Anything to change before purchase?

[Greboth]

Hi all

Due to purchasing parts for new PC soon but thought I would use your greater expertise and knowledge to check the spec list.

The PC will be used for a little gaming (live for speed, richard burns rally - nothing too extreme) Photoshop and 3d Modelling. Things like keyboard, mouse, monitor are already decided on. I also already have a Element V case.

The Spec:
Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD3P AMD 790X
AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1090T Black Edition
Corsair H50-1 CPU Cooler
Akasa PowerMax 850W
OCZ Gold 8GB (4x2GB) DDR3
XFX ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB
Crucial SSD C300 64GB
Samsung 1TB SATA HDD

Thank you in advance for any advice.

Greboth.

Edit: I am aiming for a budget of about £1100 or so for these part though might be able tp push upto £1200 if something special.

Edit 2: Updated spec
Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H AMD 890GX
AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1090T Black Edition
Corsair H70 CPU Cooler
Corsair AX850 850W Power Supply
OCZ Gold 8GB (4x2GB) DDR3
XFX ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB
Crucial SSD C300 64GB
Samsung 1TB SATA HDD

Which pushes my budget to £1185, anything else in need of a change?

 

[95thrifles]

you havent said if youre at the limit of your budget or not? but if not then look at an 800 series mobo and possibly the newer h70 cooler over the h50

 

[stulid]

get a better psu from antec or corsair.

there is better corsair memory on special offer for £82 per 4gb kit.

and the newer gigabyte 890GX UD3 for £104

 

[Greboth]

you havent said if youre at the limit of your budget or not? but if not then look at an 800 series mobo and possibly the newer h70 cooler over the h50

Budget added to first post. Not at very limit, but close to my limit for these parts.
I have left it as H50 for now as waiting for some good reviews on how much better it is than the H50. If it is much better than I will change cooler

get a better psu from antec or corsair.
there is better corsair memory on special offer for £82 per 4gb kit.
and the newer gigabyte 890GX UD3 for £104

That corsair memory is on offer, unfortunately I can't order until start of next week so will be out of offer I will keep an eye on though when I do order if anything better is on offer.

Upgraded to 890GX UD3, seems worth it for the small increase in price.

I know Corsair are good PSU's but I don't have exeperience with Akasa PSU's - Are they that bad? I have used other Akasa products which are good and from reading reviews the PSU is ok. The main reason I query is for a 850w corsair, its another £46 for corsair proffesional series and I am trying to justify that increase. Or can you recommend Corsair TX 850W

Edit: Changing to Corsair TX 850W, H70 cooler and the newer 890GX mobo I am upto £1145.

 

[FabienO]

Also, H50-1 or H70 -_-

 

[Greboth]

Also, H50-1 or H70 -_-

Well I picked H50-1 but 95thrifles said to get H70, so for now working on assumption of getting H70.

My only concern with the H70 is, with 25mm fan 50 mm cooler and 25 mm fan, its 100 mm thick. I know the Element V is a big case, but trying to judge from pictures whether if there is a big enough space to fit this.

Updated Spec
Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H AMD 890GX
AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1090T Black Edition
Corsair H70 CPU Cooler
Corsair AX850 850W Power Supply
OCZ Gold 8GB (4x2GB) DDR3
XFX ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB
Crucial SSD C300 64GB
Samsung 1TB SATA HDD

Price is now upto £1185 so near top end of budget. Apart from RAM, which has been limited by budget and could be changed if something better is on offer at time of ordering - is there anything else which is lacking?

 

[Greboth]

Bump for this thread.

Just want to check that the list above is now alright in terms or spec.

Also does anyone know if there is enough room for the H70 on the rear exhaust fan of the Element V case?

