New PC / Advice

Marathanman · 31 Mar 2013 at 18:26

I am in the process of putting together the idea / plans for what I consider HI Spec PC althoiugh i sure you out there will tell me otherwise !!! Use besides Heavy office Access Powerpoint is Video Creation / Editing. I like my PC's over spec'ed rather than just right and would welcome any Help / comments if what i list below is way off track but bearing in mind that I am coverned by the system configurator. Although I have Built PC's in the past I simply don't have the time to do so now. So here we go I'll list what I have chosen and see what reponses / help I get back. Many Thanks in advance.

CM Storm Trooper Case
I7 Extreme 3970
Corsair H60 Liquid Cooler ( Would Prefer the 80 but not an option)
Asus Rampage IV Extreme MB
32GB Ram (Not sure If the Patriot Extreme Masters Kit is worthy or not of the £33 extra)
Hard Drive Seagate Barracuda 1 TB x 2 in Raid 1
Pioneer BDC 207BK BR /DVD Combo
Corsair Enthusiast TX850watt PSU

The Graphics Cards in where I'm most Confused I run 2 x 22" LCD Monitors at 1680 x 1050 75hz and I dont fully understand need / releabily of SLI was was undecided on whether Geforce 660/70 x 2 In SLI or spend the money on 1 card and go for a single 680 Card so any advice there would be most appreciated.
Sound Onboard
Keyboard Mouse etc I have numerous Logitech model of Wireless types already that suit me fine.
I appreciate this may seem like over kill but I tend to spend out and then it last me for years until like the current PC is costing me more money to keep it running.

Looking forward to any help / advice / are you mad comments

zakblood · 31 Mar 2013 at 19:16

leave the hdd and go sdd's, you won't regret it,

no matter what hdd you put in raid, the slowest sdd will be faster, but yes not a 1tb in size

snips86x · 31 Mar 2013 at 19:42

Marathanman said:
I am in the process of putting together the idea / plans for what I consider HI Spec PC althoiugh i sure you out there will tell me otherwise !!! Use besides Heavy office Access Powerpoint is Video Creation / Editing. I like my PC's over spec'ed rather than just right and would welcome any Help / comments if what i list below is way off track but bearing in mind that I am coverned by the system configurator. Although I have Built PC's in the past I simply don't have the time to do so now. So here we go I'll list what I have chosen and see what reponses / help I get back. Many Thanks in advance.

CM Storm Trooper Case
I7 Extreme 3970
Corsair H60 Liquid Cooler ( Would Prefer the 80 but not an option)
Asus Rampage IV Extreme MB
32GB Ram (Not sure If the Patriot Extreme Masters Kit is worthy or not of the £33 extra)
Hard Drive Seagate Barracuda 1 TB x 2 in Raid 1
Pioneer BDC 207BK BR /DVD Combo
Corsair Enthusiast TX850watt PSU

The Graphics Cards in where I'm most Confused I run 2 x 22" LCD Monitors at 1680 x 1050 75hz and I dont fully understand need / releabily of SLI was was undecided on whether Geforce 660/70 x 2 In SLI or spend the money on 1 card and go for a single 680 Card so any advice there would be most appreciated.
Sound Onboard
Keyboard Mouse etc I have numerous Logitech model of Wireless types already that suit me fine.
I appreciate this may seem like over kill but I tend to spend out and then it last me for years until like the current PC is costing me more money to keep it running.

Looking forward to any help / advice / are you mad comments

Are you going to be gaming? What is your budget?

If not gaming, a single card will be fine.

This is my take, but depending on your budget, this would severely change.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - OEM £459.95
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
2 x Plextor M5 Pro 256GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5P) £185.99 (£371.98)
1 x CM Storm Trooper Full Tower Gaming Case - Black £119.99
2 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Quad Channel Kit (PVI316G213C1QK) £109.99 (£219.98)
1 x XFX Pro Series 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £84.98
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1002FAEX) HDD £83.99 (£167.98)
1 x Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA2011 / 1366 / 1155 / 1156 / 775 / AM2 / AM3) £59.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £1,971.50 (includes shipping : £14.75).

The 2133RAM will really help with the encoding, you'll notice a big difference in the processing/encoding speeds.

No need to RAID the HDD's, the WD Blacks are very quick & using the 2x 256gb SSD's you'll get great performance.

If your not gaming, consider something like THIS just to allow you to run your dual screens. Alternativly, you could look at the 3770k, it has integrated graphics, uses less power than then 2011 as well as being cheaper, but I can see why you have chosen it.

