What would your £2000 semi-dream build look like?

DrPeirson · 4 Dec 2012 at 09:41

For lack of knowledge regarding how to show my basket with neat little pictures here is a snippet of my current basket which has been modified and refined over the last few weeks!

I'm interested in what you would do!

EDIT: I am recycling the res, pump, sound card and 6TB storage from my current pc

supergluechris · 4 Dec 2012 at 10:02

Mine would have have a REVO drive and I already own a cosmos 2

DrPeirson · 4 Dec 2012 at 10:06

supergluechris said:
Mine would have have a REVO drive and I already own a cosmos 2

While your here can I ask if you run a water-cooling loop, do you use a 360 at the top and how thick is it, did you have any problems squeezing it in!?

On the subject, The revo drives are the PCI-E SSD's right? I hear they fly like hot **** off a shiny shovel. I can't justify spending my dosh on it though

InverseStorm · 4 Dec 2012 at 10:09

I know virtually nothing about WC so I can't really help with that, but other than that, looks great! Here's how to link your basket in the forum:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18371076&highlight=OCUK+basket

edit: Just realized you have the Corsair Cosmos II case. Nice, thats a damn big case

DrPeirson · 4 Dec 2012 at 10:12

InverseStorm said:
I know virtually nothing about WC so I can't really help with that, but other than that, looks great! Here's how to link your basket in the forum:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18371076&highlight=OCUK+basket

edit: Just realized you have the Corsair Cosmos II case. Nice, thats a damn big case

Thanks buddy

Been wondering about that since I first saw it

snips86x · 4 Dec 2012 at 10:17

Mine would be:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £229.99
1 x Asus P9X79 PRO Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £221.99
1 x Silverstone Fortress FT02 USB3.0 Windowed Case - Black (SST-FT02B-W USB 3.0) £219.98
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Quad Channel Kit (PVI332G186C0QK) £199.99
1 x LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i KIT Controller Card - (Retail) £189.95
2 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Desktop and Notebook Kit - (MZ-7TD250KW) £179.99 (£359.98)
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 660 OC Twin Frozr 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £159.95
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD2002FAEX) £149.99 (£299.98)
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket /LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/LGA2011/AM2/AM3/FM1/FM2) £94.99
Total : £1,993.30 (includes shipping : £13.75).

DrPeirson · 4 Dec 2012 at 10:23

snips86x said:
Mine would be:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £229.99
1 x Asus P9X79 PRO Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £221.99
1 x Silverstone Fortress FT02 USB3.0 Windowed Case - Black (SST-FT02B-W USB 3.0) £219.98
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Quad Channel Kit (PVI332G186C0QK) £199.99
1 x LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i KIT Controller Card - (Retail) £189.95
2 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Desktop and Notebook Kit - (MZ-7TD250KW) £179.99 (£359.98)
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 660 OC Twin Frozr 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £159.95
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD2002FAEX) £149.99 (£299.98)
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket /LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/LGA2011/AM2/AM3/FM1/FM2) £94.99
Total : £1,993.30 (includes shipping : £13.75).

I like it, I must ask why you chose 2011 as its a heated debate for me at the moment. I need a good workstation/gamer, thicker bandwidth and more dimms \o/ (Also more cores)

snips86x · 4 Dec 2012 at 10:40

I chose it as my interests are gaming as well as amateur photography and some video encoding. I've got the AMD FX-6100 and I love it. I think the Hex Intel would be better and the hyper threading technology would be of great asset for this purpose.

Adobe Lightroom v3 uses 5 cores when running tasks. Not sure what v4 is like, but it really makes my editing a joy.

DrPeirson · 4 Dec 2012 at 10:56

snips86x said:
I chose it as my interests are gaming as well as amateur photography and some video encoding. I've got the AMD FX-6100 and I love it. I think the Hex Intel would be better and the hyper threading technology would be of great asset for this purpose.

Adobe Lightroom v3 uses 5 cores when running tasks. Not sure what v4 is like, but it really makes my editing a joy.

Aye, I do a hell of a lot of editing in Lightroom/Photoshop/AE/Cinema 4D/usual office applications. But when I'm done I sit back, relax and let my gamer side take over.

I was also looking at the AMD line and I feel a bit sorry for their processors at the moment

snips86x · 4 Dec 2012 at 11:05

DrPeirson said:
Aye, I do a hell of a lot of editing in Lightroom/Photoshop/AE/Cinema 4D/usual office applications. But when I'm done I sit back, relax and let my gamer side take over.

I was also looking at the AMD line and I feel a bit sorry for their processors at the moment

I know what you mean!

I've considered upgrading to the Piledriver as my Mobo is already AM3, but my FX hasn't failed me yet

*touchwood*

DrPeirson · 4 Dec 2012 at 11:11

snips86x said:
I know what you mean!

I've considered upgrading to the Piledriver as my Mobo is already AM3, but my FX hasn't failed me yet

*touchwood*

Oh hell, the processors are great if decide to get one seen as they are cheap and offer the performance and multi-tasking etc. Since I have this opportunity to splash the cash I wanted to go Intel. Unfortunately AMD is lacking a high-end enthusiast option for their line up and I don't think will change for a while. Their graphics cards however.. are a totally different story... from what I've heard.. because I'm a filthy NVidia fan boy =P