£1200 Build. ANY advice welcome

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Hi guys,

I am going to bite the bullet and build a rig through the magic of "Buy Now Pay Later".

I have got a £1200 limit (which is to include VAT and postage) and wanted to know what you would spend this sort of money on at the moment?

I already have monitor, keyboard, mouse, O/S, optical drive, and speakers - so no need for any of those. Also, I don't need a great amount of storage (about 100GB) so I was thinking of going for a more expensive SSD rather than a cople of HDDs in RAID - what do you think?

I will be using it for watching movies, internet, video editing (amateur), and occasional gaming.

Please spec me up!
Thanks,
Spitzoid
 
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What OS, optical drive (is it Blu-Ray?) and screen size do you have?

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Basically, this is as silent as you can make your PC (which is very good for watching movies on).

However, I don't know how wise a choice the Raptor is (more noise) but the rolled-steel Antec case should be good for absorbing vibrations/sound.

SSD's aren't worth the money to be honest and the 10K Raptor is as fast as you could want.

The graphics card will be plenty good enough, even on a 24"/1080P screen.

The Quad Core CPU will be excellent for video editing.
 
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O/S = Vista 64, optical drive = DVD RW (I use PS3 to watch Blu-Ray), I use either a 19" Philips LCD, or a 40" Sony Bravia LCD
 
From reviews ive read the current SSDs on the market seem to suffer from stuttering problems etc and due to this i personally wouldnt buy any of them just yet.

This is what I would go for making use of the £1200 budget.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.83GHz 12MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor - Retail
Asus P5Q-E Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PK PC2-8500C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK)
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2048MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322HJ) x 2
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK)
Akasa Eclipse 62 Aluminium Case - No PSU
Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775)

£1090.21 + shipping

Put an Akasa Eclipse case in there, although case design etc is more a personal choise.
 
Have a looksie:




RAID0 2 of those drives as your OS drive, I know you said you didnt want a lot of storage but at that price would be silly not too.

Went with the noctua and an extra p12 as it worked out a little cheaper than the TRUE and 2 fans.

theres a coupla hundred left over for your case, Im int ehf orm belief should never spend over £100 on a case, but I went budget with an Antec 300 and am regretting it tbh. Wasn't sure how much could be justified so left a little slack, cheap case and you could slap another 4Gb ram in it
 
Would it be enough to cope with an E8400 in place of the Quad core, and 4 HDDs (inc 2 Velociraptors)?
 
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