Check Spec of New Kit

[Funkyfin2000]

Hi all,

Following on from a previous spec, a friend has now confirmed what he wants and I have put the following together for him.

He will be connection 3 DVI monitors to this set up.

Can you cast your eye over it and make any suggestions or obvious things wrong or right if possible with it....just want to get the correct set up for my mate...

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i7 940 2.93Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail £389.99
(£448.49) £389.99
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express)
- Retail (11139-01-40) £229.99
(£264.49) £229.99
Corsair 6GB DDR3 Dominator PC3-12800C8 1600MHz (3x2GB) Triple Channel DDR3
(TR3X6G1600C8D) £164.99
(£189.74) £164.99
Gigabyte EX58-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
£149.99
(£172.49) £149.99
Antec P182 Super Midi Tower Case - Gun Metal Black (No PSU) £100.99
(£116.14) £100.99
Corsair TX 750W ATX2.2 SLI Compliant PSU £89.99
(£103.49) £89.99
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66I-01939) £76.99
(£88.54) £76.99
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ) £70.99
(£81.64) £70.99
Samsung SH-S223F/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£16.09) £13.99

Sub Total : £1,287.91
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DHL Select Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.99 VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £194.84
Total : £1,493.74

Many thanks,

Rich

 

[rare]

All looks ok to me, but why the 940? In all honesty the 920 is so easy to overclock its almost silly. Most will run 3.6,3.8 on air with no problems what so ever.

Just IMO of course (I just built a i7 and chose the 920 for this very reason)

 

[Funkyfin2000]

im really not in to overclocking at all, and wouldn't know how to! LOL

Just want a nice stable eas to set up solution.

do you think the PSU is ok? and that graphics card will run 3 DVI monitors ok won't it?

Rich

 

[lunarwolf]

PSU is more than you need so you are fine

the gfx cards have 2 dvi connections in the back (at least the 4870x2 has) so not sure how you could plug 3 monitors off the same card, that may just be ignorance on my part.

 

[Funkyfin2000]

hmmmmmm bugger...need a different graphics card then maybe

 

[Funkyfin2000]

what if i put two of those graphics cards in?

 

[Funkyfin2000]

oh no the grahpics is fine of course look:

- ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance (2x 4850 X2 for a total of 4 GPU's)

Its got 4 outputs!!

 

[lunarwolf]

is 2 x 4850X2 (£450) better than 2 x4870(£340)? must admit, I haven't read up on the 4850x2 at all