Final check before I buy.

Mackey18

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I am fed up of posting these spec check threads but it's a lot of money so I don't want to get it wrong. I want to stay around the £800 mark but I will consider hitting £850.


YOUR BASKET
1 x Gainward GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £254.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £137.99
1 x MSI P67A-GD53 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION ** £107.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £32.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £57.59
1 x LG CH10LS20 10x BluRay-ROM / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £52.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £47.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £37.99
Total : £823.03 (includes shipping : £20.10).




Thanks,
Mike
 
You have a P67 board with a non k CPU chip. If you want to overclock down the line pop in the i5-2500K instead of the i5-2400.

If you have no interest in overclocking the get yourself a cheaper H67 and save a few bob.

£850 would give you overclocking and a decent cooler on your CPU:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 570 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £259.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £159.98
1 x MSI P67A-GD53 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION ** £107.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £32.99
1 x Antec TruePower New Modular 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £65.99
1 x Samsung SH-B123L/BSBP 12x BluRay ROM / 16x DVD±RW Lightscribe SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (OEM) £49.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £37.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT25664BA160A) £26.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
Total : £851.30 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
Thank you Robbie.

I did not know about all that. What would you recommend? I want a gaming rig that I aim to upgrade in the future. It makes sense if I get the 2500k board now doesn't it. Save me the hassle later for £25 more.

Mike

EDIT: Also, I can't have that graphics card as it has to have a DisplayPort output.
 
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I don't want to buy a CPU cooler for the time being, but if I decide to overclock I'll buy it then.

Ok this is the revised model:


YOUR BASKET
1 x Gainward GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £254.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £159.98
1 x MSI P67A-GD53 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION ** £107.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £32.99
1 x Antec TruePower New Modular 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £65.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £57.59
1 x LG CH10LS20 10x BluRay-ROM / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £52.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £37.99
Total : £853.91 (includes shipping : £12.50).




Mike
 
Ok well, I'm going to buy it. Life's too short and there's too many different possibilities to sit here wondering at what's best.

I'm going to upgrade it in the future anyway.

Mike
 
would say if you can add it to the budget and find it in stock the asrock extreme4 gen3 may be better as it opens up future upgrade to pci-e 3.0 graphics card(well will need to upgrade to ivy bidge cpu as well) without needing to change motherboards, or if you prefer msi also do a couple g3 versions of ther mb.
if you plan on sli then 800w+ would be better, 750 would on the limit.
 
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