I have nearly £1400 pounds to spend on a tower, have some ideas but need help

In my opinion i7 core not worth it, look back to when Conroe came out 975X didn't last long at all before we had P965, P35, X38, X48, P45 chipsets which improved immensley memory & fsb overclocks.

Me personally, I am sticking with the P45 chipset untill after June 09 when we will see the launch of the mainstream chipset i5 which also is on a different socket to i7 i.e. LGA-1156 which will run cooler & also using dual channel DDR3.
 
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Me personally, I am sticking with the P45 chipset untill after June 09 when we will see the launch of the mainstream chipset i5 which also is on a different socket to i7 i.e. LGA-1156 which will run cooler & also using dual channel DDR3.

it's a different cpu and as such different socket and different chipset.
X58 isn't going anywhere as x58 is the top of the range i7. With latter releases being cheaper more main stream chips.
 
Thank you all so much for all your advice, You turned me back to an i7 920 based system,
Just a bit of advice about the Asus P6T DELUXE X58 , I have read a review of this and also the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 @ ocaholic.ch

Their test results favour the Gigabyte mobo and it's £22 cheaper than the asus
you can see the results here. the asus mobo they review is the oc palm which is more expensive than the basic pt6 but the gigabyte still beats it in many tests

http://www.ocaholic.ch/xoops/html/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=224&page=5

Could you have a look and tell me what you think of the gigabyte mobo.
 
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Keep the majority of the cash, and get some parts for now to last you 2 years.

I can tell you that you will regret it sooner rather than later buying this 1st Gen I7 that basically looks kinda crap so far and will change so much over next months/1 year) ;)

It will do nothing for you any better (in reality) than you can do without it inc gaming.
 
Do you really think the i7 is that bad, what sort of things do you expect to change.

There is no point upgrading my old pc as everything in it is obsolete, and anyway its starting to fall apart on me, really playing up, cuts out, wont start first time anymore, I have to turn it of and restart.

So i really do need a new pc now.

god, cant decide again now. at least if i go for a 9550 base i know it is well established.
i have picked an i7 system if i do decide to go that route,

now i think ill chose a q9550 system also and see what people think of them side by side.
Can you recommend a good ddr3 mobo for 775

also is the 9550 a good choice 775 chip for oc, I see you use the 8600 how does that perform compared to the 9550

Looks like ill be waiting till the new year anyway, its going to take me till then to decide lol
 
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Keep the majority of the cash, and get some parts for now to last you 2 years.

I can tell you that you will regret it sooner rather than later buying this 1st Gen I7 that basically looks kinda crap so far and will change so much over next months/1 year) ;)

It will do nothing for you any better (in reality) than you can do without it inc gaming.

Like what in 12montsh time you have the 32nm shrink and 12 months after taht you'll have the 8th gen intel cpu.

In the next 3 months you will have the mainstream i7 cpu which will be a different chipset, different socket and has less performance. Not much is going to change. I really don't understand where you are coming from.

There's always going to be something new in the future. but in the immediate future these i7 chips are going to be the best, even when new ones are released.
 
^ Agreed, hardly anything is going to change in 6 months with i7 bar for the price a bit.

Not like some magical thing is going to happen and they make architecture changes that make it like 50% faster for gaming, not going to happen.
 
This is what I have chosen for an i7 setup,If i go that route, some minor changes from your suggestion acidhell,, and very similar to what i wanted to get originally,

Intel Core i7 920 2.66Gh £229.99
Asus P6T DELUXE X58 £240.37
2 x Zotac GeForce GTX 260 "Maxcore" 896MB GDDR3 £413.98
Corsair 6GB DDR3 Dominator PC3-12800C8 1600MHz (3x2GB) £275.99
Corsair TX 750W ATX2.2 SLI Compliant PSU £80.49
Zalman CNPS9700-LED CPU Cooler £41.39
Zalman ZM-CS4A Socket 1366 Clip Support Kit for CNPS9500/9700 £3.99
Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Full Tower Case £121.99
Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB £73.37
Total £1481.56
More than I planned to speend but with 6 gig ram
Im going for the Zalman cooler as it is only 1 degree warmer than the Thermalright but looks so much better to me. If you have any reason why not to use the Zalman then could you let me know.

Do you have any opinions on the gigabyte ga-ex58 ud5?
 
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INTEL themselves HAVE SAID only weeks ago, I7 will not be mainstream till at least the end of 2009.

IMO (and this is really IMO) the current I7 Hardware is pretty poor and expensive and will be older sooner than other hardware as 1st gen always is, never mind major bugs etc.

I could buy the hardware tomorrow but I reframe from doing so after reading all reviews I can find and all point of its a waste of time for me anyhow.

Its all very good spending other peeps cash.
 
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You know what mainstream means I would think in general terms m8.

Socket 775 is still the one that will sell most till then going by Intel predictions.

Why not list all your current hardware here so I (we) can see if its worth spending a few £100 on now or not.

This is only my opinion after all but I have a fair bit of disposable income and I still wont buy this 1st lot of I7's.
 
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Can I ask again

What would be a good choice for a 775 processor under £250?

For 2+years as we spoke of a 45nm Quad ideally E0 Stepping (the Q9950 OEM is £229 and all are said to be E0 in OCUK stock now).

On top of 8GB of cheap DDR2 to cover all your games in future and encoding (easily).
 
cheers, and you recommend ddr2 is the way to go with the q9550, it is much cheaper and aso are the mobos.

I have a athlon 64 3500+
gigabyte nforce 4 gak8-nf9 mobo not sli
2 gig ddr dual channel 166 mhz
x850xt pe gfx
maxtor 300gb hd sata 1

Like I said well out of date, everything in it came out over 5 years ago,
 
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DDR3 is not needed esp with 775's and still cost a lot of cash and you will need 3 Sticks at least for a 1366 Mobo.

I assumed you had a current 775 set up TBH m8, just case of updating a few parts.

But again, do you spend £1400 on something new that's not that great and will be bettered sooner rather than later as 1st Gen always are or do you spend a few £100 now on 775 kit (its now harder as I know your current set up is old).

A few days (possibly a week) ago someone got slagged as he wanted to spend £1500-£2000, now peeps are happy to spend your £1400 on I7 hardware. :p
 
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With such disagreement over the i7 im thinking of going down the 9550 route,
It is too much money to risk on something that some people say could have major issues.
 
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x2GB) £91
I can always top that upto 8 later

Can you recommend a really good 775 ddr2 sli mobo
 
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That's what I have, sometimes you can get it for less. ;)

You need a PSU & GPU regardless of Socket Type (not sure if you need a new PC Case and HDD's/Optical Drives) and if you want a good proper Heatsink not stock crap.

So it all hangs on CPU/MOBO/Memory.

There is not a good SLI+DDR2 Mobo, only the 790I is even worth looking at and its DDR3 only.

You do not really need SLI or Crossfire, buy a P45 IMO (you can still run Crossfire as its PCI-E 2.0, proven in review last week).
 
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so you recommend going for ati gfx and crossfire rather than sli ok. im fine with that.
Now i need a good ati gfx card, lol

What p45 mobo do you recommend ?
 
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