpoint but you won't have to deal with the problems of Crossfire/micro stuttering and always have room to upgrade (though a CX500 wouldn't cut it for two of these, but if it's only a budget build then a single 270 will last you a while).

[reepicheep]

Ditch the crossfire and go with a single stronger card. I'd choose the R9 270. It's essentially two 7770's in one from a performance standpoint but you won't have to deal with the problems of Crossfire/micro stuttering and always have room to upgrade (though a CX500 wouldn't cut it for two of these, but if it's only a budget build then a single 270 will last you a while).

To be honest, unless he's upgrading to a second card within half a year, I highly highly doubt that there's any reason to go crossfire rather than just get an entirely new card.