I have £1000-£1500 to spend on a new rig

Now looking at this setup.
How does this look to everyone, compatible?
I went with fat PSU as i want to sli at a later date

YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 580 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £431.99
1 x Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE Shogun 2 Game £239.99
1 x Corsair HX 1000W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-1000HXUK) £189.98
1 x Intel X25-M Mainstream 80GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (SSDSA2MH080G2K5) £149.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9) £139.99
1 x NZXT Phantom Enthusiast Full Tower Case - Red/White £109.99
1 x Asus P8P67-M PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 MicroATX Motherboard ** B3 REVISION ** £104.98
1 x Corsair Hydro H70 High-Performance CPU WaterCooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3) £83.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA-II 64MB Cache - OEM (WD10EARS) £46.99
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.98
Total : £1,605.46 (includes shipping : £10.50).
 
I have the HAF 912+ and love it! Superb case for the money, and with my H70 everythign is kept very cool indeed, loads of scope for extra fans and stuff and lots of places for cable management.
 
If your worried about space, the CM690-II Advanced is more than capable of supporting an SLI setup.

Haven't checked the mobo section on here for awhile, but last time I did there was still people having problem with Asus boards despite bios updates.

Seeing as you have quite a big budget, I'd swap the H70 for either the Noctua NH-D14, or the Thermalright Silver Arrow. Would need a big case though to fit one of those in though.

You could also save a few £'s by swapping the RAM for either the XMS3 or the Geil. Slighty slower RAM but I doubt there's any real noticeble difference between 1600MHz and 1866Mhz (I could be wrong though)
 
Blimey you guys dont half make me think :)
Here is my latest spec and I would appreciate any comments or feedback:

YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 580 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £431.99
1 x Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE Shogun 2 Game £239.99
1 x Intel X25-M Mainstream 80GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (SSDSA2MH080G2K5) £149.99
1 x PC Power and Cooling Silencer 910W Power Supply £124.99
1 x Coolermaster HAF 932 Case - Black £109.99
1 x Asus P8P67-M PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 MicroATX Motherboard ** B3 REVISION ** £104.98
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £89.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H70 High-Performance CPU WaterCooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3) £83.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA-II 64MB Cache - OEM (WD10EARS) £46.99
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.98
Total : £1,494.36 (includes shipping : £13.75).
 
Jamiman said:
Why the i7 over the i5?
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Well I started of with the i5 but ended up choosing the i7 because i convinced myself that it 'might' be worth it for the future. I am only going to really be hitting it hard with games and I have read that the i7 does not really effect this.
Its a good question....
Why is the i5 better than the i7 for games, if indeed it is?
 
Difficult to say from a load of info that I dont know a great deal about :)
However, there is not much of a difference in most areas so I guess you would have to question what your extra £100 is going to get you.
Are there not games taking advantage of the i7?
 
And yet another tweak.
Looked at blurb and came to the conclusion that there is not enough difference between i5 and i7 to warrant i7 purchase (although this might change if i continue to justify to myself that its only money and that by eating baked beans for a few months it will be worth it)
Just took a look at my existing machine and noticed that I have only used around 210gb of space for system and games as the rest goes on my TB external drive.
So based on this, i decided that I would dump the HDD and go for a fat (and expensive) SDD. Yes they are expensive but my existing drive has lasted 4 years and i have only used 210gb so i might as well make the investment.

What do you all think now?

YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 580 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £431.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1) £367.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE Shogun 2 Game £167.99
1 x PC Power and Cooling Silencer 910W Power Supply £124.99
1 x Coolermaster HAF 932 Case - Black £109.99
1 x Asus P8P67-M PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 MicroATX Motherboard ** B3 REVISION ** £104.98
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £89.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H70 High-Performance CPU WaterCooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3) £83.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.98
Total : £1,593.37 (includes shipping : £13.75).
 
You could drop the PSU down to 650w, I am not sure what the second slot runs at on the board.

Edit: runs dual 8x so keeping the psu may be a good idea for a secomd gpu later.
 
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Well I came to the conclusion that it would last me 4+ years and that HDD space has come down seriously over the last 3 years. We are now used to HDD being cheap but thats only because something better has come along.
Still playing with config now so will be interesting what i finally end up with :)
 
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