Budget of £1600, help with build ideas

[footwo]

Hi folks

I need to buy a new rig and I was just gonna go for the Ultima Tyrannosaur that OC are offering since I cant be bothered building a system at the moment.

However just in case, I'd like some ideas for a gaming system within a budget of about £1600.

I already have a SSD (Vertex 3) as my boot drive in my current system so I'd be transplanting that into the new rig. I don't need monitors or anything like that, just a base system.

If anyone could offer any help it would be much appreciated, I've fallen a bt out of touch with stuff lately so I'm not sure what's good and what to avoid

Is it worth just modifying some of the parts of the Tyrannosaur to tweak it a bit? I don't mind going slightly over budget.

Thanks for any help.

 

[footwo]

Blimey, didn't want to start a slanging match, take it easy fowler

I already have Windows so I wont need to order that. I'm liking the look of this recommendation, although I think I'd drop the water cooler, I've never had to use them before and don't really see the need for them:

How about windows, have you got a copy of that?

That would that the Tyrannosaur to £1679.98 before shipping.

For that you can have an epic gaming rig:

Transplanting your Vertex in for a boot drive:

YOUR BASKET
2 x MSI GeForce GTX 580 OC Twin FrozR II 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £349.98 (£699.96)
1 x Corsair Professional Series HX1050 Professional Series 1050W Modular Power Supply (CMPSU-1050HXUK) £179.98
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £167.99
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £145.99
1 x Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD204UI) £137.99
1 x Silverstone Raven 2 RV02B Full Tower Case - Black £129.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler (Socket Intel LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AMD AM2 / AM3 / AM2+ / AM3+) £44.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £39.98
Total : £1,644.55 (includes shipping : £14.75).

I like the sound of twin 580's

 

[footwo]

Apologies to the OP for sidetracking your thread, it is indeed a reasonable spec, though OTT in my opinion, Id suggest you try single card initially and add a 2nd later if needs be

No worries, thanks for taking the time to respond.

So you reckon SLi ain't worth it?

 

[footwo]

OK one card it is then.

I've been using the configurator (Intel 10200i) on the website and I've come up with this:

Case (may change to a snazzier one):

CPU:

Cooler:

Motherboard:

RAM:

Graphics:

HDD:

Optical:

PSU (850 is out of stock):

Comes in at 1424.69

What do you think?

 

[footwo]

watercooling.

Really? Is it actually worth it?

no, you want a z68 board.

but I'm sure trifles will disagree with me.

What's the benefit?

They have this one available:

Or the Asus Maximus IV Extreme which might be a bit too much.

 

[footwo]

I guess my point about calling ocuk with your own spec list was missed, and I'm not making this up as there are at least 2 threads recent(1 over the past week) where the op has done just that(only thing was they wanted the gelid tranquilo and ocuk suggested altrernative, according to ocuk the gelid would snap off during transit due to its height and weight).

No I saw that and I'll end up doing that if the configurator doesn't give me what I need. The main thing is I want this PC to last a good long while so I don't wanna cheap out on stuff if I can help it.

I like the look of the 600T case so I'll switch to that.

There's also this Z68 board on the configurator:

but like fowler says I could just call them up and ask for a different board.

 

[footwo]

OK how about this. Added another SSD, changed case, changed motherboard

Look good?

 

[footwo]

Don't stop arguing on me now boys, I wanna get this ordered

 

[footwo]

I wouldn't order the overclock, unless you're that worried. It really is straightforward enough to do, especially with the UEFI bios. Save yourself the few quid that'll pay for shipping.

Yeah I didn't mean to order that, I'll take that out.

I wouldn't run 2x 580's on a 750W but it can be done. ( i know you might not even do it)

I thought you already had an SSD? the vertex 3 is fater than the m4. The OC'ing is very easy so you could save some ££ on that. But if you want a straight out of the box system then that will run fine.

Yeah I do but thought I may as well chuck another SSD in and use it for all my games. I'll be sticking with 1 GFX card I should think.