£1200 build any clues?
- Thread starter black-ops
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Ive just come off the phone to OCUK and ordered this if it's any help to you.I'm a total amateur at building though,i took specs from other users builds and came up with this so maybe wait for other peoples opinions 
MSI GeForce GTX 570 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with FREE Batman: Arkham City PC game* £263.99 (£219.99)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game £179.99 (£149.99)
Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £159.98 (£133.32)
Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £133.99 (£111.66)
Silverstone Raven 2 RV02B Full Tower Case - Black £129.98 (£108.32)
OCZ Z-Series 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £94.99 (£79.16)
LG BH10LS30 10x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £78.98 (£65.82)
Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40 (£57.00)
Options applied to the above product:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £47.99 (£39.99)
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £49.99 (£41.66)
Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99 (£21.66)
Creative A220 2.1 Speakers (51MF0400AA008) £25.99 (£21.66)
OcUK Value RJ45 30m Network Cable (URT-630) £5.99 (£4.99)
Sub Total : £1,055.22
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £16.85
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £214.41
Total : £1,286.48
EDIT:Tidied the post up a bit,was all over the place.
MSI GeForce GTX 570 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with FREE Batman: Arkham City PC game* £263.99 (£219.99)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game £179.99 (£149.99)
Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £159.98 (£133.32)
Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £133.99 (£111.66)
Silverstone Raven 2 RV02B Full Tower Case - Black £129.98 (£108.32)
OCZ Z-Series 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £94.99 (£79.16)
LG BH10LS30 10x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £78.98 (£65.82)
Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40 (£57.00)
Options applied to the above product:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £47.99 (£39.99)
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £49.99 (£41.66)
Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99 (£21.66)
Creative A220 2.1 Speakers (51MF0400AA008) £25.99 (£21.66)
OcUK Value RJ45 30m Network Cable (URT-630) £5.99 (£4.99)
Sub Total : £1,055.22
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £16.85
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £214.41
Total : £1,286.48
EDIT:Tidied the post up a bit,was all over the place.
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From what ive read on these forums not much difference.I think i7 is good for video editing,i maybe wrong though
nah your right, video editing and 3d modelling etc will be helped by the 2600K.
saints spec looks fine as well OP, do you need o/s, keyboard, mouse etc
I've got the OS and other peripherals already, just the core system is all I'm aiming at MP. Not sure I'd need a blueray drive as this will be just a programming / gaming machine lol.
I'm coming from an amd 955 so anything better than that CPU wise will be great.
Would you recommend 2x6950 or 1x570 or perhaps even (dare I say) a 580?
I'm coming from an amd 955 so anything better than that CPU wise will be great.
Would you recommend 2x6950 or 1x570 or perhaps even (dare I say) a 580?
personally, if you can afford it go with the 580,you could go with dual cards cheaper and better performance than a 580, but its a single card so you could sli it later if you needed the extra punch.
nothing wrong with looking at the 6950/6970/570 tho all very nice cards.
drop anything out of saint's build that you don't need, add a 2tb samsung f4 drive for storage and swap the gfx card of your choice and your sorted.
nothing wrong with looking at the 6950/6970/570 tho all very nice cards.
drop anything out of saint's build that you don't need, add a 2tb samsung f4 drive for storage and swap the gfx card of your choice and your sorted.
