Serious Reconsideration

Hyburnate said:
Now I was going to get a company to build me a gaming computer, they quoted me £1150, I looked at all the parts and I can buy them for around £800.

I've been considering starting my first build as this, may I just say I didn't put together the specs the CEO of this company did.

Case - Corsair 650D
GPU - XFX HD Radeon 6970
CPU - Intel Core i5 2500k
CPU Cooler - Corsair Hydro Series H80
PSU - Corsair HX750
Motherbaord - Asus P67 Sabertooth Intel P67 (Socket 1155)
HDD - 1TB Segate Barracuda
RAM - Corsair Vengance 8GB 1600Mhz
Optical Drive - LG CH10LS20 DVD and Blu-Ray™ Drive
OS - Windows 7 Home Premium x64
Wireless Card - TP-Link 150Mbps Wireless PCI Express Adapter

If I was to break something eg. a pin on the socket, would the OcUK RMA cover it? Can't find it on the site.
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By the way, that's quite an impressive build for a pre-build machine. THey like their Corsairs.
 
Good brand corsair. The kit doesn't break often, and when it does the rma process is spot on.

I'm posting to say that assembling a computer is trivial. Everything that looks like a psu cable would fit into it gets a psu cable, and everything else plugs into the motherboard. Cables have the same plug at both ends. Cables are keyed, so they don't go in upside down. That's before considering that the motherboard comes with a very extensive manual explicitly covering how to plug things into it.

Slightly different game if it doesn't switch on, but that's a case of deductively working out which part isn't working & sending that bit back, and the deduction can be done on here from a list of symptoms if you like.
 
What's the 4+4 pin EPS12V connector (600mm) :S I know I would use the 24Pin and 8Pin power the motherboard etc and the sata power go into the Drive and HDDs etc.

Native Cables
24-pin ATX connector - Motherboard
1 x 4+4 pin 12V CPU connector
1 x 8 pin 12V CPU EPS12V connector - Motherboard
3 x SATA connectors - HDDs and Drives
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it's an additional power connector for power hungry, expensive motherboards (Asus Maximus, Crosshairs...), mostly the ones that do tri-sli ect... Originally for server boards, with multi-cpu to power.
 
Ok any ideas for a cheap monitor? :S

It currently stands at
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
XFX ATI Radeon 6950 XXX 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £187.99
(£156.66) £187.99
(£156.66)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
(£141.66) £169.99
(£141.66)
Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £159.98
(£133.32) £159.98
(£133.32)
Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi-Tower - Black £139.99
(£116.66) £139.99
(£116.66)
OCZ Z-Series 850W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
(£57.00) £68.40
(£57.00)
Options applied to the above product:
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £32.99
(£27.49) £32.99
(£27.49)
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £59.99
(£49.99) £59.99
(£49.99)
Corsair Hydro H50-1 High-Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/1155/1156/1366/AM2/AM3) £56.99
(£47.49) £56.99
(£47.49)
LG CH10LS20 10x BluRay-ROM / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £52.99
(£44.16) £52.99
(£44.16)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £44.99
(£37.49) £44.99
(£37.49)
TP-Link 150Mbps High Gain Wireless-N USB Adapter (TL-WN722N) £9.98
(£8.32) £9.98
(£8.32)
Sub Total : £903.56
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £16.85
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £184.08
Total : £1,104.49

Anyone know how I can bring it down? D:
 
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Reaper 392 said:
depends what your after from the monitor really (size, 3D, type of monitor, etc)

*edit*
to bring the price down go for my latest build but without the SSD, since you dont seem to want one
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Still doesn't bring it down enough for a Monitor

Only want a 22" not 3D, will use it for Gaming(small amount) and general use
 
Most of the stand alone liquid CPU coolers are beaten by cheaper air coolers, you can save a few bob there, get a cheaper asus motherboard and save 30 quid, chances are, if it's your first build, you won't be using the features the higher end boards offer
 
JAPears said:
Most of the stand alone liquid CPU coolers are beaten by cheaper air coolers, you can save a few bob there, get a cheaper asus motherboard and save 30 quid, chances are, if it's your first build, you won't be using the features the higher end boards offer
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I went for the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2, any ideas what motherboard I should go for? I need USB 3.0 at least.
 
What do you mean by frills? NOOB = ME

Anyway
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
XFX ATI Radeon 6950 XXX 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £187.99
(£156.66) £187.99
(£156.66)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
(£141.66) £169.99
(£141.66)
Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £159.98
(£133.32) £159.98
(£133.32)
Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi-Tower - Black £139.99
(£116.66) £139.99
(£116.66)
OCZ Z-Series 850W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
LG CH10LS20 10x BluRay-ROM / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £52.99
(£44.16) £52.99
(£44.16)
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT51264BA160A) £49.99
(£41.66) £49.99
(£41.66)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £44.99
(£37.49) £44.99
(£37.49)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1155/ 1156 / 1366) £18.98
(£15.82) £18.98
(£15.82)
TP-Link 150Mbps High Gain Wireless-N USB Adapter (TL-WN722N) £9.98
(£8.32) £9.98
(£8.32)
Sub Total : £845.73
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £172.10
Total : £1,032.58

Sounds good too me ;D Off to the bank tomorrow to put £32 in, I should get 1K putting in from my inheritance at the end of August, my early Birthday present from my dear father.
So loads of questions coming at end of aug!

-Waits for frigging VAT to go up-
 
OEM license is tied to a particular motherboard. So if you change the motherboard, you need another copy of windows. That's why it is called OEM, meaning used by PC builders, and not transferable to another computer.

Retail copies can be reused when you change the motherboard. It's still one PC license only, you can use a particular key with only one PC at a time.

That's the theory of it.

Interestingly, your build is no better than the pre-build that was specced for you for £1150. The motherboard maybe, which you could contact the builder, to change it with a gen 3.
 
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