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MrElve

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So finally the time has come for me to upgrade as my money has transferred blah blah etc etc.

Budget wants to ideally be no more than £1000, give or take about £50 if it's good or can save a bit.

It would be used for photo editing and gaming. Things like photoshop, Battlefield 3, Crysis 2 etc.

Tower only, Don't need anything else.

I don't have any requirements, other than I'm fixed on wanting the Corsair 650D case. I'll be using my current 1TB Spinpoint F3, 500GB Seagate and 60GB AGILITY 3 I currently own in the new build, but would like to add some more drives there too, ideally RAID on another AGILITY 3.

Anyway,
Thanks all in advance.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 670 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (N670GTX-PM2D2GD5/OC) £329.95
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £245.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi Tower - Black £145.99
1 x Corsair HX 850W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-850HXUK) £123.98
1 x Kingston Blu 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C10D3B1K2/16G) £99.95
1 x MSI Z77A-G43 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.00
1 x OCZ Agility 3 60GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-60G) £55.99
Total : £1,102.36 (includes shipping : £13.75).



To be honest, I'd sell the Agility 3 you have now and get a bigger 120GB drive, or forget about another, as you won't notice the difference in RAID and if you want to do photo editing then you'd be best off selling and getting another bigger one instead of messing with RAID0. Also, the 650D, as great as it is (I have it) you can go slightly cheaper without losing quality, the 650D is very heavy and well built though.

I would say go for this to save some cash, the layout inside is pretty much exactly the same, no drive dock on top, and no fan controller (which to be honest is s*** anyway)
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 670 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (N670GTX-PM2D2GD5/OC) £329.95
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 PC Game £251.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi Tower - Black £145.99
1 x MSI Z77A-G43 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.00
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3K4/16GX) £79.99
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £62.99
1 x Akasa AK-CC4007EP01 Nero 3 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/1155/1156/1366/2011/AMD AM2/AM2+/AM3/FM1) £23.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £1,011.38 (includes shipping : £13.75).



I would sell the agility3 for something better too.
 
stulid's build - cheaper PSU but I wouldn't want to SLI 670's with that power supply so thats more personal preference for the future.

Although I think you could power 2 670's with it, I personally wouldn't. Always scared of running out of W's :( thats why i have a 1000W in a computer that probably only needs 400-500W :o
 
Rooster212 said:
stulid's build - cheaper PSU but I wouldn't want to SLI 670's with that power supply so thats more personal preference for the future.

Although I think you could power 2 670's with it, I personally wouldn't. Always scared of running out of W's :( thats why i have a 1000W in a computer that probably only needs 400-500W :o
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You cant do SLI on the motherboard you and I picked anyway.
 
Thanks for the recommendations guys. Is there a way to do the RAM at something like 2x8GB? By doing that I just thought it might be possible to add the RAM in later on to make 16GB and I could get a better motherboard straight away that would support SLI as I would eventually SLI my GTX670. Plus I may need a larger PSU aswell Q_Q
 
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