£1400 i7 spec

[WU-TANG]GZA · 15 May 2011 at 14:29

Hi guys,

Can I just get some specs from you (stulid

and others)

£1400 - no more.

Gaming + editing (so i7 will be wanted thnx)

No OS, no monitor, kb etc just the tower.

Dare I say 'as future proof as possible' easy to setup reliable etc etc...you know the score.

Thanks all...

Wu

Reaper 392 · 15 May 2011 at 14:34

is this another of your 'im not buying it for a year' threads, or am i thinking of someone else?

stulid · 15 May 2011 at 14:35

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
MSI GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
(£199.99) £479.98
(£399.98)
Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £227.99
(£189.99) £227.99
(£189.99)
OCZ Vertex Series 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTX120G) £149.99
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MSI P67A-GD65 Intel P67 (socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £132.00
(£110.00) £132.00
(£110.00)
Coolermaster HAF X Gaming Tower Case - Black (RC-942) £129.98
(£108.32) £129.98
(£108.32)
Antec High Current Gamer 900W Quad Rail Power Supply £116.99
(£97.49) £116.99
(£97.49)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £79.99
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Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (0F10383) £39.98
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Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
(£13.32) £15.98
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Sub Total : £1,144.07
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WingZero30 · 15 May 2011 at 14:37

[WU-TANG]GZA;19142064 said:
Hi guys,

Can I just get some specs from you (stulid and others)

Oh boy. So stulid has become grand master now, has he?

[WU-TANG]GZA · 15 May 2011 at 14:41

Reaper 392 said:
is this another of your 'im not buying it for a year' threads, or am i thinking of someone else?

Someone else I think. The spec is for a mate.

Thanks Stulid almost identical to what I specced him.

Forgot to mention that HDD is not needed. (SSD is)

He was thinking of getting a 480 to save a little bit, i originally chose the 570 as well as it is newer.

It was case choice that I wanted to know what ppl thought about.

Thanks again all !!

stulid · 15 May 2011 at 14:44

Get a cooler in there then instead of the retail heatsink with the HDD money.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
MSI GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
(£199.99) £479.98
(£399.98)
Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £227.99
(£189.99) £227.99
(£189.99)
OCZ Vertex Series 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTX120G) £149.99
(£124.99) £149.99
(£124.99)
Coolermaster HAF X Gaming Tower Case - Black (RC-942) £129.98
(£108.32) £129.98
(£108.32)
Antec High Current Gamer 900W Quad Rail Power Supply £116.99
(£97.49) £116.99
(£97.49)
MSI P67A-GD53 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £109.99
(£91.66) £109.99
(£91.66)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler (Socket Intel LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AMD AM2 / AM3 / AM2+ / AM3+) £49.99
(£41.66) £49.99
(£41.66)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
(£13.32) £15.98
(£13.32)
Sub Total : £1,134.07
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £229.76
Total : £1,378.58

Still got the SLI GTX570 too.

Reaper 392 · 15 May 2011 at 14:45

[WU-TANG]GZA;19142145 said:
Someone else I think. The spec is for a mate.

Thanks Stulid almost identical to what I specced him.

Forgot to mention that HDD is not needed. (SSD is)

He was thinking of getting a 480 to save a little bit, i originally chose the 570 as well as it is newer.

It was case choice that I wanted to know what ppl thought about.

Thanks again all !!

ahh cool. there was someone looking for a nearly identical simply to see how far things improve in a years time, when he was planning to get a new PC.

i'll see if i can make a nice build, but i doubt it will be better than anything stulid makes

[WU-TANG]GZA · 15 May 2011 at 14:47

stulid said:
Get a cooler in there then instead of the retail heatsink with the HDD money.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
MSI GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £239.99
(£199.99) £479.98
(£399.98)
Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £227.99
(£189.99) £227.99
(£189.99)
OCZ Vertex Series 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTX120G) £149.99
(£124.99) £149.99
(£124.99)
Coolermaster HAF X Gaming Tower Case - Black (RC-942) £129.98
(£108.32) £129.98
(£108.32)
Antec High Current Gamer 900W Quad Rail Power Supply £116.99
(£97.49) £116.99
(£97.49)
MSI P67A-GD53 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £109.99
(£91.66) £109.99
(£91.66)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler (Socket Intel LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AMD AM2 / AM3 / AM2+ / AM3+) £49.99
(£41.66) £49.99
(£41.66)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
(£13.32) £15.98
(£13.32)
Sub Total : £1,134.07
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £229.76
Total : £1,378.58

Still got the SLI GTX570 too.

Yeah shud be one helluva beast when ordered and built

EDIT: He says he will NOT be overclocking !! But in case he changed his mind I still specced P67 and i72600k. also linked him to the MSI bundle Krypton Stegosaur" Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz @ 4.60GHz Overclocked Bundle - MSI

Mr. May · 15 May 2011 at 14:53

why not swap out the 570's for 480's ?

will save you £80 and would be a lot more powerful ..

or with that £80 get two off these for the 480's

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-002-GD&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=787

more powerful and quiter than the 570's now ...

