First build, please help.

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Hi all,

This is my first post, nice to meet you all.

I am building a new PC for my brother as he has a Pentium 4 that he bought in 2006. I am slightly more knowledgeable about pc’s than him, so I said I would have a go at building one for him. I would like the challenge as in future I would like to also build one for myself.

Budget is between £700,£900 & he wants the best he can possibly get for around this price. I have a new Antec 300 case already for this build, but nothing else as yet.

I have looked at some of the i7 sandy bridge over clocked bundles on overclockers, & a competitor’s range that has a bundle over clocked at 4.9 & 4.8.

I would be very grateful for any advice on parts for the build as it is my first build.

I would like to try and over clock this build but I am a bit out my depth on this subject. So far I have come up with this power supply as a possible, but I am needing help with the rest as don’t know whether to go Asus/MSi/other for motherboard & graphics card is a tough one as keeping in budget with this build is getting quite tricky.

Corsair Professional Series™ Gold AX850 High Performance 850W

Other stuff I want to include:

Solid state hard drive & possibly a Mounting Kit for it
HDD – 1 or 2tb
RAM – 4 or 8 GB
DVD/Blu-Ray drive
Corsair Hydro H70 or Air Cooler
Windows 7 64bit
Apache Black 120mm x2 front, 1 for ‘side?’
Rear 120mm fan?
Top 140mm extractor?
Would like to change Usb 2.0 on front of antec 300 case to 3.0, is this easy to do?

Any help anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry for the wall of text, just a bit frustrated as don’t know which way to jump ‘over clocked bundle or buy all bits individually’.

Thanks.:)
 
The budget is proving a slight problem, as I would like to get him quite a good mother board. Asus/msi/gigabyte but don’t know out of these makes which would be best for him. I like the new bios so possibly narrows it down to asus,msi but not sure.

Also want a good gpu for games & is the psu a mentioned the one to go for if he wanted to go sli/Crossfire in future.

I would not say my brother is mega gamer, but if any new games come up that he might want then I don’t want the gpu to be a problem.
 
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Don’t know weather to go for the Asus Pro/deluxe or msi, but what are people’s thoughts on the following spec:

CPU: i7 2600k
Mboard: Asus P8P67 PRO Intel P67
RAM: Corsair XMS3 8GB or GeIL RAM
CPU Cooler: Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler
PSU: Corsair Professional Series™ Gold AX850 or cheaper but modular
GPU: XFX ATI Radeon 6970 2048MB GDDR5
SSD: Crucial RealSSD C300 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA-II 64MB Cache
Optical Drive: Sony Optiarc AD-7260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter
 
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My bother wants to use his photo shop & possibly edit video/burn to DVD & be able to play any current/upcoming game with no problems. As mentioned he is on a budget, so any more spec help for this £700/£900 (max) build would be grate.
 
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Should my new antec 300 case that I bought last year be sold for a better one, was going to use this for my brother’s build but if you think something else would be more suitable for cooling etc any help would be grate.
 
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New list,

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB Hard Drive SATA 6Gb/s - £67.55

Corsair HX 750W Power Supply - £110.10

Intel Core i7 2600K Sandy Bridge *OEM* - £246.20

Asus P8P67 Pro Motherboard - £140.00

Akasa Venom CPU Cooler - £35.39
 
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