Budget: £780 max Main uses of intended build: Gaming and a little video editing Parts required: Motherboard, Processor, RAM, HDD, ODD, Graphics Card and Power Supply Monitor resolution: 1680 x 1050 Storage requirements: at least 500Gb and maybe a solid state boot, dunno Will you be overclocking: yes Any motherboard requirements: SLI or crossfire depending on what graphics card people reccomend i will add a second one at a later date Extra information about desired system: I'd like it to last if possible 3-5 years (the PC in my sig has lasted about 3) and i'd like to have an intel processor either an i5 or i7 sandybridge Any help would be greatly appreciated
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/buyers-guide/2011/05/10/pc-hardware-buyer-s-guide-may-2011/3 Upgrade the 6850 with a 560ti/6950.
sounds good and weirdly enough thats the case i was going t ouse anyway as i have that now, would it be worth getting one of the newer Z68 motherboards?
I'd agree on the Bit Tech buyer's guide build. Sandybridge should last you a good while. Depending on how much video editing or what kind (eg- is it HD?) , you may want to bump up that RAM to 6GB. Also, storage is so cheap now there's not much cost benefit in getting less than 1TB, can pick up an F3 from Scan for £37 now.
No benefits in performance from the Z68 boards as far as I'm aware and they cost a fair bit more so no. Good boot SSD http://www.scan.co.uk/products/60gb-ocz-agility-3-ssd-25-sata-6gb-s-sandforce-2281-read-525mb-s-write-475mb-s-50k-iops
ill just say yes because some is and some isnt with graphics cards would you recommend ATI or Nvidia?
I second this with the addition of replacing the P8P67 m/b with an MSI P67A-GD53 which is cheaper and gives you both SLI and Crossfire (which the P8P67 doesn't). The MSI will be only the bit-tech buyers guide next month, it is in the magazine already. Note that there is a case included in that cost and you haven't mentioned that you need one - so the total will be cheaper.
the case thats in the buyers guide the coolermaster if you look in my sig i actually have it already and ill be reusing it
Doh, I didn't read your sig, sorry. In that "case" (excuse pun), the enthusiast overclocker build is spot on if you swap the P8P67 with the MSI P67A-GD53 (saving around a tenner) and upgrading the GPU to a 560 Ti or 6950 as suggested earlier. It should bring it to around the £650 mark. I'll do a price list from Scan and post back.
aha its ok, and awesome thanks, do you think it would be wotrth getting 8Gb ram instead of 4 and cooler like the dark rock?
All prices from Scan (doesn't include any Today Only specials): 1TB Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 £40.07 Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE £14.87 Intel Core i5 2500K Unlocked, 1155, Sdy Bridge, QuadCore, 3.3GHz, GPU 850Mhz, 95W, Retail +Free Game £161.00 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair Vengeance DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-24, XMP, 1.50V £79.34 Gelid Tranquillo 4 Heatpipe + PWM, Silent 120 Fan £23.03 600W Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold, Modular, 80 PLUS Gold, 90% Eff', SLI/CrossFire, EPS12V, 135mm Fan £70.00 MSI P67A-GD53 (B3), Intel P67, S 1155, PCI-E 2.0, DDR3 2133, SATA 6Gb/s, SATA RAID, ATX, SLI/ XFire £108.88 1GB MSI GTX 560 Ti Twin Frozr II/OC, 40nm, 4200MHz GDDR5, GPU 880MHz, Shader 1760MHz, 384 Cores £184.27 64GB Crucial RealSSD M4, 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s SSD, MLC-Flash, Read 415MB/s, Write 95MB/s £90.77 Total = £772.73 excluding delivery (free as forum member with 20 posts). If you factor in saving up to 5% through shopping around and special deals (like Today Only), the cost will come down.
Nice one Fingers66! Seeing as the OP mentioned a second GPU a beefier PSU is definately in order! Although why a 64GB Crucial? Wouldn't an OCZ 60GB Agility 3 SSD make more sense?
awesome man thanks, think im gonna get that, just got to save up my pay now so hopefully some of it will have come down in price before i manage to get it and blogins that isnt a definate but it was a possibility
The 700w 80 Plus Bronze rated Cooler Master Silent Pro is only another £10. Re: the SSD, the Crucial I listed is an example and tbh, I am not an expert on which is best.
