Hi guys,
Since Haswell is now here and I'm speccing out my new build I thought I'd throw together something to see how much its gunna cost me.
Any suggestions on things to change are welcomed.
The rig is gunna be used for high end gaming as well as photo + video editing and 3D modelling/graphic design.
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £269.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £191.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard + FREE Be Quiet! Shadow Rock Pro SR1 CPU Cooler! £109.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C10D3B1K2/16G) £99.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £65.99
1 x XFX Pro 650W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £64.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
Total : £834.89 (includes shipping : £10.00).
EDIT: Forgot to mention that I don't need an OS or any peripherals. I have 3 harddrives in my current computer (a SATA 500GB, a SATA 150GB and an IDE 150GB; the IDE drive is being sold with the machine as I already have a buyer for my current machine) and I was wondering if a small SSD would be better than the 1TB drive? Although my main 500GB drive is pretty full so I'm not really sure
EDIT 2 (wow i failed with this): Budget: £850 including P+P
Since Haswell is now here and I'm speccing out my new build I thought I'd throw together something to see how much its gunna cost me.
Any suggestions on things to change are welcomed.
The rig is gunna be used for high end gaming as well as photo + video editing and 3D modelling/graphic design.
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £269.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £191.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard + FREE Be Quiet! Shadow Rock Pro SR1 CPU Cooler! £109.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C10D3B1K2/16G) £99.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £65.99
1 x XFX Pro 650W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £64.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
Total : £834.89 (includes shipping : £10.00).
EDIT: Forgot to mention that I don't need an OS or any peripherals. I have 3 harddrives in my current computer (a SATA 500GB, a SATA 150GB and an IDE 150GB; the IDE drive is being sold with the machine as I already have a buyer for my current machine) and I was wondering if a small SSD would be better than the 1TB drive? Although my main 500GB drive is pretty full so I'm not really sure
EDIT 2 (wow i failed with this): Budget: £850 including P+P
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