 

[HW91]

I'd drop the 1090T for a 1055T and overclock it a bit, saves you about £70

also Photoshop has CUDA acceleration iirc so using an nvidia GPU might speed it up a bit

 

[95thrifles]

Yeah if youre wanting to scale back costs a bit, get the lower cpu and a 470, Ive been an advocate of ATI for a coupla years now, if not more, but atm NVidia makes sense, 470 is equal to 5870 in performance and costs less, of course the one drawback is lack of SLI support through AMD but its up to you

 

[Ryan-3]

I agree, nVidia's GTX470 would be better performance to money for your use.

Also, the H50 would be fine for even an overclocked 1055T, which I feel would be a better combination for you

 

[Greboth]

Regarding the cost, obviously I have my budget but the price att he minute is ok so I don't need to make things cheaper just save money.

I agree, nVidia's GTX470 would be better performance to money for your use.

Also, the H50 would be fine for even an overclocked 1055T, which I feel would be a better combination for you

At the moment one card will be enough but ATi give me the option to crossfire in the future.

Regarding the cooler, I want to look up some details of the H50-1 Vz H70, if the H70 can justify the extra then I would get the H70. Apart from cost why an overclocked 1055T instead of an overclocked 1090T?

 

[olivier renault]

There is a review around on the web. Overall, it's better than the H50, but it's much bigger as well (radiator is bigger, and has two fans). You'll need to make sure you have room for it. Personally, if you just want decent overclock but nothing mental, the H50 is up to the job, and less of a problem to fit in a case.

I'd drop the OCZ Gold 10666 and go with the Corsair 12800C9.

Crucial C300 or Vertex 2E, hmm... There's a thread in the hard drive section with AS SSD results of various SSDs. Ignore mine, I think I cocked up the raid drivers.

EDIT : Oh, here's another review of the H70. Gonna go read that as well

And there it is, Looks like you'll be better off with a High performance Air Cooler. Oh well... Not that this is on a Intel platform. the Corsair H series is more at home with the AMD platforms.

 

[Greboth]

Hmmm I wasn't planning on going for any large overclocks, I was thinking maybe to something like 3.5ghz will see what the cooler can take in my set up so H50-1 should be ok, dropping back to H50-1 means I can upgrade the RAM to that you suggested.

So this is how it is looking at the moment. - Changes from before are RAM, CPU Cooler and GFX card.

Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H AMD 890GX
AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1090T Black Edition
Corsair]H50-1 CPU Cooler
Corsair AX850 850W Power Supply
Corsair XMS3 8GB (4x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9
GeForce GTX 470 1280MB GDDR5
Samsung 1TB SATA HDD

I will read the thread on SSD's and decide between the two. Changing things around, I am upto £1150 so its ok still. Unless anyone has any suggestions which of something better but with no added cost, then I think I have the list for my new machine

Thank you for the advice so far

Edit: Link was wrong

 

[HW91]

you said you only do little gaming so you don't really need crossfire, plus using an nvidia card accelerates photoshop and some 3d modelling apps

 

[Greboth]

you said you only do little gaming so you don't really need crossfire, plus using an nvidia card accelerates photoshop and some 3d modelling apps

I changed to a nVidia card above You are right I don't do much gaming and photoshop/3d comes before games so I had to change really.

 

[Ryan-3]

My 1055T was just cheaper, you aren't really going to be pushing the CPU till explosion, so I thought save money for other parts?

 

[Greboth]

My 1055T was just cheaper, you aren't really going to be pushing the CPU till explosion, so I thought save money for other parts?

I thought about the 1090T as its unlikely I will have this amount of spare cash to spend on a pc for a while so I thought to get everything I can while I can. Though reading the reviews for the 1055 people have managed to overclock them too 4Ghz anyway. While I doubt I would be able to go that high, it does seem to make the 1090T redundant for me. If its 2.8ghz as standard, hopefully should be able to overclock to 3ghz if not more.

 

[Ryan-3]

Definitely, 3ghz will be achievable if OC'ers go 4ghz, and the 6 cores will certainly keep it going strong