Got 1k to spend what you reccomend ?

This PSU is one of the very best, but it isn't cheap and currently out of stock on OCUK. Personally, I think its worth the wait. Here is a review.

Unless you plan on watercooling, I would suggest going for this motherboard instead and this RAM will give you the same performance at a much lower cost.

I would also recommend going for the Asus 5850 card, the warranty is longer, it allows overclocking with the inbuilt software and is cheaper.
 
If you are going with the i5 750, don't get the UD5. Brother has it and whilst it has loads of features that he will never use, my UD3R is better imo (at time of posting, please ignore my sig it is out of date) as it has Sata3 and USB3.

Within a year all new hard drives and usb devices will be on usb3 or sata3. I wouldn't even consider buying a pc without these features on in 2010!
 
Nice even more great tips thanks a lot mate cheers. Did not even relise asus did a longer warrenty sweet. I doubt over clocking will happen for a bit as this will be a lot more power than what he has currenlty. But yeah more tips which is well good.

Will be putting all this into a cart later on today and putting it togther asap.

Thanks guys really good advice.
 
mglover070588 said:
Within a year all new hard drives and usb devices will be on usb3 or sata3. I wouldn't even consider buying a pc without these features on in 2010!
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Yea, but the current implementation on Intel boards is not native like the most recent AMD board. With the Intel ones they simply add on to the PCIe lanes and steal bandwidth from the graphics cards. If you read the manual you will see that if you activate the "turbo" on the USB3/SATA6G, the 1st GPU slot drops to x8.

IMHO, if you don't currently need SATA 6G, USB3 then don't get it yet and wait for a native implementation.
 
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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 5870 "Dirt 2 Edition" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £309.99

Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - OEM + Assassin's Creed II Game £229.99

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £158.99

Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz) Low Latency Tri-Channel (PVT36G1600LLK) £129.98

Lian Li PC-7FN Case - Black £76.99

OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply £72.99

**B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £32.99

Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99

Sub Total : £873.97
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £154.78
Total : £1,039.25
 
Can't beat my rig mate ;)

The i7 920 is cheaper than 930 and offers the same performance when overclocked.

Gigabyte UD3R offers you a possibility of crossfiring 3 GPUs. It will run them in 16x/16x/8x mode if I remember correctly. It is "A" version with USB 3.0 and Sata 6Gb/s.

Asus 5850 has the best warranty and its voltage tweak. Lancool K62 is a great looking case with loads of nice features. Add another one in few months/years to max out the performance.

Corsair HX 650W is one of the best PSUs out there, with good efficiency, voltages stability, modular cables and enough power to overclock the Core i7 and two 5850s. It's expensive but worth the money.

Titan Fenrir is a bit noisy at higher fan speeds but cheap and offers the best performance at its price range.

Samsung Spinpoint F3 is simply the best mechanical HDD out there atm. If you can justify some cash for another one, run it in RAID 0.

Patriot RAM offers the best performance/price ratio.

I told you, can't beat this rig :p
 
I think this is something like what you need:

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Those extra fans are obviously optional.
The hard drive is nothing short of brilliant.
CPU cooler is cheaper than the H50 and performs better.
Antec 902 provides brilliant air cooling.
P7P55D PRO supports crossfire for another 5850 if needed.
As above, the Asus 5850 has a great warranty plus OC'ing capabilities.
Ocuk tell me that the RAM should be in stock within 24hrs.
Overall great price/performance for gaming.
 
cmndr_andi said:
Yea, but the current implementation on Intel boards is not native like the most recent AMD board. With the Intel ones they simply add on to the PCIe lanes and steal bandwidth from the graphics cards. If you read the manual you will see that if you activate the "turbo" on the USB3/SATA6G, the 1st GPU slot drops to x8.

IMHO, if you don't currently need SATA 6G, USB3 then don't get it yet and wait for a native implementation.
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You are correct.
It is a limitation of the i5 chipset rather than Gigabyte's doing.

An 8x pcie slot will only limit the dual gpu cards and then it really isn't much - zero real world difference (you won't notice it).

The only way of having sata3 and usb3 with zero limit is via i7 (not the 860).

The sata3 and usb 3 turbo mode is only for the high end of the bandwidth (so in the upper range of sata 3 like 450+ mb/s).

I just thought that I would be crazy spending hundreds on a new setup when for just £10 more I could get the new ports, which potentially could extend the life of the motherboard considerably.
 
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Aye, but on the UD3R board you suggest, the 2nd PCIe slot is still only x4 - so the crossfire bandwidth will still be limited.

If the OP feels he wants some SATA 6G/ USB3 action in the future, he can just buy a PCIe add-in card - they aren't expensive and means you don't have to comprimise on the motherboard now.
 
cmndr_andi said:
Aye, but on the UD3R board you suggest, the 2nd PCIe slot is still only x4 - so the crossfire bandwidth will still be limited.

If the OP feels he wants some SATA 6G/ USB3 action in the future, he can just buy a PCIe add-in card - they aren't expensive and means you don't have to comprimise on the motherboard now.
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True. May be the P55A-UD4 has the dual 8x lanes?
It is more expensive though.
With my i5, I wanted the all dancing and singing sata3/usb3 fast board but they do come at a premium price.
 
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