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.

pastymuncher · 28 Oct 2009 at 18:39

That will be a cracking system.

RJC · 28 Oct 2009 at 18:43

Nice system, only thing to remember is the P6T SE does not support SLI, but with the 5870 he will not need to worry.

batchie · 28 Oct 2009 at 18:44

nothing wrong there should fly.

ETNiES · 29 Oct 2009 at 00:57

Make sure the card fits in his old case, if it's a old no name case. Good system tho.

SMAndy · 29 Oct 2009 at 08:48

Nice system. If I had that much money to spend, i'd do something like that... Lots of places say the i5 is better for gaming though, is that mostly what the PC is for?

Roonaldo · 29 Oct 2009 at 10:46

Yes it would be

SMAndy · 29 Oct 2009 at 10:50

I would probably say then go for the i5. Cheaper, and better for gaming.

Afraid I can't recommend a good board to go with it though, as I've never really looked into building an intel system. Call me silly for being an AMD fan, but i've had one all the way from socket A, and gone through each and every socket they've made.

*edit* well, every desktop socket... I've not done any server builds with AMD.

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?

Poontun · 29 Oct 2009 at 13:10

It depends on what case he has?

Roonaldo said:
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?

If you go i5, the Ram is included in that bundle so you can ditch the Kingston stuff.
The kingston wouldn't work anyway considering how it is triple channel while i5 uses dual channel.

Sindri · 29 Oct 2009 at 16:27

Poontun said:
It depends on what case he has?

If you go i5, the Ram is included in that bundle so you can ditch the Kingston stuff.
The kingston wouldn't work anyway considering how it is triple channel while i5 uses dual channel.

The kingston would still work, but you will just have an extra stick left over.

Poontun · 29 Oct 2009 at 16:50

Sindri said:
The kingston would still work, but you will just have an extra stick left over.

Yeah but then what's the point?