need advice..£1200 For an i7 build

ukSleek · 25 Feb 2009 at 19:13

The funds should be with me next week sometime..thing is it needs to be a gaming rig and i'm out of touch a little.. :confused:

I'd like a top end nVidia card please. (260)

My monitor's native res is 1680 *1050

Now i don't mind going over budget of £100 but ideally i'd like to keep to £1200

No monitor ect just a full base unit (Antec 300 case is fine)

Regard's.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that i don't mind buying a "bundle" and building the system around that.

ukSleek · 26 Feb 2009 at 06:21

Anyone?...

I really could do with some advice..thank's in advance.

ro55o · 26 Feb 2009 at 09:14

ukSleek · 26 Feb 2009 at 18:28

Thanks for your input and good price!

As for the PSU i was thinking of a 600+ psu for future upgrade reasons..do you think i should go higher?

The GPU make i've never heard of?? are they anygood?

engstrom0304 · 26 Feb 2009 at 18:36

i just bought an i7 920 with a gtx 280 and the gtx 280 bottlenecks the i7 in games.

If you look around on reviews youll see pretty poor performance on i7 unless its paired with sli or crossfire.

The only time i7 is any better than anything erlse like phenom 2 is when you have sli or crossfire.

For that price i would go phenom ii.

Im selling my i7 to do that.

mythrandyr · 26 Feb 2009 at 18:38

i dont know how to post the image of the shopping basket into the forum yet but why not go for:

1 X http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-163-OK
1 X http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-012-ZT
1 X http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-071-AN
1 X http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-058-CL
1 X http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-059-SA
1 X http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-099-SA

should come to £1,052.17 and you'll have £140 to spare to be able to buy better cooling (if you overclock, if not standard cooler should be fine) or a 2nd hard disk or whatever you're flavour, for £1200 you can get a very good system just play around with the bundles a bit and see what you come up with

icey_haj · 26 Feb 2009 at 18:41

mythrandyr said:
i dont know how to post the image of the shopping basket into the forum yet but why not go for:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17979187&highlight=imageshack

icey_haj · 26 Feb 2009 at 18:43

Ro550 has posted a good spec there, I would go with that and maybe add a blu-ray drive instead of the DVD one.

Something like this is very good;

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-074-LG

mythrandyr · 26 Feb 2009 at 18:43

cheers icey

engstrom0304 · 26 Feb 2009 at 19:17

if alk your going to be doing is gaming then you would be better off with a phenom II and dual graphics cards until the i5 is realeased by which time better graphics cards will be out that dont bottleneck the cpu.

ukSleek · 26 Feb 2009 at 19:53

Yea i just read a post here about the GPU bottle neck in that Tom's Hardware review.

How about this..http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-041-OE&groupid=43&catid=1184&subcat=

pre built i know and out of my budget a little but what do you think? BTW iv'e had intel for nearly ten years so i guess it's time for a change

Edit: just found this one and for some reason it's cheaper? http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-131-OK&groupid=43&catid=1270&subcat=

Not sure on water cooled..you have to top it up every so often right?

ScarySquirrel · 26 Feb 2009 at 20:19

engstrom0304 said:
i just bought an i7 920 with a gtx 280 and the gtx 280 bottlenecks the i7 in games.

If you look around on reviews youll see pretty poor performance on i7 unless its paired with sli or crossfire.

The only time i7 is any better than anything erlse like phenom 2 is when you have sli or crossfire.

For that price i would go phenom ii.

Im selling my i7 to do that.

Surely the performance is still enough to run all of today's games though? Going i7 just future proofs it more doesn't it, as you can upgrade the GFX card later?

engstrom0304 · 26 Feb 2009 at 20:19

ukSleek said:
Not sure on water cooled..you have to top it up every so often right?

Ive had water cooling before and its a nightmare.
All you really need to do is top it up and clean the rad every so often.

engstrom0304 · 26 Feb 2009 at 20:20

ScarySquirrel said:
Surely the performance is still enough to run all of today's games though? Going i7 just future proofs it more doesn't it, as you can upgrade the GFX card later?

Thats right, i am planning to buy another gtx 280 in may but by my logic i would have been better waiting until i could buy everything at once because prices will only fall.

Rapido! · 26 Feb 2009 at 20:35

engstrom0304 said:
Thats right, i am planning to buy another gtx 280 in may

...and then you'll find your SLI setup to be grotesquely bottlenecked by the Phenom II, compared to the performance you'd get if it were paired with the Core i7 you own right now.

Your logic is completely backwards, unholy, and wrong.

up2nogooduk · 26 Feb 2009 at 23:14

Rapido! said:
...and then you'll find your SLI setup to be grotesquely bottlenecked by the Phenom II, compared to the performance you'd get if it were paired with the Core i7 you own right now.

Your logic is completely backwards, unholy, and wrong.

Keep reading Tomany jackanorys (storys) about this chip, and mines on it's way tomorrow

but most i've spoke to on here
(even with a ATI 4870 1024MB) with same spec, say there's run exellent in games, higher the res the better, with nice size screen.
Hence why i went i7 route