If you are looking for large SSD's have a look at THESE. The RevoDrive3 is very very quick, but it does use the Sandforce controller which can be problematic in the future. This would also remove the need for using HDD's but if you need reliably, HDD's would still be a safe bet with the SSD/RevoDrive.

zakblood · 31 Mar 2013 at 22:16

1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - OEM £459.95
1 x Samsung 500GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD500BW) £299.99
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99
1 x GeIL EVO Veloce Hot-Rod Red 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Quad Channel Kit (GEV332GB1866C10QC) £179.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UD3 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £179.99
1 x Cooler Master HAF X-M Midi Tower Case - Black £109.99
2 x Seagate 1TB SSHD Solid State Hybrid Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" 5400RPM 64MB - ST1000LM014 £99.95 (£199.90)
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £89.99
1 x Pioneer BDC-207DBK 8x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (OEM) £61.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA2011 / 1366 / 1155 / 1156 / 775 / AM2 / AM3) £59.99
Total : £1,898.26 (includes shipping : £13.75).

500gb solid state drive for o/s and apps/programs
2 X 1tb SSHD solid state hybrid drives
one of the best o/c cases, with some great reviews of air and liquid cooling, with a 850w psu silver rated
32gb of quad channel ram 4X8gb chips
7950 one of the best to OC to 70 speed without the price
3930K, with OC guide from 8pack

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18476907

enjoy what ever spec you go for

honosuseri · 31 Mar 2013 at 22:18

He didn't want to build himself which is why I didn't do a spec and he stated RAID1 which is mirroring the data or essentially having a backup drive.

zakblood · 31 Mar 2013 at 22:22

just take your spec and phone or email/webnote etc and ask OC to build and OC if needed, they will sort it out for you, as a custom build, for a small price

added 2 SSHD's with option to mirror raid, supported by drives and m/b

Marathanman · 1 Apr 2013 at 08:51

zakblood said:
leave the hdd and go sdd's, you won't regret it,

no matter what hdd you put in raid, the slowest sdd will be faster, but yes not a 1tb in size

Thanks for the suggestion when I looked at SSD various articles and outside forumns seemed to suggest these were not as relieable and had a elatively short life span. The original OC spec was SSD. Total Space not a total iisue as I currently manage on 500GB Raid 5

Marathanman · 1 Apr 2013 at 09:07

snips86x said:
Are you going to be gaming? What is your budget?

If not gaming, a single card will be fine.

This is my take, but depending on your budget, this would severely change.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - OEM £459.95
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
2 x Plextor M5 Pro 256GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5P) £185.99 (£371.98)
1 x CM Storm Trooper Full Tower Gaming Case - Black £119.99
2 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Quad Channel Kit (PVI316G213C1QK) £109.99 (£219.98)
1 x XFX Pro Series 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £84.98
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1002FAEX) HDD £83.99 (£167.98)
1 x Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA2011 / 1366 / 1155 / 1156 / 775 / AM2 / AM3) £59.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £1,971.50 (includes shipping : £14.75).

The 2133RAM will really help with the encoding, you'll notice a big difference in the processing/encoding speeds.

No need to RAID the HDD's, the WD Blacks are very quick & using the 2x 256gb SSD's you'll get great performance.

If your not gaming, consider something like THIS just to allow you to run your dual screens. Alternativly, you could look at the 3770k, it has integrated graphics, uses less power than then 2011 as well as being cheaper, but I can see why you have chosen it.

If you are looking for large SSD's have a look at THESE. The RevoDrive3 is very very quick, but it does use the Sandforce controller which can be problematic in the future. This would also remove the need for using HDD's but if you need reliably, HDD's would still be a safe bet with the SSD/RevoDrive.

Many Thanks for all this. i don't consider myself a Gamer I don't think I have a single Game in my collection. I use the machine for Fairly constant office work in terms of lots of Powerpoint presentaions and Access also the reason for the Spec was for video encoding taking short MP4's and turning them in to full length adding music effects etc current system takes an age especially converting formatts etc. Price budget £2500 would be nice could go £3000 is there was a good reason.
ATI Graphics card Again having read the various forumns Geforce seemed the way forward again that's whyat I currently have and had proven to be very good but I'm certainly open to all suggestions.
Another question I chose the Asus board as i thought it was the best X79 is this not the case.

Many Thanks

snips86x · 1 Apr 2013 at 09:18

Marathanman said:
Many Thanks for all this. i don't consider myself a Gamer I don't think I have a single Game in my collection. I use the machine for Fairly constant office work in terms of lots of Powerpoint presentaions and Access also the reason for the Spec was for video encoding taking short MP4's and turning them in to full length adding music effects etc current system takes an age especially converting formatts etc. Price budget £2500 would be nice could go £3000 is there was a good reason.
ATI Graphics card Again having read the various forumns Geforce seemed the way forward again that's whyat I currently have and had proven to be very good but I'm certainly open to all suggestions.
Another question I chose the Asus board as i thought it was the best X79 is this not the case.

Many Thanks

I think it depends on what the PC is being used for. Since your not gaming, ATI or nVidia would be no difference at all to you. Getting a cheap little £40 card to run your 2 monitors will be more than adequate.

