£1400-1600 spec me a gaming PC

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I am currently trying to get some money off my parents to build a pc and there thinking about it. So could you spec me a gaming PC with an i7 930 excluding outer casing because I already have Antec 902. This will need the OS and Mouse and keyboard etc...

Thanks :)
 
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £268.99
(£228.93) £268.99
(£228.93)
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £229.99
(£195.74) £229.99
(£195.74)
Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - OEM + Assassin's Creed II Game £229.99
(£195.74) £229.99
(£195.74)
Iiyama ProLite E2407HDSD 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor £159.25
(£135.53) £159.25
(£135.53)
Crucial M225 64GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (CT64M225) £140.99
(£119.99) £140.99
(£119.99)
OCZ Gold 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel (OCZ3G1600LV6GK) £139.99
(£119.14) £139.99
(£119.14)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £81.99
(£69.78) £81.99
(£69.78)
OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply £72.99
(£62.12) £72.99
(£62.12)
Noctua NH-D14 Dual Radiator CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM2) £69.99
(£59.57) £69.99
(£59.57)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £64.99
(£55.31) £64.99
(£55.31)
Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard (920-000375) £60.99
(£51.91) £60.99
(£51.91)
Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse (910-000616) £26.99
(£22.97) £26.99
(£22.97)
Sony Optiarc AD-5240S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£14.46) £16.99
(£14.46)
Sub Total : £1,331.19
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.25
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £234.93
Total : £1,577.37

That motherboard is probably a bit OTT but it's an excellent board and will give you the option to upgrade to crossfire later.

edit: okay I guess you could take out the monitor and add a 2nd 5850 and still be ~£1600.
 
Yes...for the price you cant beat them...Corsair,antec etc they say are better but you cant really tell the difference in performance only in price
 
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If you're going to get an SSD (and with your budget I'd say it's nice to have) I wouldn't bother going any smaller than 60GB otherwise you'll find your OS + 1 or 2 games will pretty much fill it.
 
Ok so after reading this thread and looking at peoples recommendations etc. I have come up with this. what do you think?

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Looks good, from what I've read the 5850 will overclock fairly easily to pretty much the same speed as the 5870, but if you really want the 70 then go for it.
 
mattjd said:
Ok so after reading this thread and looking at peoples recommendations etc. I have come up with this. what do you think?

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My system I spec'd will be faster and it's cheaper ;) - You've spend excess money on things I don't think you'll benefit from - Like a keyboard twice as expensive, excess cash on the retail version of the dvd drive, a more expensive motherboard. I can understand the SSD upgrade but not the others.
 
I am not going to bother OC my GPU's because of my epxerience of it I just get overheating and its not very stable. But I will be OC the CPU and the RAM do you think the UD5 will be any good for overclocking? or should I scrape it up to 1500 for the UD7?
 
You'd have to ask someone with an I7 and those motherboards, I run phenom 955. If you're using it for games then i5/i7/phenom 955 will all be more than capable - you'll see better improvements from more gpu power, that's what does the muscle work in modern games. Saying that, with your budget 1x5870 and an i5/phenom 955 is easily powerful enough to run any game at max settings for quite some time.
 
NormanPorkinson said:
My system I spec'd will be faster and it's cheaper ;) - You've spend excess money on things I don't think you'll benefit from - Like a keyboard twice as expensive, excess cash on the retail version of the dvd drive, a more expensive motherboard. I can understand the SSD upgrade but not the others.
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I understand what you mean but the UD5 has a nicer heat sink on the southbridge which looks a bit better for cooling. The G15 has some nice features which will be useful for OC testing. The extra for the Retail version of the DVD-RW is for aesthetics really, its probably one of the only parts that are going to be visible on the pc so it needs to look good :p
 
Regarding the mobo - Had a P6T Deluxe V2 before this baby which I loved but decided to replace because of the next gen USB/SATA3 features missing. I picked the UD3R because it seemed to have all possible features I would need in spite of the low price. And it did not disasppoint, I can live withouth the extra power regulation phases and the full heatpipe. Actually voltage remains stable at a 4Ghz OC and there is no overheating at all on the chipset, absolutely the same results as with the most expensive boards including the UD7 big brother. I can imagine if someone goes for 4.6Ghz on the I7 920 and 2000+ on the DDR3 RAM the UD7 or a Rampage can show their superiority but for anyone who does not own a nuclear plant such extreme OC is no way to go 24/7 anyway.
The X58A UD3R has features closer to the X58 UD4P than the X58 UD3, more USB and SATA ports than the very expensive Asus P6T deluxe, brilliant bios allowing for good tweaking, it really is perfect.

Just something that a bloke had put! Might be useful!
 
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