Main use will be gaming, looking to have everything cranked up to max at 1920x1080, will want to do some light overclocking and would like to keep the build as quiet as possible without sacrificing too much performance or turning to water cooling.
Possbile sli/xfire in future.
For light overclocking I'd prefer not to mess around with voltages if at all possible, for example on my E6600 2.4ghz i got it to 3ghz on stock volts and according to everything i read this was more than comfortable and could infact be taken to over 3.5. So i'm looking to get more juice out of the processor and gpu but at levels that don't stress the hardware too much.
What i'll be coming from (built over 3 years ago) is:
E6600 2.4ghz oc'd to 3ghz stock fan
Asus COMMANDO P965
Asus 320mb 8800GTS
OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz
Hiper 530W
Viewsonic VX922 19"
Antec 900
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I'll be giving the current pc to my old man so will need everything except keyboard and mouse.
What i've come up with so far is:
£235 Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz
£150 Asus P6X58D-E
£235 ZOTAC GeForce GTX 470
£134 Kingston HyperX 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 12800C7 1600MHz Triple Channel
£80 Corsair TX 650W
£20 Sony Optiarc AD-7241S 24x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe Optical Drive (Black) - OEM
£265 Dell Ultrasharp U2311H 23"
= £1,119
What I really have no idea on is what case to get and hard drive.
The spinpoint F4 is coming out in the next couple of weeks? I was thinking about waiting for that, if it doesn't come out what quiet but good performance hard drive could be had around 1tb.
For the case again i was going to wait for the release of the R3 to see what that's like but whatever case i do get i'd really like it to be quiet and not over the £100 mark unless really exceptional.
I assume i'd need an aftermarket cpu cooler to keep the noise down too?
I'm flexible in what components i get and will pay more for the right parts so please make your suggestions.
Possbile sli/xfire in future.
For light overclocking I'd prefer not to mess around with voltages if at all possible, for example on my E6600 2.4ghz i got it to 3ghz on stock volts and according to everything i read this was more than comfortable and could infact be taken to over 3.5. So i'm looking to get more juice out of the processor and gpu but at levels that don't stress the hardware too much.
What i'll be coming from (built over 3 years ago) is:
E6600 2.4ghz oc'd to 3ghz stock fan
Asus COMMANDO P965
Asus 320mb 8800GTS
OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz
Hiper 530W
Viewsonic VX922 19"
Antec 900
==============================================
I'll be giving the current pc to my old man so will need everything except keyboard and mouse.
What i've come up with so far is:
£235 Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz
£150 Asus P6X58D-E
£235 ZOTAC GeForce GTX 470
£134 Kingston HyperX 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 12800C7 1600MHz Triple Channel
£80 Corsair TX 650W
£20 Sony Optiarc AD-7241S 24x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe Optical Drive (Black) - OEM
£265 Dell Ultrasharp U2311H 23"
= £1,119
What I really have no idea on is what case to get and hard drive.
The spinpoint F4 is coming out in the next couple of weeks? I was thinking about waiting for that, if it doesn't come out what quiet but good performance hard drive could be had around 1tb.
For the case again i was going to wait for the release of the R3 to see what that's like but whatever case i do get i'd really like it to be quiet and not over the £100 mark unless really exceptional.
I assume i'd need an aftermarket cpu cooler to keep the noise down too?
I'm flexible in what components i get and will pay more for the right parts so please make your suggestions.