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Hi Folks, wondering if any of you nice fellows could help me build a new rig with a budget of £1000. I have a few musts lol.

need an SSD 64gb is more than sufficient
Modular PSU? the cables in my current rig are appauling & my cable management ability is somewhat lacking.
Really looking for an i7.
needs Monitor & Win 7 64 (got two copies of 32bit but im wondering if 64 is best going with 6gb ram?
Look really nice(case/leds) etc, i love bright lights lol

Appreciate the help :) I won't be ordering this for 1-2 weeks as I want to see what the deal is with the 6xxx cards.


Edit: just realised what a stupid title name i've wrote lol, possible to rename? xD
 
apologies for slow reply, i've been dying for an i7 for a long time, this is pretty much it for me i won't be buying a new PC for many many years after this. what roughly would i need to downgrade/remove in order to get a decent i7 build?

Also, a bit off topic. Selling a rig in order to fund this new one lol, got any decent tips on how to completely wipe a HD, not just a reformat, like properly wipe it

I would ofcourse love a SSD, i could probably drop that if that's anywhere to start, having a little look at the moment to see what i can come up with
 
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nice one, looks well at the moment, would an i5 be much behind as far as modern day games are atm? would it be better to even venture down the AMD route? too much questions lol
 
alright that gives me a slightly better idea, for my personal uses like the modern day games i really don't think the difference would be that much noticable, might go down the i5 route then
 
im a complete overclock amateur but i hear those i5/i7's do pretty well, might be better for me to buy a pre-oc'd bundle
 
thanks for all your help btw stulid, im really tempted by that cheaper i7 build, although i'll probably wait and go with a 6870 over the 460 & it should still be in my £1000 range, SSD i'm actually not that fussed with, can always get one at a later date. considering keeping this monitor i have at the moment aswell
 
yeah i'm not that fooled :D i suppose it's more of a spending a grand want the best when realistically that isn't possible, one can dream =D
 
Alright, I'm going i5, pre-oc'd bundle i guess, anyone got any idea if the CPU cooler comes attached in transit? I'd image it wouldn't.
 
Heres what i've came up with at the moment, haven't included a graphics card until i see these 6xxxx series, but as it stands i'll have comfortably £250 for a card. going with this i5 let's me use my current 32bit win 7 aswell, the benefits for me personally were too good to go i7 if that makes sense lol.



might need a monitor, but i'll probably just keep this current one and replace it later on. Debating to pick up the OCZ modular psu over the corsair, any recommendations/changes? appreciate it!


edit: £560 inc VAT - im aware 1-2 items are [this week only] prices so probably a little more aswell, however i don't wanna buy before these 6xxx just incase i regret it lol
 
ahh i see, i just saw the 2 pci-e slots & presumed, never ventured with sli/crossfire before =D.

do you think the 480's will decline in price at all any time soon? i'd love to try one of those

going with those choices & say a ~6870/GTX 470 or something similar, would i see a noticable difference from a phenom II 940 @ 3ghz + 4850?
 
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worst case scenario, adding in a GTX 480 will only take me to £900 & i'll still have enough for an SSD aswell.
 
Considering just buying this:



Save a few pennies, would that be suitable to run things like Wow/COD:black ops etc on high details/res with amazing fps?

And would i notice a huge difference going from the following (in performance ofc)

Phenom II 940 3.0Ghz, really should OC that lol
& a HD 4850 512mb


EDIT ^^ Still have that HD in my basket,completely forgot to swap it out. will be going with the one stulid linked earlier on :)
 
i was debating over that exact same one, i guess i'll go with that then, the performance of this will greatly out-do my current rig right?
 
at the moment i'm running

sapphire HD4850 512mb
Phenom II 940 @ 3.0ghz stock (deneb)
250GB HD
430W PSU (think it's barely alive as it is)
Biostar 790GX (im pretty sure that's it, bare with me)

forgot, 4GB Kingston DDR2 1066Mhz iirc
 
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I have an Artic 74 freezer pro lying around if that helps at all, board only supports DDR2 1066mhz iirc, upgrading this system might be a good idea actually lol xD

May also be noted that I have a fool willing to pay £450-500 for this system, that was going into my £1k new rig
 
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decisions decisions :D I'm so impatient, I have a buyer lined up for this system for £450, (not inc monitor/OS) I think i'd be a fool to pass that up, I priced everything in it brand new & it's close to the figure im getting, although waiting out for a 6970 with a nice psu/case & ssd does sound extremely appealing
 
Yeah it is indeed, i spec'd everything in it coming to around that & ive had it for a good few years lol. the i5 bundle i was looking at before is back up to £357 DOTW price, like £370 normally :( do i get my basket price? ^_^ strangely that hasen't updated +£30 :[
 
yeah i'm gonna go for a new system. thanks for all your help btw stulid been most helpful, appreciate it a lot. im not quite done yet tho ^_^

- off to watch the apprentice, will be back on tomorrow lol :D
 
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