New Gaming Build £1500-£2500

[tom91x91]

my 5830 CAN play crysis 2 at max 1920x1080 with above 30fps
not like i've tried it, get what im not trying to or trying to get at without going on a holiday if your clever enuff you will work it out.

pffft crysis 2 stupid console port

hehe subtle

 

[powelly]

Bitfenix is better than the puney corsair.

pffft stupid meaty bitfenix shiney lights thingy

 

[stulid]

anyway get this and you will truely have the biggest e-peen

unlock 6950's to 6970's

What the smallest picture in the world, and a poor monitor for such a budget.

And no heatsink.

 

[powelly]

What the smallest picture in the world, and a poor monitor for such a budget.

well im sorry i have to zoom out so much to fit everything into the blumin picture, change the monitor and case, then you truely have a big e-peen

also i forgot the heatsink, everyone makes mistakes

 

[smiley1987]

Gainward GeForce GTX 580 "GOOD Edition" 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £399.98
(£333.32) £799.96
(£666.64)
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 Intel P67 Chipset (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £259.98
(£216.65) £259.98
(£216.65)
Corsair Professional Series™ Gold AX1200 High Performance 1200W Power Supply (CMPSU-1200AXUK) £229.99
(£191.66) £229.99
(£191.66)
Lian Li PC-A70FB Alumiinium Full Tower Case - Black £173.60
(£144.67) £173.60
(£144.67)
Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £154.99
(£129.16) £154.99
(£129.16)
Hanns.G HH251DPB 25" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £137.99
(£114.99) £137.99
(£114.99)
Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1) £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
Corsair Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMD4GX3M2A1600C9) £71.99
(£59.99) £143.98
(£119.98)
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003) £65.99
(£54.99) £65.99
(£54.99)
Samsung SH-B123L/BSBP 12x BluRay ROM DVDRW DL & RAM Lightscribe SATAII Optical Drive - OEM Black £44.39
(£36.99) £44.39
(£36.99)
BeQuiet Dark Rock Advanced CPU Cooler (Socket LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366, AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / 754 / 939 / 940) £39.98
(£33.32) £39.98
(£33.32)
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.99
(£9.99) £11.99
(£9.99)
Sub Total : £1,802.36
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £22.20
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £364.91
Total : £2,189.47

I think this would be the bees kness of a build .

 

[sh4dy1981]

This is my basket atm.
Anywhere it can be improved? Made cheaper without too much performance drop?

 

[sh4dy1981]

Dammit got no sound card if anyone can rec a good one? Prob will drop blu/ray drive for std cd/rw

 

[stulid]

you could put a pair of Nvidia cards in the basket to use the 3D monitor with the Nvision glasses - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-018-NV

Just use the motherboards onboard Intel HD Audio

 

[Josh P]

Is the UD7 worth it? Surely there are much cheaper boards with not vastly reduced feature sets...

 

[stulid]

And keep the Blue-ray, £2K!!! and no Blue-ray is sad.

 

[Zoom7000]

A few notes:
Case: Personally, I prefer the Antec P183 and the dual chamber setup is very nice for cable management. However, it is not Tri-SLI friendly if you ever wanted to go this way in the future. So, the Antec 902 is a nice alternative.

Windows: You can save a little bob if you decide you don't need BitLocker or Windows in 35 different languages. In which case you can get Windows 7 Professional for £114.98 or if you don't need domain level features, go for Home Premium and save a bit more. Check out the version comparisons here.

Keyboard/Mouse: This is purely for completeness of the Spec.

 

[stulid]

£2355 and a non modular psu and a 5 year old case design is crap.

 

[Ste59w]

This is what ive come up with.



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Crossfire 6970 when unlocked. Raid0 with 2x Vertex SSD, 8gb ram, 27.5 inch monitor with 1980x1200, got all the accessories and its total cost is £1,952.45

 

[Josh P]

For that, 1000W PSU is overkill. It would be fine with a 750W supply. You could add a couple of upgraded fans for the H50.

 

[Ste59w]

Yeah im sure it would be fine on the 750w.

I'd be tempted myself to get the 1000w though. Leaves the room for expansion if needed, can pretty much guarantee you can use the same psu for future builds and with the budget the OP has i'm assuming there is a chance more hardware will be added in future, making the 1000w the obvious choice.

 

[sh4dy1981]

i do have a corsair 750w modular psu in current build i can salvage its only just over a year old i think. also got x-fi tit sound card. arethe xonar ones a lot better then this? Could do with some nice headphones as g/f complains of the noise and 24" screen is max size really. As i side toying with idea of nvidia 3d vision! But a lot of extra £££ for that

EDIT
I Also have no clue about unlocking gpu and setting up a RAID array :S

 

[stulid]

i do have a corsair 750w modular psu in current build i can salvages its only just over a year old i think. also got x-fi tit sound card. the the xonar ones a lot better then this? Could do with some nice headphones as g/f complains of the noise and 24" screen is max size really. As i side toying with idea of nvidia 3d vision! But a lot of extra £££ for that

EDIT
I Also have no clue about unlocking gpu and setting up a RAID array :S

Keep the PSU, it will cope with two GTX570 in a SLI setup.

Keep the X-FI, you wont notice the sound difference.

And a good SSD is so fast, that a RAID array is not needed.

 

[sh4dy1981]

Another question is there a point to get say 2600k over a 2600?

 

[stulid]

Another question is there a point to get say 2600k over a 2600?

I wouldnt get either for a gaming pc, the 2500 cpus are as fast.

the K cpus have a stronger onboard gpu( not being used by you) and a full unlocked multiplier.

 

[sh4dy1981]

so if i overclock k is still better then std?