£1000-£1200 build

^ you can do that on most things with the 470, only game I had issue with running at stock speeds was metro 2033
 
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Slightly over budget, but I've taken bits from various recommendations and added some myself.

What are your thoughts on this?
 
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ZOTAC GeForce GTX 470 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £246.74
Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail £217.36
Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £149.99
Corsair HX 750W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750HXUK) £129.99
Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 12800C9 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel (CMX6GX3M3A1600C9) £129.24
Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £124.98
Intel X25-V Value 40GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (SSDSA2MP040G2R5) £88.11
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000528AS) £52.99
Samsung SH-B083L/RSBP 8x BluRay ROM / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £51.69
Sub Total : £1,081.78
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £191.89
Total : £1,288.42
 
With that SSD(vertex 2E, 40GB), it's a price I can afford.

Do you all think it'll meet my initial requirements?

And also be able to cope with a second GPU in the future, for an SLI setup...
 
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out of interest why is the SSD such a requirement? At that space your not really going to be able to put much more than the OS and a few bits on there to take advantage of the speed. And on the cheaper end you arnt going to notice much over the high end platter drives?

Just asking because if you dump that you would have the money to upgrade the graphics or processor or something which for things like gaming would be far far better for the system.
 
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out of interest why is the SSD such a requirement? At that space your not really going to be able to put much more than the OS and a few bits on there to take advantage of the speed. And on the cheaper end you arnt going to notice much over the high end platter drives?

Just asking because if you dump that you would have the money to upgrade the graphics or processor or something which for things like gaming would be far far better for the system.
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I want the OS to operate fast, fast boot up etc.

Have you got an example HDD high end platter you can show me?

Thanks
 
Ive got an article at home from pcpro that details read / write and boot up times on SSDs and the ones that actually showed a difference from memory where the drives that came in closer to the £250 - £300 range. As for boot times with windows 7 just sleep the pc then it takes about 2 or 3 seconds to boot up.

As for the drives the samsung spinpoint f3 or the western digital raptors are ideal choices. The WD can be a little noisy though.

I cant deny that the SSD will be quicker but for the price of drive in this budget it wont make enough difference to matter
 
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A touch over budget but well worth it IMO.

Remember if your gaming you want to get the best GPU your money can buy, the CPU comes second in this regard and in 90% of games playing at high resolutions the video card will max out before the CPU breaks a sweet. Typically if a game is CPU bound the frame rate will most likely be ridiculously high anyway so it doesn't really matter what your using as you won't be able to tell the difference.
 
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I agree with the above poster and that is one hell of a build, with that graphics card I dont think there would be much to trouble you for some time and as for upgrading you can build around it.

Always sticks with me though spending that much on a card that is going to halve in price next year :)
 
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I agree with the above poster and that is one hell of a build, with that graphics card I dont think there would be much to trouble you for some time and as for upgrading you can build around it.

Always sticks with me though spending that much on a card that is going to halve in price next year :)
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Look at like this, if he keeps that card for 3 years then it would have cost £146 a year which considering how people spend on video card upgrades around hear that's not a lot money.
 
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