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Hey

After many weeks now of yes/no cant make my mind up i have finally decided to go ahead with the following spec. Looking to take a trip to ocuk tomorrow morning so wanted your advice before i buy.

Quick Questions

Looking to overclock & GPU to around 4.5 GHZ is this possible with the mobo
Going to run 2 monitors sometime soon.. can i do it with this card
PSU ?? what are your thoughts ??

Anything you would change ?

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6950 "Dual Fan Edition" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE DIRT3 & Deus Ex Games Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6950 "Dual Fan Edition" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE DIRT3 & Deus Ex Games £224.99
(£187.49) £224.99
(£187.49)
Samsung S23A550H 23" Widescreen Ultra Thin LED Monitor - Glossy Black Samsung S23A550H 23" Widescreen Ultra Thin LED Monitor - Glossy Black £167.99
(£139.99) £167.99
(£139.99)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game £167.99
(£139.99) £167.99
(£139.99)
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £120.38
(£100.32) £120.38
(£100.32)
Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
(£57.00) £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) £47.99
(£39.99)
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply Antec TruePower New Modular 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £64.98
(£54.15) £64.98
(£54.15)
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £56.99
(£47.49) £56.99
(£47.49)
Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler (Socket Intel LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AMD AM2 / AM3 / AM2+ / AM3+) 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)
BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £32.99
(£27.49) £32.99
(£27.49)
Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
(£14.99) £17.99
(£14.99)
Sub Total : £850.56
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £22.20
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £174.55
Total : £1,047.31
 
Looks good, with that cooler id change to....

Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9) [CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9]
£53.99 inc VAT
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-299-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

& id spend a tenner more for this...

Lepa B-Series 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply
£74.98 inc VAT
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-006-LA&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

You can run 3 monitors if you wish ;)

Edit, id check Antec Kúhler fits ok in that case.
 
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Looks good to me.
You can run dual monitors fine from that card. If you fancy saving a few £££ you could always go for the 68xx series, can still have dual monitors, but obviously loosing gaming power.
 
Quick Question
i Notice that the monitor only supports VGA and HDMI is it best for me to run HDMI as the monitor does not support DVI ?
 
bit of a dum question but can i use HDMI ? as i have a HDMI insted of using DVI

Clearly this would be a better option would it ? Picture Quality then a LCD

Really do want a LED , better picture :)

Sorry not to clued up on this really

Cheers
 
Some people have complained about getting a grainy look and shoddy sound through HDMI when gaming, or any task that will stress the GPU.
 
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