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