I need a system that can handle rendering as well as high-end gaming
Vortex 1250 Gaming PC
- Intel Core i7-4790K
- Asus H97M-E
- 16GB Kingston Hyper-X Beast DDR3 2133MHz
- 4GB Nvidia Geforce GTX 970
- 240GB Kingston 3K SSD
- 1TB SATA III HDD (7,200)
A very powerful processor, plenty of fast RAM and a fast SSD are more that enough to make this a rendering monster. If you have to process a lot of video or 3D scenes, you’ll be very happy with what a system like this has to offer. Of course, this is also a very capable gaming PC as the GTX 970 is a great gaming card.
jsut having a quick peek whilst both the compact gaming and the something to enjoy games both have a serious flaw imo, SSD 🙂 given the cost of a decent 128gb ssd starts about £40 not having one in any build is a serious flaw, given its bonus to ANY system in speeds etc.
Also do these include OS, if not then it would be good to point out that an extra £80 (or so) would be required to get these machines up and running and in some cases this is a fairly large % increase in cost.
But with most new games being about 50gb+, SSD’s aren’t really worth the money :p Yea they’re great and i’d love to have one, but i’d much rather get a 1TB HDD for about the same price as a 128GB SSD. And it doesn’t make that much difference once you’re actually in game.
no my point was that any half decent build now has a SSD & HDD and all you have is the OS and your most important things on the SSD the rest sits on the HDD. If you wont or cant go down the duel drives then SSHD should be high up on your list rather than the HDD.
The increase in your machine from the SSD far outweighs pretty much any component pound for pound
perfectjake can you show me one legit site where you can buy windows 7 or windows 8(1) for anything like 10 pound… from any reputable retailer even the basic windows 7 home comes in about £50.
Reputable retailers can’t drop the price as much as ordinary retailers because of what they are. So if you look around you can easily find a legitimate copy of windows for only a few bucks. + there are promotions and all that jazz here and there. Sales and educational discounts etc etc.
Same applies with pretty much anything, really.
Can also be a copy from someone who got several Windows (windowses?) through work for free that is then given to another.
You dont need to spend 80 pounds on an OS I can get legitimate copies for about 10 pounds
2. An APU can do the trick here. With a quad core APU like A8-76×0 this can also double as an entry gaming system.
3. That’s where you put the 270X.
4. You need a 290 or a 970 in this one.
5. GTX 980 or 295X2
6. Two 970s go here
7. Plextor? Velociraptor? Really? Nope. Plextor is not fast enough to justify the cost and Velociraptor, like the other dinosaurs, is long forgotten.
Two SATA SSDs and a 3TB HDD will come cheaper and offer more. If we have to have PCIe SSD for booting, Intel 750 400GB is a better option.