£1,600 Spec Request

JamesU2005

JamesU2005

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Hi,

Looking at specing a £1,600 PC. Will be used for gaming and lots of HD video editing.

Was hoping for 12GB RAM and perhaps an i7 930.

Don't need a monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers.

But need an OS and any extras such as fans etc.

This will be my first ever build, must say I'm pretty nervous but also exicited about getting started :)

Any help in specing will really help.

Thanks.
 
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Hows that? Of course, you could probably spend about £1000 and not notice the performance difference...
 
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The important question is what video editing programs you use?

If any of them use CUDA then speccing a ati card is dumb with fermi due out in around 11 days time, not only will it be good for games, but it will monster any supported programs to rapidly increase editing performance.
 
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Asus ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £319.99
(£272.33) £319.99
(£272.33)
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Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - OEM + Assassin's Creed II Game £229.99
(£195.74) £229.99
(£195.74)
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Intel X25-M Mainstream 80GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (SSDSA2MH080G2C1) £189.99
(£161.69) £189.99
(£161.69)
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Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £152.99
(£130.20) £152.99
(£130.20)
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Lian Li PC-9B Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black £132.99
(£113.18) £132.99
(£113.18)
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OCZ Obsidian 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600Mhz Triple Channel Kit (OCZ3OB1600LV6GK) £115.98
(£98.71) £231.96
(£197.42)
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Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Retail (Full Version) £89.99
(£76.59) £89.99
(£76.59)
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Corsair TX 650W ATX SLi Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-650TXUK) £78.98
(£67.22) £78.98
(£67.22)
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Corsair H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1156/1366/AM2/AM3) £66.99
(£57.01) £66.99
(£57.01)
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Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £64.99
(£55.31) £64.99
(£55.31)
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Sony Optiarc AD-7241S 24x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe Optical Drive (Black) - OEM £18.99
(£16.16) £18.99
(£16.16) Sub Total : £1,342.85 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
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(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50 VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £237.19 Total : £1,592.54
 
JamesU2005 said:
Hi,

Looking at specing a £1,600 PC. Will be used for gaming and lots of HD video editing.

Was hoping for 12GB RAM and perhaps an i7 930.

Don't need a monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers.

But need an OS and any extras such as fans etc.

This will be my first ever build, must say I'm pretty nervous but also exicited about getting started :)

Any help in specing will really help.

Thanks.
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Hi

You could always look into one of our workstations that we have on the site, they come with RAID 1 drives and 12GB of memory as standard, we can always custom configure you one too if its not quite what your after.

If you interested let me know and i can always email you some more information

Phil
 
Thanks for all your help.

How about this:

XFX ATI Radeon HD 5870 XXX 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card XFX ATI Radeon HD 5870 XXX 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Corsair XMS3 12GB (6x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel (HX3X12G1600C9) Corsair XMS3 12GB (6x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel (HX3X12G1600C9)

Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - OEM + Assassin's Creed II Game Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - OEM + Assassin's Creed II Game

Corsair HX 1000W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-1000HXUK) Corsair HX 1000W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-1000HXUK)

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard

Antec P183 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black Antec P183 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black

Corsair H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1156/1366/AM2/AM3) Corsair H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1156/1366/AM2/AM3)

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) x2

Akasa AK-ALL-02BK All-In-One 2 Function Panel (Black) Akasa AK-ALL-02BK All-In-One 2 Function Panel (Black)

Sony Optiarc AD-7240S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM Sony Optiarc AD-7240S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM

Sharkoon Silent Eagle 1000 120mm Fan - 3/4 Pin Sharkoon Silent Eagle 1000 120mm Fan - 3/4 Pin x2

Total : £1,579.20
 
JamesU2005 said:
The only reason I put a 1000W PSU was in case I ever went down the crossfire route.
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Even then you still be able to drop the psu, I have the i7 @ 4ghz with crossfire 5850 and full load with Prime & 3d WIN MARK 2006 I pull 430w from the mains, thought it was 480w but that includes the monitor.
 
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