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Someone be kind enough to go over this want to keep it as close to £800 with all parts from OCUK

Anything I could change to make it better maybe lower something to increase soemthing else

Cheers

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Also that motherboard only has 4 RAM slots so you won't be able to slap another 6Gb in a couple of years time if you wanted to. I guess that you could put another 2GB in to make 8 but then it would run at dual channel instead or triple. not quite sure how that works.

The other budget x58 board is the Asus P6T but that doesn;t allow SLI.... But then you are getting an ATI card anyway.
 
If your going o/c more then 3.6ghz i cant stress enough bin that cooler and pay for the crosair,true or Prolimatech Megahalems. IMHO now is very foolsih time to buy a gfx card mate...were talking days for the lot will mean awsomw price cuts on old cards. :D
 
Why not get 2x500GB HD's for RAID instead of a single 1gigger?

EDIT: Nevermind I didn't read the part about you wanting to cut the cost. :p
 
I don't know anything about that case, so many sure it's big enough to hold the card, and the cooler, and has sufficient airflow. Might be safer to go with a 1200 or 902.
 
Cheers for the replys. I changed it to the asus after seeing the other one was SLI

Have changed the cooler to a scyth as well.
 
The Gigabyte is SLI and Crossfire but the Asus is ONLY Crossfire but has 6 RAM slots. Depends if you think you will use SLI in the future.
 
Cheers for all the help, This is what I ordered in the end

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600MHz) Low Latency Tri-Channel (PVT36G1600LLK) + 3D Mark Vantage Benchmarking Software

OCZ StealthXStream 700w Silent SLI Ready Power Supply

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000528AS)

Scythe Mugen 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775/LGA1366)

Antec 300 Three Hundred Black Case

ASUS P6T SE iX58 Socket 1366 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard

The build is for a friend. I know we could have waited for the new cards but he wanted the PC sooner than later.

Only thing I am still not 100% on is the tower but have seen some good reviews on the case, might just get him some tidy fans as a present

Looking forward to building my first i7 :)
 
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hornett said:
Cheers for all the help, This is what I ordered in the end

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600MHz) Low Latency Tri-Channel (PVT36G1600LLK) + 3D Mark Vantage Benchmarking Software

OCZ StealthXStream 700w Silent SLI Ready Power Supply

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000528AS)

Scythe Mugen 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775/LGA1366)

Antec 300 Three Hundred Black Case

ASUS P6T SE iX58 Socket 1366 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard

The build is for a friend. I know we could have waited for the new cards but he wanted the PC sooner than later.

Only thing I am still not 100% on is the tower but have seen some good reviews on the case, might just get him some tidy fans as a present

Looking forward to building my first i7 :)
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I would also upgrade your power supply, I have seen reports of an overclocked i7 drawing 400W alone!!! (That was on an EVGA board though)
I would go 1000W with an SLI/Crossfire board.
 
He doesn't need a 1000W PSU - almost no one does. Maybe if he wants to add another 4890 to xfire it he might need an 800W but his 700W would in all probability be fine with that as well.
 
One review of one board with an heavy overclock tested during a stress test does not make a coherent argument.

Also a 1000W using that articles findings would leave 580W free for GPU, HDD, Fans and RAM which is still overkill. A more comprehensive argument based on more than one example would be all the people on this board running top end graphics cards, overclocked 920's and lower wattage PSUs in their signatures with no problem.
 
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One review of one board with an heavy overclock tested during a stress test does not make a coherent argument.

Also a 1000W using that articles findings would leave 580W free for GPU, HDD, Fans and RAM which is still overkill. A more comprehensive argument based on more than one example would be all the people on this board running top end graphics cards, overclocked 920's and lower wattage PSUs in their signatures with no problem.
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You would be using over half your PSU for your CPU alone at 700W?
Its your money your choice. I know what I will be buying when I upgrade!
Also the smaller PSUs don't always have enough power leads, I had to solder/splice a lead set to run 2 x 8800 GTXs with my 700 Watt supply.
Its a foolish place to save money.
What are we talking about here? £50?
Also it is foolish to run a power supply near maximum demand anyway. The efficiency goes right out of the window.
 
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Cheers for all the points. My mate is not very techy so I would never be overclocking the chip. Not straight away anyways. For what he needs this will do fine
 
It is a foolish place to save money but you still don't need a 1000W unless you are planning on running triple SLI, lights, fans, a ton of storage, a huge overclock etc etc.
 
Well I know that I am not going to convince you otherwise but....

a) £50 is a lot of money for no performance benefit
b) You'll want to replace your PSU in 3-5 years or so anyway as they will become more likely to fail and technology will get better
c) Components should move in the future to being more efficient and less power hungry in response to demand/higher electricity costs/smaller processing technology (I'm not convinced by this point but thought i'd throw it in)
d) yes running at near capacity isn't efficient but 700W won't be even using your 420W example on that board except maybe when you are running stress tests. Running at 35% capacity isn't efficient either. So yes you can have too many Watts

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