Right, so guy with the issue of his HDD decided to give up after all the faffing about and get a new system. Gonna run this past you guys. CPU: Intel Core i7 950 (3.06Ghz) Motherboard: Asus Rampage II Extreme Memory: OCZ Blade ST 6GB (3X2GB) 2000MHz PC3-16000C8 Graphics Card: XFX ATI Radeon HD 5870 HDD (OS+Programs): OCZ Vertex 2E 40GB HDD (Media+Games): 2 x Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 2TB SATA-II Optical Drive: LG GH22NS50 Case: NZXT Phantom (White) PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 850W (This is a PSU I've got that's been used once and it's perfect) Any improvements you lovely people would make? He's a gamer, he does video editting and graphics design (not professional but enough that the i7 and high power RAM is actually used). He was considering a 5970 but he really doesn't have use for it (doesn't play Crysis90 yet >.<)
CPU - fine Motherboard - http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Giga...i-Xfire-PCI-E-2-DDR3-2200-USB3-and-SATA-6Gb-s or http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Asus...(x16)-DDR3-2000-(OC)-SATA-6Gb-s-SATA-RAID-ATX Memory - 2000MHz is a rip off and is no faster. http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/plus...0-(1600)-Non-ECC-Unbuffered-CAS-9-9-9-24-165V is a winner and much cheaper. Graphics Card - Theres always the temptation to wait for faster cards (6 series), but the 5870 will remain a powerhouse. SSD - SSD prices are crashing. http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/60GB...orce-SSD-MLC-Flash-Read-285MB-s-Write-275MB-s is FOUR pounds more expensive than your 40GB model. £4 for 50% more storage? I think thats a deal. Case - I would prefer a higher end case, but theres nothing wrong with that one.
Great motherboard. On a side note I dont know if it's been fixed yet but when I got mine I bought some corsair 1800 ram and it turned that that it wasn't compatible was only seeing 4g out of 6g and a lot of people was getting the same problem. It didn't seem to have this issue with the 1600mhz ram, One I changed it to the 1600 every thing works great. And as Bindi has said there's no point in getting more than 1600mhz really.
Doesn't the highend ram only work with win7? Swear I remember reading that somewhere. Okay so a little less on the RAM, The Motherboard he's fairly certain on but I'm sure I could persuade him with abit more Asus blue doom thanks to you Bindi =] The SSD, hmm may have to have a gander at that nice big drive for him! He wouldn't use it though knowing him! I'll speak to him. Yeah it's very tempting to say "Wait for the 6xxx" but to be honest, he'll probably buy one six months after release (When they drop £150 >.<)