The price of what I specc'd will come down since you are not gaming with the removal of the gaming graphics card & 1 SSD. You could then buy an additional HDD for backup if one of the other 2 goes down on the RAID.

snips86x · 1 Apr 2013 at 10:51

snips86x said:
I think it depends on what the PC is being used for. Since your not gaming, ATI or nVidia would be no difference at all to you. Getting a cheap little £40 card to run your 2 monitors will be more than adequate.

The price of what I specc'd will come down since you are not gaming with the removal of the gaming graphics card & 1 SSD. You could then buy an additional HDD for backup if one of the other 2 goes down on the RAID.

Revised:

Added a motherboard which has on-board RAID support & added a cheap g/card which will enable you to use your dual monitor. Changed 2x 56gb SSD's for a single 512gb.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - OEM £459.95
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 512GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-512M5P) £352.99
1 x Asus P9X79 PRO Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £232.99
1 x CM Storm Trooper Full Tower Gaming Case - Black £119.99
2 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Quad Channel Kit (PVI316G213C1QK) £109.99 (£219.98)
1 x XFX Pro Series 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £84.98
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1002FAEX) HDD £83.99 (£167.98)
1 x Corsair Hydro H60 V2 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA2011 / 1366 / 1155 / 1156 / 775 / AM2 / AM3) £59.99
1 x Sapphire HD Radeon 6450 FLEX 1024MB GDDR3 Multi Display PCI-Express Graphics Card £44.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £1,780.52 (includes shipping : £14.75).

How does this look?

Also, if you want more speed, take a look at this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x OCZ RevoDrive3 X2 480GB PCI-E SSD - (RVD3X2-FHPX4-480G) £799.99
Total : £809.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).

honosuseri · 1 Apr 2013 at 15:34

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail with Dead Space 3 PC Game £479.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
1 x Sapphire HD 7870 XT rev2.0 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Tomb Raider & Bioshock PC Games £203.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 256GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5P) £185.99
2 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV316G213C1K) £119.99 (£239.98)
1 x Corsair Obsidian 550D Quiet Midi Tower Case - Black £119.99
1 x Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £76.99
2 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £67.99 (£135.98)
1 x LG CH10LS28 BD-ROM 10x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £63.98
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £54.98
Total : £1,788.36 (includes shipping : £13.75).

snips86x · 1 Apr 2013 at 15:36

honosuseri said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail with Dead Space 3 PC Game £479.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
1 x Sapphire HD 7870 XT rev2.0 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Tomb Raider & Bioshock PC Games £203.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 256GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5P) £185.99
2 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV316G213C1K) £119.99 (£239.98)
1 x Corsair Obsidian 550D Quiet Midi Tower Case - Black £119.99
1 x Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £76.99
2 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £67.99 (£135.98)
1 x LG CH10LS28 BD-ROM 10x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £63.98
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £54.98
Total : £1,788.36 (includes shipping : £13.75).

Would he need the 7870 if he's not gaming?

honosuseri · 1 Apr 2013 at 15:47

The 7870XT is related to the 7950 but is cheaper. It can be overclocked to match a 7950. As the GPU can be used to accelerate plenty of software suites it's nice to have a half decent one. Gives him some games if he wants to try them or he can flog them off or gift them.

There is no need for a 750W PSU as I can't see that he would ever need a 2nd GPU added. 750W isn't necessary, might as well get a decent gold rated 550W unit. If he wants to go OTT that's fair enough, for £2500ish I can get a very decent rig and a nice new panel in

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail with Dead Space 3 PC Game £479.99
1 x Dell UltraSharp U2913WM 29" Super-Widescreen LED Monitor - Midnight Grey £479.99
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 670 FTW 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Assassin's Creed III & FTP Currency £314.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 256GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5P) £185.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi Tower - Black £149.99
2 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV316G213C1K) £119.99 (£239.98)
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 1220 Series 4 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (LGA1155 / LGA1156 / LGA1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM2+ / AM3+) £99.98
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £89.99
3 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £67.99 (£203.97)
1 x LG CH10LS28 BD-ROM 10x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £63.98
Total : £2,545.48 (includes shipping : £22.20).

snips86x · 1 Apr 2013 at 17:59

honosuseri said:
The 7870XT is related to the 7950 but is cheaper. It can be overclocked to match a 7950. As the GPU can be used to accelerate plenty of software suites it's nice to have a half decent one. Gives him some games if he wants to try them or he can flog them off or gift them.

