Final question

Roonaldo · 28 Oct 2009 at 16:30

Building a rig for my mate.

We have decided to keep his case, optical drives and 200GB hard drive.

We are going to gut the rest (ie his mobo/grx card/CPU etc and install this:

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £298.99 (£259.99)

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail £211.99 (£184.34)

Asus P6T SE Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
£144.99 (£126.08)

Corsair TX 750W ATX SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750TXUK)
£95.99 (£83.47)

Kingston HyperX 6GB (3x2GB) Intel XMP DDR3 12800C9 1600MHz Tri-Channel Kit (KHX12800D3K3/6GX)
£89.99 (£78.25)
Corsair H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1156/1366/AM2/AM3)
£59.98 (£52.16)

Sub Total : £784.29
Shipping : £10.50
VAT : £119.22
Total : £914.01

Will this produce a good system?
Are all the parts compatible for windows 7 64bit?
Anything that should be added/taken away/changed?

Any advice would be welcomed thank you.

Roonaldo · 29 Oct 2009 at 10:46

Yes it would be

Roonaldo · 29 Oct 2009 at 11:03

OK how is this?

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
£298.99 (£259.99)

Asus Maximus III Formula Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard
£187.99 (£163.47)

Intel Core i5 750 2.66Ghz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail
£159.99 (£139.12)

Corsair TX 750W ATX SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750TXUK)
£95.99 (£83.47)

Kingston HyperX 6GB (3x2GB) Intel XMP DDR3 12800C9 1600MHz Tri-Channel Kit (KHX12800D3K3/6GX)
£89.99 (£78.25)

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ)
£61.99 (£53.90)

Corsair H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1156/1366/AM2/AM3)
£59.98 (£52.16)

Sub Total : £830.36
Shipping : £10.50
VAT : £126.13
Total : £966.99

Decided it might be a good idea to upgrade to a 1TB HDD

Also as we are using his old case (which is 2 years old) will there be an issue with using the older wiring to connect the mobo or will they be ok?

Thanks for your help

Roonaldo · 29 Oct 2009 at 11:08

Or another option. get the i5 overclocked bundle in place of the CPU/ mobo and CPU cooler so i would get this:

*OVERCLOCKED* Intel Core i5 750 2.66Ghz @ 4.00GHz / Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5 Intel P55 Motherboard / Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) PC3-12800C9 1600MHz DDR3 Bundle £479.99 (£417.38)

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
£298.99 (£259.99)

Corsair TX 750W ATX SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750TXUK)
£95.99 (£83.47)

Kingston HyperX 6GB (3x2GB) Intel XMP DDR3 12800C9 1600MHz Tri-Channel Kit (KHX12800D3K3/6GX)
£89.99 (£78.25)

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ)
£61.99 (£53.90)

Sub Total : £892.99
Shipping : £10.50
VAT : £135.52
Total : £1,039.01

If i use this one how good is the RAM in the bundle for windows 7 64 bit plus gaming? will i be able to get rid of the 6GB of kingston RAM or should i get that and use it instead and sell the corsair RAM?