Other My partner has given me £300 for Xmas. What would you buy?

Current rig so far;

QX9650 watercooled overclocked @ 4.0ghz
8gb 800mhz corsair dhx 4 4 4 12
Gigabyte Ds4 X48 Mobo
2x Asus HD5870 cf
2 x Samsung f1 1tb in raid 0
Asus Xonar D2X 7.1
Cooler master RC1000 case
Cooler master real power 1000w psu
Lg 22x dvd rw cd rom

Dell 30" 3008wfp Monitor
Logitech G25 Wheel
Logitech X540 5.1 surround speakers
Logitech MX3200 keybroad & Mouse

What would you do with the money?

I was thinking of buying 2 20" Dell monitors to put either side of my 30" in portrait mode for a triple monitor setup.
But Ati eyefinity will not work with running 1 landscape and 2 monitors in portrait fro gaming yet.


Thanks for looking.

Simon

 

Dang, awesome rig so far!

First get some 1066 Ram. Then an SSD.
Or the monitor Idea you had, it's awesome O__O

 

SSD is the only thing your missing there. Get an Intel X-25M.

 

http://www.zi-mm.co.uk/ultimate-gam...2-vibration-motors-leather-finish-2999-0.html

Something along the same line.... It's all your really missing other than SSD (Im guessing) Ha.

 

My suggestion's the Crucial M225 128GB for £300.

Note: See also G:Skill Falcon, OCZ Vertex... blah, blah... Indilinx drives, basically. They're all identical, but AFAIK, the Crucial's the cheapest, and available direct from their wesbite.

 

LOL, Nice idea tho.

Thanks for the input lol.

I think I will not upgrade the ram as I will upgrade to ddr3 and get either X58 or X68 Mobo when its out and possibly 6 core gultown if the price is right next year.


Look's like its going to be a SSD for a boot drive. I ain't going to look forward to this as I have over 1.5tb of Data I have to back up and then go through the stages of installing windows again. Great lol

I have Windows 7 professional 64bit. Forgot to add that to my rig.

Thanks for the advice so far. Keep it coming tho.

Simon

 

You could persuade her to get you an i7-920 and 6GB of DDR3... Just a thought...

 

That is in budget i7 920 for £200 and £100+ for memory. But £200+ for a mobo. Which I wouldn't be able to buy till after Christmas tho.

 

Gigabyte UD3R is about £120 or so, I think..

 

Money won't be a problem after Xmas to upgrade to a better cpu, ram and mobo. but this time of year it cost me a fortune to buy for such a big family. In excess of £1000 for 20 peeps.
So the £300 is a nice treat to me.

 

I'd say atleast one more monitor, then an SSD.

 

Wait, get a PSU upgrade. That Real Power PSU is the one that blew up in the last CPC Lab tests.

 

Blew up? I've had this PSU for over 2 years and had 2 hd2900xt 1gb cards (those cards eat the power) running off it and 2 hd3870x2 in quad cf and I ain't had a problem with it.
My cpu has ran stable at 4 ghz for nearly 18months with that psu.
Maybe cpc had a dodgy one? I would highly recommend this psu to anyone!!!

 

If your partner is a female, then spend that money on her. Your rig is good enough as it is.

 

Yes my Partner is female. She has given me the money to buy myself something for Xmas. I have just spent close to £500 for her at Xmas.

 

+1 for this - Seriously, don't spend anymore money on your rig, not needed.

I'd book a weekend away at a nice B&B if I was you. That would get you more +rep with her(e) than an SSD will ever get you.

 

Apparently, there were problems with some (don't remember which, off the top of my head) of the rails falling below ATX spec, and it couldn't actually deliver 1000W. The best they managed was 990W for a total of 2 minutes, before it blew up and gave off a funny smell. Could just be a funny one, to be fair, but I wouldn't push it past 900W, just to be sure.

Maybe think outside the Intel-powered box here - that money could get you driving lessons, a guitar, a pool table... Maybe it's not a question of which component to buy, but more using it to do something different!

Oh, and hammer the Steam January sales, OBVIOUSLY!

For people saying "spend it on the missus", this is true_gamer's Christmas present from his girlfriend, and from the sounds of it, she's getting a lot already this Christmas!



EDIT:

So, if true_gamer was gay, he should buy the SSD?

 

This is the specs of my PSU you will see that 1000w is continuous power with a 1200w max output.

Read the review http://www.rbmods.com/Articles/Coolermaster/Rs-a00-esba/1.php

Model RS-A00-EMBA
Type ATX Form Factor 12V V2.2 / SSI standard EPS 12V V2.91
Dimension (W / H / D) 150(W) x 180(L) x 86(H) (mm)
Input Voltage 90~264V (Auto Range)
Input Current 15A@ 115 Vac / 8A@ 230 Vac
Input Frequency Range 47~63 Hz
PFC Active PFC(0.99)
Power Good Signal 100~500 ms
Hold Up Time >17 ms
Efficiency >85% Typically
MTBF >100,000 hrs
Protection OVP / OCP / OTP / OLP / Short / Full Protection
Output Capacity 1000 Watts Continuous
Max. Output Capacity 1,200 Watts
Operation Temperature 0~50??Nominal Input Voltage?
Safety CE / cUL / TUV / NEMKO / BSMI / FCC

Quote:
Originally Posted by DragunovHUN
If your partner is a female, then spend that money on her. Your rig is good enough as it is.
So, if true_gamer was gay, he should buy the SSD?

LOL.

Quote:
Originally Posted by logan'srun
+1 for this - Seriously, don't spend anymore money on your rig, not needed.

I'd book a weekend away at a nice B&B if I was you. That would get you more +rep with her(e) than an SSD will ever get you.

As a matter of fact we are going to Prince of Wales Theatre to watch Mamma Mia and stay at the The Hampshire - Radisson Edwardian hotel for the weekend.

I'm 27 my partners is 25, we have been together for 8 yrs, we have a little girl aged 11 months so before you say spend it on her, She has a wardrobe of clothes bigger than mine and my partners put together and so many toys that I could open a toy shop let alone the ones she getting for Xmas. Lol

So is there anything that you guys n girls would say WoW I want that!! (for under £300) cause I don't know what else to buy.


Thanks

Simon

 

well, I still wouldn't buy an SSD right now, not with all prices inflated 30%.

So buy the sounds of it, everyone in the fam is covered.

Sky Diving? Scuba Diving? Stunt Driving Course? Cook lessons with Jamie Oliver?

 

Treat yourself to some nice underwear from Ann Summers and a decent bottle of wine. Apply both on same night and enjoy

Either that or Synology NAS

Sky Diving would get you 1 jump for £300, and you wouldn't enjoy the first jump really, too much to think about.