Advice on my first build.

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Theres a new release of Intels latest CPUs due next week, 9th so it may be worth holding out for that
But that being said is £900 just for the basic tower or is it to include everything such as monitor, OS, peripherals?
 
Done a i7 build, but it may be worth waiting to see what SB has to offer:

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail £219.98
(£187.22) £219.98
(£187.22)
Gainward GeForce GTX 470 "Golden Golden Sample GOOD Edition" 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with MAFIA 2 £193.86
(£164.99) £193.86
(£164.99)
Asus X58 Sabertooth TUF Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £149.99
(£127.65) £149.99
(£127.65)
Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1) £96.34
(£81.99) £96.34
(£81.99)
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Power Supply £71.99
(£61.27) £71.99
(£61.27)
Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel (CMX6GX3M3A1600C9) £58.74
(£49.99) £58.74
(£49.99)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Silverstone SST-PS03B Precision Midi Tower Case - Black £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.98
(£22.11) £25.98
(£22.11)
OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.74
(£9.99) £11.74
(£9.99)
Sub Total : £773.27
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £137.38
Total : £922.40
 
well £900 is plenty for a base unit, wait till the 9th when sandy bridge is released, come back then and you will get sorted with something epic and fast.

all specs untill then will be suck and be outdated.
 
I was looking at cooler master haf x (preferable) or cooler master 690ii dominator, intel i5 760 maybe i7 depending on the price and i want the samsung blu ray. I was just struggling on the graphics card, motherboard and case.
 
nixonphilip said:
I was looking at cooler master haf x (preferable) or cooler master 690ii dominator, intel i5 760 maybe i7 depending on the price and i want the samsung blu ray. I was just struggling on the graphics card, motherboard and case.
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your wasting your time, in 7 days a whole new socket is released making current stuff old.
 
gfx card wise Id look at an ATI 6950
case? you said HAF X which is a good case, bit expensive imo but good case, could get one of its little brothers to bring the cost down, 932/922
PSU look at the Antec modulars, theyre good 650/750 plenty
As already said though unless you need it today, wait a week and get new SB cpu/mobo
If you do need today then Id say i5 route would be more than adequate, i7 unnnecessary unless youre into heavy level encoding/rendering etc
 
I will have a look at the new socket I have got a lot of time because I can get the build when ever I want. need more advice on what i can do with my money. need advice on GPU, intel or AMD. Also with SSD will i need one and why are they so expensive???
 
nixonphilip said:
I will have a look at the new socket I have got a lot of time because I can get the build when ever I want. need more advice on what i can do with my money. need advice on GPU, intel or AMD. Also with SSD will i need one and why are they so expensive???
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For a GPU either go ATI 6950, and then add a second later on in crossfire mode, this means you can get away with a 650w PSU to power the system and both cards.

Going dual graphic cards will require a motherboard that runs both PCI-E slots at ideally the same speed, just because a motherboard has two 16X PCI-E slots doesn't mean the second one runs at full speed, usually you find its actually 16X for the first card slot and 4X for the second, proper motherboards divide it equally at 8X/8X each.

For example,

This - http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=HMMvTCuBcZLfu2YL&templete=2

if you click on the spec tab, says

2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (single at x16 or dual at x8/x8 mode)
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But this - http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=Qx3PdnZI9Pq9BcIU&templete=2

looks like a almost identical board but importantly only does,

1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (single at x16)
1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 * (max. at x4 mode [Black])
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SSD are expensive as just like memory sticks, DRAM chips are expensive, which in their basic form is all they are, just a bunch of memory chips in a small package, Harddrives have had time to get more capacity per square inch, get cheaper, mature, etc over the past 30 years.
 
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EVGA GeForce GTX 460 Superclocked 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card [EV-01G-P3-1373-ER] I was looking at the graphics card at first and i need advice. i think 6950 is a bit to expensive and crossfire i think i won't go for that because of the money but i don't see the point in crossfire. any answers??
 
nixonphilip said:
any answers??
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Yes, read some reviews - http://www.anandtech.com/show/4061/amds-radeon-hd-6970-radeon-hd-6950/18


See how the 6950 is faster than the GTX460 1GB, and then see how there is almost a doubling of frame rates when a second card is added.

Your budget will easily allow a crossfire/sli motherboard, but you dont have to buy two graphic cards straight away, when games get more advanced and a single card starts to struggle, the idea is to pick up a cheap used second hand identical card and then add it.
 
i too have been looking into a new build,
I have been looking at the HAF 922 case along with the Asus X58 Sabertooth TUF Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard,
the case i have ended up purchasing but am unsure if it will have enough space to fit any of the ATI graphic cards sizes,
if anyone knows for sure and could post that would be great
 
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