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simonk

simonk

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Hi Folks, wondering if any of you nice fellows could help me build a new rig with a budget of £1000. I have a few musts lol.

need an SSD 64gb is more than sufficient
Modular PSU? the cables in my current rig are appauling & my cable management ability is somewhat lacking.
Really looking for an i7.
needs Monitor & Win 7 64 (got two copies of 32bit but im wondering if 64 is best going with 6gb ram?
Look really nice(case/leds) etc, i love bright lights lol

Appreciate the help :) I won't be ordering this for 1-2 weeks as I want to see what the deal is with the 6xxx cards.


Edit: just realised what a stupid title name i've wrote lol, possible to rename? xD
 
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an i7 setup isnt really possible without to many sacrifices to other components.
 
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apologies for slow reply, i've been dying for an i7 for a long time, this is pretty much it for me i won't be buying a new PC for many many years after this. what roughly would i need to downgrade/remove in order to get a decent i7 build?

Also, a bit off topic. Selling a rig in order to fund this new one lol, got any decent tips on how to completely wipe a HD, not just a reformat, like properly wipe it

I would ofcourse love a SSD, i could probably drop that if that's anywhere to start, having a little look at the moment to see what i can come up with
 
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your idea of a SSD will have to go.

slightly cheaper case without the flashiness.

just a 500gb harddrive.
 
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nice one, looks well at the moment, would an i5 be much behind as far as modern day games are atm? would it be better to even venture down the AMD route? too much questions lol
 
alright that gives me a slightly better idea, for my personal uses like the modern day games i really don't think the difference would be that much noticable, might go down the i5 route then
 
im a complete overclock amateur but i hear those i5/i7's do pretty well, might be better for me to buy a pre-oc'd bundle
 
simonk said:
im a complete overclock amateur but i hear those i5/i7's do pretty well, might be better for me to buy a pre-oc'd bundle
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people on these forums will be able to help you achieve a good stable overclock.

but,

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Radon Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz @ 4.00GHz Overclocked Bundle £340.00
(£289.36) £340.00
(£289.36)
Options applied to the above product:
Akasa AK-CCX-4001HP Nero S Direct Contact Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / LGA775 / LGA1156 / LGA1366 ) £32.99
(£28.08) £32.99
(£28.08)
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with HAWX2 PC-Game £169.19
(£143.99) £169.19
(£143.99)
Iiyama ProLite E2410HDSD 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £146.86
(£124.99) £146.86
(£124.99)
OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G) £99.99
(£85.10) £99.99
(£85.10)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £80.99
(£68.93) £80.99
(£68.93)
XFX 650W XXX Edition Modular Power Supply £69.99
(£59.57) £69.99
(£59.57)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £62.99
(£53.61) £62.99
(£53.61)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £43.99
(£37.44) £43.99
(£37.44)
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£11.91) £13.99
(£11.91)
Sub Total : £902.98
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £160.21
Total : £1,075.69

comes pre-overclocked at 4ghz.

this spec is identical to the i5 spec above apart from a 1tb harddrive, so your paying approximately £60 for the hard work already done for you.

but the overcloked bundel does include an aftermarket performance cooler to help maintain the heat.
 
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Yep as above - i7 no better than i5 7xx for games at the mo (and it'll only ever be 20-25% better at best if games can ever make full use of the i7's extra pretend cores).

You can expect a 40-50% overclock with ease on i5/i7 with a decent cooler (~£30 air will do - no real need for water). That's one of the more compelling reasons for going the Intel route rather than AMD at the moment. The pre OC'd bundles on here are normally pretty good value for money, being around only £30 or so more than the sum of the individual parts, and for that you get the Pro's to overclock it and warranty the overclock. However doing it yourself isn't hard - it will just take you some time to learn and get to grips with things if you're a noob. The folks on here will help you all the way.

Good luck with the build.
 
thanks for all your help btw stulid, im really tempted by that cheaper i7 build, although i'll probably wait and go with a 6870 over the 460 & it should still be in my £1000 range, SSD i'm actually not that fussed with, can always get one at a later date. considering keeping this monitor i have at the moment aswell
 
At today's prices you're dropping about £150 to go from i5 to i7 for 0 gaming performance gain. That could all go towards GPU, SSD, monitor size etc etc. 7 is a higher number than 5, though. Hmmm - your decision :)
 
yeah i'm not that fooled :D i suppose it's more of a spending a grand want the best when realistically that isn't possible, one can dream =D
 
Alright, I'm going i5, pre-oc'd bundle i guess, anyone got any idea if the CPU cooler comes attached in transit? I'd image it wouldn't.
 
With a mobo/ram/cpu bundle as above, I believe it comes with cooler not attached, so you'll have to install it yourself. There's some good youtube videos on how to apply the thermal paste :). Only a full system will come fully assembled.
 
Heres what i've came up with at the moment, haven't included a graphics card until i see these 6xxxx series, but as it stands i'll have comfortably £250 for a card. going with this i5 let's me use my current 32bit win 7 aswell, the benefits for me personally were too good to go i7 if that makes sense lol.



might need a monitor, but i'll probably just keep this current one and replace it later on. Debating to pick up the OCZ modular psu over the corsair, any recommendations/changes? appreciate it!


edit: £560 inc VAT - im aware 1-2 items are [this week only] prices so probably a little more aswell, however i don't wanna buy before these 6xxx just incase i regret it lol
 
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im considering SLI 460's if i can find them cheap enough lol

possibly http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-138-EA. i'll wait and see :)
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you wont be doing sli/crossfire with any of the motherboards in this thread, apart from the i7 build.

either the motherboard doesn't have enough PCI-e slots or if it does have two of them, it will only run the second slot at a reduced 4X speed.

only a handful of P55 chipset motherboards do sli/crossfire correctly, such as.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-226-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1495

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-361-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1495

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-121-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1495
 
ahh i see, i just saw the 2 pci-e slots & presumed, never ventured with sli/crossfire before =D.

do you think the 480's will decline in price at all any time soon? i'd love to try one of those

going with those choices & say a ~6870/GTX 470 or something similar, would i see a noticable difference from a phenom II 940 @ 3ghz + 4850?
 
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