Hi guys, First of all, it's my fist post on this board and so far I've enjoyed reading it a lot! My old PC is reaching the end of it's life and I figured it is time to think to replacement. Here's what I have so far, it's mainly based on the May buyer's guide : Budget: around £900 it's not a hard limit Main uses of intended build: Gaming, a little bit of video/photo editing (not much really). MB: Asus P8P67 CPU : i5-2500K SSD: Crucial M4 64Gb HDD : Samsung spinpoint F3 1 Tb GPU: MSI 560Ti twin frozor OC RAM: 4Gb en 1600 Mhz not yet decided more precisely PSU: Aerocool 650W HorsePower (brought over from my previous build) Case: Antec One hundred OS: Windows 7 Pro 64bits (Student license it cost me less to buy the pro edition than the family edition) Cpu Cooler : Thermaltake Frio Native monitor resolution : 1680x1050 Overclock : Yes, I will try to at least not too much experienced in this field yet. One of my main worry is : is it a good idea to use use my old PSU, I mean it is not that old ( 1 year and a half I think) and I've got a friend who's got a similar model from the same brand and he recently transfered it to it's new build without any problems. Also it's hard to find review for this particular model, but the only one I found seemed to be satisfied with the quality of this PSU. Waiting to see what you're having to say guys, thanks for reading , and sorry if my English wasn't good, I'm Belgian
build looks fine except for the PSU Grab a decent one not a cheapo as if it goes bang tends to take stuff with it also it will be horribly inefficient not to mention unable to output 650W or have a decent 12V rail. 500-650W or something similar will do just fine. OCZ ModXStream Pro 500W is bit-techs choice or the Antec truepower Neo 650W but Corsair have a decent range as well as be quiet As for RAM just grab the Corsair XMS3 4GB kit of DDR1600mhz job done
I have very similar system but 6950 and went with Trupower 650w scan has it on today only frequently for £60 odd quid and it's very good
