£1500 Gaming PC

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Boo_hoo

Boo_hoo

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So I'm hovering over the checkout button and would love some of you to glance at and recommend any improvements. Or point out any woeful mistakes I've made;)
 
My megahalems came with clips for 2 120mm fans, so you shouldnt need the fan wire clips.

Also, it would be a shame to purchase such a nice system and not have faster hard drives to use it with.

As to wether to PC is going to be good or not, it will be great, but maybe you might want to wait until the prices of the 6xxx series AMD GFX cards come out and maybe get one of them intead of the 470?
 
Looks good. :)

Maybe add a SSD for a boot drive?

Do you plan to SLI in the future? If not then you could probably drop down to a 650watt PSU to save some money.
 
smeaney said:
My megahalems came with clips for 2 120mm fans, so you shouldnt need the fan wire clips.
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Oh great one less thing to get :D Everybody else get 2 clips?

smeaney said:
Also, it would be a shame to purchase such a nice system and not have faster hard drives to use it with.
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Nyoron said:
Maybe add a SSD for a boot drive?
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I tend to keep my pc on all the time so other than boot time will there be a marked improvement if I were to buy this SSD

Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s - £114.99
Its over budget so I want it to be worth it.


smeaney said:
you might want to wait until the prices of the 6xxx series AMD GFX cards come out and maybe get one of them intead of the 470?
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sponge999 said:
new 6xxx series +1
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Honestly I want to go with Nvidia this round. Unless the GTX prices will come down with Ati release I don't want to wait.

I do see for today that OCUK value 470 and 480 have dropped in price. How do they compare to the EVGA. I'm always wary of Value items.

Nyoron said:
Do you plan to SLI in the future? If not then you could probably drop down to a 650watt PSU to save some money.
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Frositay said:
Your psu seems overkill unless your gonna SLI
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Yes I plan to go SLI and add a bunch of HDD's etc. FAN cont/Sound Card etc



Frositay said:
Personally I would change:
HDD: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-336-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1279

x 2 (raid 0)
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The Caviar Black are very nice but It would be cheaper to buy an SSD if I really need to. My next HDD will def be Caviar Black. When they drop in price a little:)
 
Boo_hoo said:
I tend to keep my pc on all the time so other than boot time will there be a marked improvement if I were to buy this SSD
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A better HDD will allow you to access your files quicker too, not just boot up fast. SSD is an option for your operating system, but still too expensive for some. Thought about getting some F3 500g Samsungs and putting a few in raid0 or raid5?
 
geoirv23 said:
Change the 470 to the one on the today only deal, saves u £35
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How does the 470 OCUk value compare to the EGVA. I read the fan in it can be extremely loud.

smeaney said:
A better HDD will allow you to access your files quicker too, not just boot up fast. SSD is an option for your operating system, but still too expensive for some. Thought about getting some F3 500g Samsungs and putting a few in raid0 or raid5?
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How will the F3's be faster than the 2 Seagates in my spec? Personally I don't like raid 0 since it doubles the chances you lose all your data. Even with the speed increase.
 
Boo_hoo said:
How will the F3's be faster than the 2 Seagates in my spec? Personally I don't like raid 0 since it doubles the chances you lose all your data. Even with the speed increase.
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The F3s are very fast drives. I also never really understood how one drive could be faster then another, but after a few years of using different drives I can tell now. Raid0, from my point of view isnt half as bad as it used to be. I have used raid0 for the last few years and never had an issue. Even if you dont go raid0, there are faster 1Tb drives out on the market that will give better performance.
 
I could get a 480 but simply its another £85 for a card I don't need. The 470 should be able to easily play all the new games at 1080p. Correct me if im wrong.

Maybe after a few months Il upgrade to the AMD 6*** or 480 after they drop in price.
 
im choosing to skip the 470 and 480 and going for 2 460s that should do me until a few new cards come out with better power and heat issues. something to consider.:)
 
my rig is not dissimilar.I would strongly advise a ssd boot drive, the corsair 64gig is fab and will load win 7 in an instant.
 
Also stick with your power supply, most underrated piece of kit. If you ever need to add drives, or SLI or owt else
 
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-008-SP&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1806

This would be my advice for a slight saving, while still getting a quality PSU. Although Sapphire arent exactly well known for PSU's, these ones are made my the same OEM as the 950W Enermax's, but way way cheaper!

An SSD as a boot drive is brilliant. I recieved my 120gb Vertex today and I'm blown away by it. I even had a laugh messing about with windows experience index...apparently my 4ghz i7 is now the slowest rated part of my system!
 
You could save a lil on the psu, 850w is overkill i recommend http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-032-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1098 as it will do the job just fine and save you £60 for that sexy 480 :), or perhaps a radeon 5870?

Also and this is just my opinion but forget about the SSD there massively overrated for the price, who cares if windows loads 10 seconds faster and the 2 games you have installed on it load 5 seconds faster is that really worth £150-200? and thats just for a bottom end SSD. The wont improve the actual performance of anything once its loaded is windows loads just find on a half decent SATA HDD, hundreds of pounds to save 10 seconds bleh!
 
Gantoris said:
You could save a lil on the psu, 850w is overkill i recommend http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-032-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1098 as it will do the job just fine
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but the ocz psu only a pair of pci-e connectors so sli/crossfire will need to use molex to pci-e adaptors.

for GTX470 in sli pick a quality 750w psu,

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-001-XF&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1497

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-116-AN&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1088
 
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