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£985.38 inc p&p.

Any suggestions?
 
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I would swap the Gigabyte board for the Asrock Z68 Extreme4 for £5 more, the Noctua D14 for the Thermalright Silver Arrow (similar performance £20 difference), the HDD for a non-green version and the SSD for the Crucial M4 as the OCZ Agility 3s have a high fail rate and a lot of DOAs.

Got a 6970 in there :D


MSI ATI Radeon HD 6970 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £254.99

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £156.98

Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £144.98

Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £91.99

Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 650W V2 High Performance Power Supply (CMPSU-650TXV2UK) £76.99

Cooler Master CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £59.99

Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM3) £50.99

Samsung SH-B123L/BSBP 12x BluRay ROM / 16x DVD±RW Lightscribe SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (OEM) £49.99

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £39.98

Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £34.99

Cooler Master CM-690 II Case Window Side Panel £17.99

Total : £994.87 (includes shipping : £12.50)

 
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That's not bad at all!

Not sure about the cooler though, brilliant though it is its £30 more than you need to spend :p
 
in theory its a great build, but you can get a lot more for your money if you spend wisely.

i have a lecture in like 10 mins so i will spec something for you afterwards
 
this is what ive come up with. with a few money saving parts ive squeezed a GTX570 twin frozr III into the budget. you wont need to make any changes if you plan on including a second GTX570


YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 570 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £269.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £156.98
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £144.98
1 x XFX 850W Black Edition Modular Power Supply £118.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £91.99
1 x Cooler Master CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £59.99
1 x Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM3) £50.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £39.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £34.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £1,000.88 (includes shipping : £12.50).


the PSU is more than capable of running two of these cards in SLI. i believe, but i am not sure, that the 750W XFX unit is powerful enough to run two 570's in SLI, so i personally cannot recommend downsizing. however, if someone can show me how much power these cards use in SLI then you may find the 750W one is enough. its definitely a good quality PSU as its a rebranded seasonic, which is what corsair PSU's are :)
 
Reaper 392 said:
this is what ive come up with. with a few money saving parts ive squeezed a GTX570 twin frozr III into the budget. you wont need to make any changes if you plan on including a second GTX570


YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 570 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £269.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £156.98
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £144.98
1 x XFX 850W Black Edition Modular Power Supply £118.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £91.99
1 x Cooler Master CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £59.99
1 x Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM3) £50.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £39.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £34.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £1,000.88 (includes shipping : £12.50).


the PSU is more than capable of running two of these cards in SLI. i believe, but i am not sure, that the 750W XFX unit is powerful enough to run two 570's in SLI, so i personally cannot recommend downsizing. however, if someone can show me how much power these cards use in SLI then you may find the 750W one is enough. its definitely a good quality PSU as its a rebranded seasonic, which is what corsair PSU's are :)
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This is better than what I suggested if you don't need a blu-ray player :)

You could up the PSU in mine if you take out the windowed side panel, to allow for future CF/SLI
 
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This is better than what I suggested if you don't need a blu-ray player :)

You could up the PSU in mine if you take out the windowed side panel, to allow for future CF/SLI
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Well no, it isn't really.

The GTX570 performs pretty much the same and its much more expensive :confused:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/292?vs=306

Granted the PSU will let you SLI, but that's about the only real "upgrade".
 
This is the beautiful thing about having c.£1000 to spend on a rig. It's more than enough to build something amazing any day.
 
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