There is no need for a 750W PSU as I can't see that he would ever need a 2nd GPU added. 750W isn't necessary, might as well get a decent gold rated 550W unit. If he wants to go OTT that's fair enough, for £2500ish I can get a very decent rig and a nice new panel in

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail with Dead Space 3 PC Game £479.99
1 x Dell UltraSharp U2913WM 29" Super-Widescreen LED Monitor - Midnight Grey £479.99
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 670 FTW 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Assassin's Creed III & FTP Currency £314.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 256GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5P) £185.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi Tower - Black £149.99
2 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV316G213C1K) £119.99 (£239.98)
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 1220 Series 4 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (LGA1155 / LGA1156 / LGA1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM2+ / AM3+) £99.98
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £89.99
3 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £67.99 (£203.97)
1 x LG CH10LS28 BD-ROM 10x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £63.98
Total : £2,545.48 (includes shipping : £22.20).

I only added the 750 as the 2011 can be power hungry. I must say, stunning spec Hono!

honosuseri · 1 Apr 2013 at 18:18

snips86x said:
I only added the 750 as the 2011 can be power hungry. I must say, stunning spec Hono!

Thanks! It's mostly flash for the cash though. If you are going to use a CLC to cool the CPU might as well have a good one. There are cheaper cases but that 650D showed everything off nicely.

Sure someone might complain the 670 is too expensive. That 670FTW is on a 680 PCB with the 680 cooler so is nigh on a 680 when OC'd. Granted the 600 series CUDA performance isn't great so the 7950 isn't a bad shout or the 7870XT I used earlier.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Dell UltraSharp U2913WM 29" Super-Widescreen LED Monitor - Midnight Grey £479.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail with Dead Space 3 PC Game £479.99
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 256GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5P) £185.99
2 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV316G213C1K) £119.99 (£239.98)
1 x Antec P280 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black £99.95
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £89.99
3 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £67.99 (£203.97)
1 x LG CH10LS28 BD-ROM 10x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £63.98
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £54.98
Total : £2,375.44 (includes shipping : £22.20).

He can tweak as he sees fit really. That's the fun of spec'ing yourself and not getting prebuilds

Marathanman · 6 Apr 2013 at 16:46

honosuseri said:
Thanks! It's mostly flash for the cash though. If you are going to use a CLC to cool the CPU might as well have a good one. There are cheaper cases but that 650D showed everything off nicely.

Sure someone might complain the 670 is too expensive. That 670FTW is on a 680 PCB with the 680 cooler so is nigh on a 680 when OC'd. Granted the 600 series CUDA performance isn't great so the 7950 isn't a bad shout or the 7870XT I used earlier.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Dell UltraSharp U2913WM 29" Super-Widescreen LED Monitor - Midnight Grey £479.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail with Dead Space 3 PC Game £479.99
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 256GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5P) £185.99
2 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV316G213C1K) £119.99 (£239.98)
1 x Antec P280 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black £99.95
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £89.99
3 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £67.99 (£203.97)
1 x LG CH10LS28 BD-ROM 10x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £63.98
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £54.98
Total : £2,375.44 (includes shipping : £22.20).

He can tweak as he sees fit really. That's the fun of spec'ing yourself and not getting prebuilds

Hono

Thanks very much i have more or less stuck to what you have suggested. I have one final question you have suggested 1 x SSD and then 3 HD can I just take a second to see what your thinking was ?? After consultation with Overclockers I have the SSD planned for c Drive Windows and all Software then in my mind the 3 HD were to be a D: Drive all douments etc. was this what was in your mind or am i barking up the wrong tree !!!

Many Thanks

honosuseri · 6 Apr 2013 at 17:05

Prices have changed now, so it might well need reworking anyway.

Look at the Samsung 840 Pro SSD as you get cash back on it now making it cheaper. Those 2TB HDDs have gone up in price now by £20. At the time they were a bargain. By having 3 of them you could have setup the RAID on all three or just on two of them as you originally planned and kept one as a scratch drive.

Post what you are thinking of buying just to make sure there aren't better offers available

YOUR BASKET
1 x Dell UltraSharp U2913WM 29" Super-Widescreen LED Monitor - Midnight Grey £479.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail with Dead Space 3 PC Game £467.99
1 x HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795QC3G2M) with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £251.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD256BW) ** Cash Back Promo ** £179.99
2 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV316G213C1K) £119.99 (£239.98)
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Antec P280 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black £99.95
2 x Toshiba (7K3000.D) 3TB SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA300) HDD £97.99 (£195.98)
1 x LG CH10LS28 BD-ROM 10x BluRay ROM / DVDRW SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £63.98
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £59.99
Total : £2,376.44 (includes shipping : £22.20).

Marathanman · 8 Apr 2013 at 18:20

Hono

Thanks very much for your latest post. Unfortunately I don't think this will now come from Overclockers as i have been trying to deal with them since last Wednesday and when I eventually received a quote very late Friday which unfortunately was wrong.I have emailed them and tried to speak to them but I spent 30minutes on a constantly enguaged line before they went home tonight trying to finally sort it out.

Many Thanks for your advice.