Ive been looking around for about a month now, and was initially planing on building something close to 1000 next month but ive now decided to spend the next 4 months building something closer to 2000, and future proofing So my plan is once built, the cpu will be overclocked to 4ghz, or close too I eventually plan to watercool it, not until maybe january/february The crossfire gpus may or may not happen, depending on the progress dx11 cards Just wondering if anyone can offer any further advice on the system specs ive given below Case - Lian Li x1000 - 300.00(something like this ?) When its available Motherboard - Asus P6T7 WS Revolution - 339.25 Power Supply - 1250w Enermax Revolution - 217.35 CPU - Core i7 920 2.66Ghz - 201.45 GPU - Sapphire 4870x2 x2 Crossfire - 243.46 Each RAM - 6GB Corsair Dominator GT 2000mhz - 235.98 CPU Cooler - Thermallight Ultra Extreme 120 - 51.62 Hard Drives - 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 - 113.86 - Media 500Gb Western Digital - Currently Own - Backup 300GB VelociRaptor 10000rpm - 165.39 - Games 32GB Corsair Extreme Series - 114.22 - OS Total - 2226.04 Thanks
Drop the Quad XFire this second, it doesn't scale well and its major overkill anyway, I am assuming the Velocirptor is for a balance of speed and storage for £2000, upgrade from the 920 to 950 and drop one 4870X2 or even both and go for a 4890X2 set up, Power Supply is overkill, the motherboard is kinda overkill, mate are you gaming or simulating a nuclear bomb on Moscow in Real time?
lol ill drop one of the 4870's, and go to the 950 the reason for the motherboard, was to utilize 2000mhz ram speeds or to basically future proof, i dont want to buy new board next year again for another 200 quid, which is what i seem to be doing year in year out the power supply again was to future proof, but ill drop it down 850 or 950 anything else you reckon ?
SSD's are still expensive, ill be buying it at the tail end so perhaps we'll see a drop in price if so, ill replace the velociraptor
Indeed and he is using an SSD for Boot Drive, the Velociraptor is very fast (if not as fast as SSD) and also has reasonably storage - 300GB = 30 Games
Meh. Buy a bigger SSD and just uninstall a game once in a while. There's really no point in a Raptor atm. If you really want a fast place for putting games that isn't an SSD just buy a Spinpoint F1. Also, whatever the outcome, get a 60GB SSD. An OS with a few programs will fill up 30GB pretty quickly, even without games. A 60GB G.Skill Falcon drive is only ~£150.
DX11 cards are about to come out (Q4 this year), as well as Nehalem. I wouldn't advise upgrading until they're out to be honest.
+1 on Krikkit. Or a 60Gb SSD for the OS, another HDD for the programs/games (Spinpoint F1 1Tb) and have the 500Gb for files? With the money you save from only having a 4870x2 instead of two of them, build an Atom system with a 1.5Tb HDD as backup, or even better, as a RAID 1 file server (with just the SSD in the case). As for the PSU a Seasonic M12D 850 might be worth looking into, should power the thing with no problems and save you about £50 in the process. Though before any upgrades, wait about a month... With DX11 cards coming out soon the price of a 4870x2 will plummet, and with Nehalem the same should happen with the i7 chip.
Changes Replaced your case with a cheaper but equally desirable one from Lian Li, Velociraptor was replace with an equally fast Samsung Spinpoint F1 for Games, 1TB Storage Drive and 64GB SSD from Corsair for boot/programs, BeQuiet Dark Pro is cheaper than Enermax and better - The Motherboard still accepts 2000MHz RAM but its half the price What do you think - it's at £1700 Or you could indeed wait for DX11 and i5/i9 EDIT: The picture doesn't seem to show EDIT: link is here: http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=bXcZ8DDMLuR923/tRP3Saoh4l5k2TGxc
well im gonna buy in the order of case psu mobo ram the later items such as cpu and gpu will come in november december so that should leave enough time for the intial dx11 cards out in october nehalem ? this architecture is already in use, all i7 cpu's use this the only upcoming advances in cpu's are the apparent i9, which isnt scheduled until q2 2010 so buying an i7 950 isn't really a bad idea just now unless im not up on something, which is probably true
I spent about £2000 + on a pc build a couple of years ago.... My advice? put it towards a cheaper laptop that will do and put the rest towards a car. I wish I kept the money now in all honesty.....
tbh I agree with this, spend no more than £1000 on a computer, keep it for 2 years and maybe spend the other £1000 on something nice, computers depreciate too fast to spend £2000 on EDIT: or spend the £1000 on the stuff you don't change for a long time - TFTs, Peripherals, a case, PSU etc... all the things you won't NEED to change for 3-4 years or longer
the cheaper the better, the drive idea sounds perfect, ill just ditch the velociraptor and use the extra funds for the 64gb ssd ill go with the dark power pro 850w instead, save me some money what board was it ? cant see the photo unfortunately as far as i knew i5 wont be as powerful as the i7 series, and i9 isnt until next year, near summer, or has this changed ?
meh, if i were to just keep it, id only spend it on crap i didnt need its free money as im a student so i might as well get something wit it
You could donate it to a... worthy cause - Moyo2k's Kickass Rig Mark 2 fund No but seriously - spend £1000 on a folding rig - if you've got spare cash its the most ethical thing you can do short of donating to charity
Drop the 2ghz, just get a good 1.6ghz kit it's not worth the cash and 1.6GHz will future proof just as well as the 2GHz as by the time you need 2GHz for a good computing experience 6GB will only be just enough Also get a 60GB OCZ Vertex. Can use it as a multiboot that way. Also why do you need the Revolution? What's wrong with the deluxe V2? And why the hell are you paying over £100 for a 1TB spinpoint? That's awful. You can get it for around £70 or the WD Caviar Black 1TB for aroud that too. I wouldn't bother going for the enermax 1250w, get the 1050w, cheaper and 4 gtx 295's folding only require 1kw ish
lol i never said it was spare just that i wanted to get something with my money instead of wasting it away
I think the best thing to do is build a £1000 rig including screen and keyboard/mouse etc... the works and spend £1000 on a folding rig, I'd love to help you do that, £2000 gaming rigs are absolute overkill, would you like to do that?
