Titan 7300i....*hovers over buy button*

dav3evans

dav3evans

dav3evans

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Hey guys, I've spent ages looking into the best move for my next machine, considering both Mac and PC and I'm going for PC again, I love Macs but they just don't have the spec for the price.

I'm looking at the Titan at the moment http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-193-OE&groupid=43&catid=2040&subcat= and will be putting the 8GB of RAM in there and the GTX570 as well.

Would anyone argue against a spec like this? Say in favour of the i7? I don't really have a preference on getting to build it myself due to time..but thought it worth checking to see if I should try and upgrade the mobo a little or something like that.

I'll be gaming (BF3 mostly =D ) as well as doing some After Effects, graphics, and web design work too, hence the i7 consideration..but not sure if there will be an epic benefit.
 
It's not really though is it? I'm looking for an overall opinion on whether there are several components in this spec worth swapping out making the self build more viable... if you're going to just say built it yourself would you be gracious enough to say why? I'm looking for constructive input on the spec list if possible please mate.
 
will do a list later as I'm not fully awake, I'm sure stulid will be along to blow away any possible specs me or others can offer :)

reasons for selfbuild:

can be cheaper;
better parts for same/similar overall price;
more fun, where's the fun in getting a 'lump of meteal'?
oh I can't be bothered to think up reason when I could be sleeping :)
 
It's all good components in there only thing I would add is an ssd stretch to the bigger one if you can. This would be better than spending more on an i7
 
Would you say you'd be a heavy After Effects user? there is quite a big benefit of the i7's hyperthreading with Adobe's CS5 suite. link
If you can afford the i7 then it would be worth it. saying that the prebuilts look a tad expensive. Whats your max budget?
 
mattx2 said:
It's all good components in there only thing I would add is an ssd stretch to the bigger one if you can. This would be better than spending more on an i7
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I was planning on getting the 500GB drive it comes with and then picking up an SSD later on as well.

R088ieS86 said:
Would you say you'd be a heavy After Effects user? there is quite a big benefit of the i7's hyperthreading with Adobe's CS5 suite. link
If you can afford the i7 then it would be worth it. saying that the prebuilts look a tad expensive. Whats your max budget?
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The stuff that I'm doing at the moment I wouldn't classify as too heavy.. but it will progress on the more work I get, wanted the 570 to support the MPE, I'm just a little limited by price. Wouldn't want to go any higher than £1000 but would prefer it to be closer to the £900 mark.
 
fowler002 said:
more fun, where's the fun in getting a 'lump of meteal'?
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It's fun when it all goes smoothly. ;)

For some people who have limited spare time, sometimes a lump of metal is better because you can just get on and use the thing without borrowing parts from other systems to prove what the hell's going wrong. :p
 
PianoBasher said:
It's fun when it all goes smoothly. ;)

For some people who have limited spare time, sometimes a lump of metal is better because you can just get on and use the thing without borrowing parts from other systems to prove what the hell's going wrong. :p
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Right on the money...time is not my friend at the moment, and don't have other components for testing anymore should things break.

R088ieS86 said:
Do you need a copy of windows?
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I've got a copy of Windows all sorted as well so that won't be needed.
 
dav3evans said:
Right on the money...time is not my friend at the moment, and don't have other components for testing anymore should things break.
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This... I don't have many spares at all now as they've all been used to fix/upgrade/replace stuff in the systems of friends and family. :(
 
This one is between £900 - £1000
plenty of upgrade options with the motherboard able to take the next intel CPU and another graphics card, the PSU will also manage it.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £251.99
1 x Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £227.99
1 x MSI Z68A-G45-G3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £114.98
1 x Lepa B-Series 850W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - with FREE LEPA Hard Drive Enclosure £94.98
1 x Corsair Carbide 500R Midi Tower Case - Black £92.99
1 x Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £89.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT51264BA160A) £35.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
1 x LG GH24NS70 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £968.88 (includes shipping : £12.50).




Less upgrade options on this one but you get more storage with a 1TB drive and closer to your original price.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £251.99
1 x Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £227.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £109.99
1 x MSI Z68A-G43-G3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £94.98
1 x Antec TruePower New Modular 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £69.98
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £49.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT51264BA160A) £35.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
1 x LG GH24NS70 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £900.89 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
Awesome, thanks for the advice, in terms of the specification I've got extra HDDs at home so I could remove that as an option. I looked at one of the bundles and went for the below, which is similar and puts it in the middle of the two above..

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Thats ok, with no HDDs this is your spec reworked for the ability to add an extra card for a silimar price:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £251.99
1 x Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £227.99
1 x Corsair Graphite 600T Midi Tower Case - Black £129.98
1 x MSI Z68A-GD55-G3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £124.99
1 x Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 850W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CMPSU-850TXV2UK) £104.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £47.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
1 x LG GH24NS70 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - Retail £19.99
Total : £948.91 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Edit: And you're only 15 posts away from free shipping which will bring it down a bit :)
 
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