Check this i7 system out..

Admiral Huddy

Admiral Huddy

Admiral Huddy

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Customer has £1k budget but need a few other things.. So what do you think of this?

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail + World In Conflict PC Game £208.99
(£181.73) £208.99
(£181.73)
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4890 Plus 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.98
(£130.42) £149.98
(£130.42)
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £143.99
(£125.21) £143.99
(£125.21)
Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Triple Channel (TR3X6G1333C9) £77.99
(£67.82) £77.99
(£67.82)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000528AS) £65.99
(£57.38) £131.98
(£114.76)
Sub Total : £619.94
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £94.49
Total : £724.43


4GHz OC?
 
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Get the 1TB Seagate 7200.12 drive, should give you better performance for the same money since it has larger platters. Otherwise, looks top notch. And the above (beat me to it)

Hawker
 
Why 2 lots of RAM?

Most of the benchmarks I've seen do not suggest it's worth buying extremely fast RAM for the i7 platform, 1600MHz seems to be a good price point, but TBH I've seen a lot of benchmarks showing 1333MHz to be plenty fast enough.
 
Change the Corsair RAM. For reasons, visit my urgent help thread lol, I've got that motherboard, and I've had to change the RAM due to incompatibility problems. Stick with some nice Kingston...or OCZ...or Patriot Viper. Just avoid corsair lol.

Rest looks fine.
 
could change the motherboard to a p6t deluxe if you've got spare cash?

p.s: 250 posts and free shipping! wewt!
 
You could go 1600 with that motherboard. Above that there's no need, and it's only around £30 more for 1600MHz.
 
How's this look now:

ntel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail + World In Conflict PC Game £208.99
(£181.73) £208.99
(£181.73)
Asus P6T Deluxe v2 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £205.99
(£179.12) £205.99
(£179.12)
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4890 Plus 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.98
(£130.42) £149.98
(£130.42)
Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600MHz) Low Latency Tri-Channel (PVT36G1600LLK) £75.99
(£66.08) £75.99
(£66.08)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000528AS) £65.99
(£57.38) £131.98
(£114.76)
Sub Total : £672.11
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £102.32
Total : £784.43
 
Has he got a third party cooler already, Hubby?

EDIT: Beaten to it - the combo suggested above is very good - and quiet.
 
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Change the Corsair RAM. For reasons, visit my urgent help thread lol, I've got that motherboard, and I've had to change the RAM due to incompatibility problems.
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I admire your optimism, Minato, but until you get your replacement memory we won’t be 100% sure that the above is the cause of all your problems.

It’s a very strong possibility that it is the cause of your problems but it's a bit early to be making definitive judgements about compatibility. ;)

However, even if the new memory does fix your problem it may have been that you just had temperamental set. Memory is perverse stuff and if it can find a way to balls up a build it usually will – but keeping in mind its perverseness it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will cause the same issues in another system of similar branded components.

EDIT: Looking a strong build for the money, Hubby.
 
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I agree, even while we still can't be sure it's the RAM, if it is, it would be best to tell people to avoid possibly incompatible RAM. If it's not then no harm done really. Safe then sorry as they say =)
 
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