£1,700 PC Build, tell me what you think

Tomh999

Tomh999

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Tell me what you think of this proposed build.
Approx £1,789

Components
Motherboard CROSSHAIR IV FORMULA -£171
CPU AMD Phenom II X6 1090T -£243
Case Lian Li PC-P50WB -£148
Memory 4GB(2x2GB) Corsair XMS3 Dominator DDR3 -£112
PSU Seasonic X-750 Modular -£141
GPU ATI 1GB ASUS HD5850 -£230
HDD 1TB Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 (x2) -£106
SSD Intel X25-V 40GB -£88
Disk Drive Sony DRU-870s -£20
CPU Cooler Corsair H50 -£59

Peripherals
Monitor Samsung SyncMaster P2450H -£175
Keyboard & Mouse Wireless Laser Desktop 7000 -£58
OS Windows 7 Premium -£92

Misc
Front Lian Li Front Bezel -£20
Sleeve MDPC-X Sleeving Kit (Black/Red/Grey) -£75
120mm Enermax Magma Twister (x3) -£24
140mm 140mm Enermax UCTB14 (x2) -£23
 
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I think it's a lot of money tbh. I'd trim the memory down to a more respectable 4GB and bezel/sleeving for a Corsair SSD for an extra performance boost.
 
I would say that’s a bloody nice case you have selected and OCUK have that on sale at a really good price at the moment, the PC-P50 in terms of looks is so classy and has great cooling performance as well, highly recommended.

You have 2 Spinpoint F3 1Tb selected so I assume you going to be running them in some sort of RAID setup, just to let you know that will slow down boot times and you won’t notice the difference in speed unless your moving a lot of files. Still good drives though.

What do you need 8gb of ram for? Windows 7 Basic – don’t you know Home Premium (looking at the price)?
 
Quite a lot of high end parts. If you really like the parts then go for it. But I have some suggestions.

>You should stick with 4GB of Ram unless you really need it.
>Look for the Corsair HX 750W ATX Modular PSU, its slightly cheaper. Or even go for Corsair TX 750W which is around £100 but not modular
 
Freddie1980 said:
I would say that’s a bloody nice case you have selected and OCUK have that on sale at a really good price at the moment, the PC-P50 in terms of looks is so classy and has great cooling performance as well, highly recommended.

You have 2 Spinpoint F3 1Tb selected so I assume you going to be running them in some sort of RAID setup, just to let you know that will slow down boot times and you won’t notice the difference in speed unless your moving a lot of files. Still good drives though.

What do you need 8gb of ram for? Windows 7 Basic – don’t you know Home Premium (looking at the price)?
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Yea the only gripe I have with the P50 is that the internals are silver, I want them black, but there is the P50WB that has black coated internals but it has the side window. Now the side window to be is a bit of a turn off, i don't know whether it would make the build look better or not. For this build Im focusing on looks, as well as performance. The P50WB is bout £70 more.

Im thinking of getting the 40GB Intel X25-V, to run w7 and a few apps on.

Yea it should be premium sorry typo :cool:
 
teddy3578 said:
Quite a lot of high end parts. If you really like the parts then go for it. But I have some suggestions.

>You should stick with 4GB of Ram unless you really need it.
>Look for the Corsair HX 750W ATX Modular PSU, its slightly cheaper. Or even go for Corsair TX 750W which is around £100 but not modular
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yea ive dropped 4gb for now if i need it then i will upgrade in the future, ive added a 40gb ssd for booting, and changed the psu to a seasonic.
 
Tomh999 said:
rending, video editing, 3d editing also a bit of gaming.

boot drive is undecided, still thinking about what to use.
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Seems like an awful lot of money to avoid i7, given the price of the p5t and the i7 920. Would an i7 solution not be beneficial to you with all the rendering and video editing?
 
Yeah go i7 and deffo a bigger SSD, if you are installing OS on the SSD then 40gb would barely hold windows alone, at least 60GB required IMO
 
for what you want it for I would get a nvidia card :) (rending, video editing, 3d editing) as it seems most programs use cuda..

+1 on the i7
 
You cant say your going for looks and not have a side window! it could look amazing or terrible and you'd never know :(
 
Cuda would be an advantage. so nvidia is a consideration. If your spending so much why not consider a nice big ssd for a boot drive and to have things like photoshop on and your common programs. i would suggest one of the OCZ revo drives yes they are much more expencive but its gotta be worth it for that extra performance
 
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