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Before I start.. I'm a new guy here, so greetings all.

Self evidently as the title says, I'm going to build my first PC. It's purpose is mainly for Graphic design and for general study, however I'm not exactly a hardcore gamer but I do play RPG'S and RTS games time to time. My reason to build, to put it bluntly.. my current scrap of metal, an Asus laptop from 2007(2.2gz dual core with hd2600:p) does not cut it. So I hope you gents(and ladies?) wouldn't mind helping me out.

The maximum amount I could to spend is around 1100.. preferably I would prefer to spend around 900. So basically could you compile a spec based around those price ranges, from the OCUK website.

I have put together a build myself, my knowledge of PC components is rather limited, so I may have bottlenecked something(but hey that's why I'm here;))

my monitor is 1920x1280.

(build I've put together)

OcUK Motherboard Bundle - Intel Core i7 2600K & Asus P8P67 Pro Intel P67 Mainboard **B3 Revision** - £386.98

HIS ATI Radeon HD 6950 IceQ X Turbo 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Dirt3 & Deus Ex PC Games - £199.99

Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 750W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CMPSU-750TXV2UK) - £79.98

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1002FAEX) - £64.99

Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-16000C9 2000MHz Triple Channel Kit (CMX6GX3M3B2000C9) - £59.99

Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black - £49.99

Samsung SH-S222AL/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM - £16.99

total = £858.91 including vat.

P.S Is it still possible to flash the 6950 to a 6970?

Help is greatly appreciated.
 
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The 6950 Toxic is pretty much the only one know that can be potentially flashed, and it's still a gamble.

If you have software that prefers NVidia GPUs, then a 560ti.

Would you benefit from the 2600K? I know it's faster if you can make use of hyperthreading, but the 2500K is hardly slow anyway. The price difference will get you a good case / CPU cooler.

How about a SSD? They are good for productivity.
 
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what graphic design programs are you using? if you use an nvidia card on some graphic design programs the cuda cores massively increase the performance
 
olivier renault said:
The 6950 Toxic is pretty much the only one know that can be potentially flashed, and it's still a gamble.

If you have software that prefers NVidia GPUs, then a 560ti.

Would you benefit from the 2600K? I know it's faster if you can make use of hyperthreading, but the 2500K is hardly slow anyway. The price difference will get you a good case / CPU cooler.

How about a SSD? They are good for productivity.
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no flashing involved(thus no risk of brick), just flick a switch as the modified bios is already 'installed'(1 is standard bios with locked shaders, other is modified bios with possibility of unlocked shaders). not guranteed but a safer(tho more expensive) bet.

op(and a couple of posters) in http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18316787 would disagree to the toxic being the only one with shader unlock possibility butthe other cards involve messing around with the bios(thus risk of brick).

instead of getting the bundle get the cpu, mb and ram seperate.

mb z68 chipset rather than p67 maybe http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-054-AK&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=

or if you want asus http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-457-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990

or cheaper http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-368-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990
 
RJC said:
You probably want to get a decent CPU cooler like the Gelid below:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-001-GD&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

Not sure if the case requires any extra fans, need to check the specs of the case.
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I've put into the basket.

Reaper 392 said:
what graphic design programs are you using? if you use an nvidia card on some graphic design programs the cuda cores massively increase the performance
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Pretty much everything adobe.

olivier renault said:
If you have software that prefers NVidia GPUs, then a 560ti.

Would you benefit from the 2600K? I know it's faster if you can make use of hyperthreading, but the 2500K is hardly slow anyway. The price difference will get you a good case / CPU cooler.

How about a SSD? They are good for productivity.
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Which 560ti should I go with? also wouldn't it just be better to pay 20 quid extra for 6950, as I've seen benchmarks are higher.

I'd prefer the 2600k, hypothetically it should last longer(performance wise) before needing to upgrade?

Games I'd like to play at maximum settings(if possible) Shogun 2, civ 5, starcraft 2 and skyrim + bf3:D

As for SSD they seem a bit overpriced for the size.. maybe I'm underestimating them.
 
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Now before I order.

In your opinion how long will this rig last, before upgrading is necessary?(for games)

also

is this SLI ready, If I decide to pick up another 560ti? Tbh I'm still undecided about which gpu to take 560ti or 6950, lol.

cheers:)

pc4.jpg
 
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Buchanan0204 said:
Looking at that photo... looks like you ordered the 2600... not the 2600K

Or maybe I'm making a mistake... because it's late?
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No you're right, luckily I noticed before ordering:D

I changed it to Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz instead, to save myself a few quid.(will oc it)

Going to spend more on a gpu instead. Not sure which though.

I read ati 7xxx series will be out soon-ish:rolleyes:
 
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Ordered an msi 570 oc

If I don't post in the next week or so, it means I've failed to build and it blew up in my face.

Now just for humor.. how big of a performance boost will I get changing from my Amd turion 2.2ghzx2, 3gb 333mhz ram and hd2600m!

compared to

MSI GeForce GTX 570 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition
I5 2500k 3.3
corsair xms3 8GB 1600mhz

;)
 
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lol it will be massive difference!

my jump was from: SINGLE core p4 3.2ghz, 1gb ram, nvidia 7900GT to my spec in sig :D

Let us know build progress
 
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