Basically we built our first pc a couple of years ago, and now that our other pc, an older system (a pre-built one) is on it's last legs we've been thinking of building another.
We're not intending to overclock at the moment but still want a system that will last quite a while for games, photoshop and other general use, and can be upgraded if need be in future. Would say £1200 probably the most we'd spend, not including a monitor for now.
I've put a basic spec below, some explanation:
The case, we used a P182 in our first build and are very happy with it. The P183 seemed to be the closest thing to that so we would like to use that if possible, just wondered if there would be any kind of graphics card length or psu fitting issues with what I've put below.
The two hd's, we generally like to have a main drive and a 2nd that it backs up onto each day... was thinking about a seperate drive for the OS, is this worth it? SSD's and the faster hd's seem pretty expensive, is the difference really noticable/worth it?
Graphics, the 5850 seemed like the most reasonable performance/price to get, as supply seems to be a problem for all the cards is there any particular manufacturer I should avoid? or just get whichever happens to be in stock when I come to order? and any ideas when more are likely to be in stock?
Finally Psu, went with a modular Corsair psu on our first build, very happy with how that worked so basically is 650w enough for the spec below and is it likely to allow for future upgrades in a year or two for the graphics etc?
Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail
Asus P6T SE Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel (TR3X6G1600C9)
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
2x Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer 7.1 Sound Card (70SB073A02007)
Corsair HX 650W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-650HXUK)
Antec P183 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black
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We're not intending to overclock at the moment but still want a system that will last quite a while for games, photoshop and other general use, and can be upgraded if need be in future. Would say £1200 probably the most we'd spend, not including a monitor for now.
I've put a basic spec below, some explanation:
The case, we used a P182 in our first build and are very happy with it. The P183 seemed to be the closest thing to that so we would like to use that if possible, just wondered if there would be any kind of graphics card length or psu fitting issues with what I've put below.
The two hd's, we generally like to have a main drive and a 2nd that it backs up onto each day... was thinking about a seperate drive for the OS, is this worth it? SSD's and the faster hd's seem pretty expensive, is the difference really noticable/worth it?
Graphics, the 5850 seemed like the most reasonable performance/price to get, as supply seems to be a problem for all the cards is there any particular manufacturer I should avoid? or just get whichever happens to be in stock when I come to order? and any ideas when more are likely to be in stock?
Finally Psu, went with a modular Corsair psu on our first build, very happy with how that worked so basically is 650w enough for the spec below and is it likely to allow for future upgrades in a year or two for the graphics etc?
Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail
Asus P6T SE Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel (TR3X6G1600C9)
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
2x Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer 7.1 Sound Card (70SB073A02007)
Corsair HX 650W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-650HXUK)
Antec P183 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black
+ Dvdrw
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