Finally making the order!!!!!

adaswani

adaswani

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After much consideration i have my money and i will be ordering my parts on 1st september and these are my (hopefully) final spec.

My budget is 1500-1600

I have a copy on win 7, keyboard and mouse

I will mainly be using this for CS5 and gaming, i hope to SLI in the future (about 6 months)

Any constructive criticism will be appreciated as i don't want to make a bad choice

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Which GTX 470 would you recommend, I wanted the cyclone 460 because I heard it's really quiet and more overclockerble then the other cards
 
w1llyg said:
If your gettin the 460 cyclone, and overclocking it yourself you must be happy with your overclocking ability so why dont you overclock your i7 yourself too and save some dosh.
Also if you want a quite cooler GFX card wouldnt you be better off with the ATi cards?
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I have seen that using afterburner overclocking a GFX is easy but I am not prepared to overclock my CPU





Also the sound is not a big issue what I wanted to say was that is cooler as i am not prepared to buy an aftermarket cooler for the GPU
 
cmndr_andi said:
I would suggest swapping the monitor to this. Supposedly the LED backlight implementation used by LG is not great - and the BenQ is better. As a bonus it is a bit cheaper and a bit bigger.

However, if you are using it a lot for photoshop - you may want to go with an IPS monitor instead of a TN (here is an explanation of the difference). This one is great and this one is a bit bigger. Here is a review.
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I have heard just the opposite, and that the BenQ has a poor picture compared to the LG and i don't need an IPS monitor
 
cmndr_andi said:
Lol, ok then. As for the BenQ vs LG it will be pretty close between the two as they are both TN panels with LED backlights. Individuals may find one better than the other, but it won't be night and day. Either way, MANY peopel of these forums are very happy with the BenQ and it is a bit bigger and cheaper than the LG, which is a plus.

As for IPS, it really depend on how much colour accurate work you do in photoshop. If it isn't much then you may as well save some money on a cheaper TN screen.
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I've seen some pictures and reviews that say the Benq while worth the money has a very poor picture when gaming.
 
Vir said:
So basically you've got like 10gb left and 3 games installed, one application that takes up a few mb... yeah... :p All I'm saying is, you don't really have room for much more :) At this point it is working for you but let's face it, there is not much more room.
Installing another game plus a few real software packages like Office, Visual Studio, Adobe suite software is not really possible let alone the fact that it some software needs free space on drives alone to install updates...

I know what I'm talking about, I've had Raptors 74gb in Raid 0, the 64gb SSD even less.
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I would only need to install 2-3 games I chose one game and play it religiously also if in the future i need more space I will buy another SSD
 
benj3 said:
Have to agree with Vir on this one 60gb is just not sufficient nowadays with the new game nowadays between 7-10gb (Not including mmo's) space on a 60gb SSD is gonna be scarce at present and the Samsung F3 is sufficient speed for me and with 1tb of space i cant see my running out of gameing space!

Lets see atm
Windows 7 : 10.5Gb
Adobe Master Suite 5 + Windows Office 10 : 11Gb~
Aion: 13Gb~
Kane and Lynch 2: 8Gb
=48.5Gb
Thats what 2 games and my much needed adobe/windows applications giving me about 1 games worth of space to mess around with not including little applications.

it just depends on the user at the end of the day but samsung F3 is sufficient speed and SSD's are on the up so give it 6months and ur beable to pick up 2-300gb SSD's for roughly the same price which will be perfect todays gamer.
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Thats more then enough for me 2 games, apps and win7

that is perfect
 
Locke said:
Why are people are getting a fuss over games on a SSD? the performance increase isn't that large! just very fast loading times that will be noticeable.

Get the SSD and stick on your 2/3 most played games, install the rest on the other drive.
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+1
 
hartty said:
I would go for this it will perform better than your spec and is cheaper, also overclock it yourself its so easy. i am a complete noob at overclocking but with these new intels a monkey could do it
any way here is my spec

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
MSI GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with MAFIA 2 £349.99

Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail £208.99

BenQ G2420HDBL 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £162.14

Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £144.98

OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G) £124.98

Geil Black Dragon 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz) Triple Channel (GB36GB1600C8TC) £114.99

Antec CP 850W Modular Power Supply £96.98

Coolermaster Storm Scout Gaming Case - Black £63.99

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £46.99

Samsung SH-B083L/RSBP 8x BluRay ROM / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £45.99

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1156 / 1366) £16.99

Sub Total : £1,171.92

Total : £1,400.62
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Thanks but there are certain things that i am just not prepared to change and u managed to identify each one
 
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