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I have finally decided it's time to scrape together and get an i7 together and since Overclockers has always been coming up over the years when looking thru things I thought what the heck... let's join and see if I can get something going here. I might even purchase it here if I can get the right deal.
I have been doing some window shopping and find a budget of £800 as far as i can go yet an unavoidable limit. Now as funny as this might sound I basically ended up on No competitors putting together an example kit which I have no intention of purchasing yet think it would be a good basis for my budget. Although i have found I have a cooling issue and a PSU issue and no doubt you guys may have advice that I should follow that could break the budget.
I do game (CoD mw3 etc) but I also do multitask a lot with 3D tools, engines and editing and find my i3 with 550ti and 4GB does fall over at times although more ram would probably solve a lot of that.
The minimum spec I want is as follows
i7 3770k or 3820k (unsure which is better)
MoBo : no idea where to start
16GB (2x8) (expandable to 32 (64?))
2 x nVidia
one pci slot for pro sound card
2TB HDD to start with
PSU (unsure of what power is needed)
Win 7 Pro
All of this on No competitors or competitor pricing with a 3770k asus board and i think a 650w psu. As I say i have no real intention of buying from ****** as i wish to purchase everything from one store which is a rule I usually try to stick to.
Firstly I don't know which processor to go with and although i hear things about overclocking, I'm not inclined that way very much at all and previous minor experiments have failed for me.. I'm no guru. # Also, I am a little stumped on cooling for it as I see some chips (all?) come with no heat sink and fan which lead me to read up and look at liquid cooling for the first time.
For the mobo, I saw the Saber (asus) and thought I would love it but its twice what i can spend. previously I have had asus, gb and such but always intel based boards but i want the memory to run fully capable where applicable.
I don't know if an 8 ram slot mobo is possible in this budget nor do I know if you can even buy a single 16GB stick making 64 in four slots possible.
Gfx must at least equate to 550ti standard but this time running 2 and I think the budget allowed for a small £150 for both. Is this feasible or would I be better getting one that can outdo two for the same money ?
If I run 2 x Gfx I need room for one pci slot for my sound card which of course changes what boards can be used.
Drive wise, 2TB sounds about right at the moment given the price. I wouldn't mind buying 2x1TB but that's more money from what I have seen.
Finally is the PSU... I just want to drop to my knees and beg for advice on this, especially if liquid cooling is going to happen and there are issues with powering everything without coming close to the limit. I don't mind using upto 75% but that is about my tolerance level for this. if I am going to use 750w of power I want a flat 1kw psu. I am aware of some of the tat out there claiming to power small villages yet fail to run a pentium one efficiently.
So you can know where I am coming from : I watched a friend build my pentium 1 on the same budget years ago and have built my own since. I have my i3 and 2 core2 duos running strong for the mrs and kids and have done the p2 pIII and p4s in between aswell as working 1000's of rebuilds over the years plus fixing for people... however since i3 era landed i haven't been doing much so my knowledge is lacking and I realize i7 and liquid cooling and the rest is something I had better find some solid research on before I jump in feet first and throw my budget at the fan and get covered in some mess.
Thanks for reading and if you can offer some ideas on great bundles and all or some of the above, i truly appreciate it. I have still to save up more money so am not ready yet which is good time to take a semi serious look in a see what i should do and avoid.
Edit : somewhere in this is a budget for a £35 case. Not interested in ally, just a nice fresh case will do me. Not long bought a CiT for my i3.
Sorry but I will only do intel and nvidia.
I have been doing some window shopping and find a budget of £800 as far as i can go yet an unavoidable limit. Now as funny as this might sound I basically ended up on No competitors putting together an example kit which I have no intention of purchasing yet think it would be a good basis for my budget. Although i have found I have a cooling issue and a PSU issue and no doubt you guys may have advice that I should follow that could break the budget.
I do game (CoD mw3 etc) but I also do multitask a lot with 3D tools, engines and editing and find my i3 with 550ti and 4GB does fall over at times although more ram would probably solve a lot of that.
The minimum spec I want is as follows
i7 3770k or 3820k (unsure which is better)
MoBo : no idea where to start
16GB (2x8) (expandable to 32 (64?))
2 x nVidia
one pci slot for pro sound card
2TB HDD to start with
PSU (unsure of what power is needed)
Win 7 Pro
All of this on No competitors or competitor pricing with a 3770k asus board and i think a 650w psu. As I say i have no real intention of buying from ****** as i wish to purchase everything from one store which is a rule I usually try to stick to.
Firstly I don't know which processor to go with and although i hear things about overclocking, I'm not inclined that way very much at all and previous minor experiments have failed for me.. I'm no guru. # Also, I am a little stumped on cooling for it as I see some chips (all?) come with no heat sink and fan which lead me to read up and look at liquid cooling for the first time.
For the mobo, I saw the Saber (asus) and thought I would love it but its twice what i can spend. previously I have had asus, gb and such but always intel based boards but i want the memory to run fully capable where applicable.
I don't know if an 8 ram slot mobo is possible in this budget nor do I know if you can even buy a single 16GB stick making 64 in four slots possible.
Gfx must at least equate to 550ti standard but this time running 2 and I think the budget allowed for a small £150 for both. Is this feasible or would I be better getting one that can outdo two for the same money ?
If I run 2 x Gfx I need room for one pci slot for my sound card which of course changes what boards can be used.
Drive wise, 2TB sounds about right at the moment given the price. I wouldn't mind buying 2x1TB but that's more money from what I have seen.
Finally is the PSU... I just want to drop to my knees and beg for advice on this, especially if liquid cooling is going to happen and there are issues with powering everything without coming close to the limit. I don't mind using upto 75% but that is about my tolerance level for this. if I am going to use 750w of power I want a flat 1kw psu. I am aware of some of the tat out there claiming to power small villages yet fail to run a pentium one efficiently.
So you can know where I am coming from : I watched a friend build my pentium 1 on the same budget years ago and have built my own since. I have my i3 and 2 core2 duos running strong for the mrs and kids and have done the p2 pIII and p4s in between aswell as working 1000's of rebuilds over the years plus fixing for people... however since i3 era landed i haven't been doing much so my knowledge is lacking and I realize i7 and liquid cooling and the rest is something I had better find some solid research on before I jump in feet first and throw my budget at the fan and get covered in some mess.
Thanks for reading and if you can offer some ideas on great bundles and all or some of the above, i truly appreciate it. I have still to save up more money so am not ready yet which is good time to take a semi serious look in a see what i should do and avoid.
Edit : somewhere in this is a budget for a £35 case. Not interested in ally, just a nice fresh case will do me. Not long bought a CiT for my i3.
Sorry but I will only do intel and nvidia.
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