£1,700 PC Build, tell me what you think

What I would do:
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £276.99
(£235.74) £276.99
(£235.74)
Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - OEM Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - OEM £229.99
(£195.74) £229.99
(£195.74)
Asus ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card Asus ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £224.99
(£191.48) £224.99
(£191.48)
Corsair HX 850W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-850HXUK) Corsair HX 850W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-850HXUK) £154.99
(£131.91) £154.99
(£131.91)
Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz) Low Latency Tri-Channel (PVT36G1600LLK) Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz) Low Latency Tri-Channel (PVT36G1600LLK) £152.99
(£130.20) £152.99
(£130.20)
Corsair Nova 64GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (CSSD-V64GB2-BRKT) Corsair Nova 64GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (CSSD-V64GB2-BRKT) £149.99
(£127.65) £149.99
(£127.65)
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) £66.99
(£57.01) £66.99
(£57.01)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £57.99
(£49.35) £115.98
(£98.70)
Sub Total : £1,168.43
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £206.31
Total : £1,385.24

Still needs case, optical drive and any peripherals you want.
It'd out perform the AMD if you want to WC the cpu and mobo use the UD7. If not I'd swap down the UD5 if not watercooling.
 
Well, for my first build I spent £1300, this was for base unit, monitor, peripherals and OS. Spec isn't that great in all honesty, and I had big hopes such as MDPC sleeving and some modding here and there, but cash flow ran out.

In all honesty I think that the proposed build would be fantastic, regardless that there are other platforms which are better, but as a themed build I really do think this would be fantastic.
 
subbytna said:
i7 will beat the AMD for video editing hands down
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Hey subbytna, what are you basing that statement on please? :)

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Big.Wayne said:
Hey subbytna, what are you basing that statement on please? :)
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He's basing it on the assumption that the i7 will be overclocked a descent degree. Your tables show a i7 975 out performs 1090T. This is at 3.33GHz. So apply the staple overclock of 4GHz to the i7 920 and the 1090T is, as said, beaten hands down!
 
Higadeb said:
He's basing it on the assumption that the i7 will be overclocked a descent degree. Your tables show a i7 975 out performs 1090T. This is at 3.33GHz. So apply the staple overclock of 4GHz to the i7 920 and the 1090T is, as said, beaten hands down!
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And you're basing that assumption on that the i7 would be overclocked but the 1090T wouldn't be? :confused

Please, four cores couldn't possibly keep up with six in tasks like these.
 
Superewza said:
And you're basing that assumption on that the i7 would be overclocked but the 1090T wouldn't be? :confused

Please, four cores couldn't possibly keep up with six in tasks like these.
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Good point. Bit naieve (sp sorry) of me there. From my experience though the i7 is a better clocker than the 1090T so it should be close. Also, if you factor in the i7's tripple channel memory IMHO I still think it will out perform the 1090T.
Note: I will very happily be proven wrong :)
 
also I persome AMDs 6 core CPU can also overclock to quite high levels no? with a decent cooler
 
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