Check new £1,200 Sandybridge build

[Saul]

Hey all,

Speccing up a PC for a friend with £1,200 to spend... will be used for playing games mainly (Crysis 2, etc. when they're released). Want to run all games on full spec without hitch and a nice overclocked Sandybridge. My personal opinion, could do with a don giving a hand here:

• Too pricey PSU, maybe a cheaper Corsair would do (even HX650W)
• GPU is way too powerful for normal gaming usage
• Case? I have no idea about cases
• No matter where I look on Overclockers, I get about 3 opinions on air coolers for CPUs: Frio, Tranquillo and Megahalems rev B (gonna push/pull with Vipers)

Anyway, here's the spec:

Also a 23" monitor is needed, and about £100 for kb and mouse (so final budget is round about £1,000-£1,100). Any help welcome!

Cheers,
- Saul

 

[RJC]

You could save some money by getting the memory below:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-104-GL&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

You can drop the PSU to the Corsair 650w.

Part from that a nice build.

 

[stulid]

very good.

your right about a 650w psu doing the job.

did you also want sli in the future?

mouse - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=KB-176-LG&groupid=702&catid=23&subcat=1257

keyboard - was going to say Microsoft X4, but its done a hoodini

 

[Saul]

You could save some money by getting the memory below:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-104-GL&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

You can drop the PSU to the Corsair 650w.

Part from that a nice build.

Hmmm is there a reason CPC recommends the XMS3 for DDR3 dual channel memory? And yeah I've dropped to 650W, thanks.

very good.

your right about a 650w psu doing the job.

did you also want sli in the future?

mouse - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=KB-176-LG&groupid=702&catid=23&subcat=1257

keyboard - was going to say Microsoft X4, but its done a hoodini

Don't think SLI would be necessary to be honest, just kicking more heat into the system and with the power of the GTX 560 Ti's... well I don't think I'd need more

Opinions on cases anyone?

 

[stulid]

don't sacrifice the quality ips panel screen and case for the above.

monitor review - http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/monitors/2011/01/18/viewsonic-vp2365wb-review/1

 

[stulid]

Opinions on cases anyone?

keep what you selected, if you like it, then fine, it performs well, and I have seen some very tidy builds using it due to the cable management.

case review - http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cases/2010/09/09/silverstone-raven-rv02-review/1

Hmmm is there a reason CPC recommends the XMS3 for DDR3 dual channel memory?

They haven't seen the geil ram?

 

[Saul]

Thanks stulid final build here until someone points something fatal out otherwise:

 

[RJC]

Hmmm is there a reason CPC recommends the XMS3 for DDR3 dual channel memory? And yeah I've dropped to 650W, thanks.


Opinions on cases anyone?

The Geil ram is pretty good for the price

The case does look good in builds, they do a white one which I quite like!

Edit: You could go with the Gelid cpu cooler.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-001-GD

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2010/01/20/gelid-tranquillo-cpu-cooler-review/1

 

[stulid]

Thanks stulid final build here until someone points something fatal out otherwise:

its perfect.

 

[anuraj]

isn't the 560 he chose for preorder only.

 

[RJC]

isn't the 560 he chose for preorder only.

Mentions it's overdue so hopefully not long.

 

[stulid]

isn't the 560 he chose for preorder only.

it says its overdue, the other preorder card has a date of arrival, so i can only assume that the gigabyte is just late and will arrive in stock asap.

or its arrived, but not been booked into stock yet by the lazy warehouse monkeys.

 

[anuraj]

it says its overdue, the other preorder card has a date of arrival, so i can only assume that the gigabyte is just late and will arrive in stock asap.

Ok nice.