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Build Advice The Build!

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by nathanddave, 9 Jun 2010.

  1. nathanddave

    nathanddave What's a Dremel?

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    I have ordered all my parts for my computer today, after a very long time of waiting I am extremly happy with my decision, and I can't wait to put it together. Here is the list of what I bought my budget was £1000 the total cost was £995 so I think it went well :).

    Motherboard: P7P55D Deluxe
    Processor: CPU i5 750
    Hard drive: Samsung F3 1TB
    Power supply: Antec Truepower 750W
    Graphics card: XFX HD 5850 AVP edition
    Case: Coolermaster 690 ii advanced
    RAM: DDR3 Corsair 1600mhz
    Heat sink: Gelid Tranqulio
    DVD drive: Sony (One that was lightscribe)
    OS: Windows 7
    Network: Going to buy a USB Belkin N150 from Pc world (dont say why, I just decided to XD)
    Then a few other bits like cables and Arctic silver 5

    I know the motherboard was probably a bit of an overspend :/ but I am happy with my choice, just one of those decisions.

    I will be posting up pictures as soon as I can

    Thank you for reading:D
     
  2. Telltale Boy

    Telltale Boy Designated CPC Jetwhore

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    Its pretty much the solid tried & tested build (i5 750, 5850, Spinpoint F3 etc.), it's a quality & well balanced build pretty much.
    It's good to see you've done your research. ;)
     
  3. nathanddave

    nathanddave What's a Dremel?

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    Thanks, :) I spent a lot of time looking at different parts deciding which is the best one to get, bit-tech helped a lot with that research with many of their reviews. Just need to get the parts now and then build, I can't wait I am really excitied haha XD
     
  4. Instagib

    Instagib Minimodder

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    Nice build. Are you going to oc it? It'd be rude not to.
     
  5. Bloody_Pete

    Bloody_Pete Technophile

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    Have fun with the building nerves :p the first power on is always the worst... Waiting for the happy beep...
     
  6. nathanddave

    nathanddave What's a Dremel?

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    Yh... I will give OC a good shot :)

    And yh building it, the time you turn on the power to the beep will probably be a very long wait haha
     
  7. bestseany

    bestseany What's a Dremel?

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    Nice setup, should be plenty quick enough.
     
  8. Ljs

    Ljs Modder

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    I bought an abit AirPace and would highly recommend one.

    Everywhere was out of stock when I needed it so managed to win one on ebay for a pound with free postage to boot.
     
  9. Marine-RX179

    Marine-RX179 What's a Dremel?

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    Yea...for that price you could have gotten a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4 which got USB3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s and can Crossfire/SLI. Oh well, at least your board can do Crossfire/SLI I guess, and that feature alone doesn't make the board too overpriced.

    One thing that bugs me about Asus's boards design is the memory slots being so close to the CPU socket...it would cause problem for installing some CPU coolers.
     
  10. nathanddave

    nathanddave What's a Dremel?

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    The RAM that I have bought is not as tall as RAM such as the dominator, so I wanted to make sure I would fit RAM into the other slots nearer the CPU socket.
     

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