£800ish Build! Suggestions needed.

Kaz1989

Kaz1989

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Hi everyone,

I know you guys get this asked a lot, but I need your suggestions for my rig as this is my first build! I will be buying the parts (base only) in about two weeks and would just like to hear some suggestions before I make my purchase :) !

Budget: £780-£830

Main Uses: Gaming, some AutoCAD and 3D StudioMax rendering for my Civil Engineering course, and general internet browsing and watching films.

General Comments:

- SLi compatibility is a must for the motherboard (would like two cards in the future), as well as USB 3.0. I would also like the motherboard to be a Revision 3 model to save me swapping it in a few months.
- No need for a soundcard, on board will do me just fine.
- Don't really need an SSD either, but if it can bit fit in the budget, that would be a bonus.
- Would like to stick with Intel and Nvidia, always had very good experiences using their hardware.
- I will be gaming on a 1680x1050 resolution, but I imagine I will be upgrading later in the year for something bigger, so I need future proof hardware.
- I do have Windows 7 32 Bit already, but do you think that upgrading to 64bit will have major advantages?
- Do you suggest buying OEM for hard-drives, optical drives and processors?

Here is my current build (not including operating system - not in budget).

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560Ti OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card ...£204.98

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM ...£169.99

Asus P8P67 PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** ...£149.99

Coolermaster CM-690 II Advanced Dominator Case - Black Coolermaster CM-690 II Advanced Dominator Case - Black ...£72.98

Coolermaster GX 750W Power Supply Coolermaster GX 750W Power Supply ...£69.98

Samsung SH-B123L/BSBP 12x BluRay ROM DVDRW DL & RAM Lightscribe SATAII Optical Drive - OEM... £47.99

OCZ Special OPS 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3SOE1600LV4GK) ...£33.59

Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKS) ...£32.99

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1155/ 1156 / 1366) ...£19.39

This comes to a grand total of £816 after shipping.

I could save some money with this bundle:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-004-CM&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=29

However, this is Coolermaster CM690-II Lite Dominator, not the Advanced, what do you suggest?

Sorry for all the questions, I just want to make sure I get everything right before making such a big investment (I am a poor student after all :p)

Thanks for your help,

Kaz.
 
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Thats a good build, but,

the GX range of PSU's are poor, swap it for an XFX 650w/750w psu, which are made by seasonic and have enough pci-e connectors for two graphic cards.

8GB of RAM will really help with some of the apps you have listed, but you need 64bit windows ( I think you can still use your key for the 64bit copy if you have a retail key?, so you just need to burn an image of this)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 is on special offer, and is a faster drive, its OEM.

And selecting the Lite version of that case is aok move, as all it doesnt have is a SSD 2.5" mount, external SATA dock at the top of the case, 120mm fan instead of 140mm at the front.
 
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Thanks for your suggestions Stulid. Do you suggest getting a modular or non-modular XFX PSU? Cable management should not be a problem so maybe non-modular?

I have a retail Windows 7 32bit upgrade disc, what do you mean by burn an image sorry, you mean an ISO?

Thanks.
 
Kaz1989 said:
Thanks for your suggestions Stulid. Do you suggest getting a modular or non-modular XFX PSU? Cable management should not be a problem so maybe non-modular?

I have a retail Windows 7 32bit upgrade disc, what do you mean by burn an image sorry, you mean an ISO?

Thanks.
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Get either, both basically the same, so you decide modular or not, the prices are similar too.

And yes i mean an ISO
 
stulid said:
I think you can still use your key for the 64bit copy if you have a retail key?, so you just need to burn an image of this
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Sorry mate I am being a bit dense here. Your saying I can use my Windows 7 32 bit retail key to upgrade to Windows 7 64 bit, for free?
 
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