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JonPA

JonPA

JonPA

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Hi All,

Been following this forum for a while while planning for my next system to replacing my ageing Dell...a 10yr old Pentium 3 86MHz with 384MB Rambus memory!:eek: It's served me well but is becoming very restrictive now. I want to do some video & photo editing so time for a new system. Not a gamer at the moment but maybe in the future.

Would like to keep the budget under £1200 but could stretch to £1300 all in including Win7, Monitor & keyboard.

I was considering my first build:-

*OVERCLOCKED* Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 4.00GHz / Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 Motherboard / Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 Tri-Channel DDR3 Bundle £549.99

Asus ATI Radeon HD 5770 CuCore 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £135.99
Corsair TX 650W ATX SLi Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-650TXUK) £80.99
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £59.98
Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £42.98
Sony Optiarc AD-7241S 24x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe Optical Drive (Black) - OEM £18.99

But the Titan Goliath system works out only £20-30 more at the moment and has the Core i7 930.

Questions:-
I'm guessing the performance difference would be negligible?

Unsure about the HD. The Goliath comes with a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12, but the F3 seems to have very good reviews.

As for monitors -was thinking about Dell UltraSharp 2209WA 22" at £229 or Dell G2410 at £240. What would you recommend for my use/budget?

Thanks!
 
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Or something along those lines, you could get it down to £1,300 quite easily if you picked a cheaper case.
 
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Hadn't considered the BenQ but reviews look good for the money. As I'm not gaming at the moment will probably cut back on the graphics card-maybe go for a 5770 and upgrade when needed

Thanks for all the advice!
 
Jae-So said:
I reccomend the CM690 II Advanced over the original http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-196-CM
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Couldn't agree more. As far as I know, there isn't a difference between the £95 retal version of Windows 7 and the £85 oem version

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SW-127-MS&tool=3

Also, the Titan Fenrir in the overclocked bundle is huge, and loud. You could ask OCUK to do a different cooler. My friend bought
the parts with a h50 which costs ~£525 and OC'd it himself. Since you asked about the bundle in the OP, I'm guessing you'd prefer
OCUK overclock it for you, these are just thoughts though :)
 
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