New Custom Rig - Help and Opinions

Rossdh

Rossdh

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Hi all, first post today :D
Right, I'm 18 in August and have trust fund money coming through so I've decided to spend about £1400 to £1600 on a custom gaming rig which I will put together my self. Now this is something that I have never done so I'd be grateful if you guys can give me some tips and opinions on the components I've selcted and also give me any hints and ideas or if there are any new and better components coming out between now and August/September. I'd also like to know if I'll need any extras for building myself eg thermal pastes, cables, connectors etc. I'll post my selected components below. Oh btw, I'll be using a Dell 20" 2007WFP as my display so if you think I've gone overboard with the GPU's or anything please let me know lol.


Asus Rampage II Extreme Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3Motherboard

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) -Retail + Far Cry 2 Game

XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 1024MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Inc. Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X & BattleForge - Retail

Coolermaster RC-1000 Cosmos Silent Full Tower Case - Black (No PSU)

Corsair HX 620W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-620HXUK)

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66I-01939)

OCZ Gold 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel (OCZ3G1600LV6GK)

Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST350041AS)

LG GH22NS30 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM

This all comes to £1496.43 inc. VAT
Any help guys would be great.
 
Hi and welcome to forums
Theres DX11 gfx cards on the horizon, will be in line with the release of windows 7, I think theyre rumoured October, someone may well correct me though
Your spec looks quite good
Mobo: thats a top line mobo, are you an intense OCer? if not you'd prob get just as much out of the P6T series and save yourself a bit of money, another option is the Gigabyte UD5
CPU: fine
GFX: you said GPU's in your first post, if that means plural then yeah its a bit overboard for a 20" monitor, one will more than suffice, you could maybe upgrade to a nice 24" monitor too as an option. If you were going for 2 then Id just look at the 4870x2 at £262, its a steal, but again overkill for a 20" monitor
Case: very much personal choice
PSU: Id go for a bigger PSU, something along the lines of 850W, 620 would be fine for this set up with one gfx card, but Id recomend the headroom to allow for future upgrades and addition of 2nd gfx card later if needed, you may also want to look at modular as it makes cabling easier. As well as Corsair - BeQuiet, Zalman, PC Power & Cooling and Coolermaster are good makes
RAM and Cooler look fine
HDD: Id go for a Western Digital or Samsung spinpoint myself, bit better reliability than the seagates, either a WD Caviar Black or Sammy F1, what you could do is get a smallish one (320gig) for OS and apps/games and a larger 1Tb for storage of media etc, the WD Caviar Greens are ideal for this
Hope that helps you
 
siumatfung said:
sorry mate if it seemed rude but that wasnt a **** take:D anyways pretty much what the above said is spot one:D
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lol no no it didnt

ok then so any ideas on graphics card? would you say nvidia or ati
also i was thinking maybe adding anouther pack of that OCZ RAM to make a total of 12GB? What do you think?
 
Theres the age old arument of ATI vs NVidia and theyre pretty evenly matched atm, whichever you prefer
No 12 gig would be overkill
something like this (I ignored my own advice re HDD, nvm, lol)

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ok thanks em is there any model you would recommend ati or nvidia?
also why would 12GB be overkill? I thought the more you have the better?
lol sorry, just i'm not very savvy with all the current stuff thats out there
 
no 6gb of RAM is fine

but erm the way the market is going atm is ATi is beating nvidia at every price range:D however the bang buck cards are the 4870s and GTX 260s:D
 
Yeah, 12GB gives no benefit at all at the moment unless you're running a lot of VMs or doing lots of rendering.....really heavy duty stuff like that. 6GB is perfectly fine.

The landscape will be very different by the time you come to build, so don't decide on and certainly don't buy any parts right now.
 
ok guys great thanks very much. no doubt by the time it comes to buy, everything will be totally different lol again cheers
 
reflux said:
The landscape will be very different by the time you come to build, so don't decide on and certainly don't buy any parts right now.
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Yeah echo that, did a build for you but forgot youre not buying for a few months, best to come back on nearer the time (a week or 2 b4) and get more uptodate advice re specific components
 
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