£1500 Gaming & General Purpose Spec - Advice Needed!

stulid said:
if you post your i7 build with your suggestions, keeping the ATCS840 and a decent modular psu(Antec/Corsair) I will give it a +1.
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meh here's my version, could get the ACTS instead here tho, and/or better screen

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how's this.

BenQ G2420HDBL 24" £164.99 X2
Coolermaster ATCS840 £149.98
OCZ gold 6Gb PC3-12800C8 £126.98
Intel i7 920 £179.99
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R £156.98
Antec new truepower 750W £93.99
Sony AD-7240s £15.99
Samsung F3 1Tb £65.99 X2
Asus HD5870 £319.99

Total is £1505.86
 
here's my contribution. i may well get this spec in June minus the 2 monitors and a 5870 in place of the 5850. its a tad over budget but hopefully you can stretch for it.

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i know this spec doesnt have the Corsair RAM. you could change the OCZ to Corsair and go for the Gigabyte UD3R instead of the Asus board.
 
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sorry, I missed your corsair ram and 5850 request, so have amended.

BenQ G2420HDBL 24" £164.99 X2
Coolermaster ATCS840 £149.98
Corsair Dominator 6Gb PC3-12800C8 £199.99
Intel i7 920 £179.99
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R £156.98
Antec new truepower 750W £93.99
Sony AD-7240s £15.99
Samsung F3 1Tb £65.99 X2
Asus HD5850 £224.99

Total is £1483.87
 
amazing spec!

you wont need the thermal paste, unless you want to add a aftermarket cooler like the titan fenrir.
 
looks good! though i think the Dominators are slightly over the top. you could get some cheaper Corsair XM3 and spend the difference on upgrading the motherboard or leave it as money saved. but other than that good luck!

i know that your final spec has more storage space i think that my spec i suggested would be a stronger build altogether and it has a top end aftermarket cooler which would be great for overclocking which would be a waste to not overclock an i7 920. it is slightly more expensive though... up to you!
 
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BioBiro said:
I like this! :)

So, to summarise:

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Just need to make the final decision on the CPU cooler...otherwise everything else seems to be all set. And I agree with V4nger and Jae-So about the memory...the money save going for less expensive memory could be put into use on somewhere else, like getting a 5870 instead of 5850...assuming you are not planning on overclocking the 5850 in the first place.
 
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Hmm...so hard to decide. Well...

Swap the Gigabyte board for an Asus P6X58D-E.

Swap the Corsair Dominator for Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz).

That brings it down to a much more agreeable £1460.44 :).

I'll purchase an after market cooler and thermal paste later on once i've made my mind up on those.
 
good stuff man :) be aware though that with the Patriot Viper that NH-D14 is not an option. the heatsinks are too big. maybe a corsair H-50.
 
the gigabyte board is in this months custom pc, there's a round up of i7 motherboards, did amazingly.
 
the gigabyte looks a bit cramped IMO. still looks like a good board though. the overclocking features on the P6X58D-E look better and thats a selling point for me but depends whether BioBiro will be overclocking. looks noob friendly though :p
 
I intend to overclock the CPU, but not much else really! The Asus and Gigabyte boards seem just as good as each other, although i'm airing towards the Asus.

Sold on the Corsair H-50 by the way - should fit fine with the Vipers!

Now that I've arrived at a happy final spec, allow me to thank you all for your help - you're such a nice bunch of friendly people :).
 
the gigabyte is a better overclocker than a £235 asus P6X58D premium.

in the custom pc round up, the gigabyte was achieving better benchmark scores.

and it looks like the same layout as any other ATX X58 board, so cramped? please explain.
 
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