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the 7970 is out on monday so getting a 6990 a a place holder? the 7970 will be around £100 cheaper than the 6990 and performance wise not too far behind. if you want a place holder get a ~£200 card NOT £500-£600.


YOUR BASKET
1 x Dell UltraSharp U2412M 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Midnight Grey £251.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £184.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £129.98
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £112.98
1 x Silverstone Raven 3 RV03B-W Full Tower Windowed Case - Black/Gold £109.99
1 x Samsung SH-B123L/RSBP 12x BluRay ROM / DVDRW DL & RAM Lightscribe SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £59.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler (Socket Intel LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AMD AM2 / AM3 / AM2+ / AM3+) £46.99
Total : £1,073.54 (includes shipping : £22.20).



that plus add the 7970 on monday will be ~£1500-£1600, or if you wanted to wait and see what the 79xx performance is like and get a place holder then

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-142-PC&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752
 
fowler002 said:
the 7970 is out on monday so getting a 6990 a a place holder? the 7970 will be around £100 cheaper than the 6990 and performance wise not too far behind. if you want a place holder get a ~£200 card NOT £500-£600.


YOUR BASKET
1 x Dell UltraSharp U2412M 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Midnight Grey £251.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £184.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £129.98
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £112.98
1 x Silverstone Raven 3 RV03B-W Full Tower Windowed Case - Black/Gold £109.99
1 x Samsung SH-B123L/RSBP 12x BluRay ROM / DVDRW DL & RAM Lightscribe SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £59.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler (Socket Intel LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AMD AM2 / AM3 / AM2+ / AM3+) £46.99
Total : £1,073.54 (includes shipping : £22.20).



that plus add the 7970 on monday will be ~£1500-£1600, or if you wanted to wait and see what the 79xx performance is like and get a place holder then

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-142-PC&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752
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I mean its a place holder on the list, I wont be buying it :)
sorry for any confusion or awkwardness.
 
remember that the monitor, ssd, and psu are on this week only offer that ends wednesday when new offers start.

oh and if you want a place holder to give an idea of cost then a £400-£450 gtx580 or 2x 6950 would be more appropriate as they're similar price wise the 6990 is ~£100 more
 
put the ud3p rather than the ud3 because the ud3p is black and goes with the colour scheme of the rest(case, psu etc). Is the ram you have the black or the blue version?
 
Yeah I think if your looking at a 6990 then you may as well wait to see how the 7970 is priced. It's not that far behind in terms of performance and will pretty much run everything at high/ultra settings at 1920*1080 without much touble. Put the savings towards a decent screen and in a year or so you could add in another 7970. Also the advantage running a single card is that you don't have to worry about drivers for SLI/Xfire and can let them mature.

Not read many reviews on the U2412M but the slightly smaller 23" (U2312HM) gets very good reviews. The screen panels are far superior to normal TN panels but they often have a slightly slower response time of 8ms )rather than 5ms on average for TN). As for whether you'd noticed it in the form of ghosting is down to the the individual user and probably the average gamer wouldn't.

Here are a couple of reviews for the Dell U2312HM which is not that competitively priced on OcUK but if you search around you can get if for £186!;)

Dell U2312HM Review 1

Dell U2312HM Review 2
 
shadow_boxer said:
Yeah I think if your looking at a 6990 then you may as well wait to see how the 7970 is priced. It's not that far behind in terms of performance and will pretty much run everything at high/ultra settings at 1920*1080 without much touble. Put the savings towards a decent screen and in a year or so you could add in another 7970. Also the advantage running a single card is that you don't have to worry about drivers for SLI/Xfire and can let them mature.

Not read many reviews on the U2412M but the slightly smaller 23" (U2312HM) gets very good reviews. The screen panels are far superior to normal TN panels but they often have a slightly slower response time of 8ms )rather than 5ms on average for TN). As for whether you'd noticed it in the form of ghosting is down to the the individual user and probably the average gamer wouldn't.

Here are a couple of reviews for the Dell U2312HM which is not that competitively priced on OcUK but if you search around you can get if for £186!;)

Dell U2312HM Review 1

Dell U2312HM Review 2
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Thank you very much. :)
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Club3D ATI Radeon HD 7970 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £461.99
1 x Hazro HZ27WC 8-Bit 27" LED Widescreen Professional Monitor - Black £439.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £173.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £149.99
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £144.98
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £112.98
1 x Silverstone Raven 3 RV03B-W Full Tower Windowed Case - Black/Gold £109.99
1 x Samsung SH-B123L/RSBP 12x BluRay ROM / DVDRW DL & RAM Lightscribe SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £59.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler (Socket Intel LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AMD AM2 / AM3 / AM2+ / AM3+) £46.99
Total : £1,727.53 (includes shipping : £22.20).



well think that's over budget :)

remember that a few of the parts(psu and ssd) are on this week only offer that ends tomorrow, the case is out of stock so may want to check with cs when it'll return.
 
 
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