Reaper 392 · 15 May 2011 at 14:54

*edit*
it seems the H50 deal has ended, because i see no sign of it any more

Sin_Chase · 15 May 2011 at 14:56

[WU-TANG]GZA;19142197 said:
Yeah shud be one helluva beast when ordered and built

EDIT: He says he will NOT be overclocking !! But in case he changed his mind I still specced P67 and i72600k. also linked him to the MSI bundle Krypton Stegosaur" Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz @ 4.60GHz Overclocked Bundle - MSI

Wants to spend 1.4k on a system and not get free performance for a few option changes?

Predicament · 15 May 2011 at 14:57

Mr. May said:
why not swap out the 570's for 480's ?

will save you £80 and would be a lot more powerful ..

or with that £80 get two off these for the 480's

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-002-GD&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=787

more powerful and quiter than the 570's now ...

SLI'd 480's get very toasty unless you have superb cooling.

I would say unless he is going down the watercooled route, do not get any 4xx series cards.

Personally, I would go for 2* 6950's *unlocked* as they scale incredibly well.

stulid · 15 May 2011 at 14:58

Mr. May said:
why not swap out the 570's for 480's ?

will save you £80 and would be a lot more powerful ..

or with that £80 get two off these for the 480's

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-002-GD&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=787

more powerful and quiter than the 570's now ...

Loads of reasons,

Less power consumption, so dont need a more expensive 1000w PSU

GTX480 sli much more powerful? - http://www.guru3d.com/article/vga-charts-spring-2011/2 - really?

Reaper 392 · 15 May 2011 at 14:59

Mr. May said:
why not swap out the 570's for 480's ?

will save you £80 and would be a lot more powerful ..

or with that £80 get two off these for the 480's

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-002-GD&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=787

more powerful and quiter than the 570's now ...

480's are pretty much exactly the same as 570's performance wise, except the 480's use up a load more power, and create more heat than the center of the sun.

personally, i'd get the 570's

Orcvader · 15 May 2011 at 15:07

Reaper 392 said:
*edit*
it seems the H50 deal has ended, because i see no sign of it any more

I remember it saying it ends on the 18th or if stock runs out. Maybe OcUK doesn't want anyone else to know anymore?

stulid · 15 May 2011 at 15:09

Time for the Hardy boys again, I do like a mystery.

Mr. May · 15 May 2011 at 15:13

the extra vram will help with future games as i think 1280mb is not enough having 2x470's it maxs the memory in a few games already with max settings and high AA, for nearly £500 off gpu i would want it to destroy anything out there and would be a lot more 'as future proof as possible'

and once the 480's are overclocked you should be able to play at high settings easier and i think one imprortant question is what res will he be using ??

with him saying he will be doing editing i would assume he would have a minimum of 1920x1200 isp monitor or even 2560x1440/1600 which the 480's would do a lot better at high res and with the geil coolers they would be quiet

[WU-TANG]GZA · 15 May 2011 at 15:15

LOL he now tells me that he will work on his other PC! So purely for gaming.

I tell him scrap the i7 then and go for i5 and I get:

[WU-TANG]GZA: i5 is same as i7 for gaming
notepad: what is i7 for then
notepad: video editing?
notepad: servers
[WU-TANG]GZA: only advantage over i5 is editing shizzle yea
notepad: yeah but thats video apps
[WU-TANG]GZA: encoding etc
notepad: same as games
[WU-TANG]GZA: trust me
[WU-TANG]GZA: in games
[WU-TANG]GZA: there is no difference between the two
[WU-TANG]GZA: mate i did the sdame thing
notepad: SEVEN

Orcvader · 15 May 2011 at 15:19

Send him some reviews and benchmarks of the i7 vs i5. Since it'll be purely for gaming, just use Stulid's build but maybe replace the CPU cooler for something beefier? Or just leave it as it is, and it'll save him money

.

stulid · 15 May 2011 at 15:21

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 590 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Gaming Mouse £629.99
(£524.99) £629.99
(£524.99)
OCZ ZX Series 1250W '80 Plus Gold Certified' Modular Power Supply £169.99
(£141.66) £169.99
(£141.66)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £155.99
(£129.99) £155.99
(£129.99)
OCZ Vertex Series 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTX120G) £149.99
(£124.99) £149.99
(£124.99)
Coolermaster HAF X Gaming Tower Case - Black (RC-942) £129.98
(£108.32) £129.98
(£108.32)
MSI P67A-GD53 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £109.99
(£91.66) £109.99
(£91.66)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £35.99
(£29.99) £35.99
(£29.99)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
(£13.32) £15.98
(£13.32)
Sub Total : £1,164.92
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £235.93
Total : £1,415.60

Add another GTX590 later on for quad sli action.