New PC Advice, please help!

Hello,
My first post here, I hope someone can help me decide what to do!

I have been thinking of buying the "Ultima Mosasaur" from OCUK here:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-175-OE&groupid=43&catid=1270&subcat=

with Crossfire ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048mb cards and Vertex 2E 120gb SSD

My local shop has offered to build one with these specs:

Antec Six Hundred V2 Mid-Tower Gaming Case
Intel Core i7 2600K 3.4GHz (overclockable to 4.6GHz)
Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Dual Channel (2x 4GB)
Foxconn P67A-S Motherboard Intel Socket LGA1155 P67 (B3 Revision)
Corsair Liquid Cooling Cpu Cooler H70
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6GB/s Hard Drive
Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 with 1536MB GDDR5 Gold Edition (SLI)
LiteOn iHOS104 Blu Ray Drive DVD-RW Multidrive
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
The power supply is made by Evo Labs and is 800watt I think.

Ive been told the motherboard is not SLI but Crossfire so thought of putting 2 Radeon HD 6970 2gb cards in it.

Would this pc be as good as the "Ultima Mosasaur"
I just cannot decide which to go for as it is a lot of money to be honest.

Thanks,
Hope someone can help me decide.

How much does your local shop want for the build. Its just a matter of researching the parts your local is offering and finding a better price then BUILD IT YOURSELF. Its not to hard and its very satisfying.

If it's the same price your local deal looks better, the 580GTX is the real tie breaker for me.

But as said above if you build it yourself you will learn a lot and save a lot of ££.

p.s. not sure about that PSU tbh.

is it worth going for 2x Radeon HD 6970 2gb cards instead of the geforce as apparently its a Crossfire motherboard.

I considered the Mosasaur myself when first looked at OcUk a couple of weeks ago but by going with an i5 and building/overclocking it myself I could save in the region of £200. Apart for the i5 2500k (which is perfectly fine for gaming anyway) the spec is more or less the same.

good to see youve made an account on here.

does the case he offered you come with purple fans, because that would be a real winner then

*edit*
being serious for a moment though, just bear in mind that your getting top quality components from the mosasaur. also, everything you said you wanted from the mosasaur, it comes to £1560. without the SSD it is £1395. will your computer shop be able to beat that, maybe. will it be able to beat that and give you as high quality components as overclockers, im not so sure.

for instance, that power supply is not one ive heard much about, so i would make sure its a very good quality one before you buy the computer (and dont ask the guy who is selling you the computer, because i guarantee he will say that it is regardless).




and to everyone else. hob has just told me that spec in the OP comes with only 1 GTX580, not two

A ton of these!
http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?...81&type=Fans&type_sub=LED&model=AK-274CC-4RAS

And fluffy dice and tassles!

Do you even need that much power?

And I wouldn't bet my very expensive rig on a no-name PSU with only 2 PCI-E 6 pins connector. It's gonna get raped.

But if you are looking for a gaming rig with at most a 1920 x 1200 resolution, you can go self build with a 2600K or even a 2500K and a single GTX 580 and it will rip through any games.

That'd do me good

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1 x MSI GeForce GTX 580 Twin FrozR II 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £399.98
1 x OcUK Motherboard Bundle - Intel Core i7 2600K & Asus P8P67 Pro Intel P67 Mainboard **B3 Revision** £372.97
1 x XFX 850W Black Edition Modular Power Supply £112.98
1 x Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1) £99.98
1 x Lancool Dragon-Lord PC-K62 Mid Tower Case with Window - Black £87.82
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99
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1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler (Socket Intel LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AMD AM2 / AM3 / AM2+ / AM3+) £50.99
1 x LiteOn iHOS104-37 4x BD-ROM Drive / 8x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM £41.99
1 x Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £39.98
Total : £1,381.18 (includes shipping : £13.75).