★★★★★ Design spec build advice ★★★★★

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Oright folks.

Looking for advice on new build - budget just under the £1k mark. I do allot of After Effects and web based design work and require a good amount of RAM. After a 64bit machine that will last a few years. Not bothered about overclocking just a machine that will take anything i throw at it and can handle multiple design apps running, good for rendering 3D, good graphics card, will run without any problems :) etc etc.

Any advice would be great.

I posted this a while ago Creative spec but not sure if any of this is out of date. I now really need to get a machine sorted.

cheers
 
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i7 with 12 gig of RAM, NVidia card as I believe some programs can utilise CUDA, not sure iif theyll be the ones youre using but hey, leaves you best part of a ton to get win7

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail + Colin McRae Dirt 2 Full Game £205.99 (£179.12)
Asus P6T SE Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £142.99 (£124.34)
Gainward GeForce GTX 260 Golden Sample 896MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £134.99 (£117.38)
2 x Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel (TR3X6G1600C9) £109.99 (£95.64) £219.98 (£191.28)
Coolermaster Sileo 500 Silent Case - Black (500w Extreme Power Plus PSU) £79.99 (£69.56)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £66.99 (£58.25)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM2+ / 775 / 1156 / 1366) £19.99 (£17.38)
Sony Optiarc AD-7241S 24x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe Optical Drive (Black) - OEM £19.99 (£17.38)
Sub Total : £774.69
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £118.08
Total : £905.27
 
Product Name Qty Price Line Total

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail + Colin McRae Dirt 2 Full Game £205.99

Asus P6T SE Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £142.99

OCZ Platinum 6GB (12GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C7 1333MHz Triple Channel (OCZ3P1333LV6GK) £116.99 x2

Palit GeForce GTS 250 Green 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £84.99

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99

OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready Power Supply £58.98

Samsung EcoGreen F2 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SI) £55.98

NZXT Gamma Mid-Tower Case - Black £35.98

Sony Optiarc AD-5240S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99

Sub Total : £797.28

Total : £928.95
 
Even on 12gb of ram it's fairly simple to get the i7 running at 3.6ghz rather than 2.6, the performance increase from this is considerable. I think you should reconsider your stance on overclocking.

Otherwise the above specs are reasonable. Get 1333mhz ram instead of 1600mhz though, 12gb at 1600mhz is bloody difficult, so most people end up running their 1600mhz ram at 1333 anyway.
 
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This, but build it yourself... 1 it'll be a bit cheaper and 2. you just need to return individual parts and not the entire system if something goes belly-up.

The 4850 can be flashed to a FireGL card (can't remember which one) which is much more stable for professional graphics than the 4850 is
 
To be honest I don't know what can be achieved on the stock cooler. My brief play noted that at stock settings temperatures were making it over 70 during 20 seconds of ibt, so I stopped. Paranoid sure, but I don't want to expose my chip to 90 degrees load without reason. I've no idea how this thing clocks under air.

Flashing cards to other cards is a dodgy game, I don't recommend it.
 
bigsharn said:
The 4850 can be flashed to a FireGL card (can't remember which one) which is much more stable for professional graphics than the 4850 is
Click to expand...

Not gonna make a lot of difference for After Effects and web design, but interesting to note.
 
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