Building a Decent Gaming rig (although i might have over cooked it)

Aqueitas said:
I Have never overclocked before would you say your build above will be easy enough to overclock?? i would imagine the answer is yes but if anyone has experience with overclocking the I7 etc some useful links/advice would go down a treat

Stulid thanks for the build it looks very nice.. With the Board there will it be easy enough the CrossFire if i so wished in the future as reading the forums sometimes space seems to be a issue etc?
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yes it will overclock, and the motherboard does crossfire or sli!!!
 
stulid said:
yes you can afford i7.

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
HIS ATI Radeon HD 5870 iCooler V 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £279.99
(£238.29) £279.99
(£238.29)
OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G) £239.99
(£204.25) £239.99
(£204.25)
Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail £209.14
(£177.99) £209.14
(£177.99)
Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £143.98
(£122.54) £143.98
(£122.54)
Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £124.98
(£106.37) £124.98
(£106.37)
Corsair HX 750W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750HXUK) £119.98
(£102.11) £119.98
(£102.11)
Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel (CMX6GX3M3A1600C9) £117.49
(£99.99) £117.49
(£99.99)
Corsair H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1156/1366/AM2/AM3) £62.99
(£53.61) £62.99
(£53.61)
Samsung SH-S223L/RSMN 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Beige/Black/Silver) - Retail £13.49
(£11.48) £13.49
(£11.48)
Sub Total : £1,116.63
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £197.99
Total : £1,329.37
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This is by far a better build than the AMD one, there is nothing out there that will raise a sweat out of this system and it will be fine for 3+ years ( I would bet in 5 years time this will still be creaming through anything)
 
milkinc13 said:
AM3+ is backward compatable with AM3, same as AM2+ could take an AM2 chip but won't use the advances that the new socket/chips use.

How can you say a i7 will last longer than PhenomII x6? that makes no scence to me!

Podmonkey can you define a "gaming chip" so how can you say a hex core is not gaming chip?
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No. :)

John Fruehe himself (an AMD employee) has confirmed on the official Bulldozer blog that Bulldozer will be AM3+ and will NOT work in current AM3 Motherboards.
 
Well i think that im going to go the I7 Route stulid Suggested..

Someone mentioned going for the 950 instead of 930 due to only a £30 difference..
Is it a significant change although in the grand scheme of things £30 in this build isnt a great deal just thought i would ask.
 
Jony27 said:
oh god damnit,,i thought bulldozer will work on am3+ and that the am3 cpus will work on am3+ motherboards..now im confused:confused:
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dont be, thats correct.

before the info was released, we all(myself included) thought bulldozer would drop straight into a AM3 board(there was even a AMD roadmap at Anandtech showing this)
 
I'm really not sure it's worth going i7 for gaming. i5 7xx is every bit as fast in gaming - in fact slightly faster due to the on-chip pcie controller. Check out some benches. This build is a similar price to the i7 build but trades i7 for xfired 5850s instead, keeps your bluray drive and adds a conventional HDD for storage (that little SSD could be full very quick!).

OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G) £232.64
2x XFX ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card ***Supplied with Stalker & Assasins Creed Games*** £399.48
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £158.99
Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £124.98
Asus P7P55D-E Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £109.99
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Power Supply £89.99
Corsair Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMD4GX3M2A1600C9) £76.36
Corsair H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1156/1366/AM2/AM3) £62.99
Samsung SH-B083L/RSBP 8x BluRay ROM / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £45.99
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £32.99
Sub Total : £1,135.67
Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £201.32
Total : £1,351.74
 
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Ah yeah - looking into that mobo you're right it only supports the second pcie x16 slot running at x4. That's a bit poo. I would have specced that gigabyte UD4 (your first link)anyway for the benefit of SLI (and maybe two 460s or 470s instead of the 5850s) but it's constantly out of stock (maybe forever?). Could always go somewhere else for the mobo ;)
 
Liampope said:
I'm really not sure it's worth going i7 for gaming. i5 7xx is every bit as fast in gaming - in fact slightly faster due to the on-chip pcie controller. Check out some benches. This build is a similar price to the i7 build but trades i7 for xfired 5850s instead, keeps your bluray drive and adds a conventional HDD for storage (that little SSD could be full very quick!).

OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G) £232.64
2x XFX ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card ***Supplied with Stalker & Assasins Creed Games*** £399.48
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £158.99
Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £124.98
Asus P7P55D-E Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £109.99
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Power Supply £89.99
Corsair Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMD4GX3M2A1600C9) £76.36
Corsair H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1156/1366/AM2/AM3) £62.99
Samsung SH-B083L/RSBP 8x BluRay ROM / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £45.99
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £32.99
Sub Total : £1,135.67
Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £201.32
Total : £1,351.74
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why go with 2 x 5850 and not a single graphics card worth around £300-400 :confused:
 
sja360 said:
why go with 2 x 5850 and not a single graphics card worth around £300-400 :confused:
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If you can find a £300-400 single card that will give anywhere near the performance of 2x 5850 then go ahead. But you can't. The build was just an example of trading the i7 for i5 (no difference in gaming performance) to allow much more gpu horsepower (lots of difference in gaming performance) for the same price. The most expensive single GPU cards are rarely good value for money, so are often beaten by 2 cheaper good value for money cards. 2x 460s vs a 480 for example is an utter thrashing at the same price level...

anandtech benches

Anyway - my main point was unless you have a limitless budget dont waste it on i7 - spend the difference on gpu.
 
Plus one here with what Liampope said for the GPU - you will find the biggest gains in game experience from a better GPU over a top end CPU or bling ram any day.
 
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