Help with specs

[Tyrael]

Looking for some help picking components for a new PC.

I've got a £1100 budget.

I'm primarily a gamer so a good graphics card would be nice (2GB preferred). I play on a 1920x1080 screen and run a second at 1280x1024. Thinking about maybe upgrading to newer cards once they're out next year(?).

I'd like around 8GB of ram (more shouldn't really be needed I think?) along with a 500GB HDD (might get a SSD when prices drop again).

i7 please!

I've never overclocked before but am interested in trying it a bit (so I think I'll need a cooler of some kind too?).

Also need a copy of win7. Motherboard sound is ok and I have mouse/screen/keyboard.

Motherboard with options to upgrade ram/graphics card in the future would be great!

Edit: Noise reducing case with plenty of room a plus too!

Thank you for any help you can provide!

 

[Tibbz2]

Well I suck, but I got this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-2700K 3.50GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £265.99
1 x HIS ATI Radeon HD 6950 IceQ X Turbo 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £224.99
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £159.98
1 x Corsair Graphite 600TM Midi Tower Mesh Windowed Case - Black £134.99
1 x Corsair Enthusiast Series TX750M High Performance 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020003-UK) £99.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £89.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £35.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £1,124.89 (includes shipping : £12.50).



And the GPU you may want to either hang off on for the 7000 series, or go Nvidia instead... Or even drop the 2700K for the 2600K to save some...

 

[fowler002]

if it's mainly for gaming then save the cash and go i2500k, if you'll be using programs that use hyperthreading then you'll want i2600k/i2700k.

you've got the ssd/hdd pricing backwards, it's the hard disks that are high the ssd prices aren't effected by the floods. would be good if you have any old sata hard disk you can reuse.

I to lazy to spec right now, will do a little later.

as already mentioned new graphics cards are due out very soon.

here's a spec I did on another thread, similar price point to yours

Intel Core i7-2700K 3.50GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM Intel Core i7-2700K 3.50GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £265.99
(£221.66) £265.99
(£221.66)
OcUK GeForce GTX 560Ti 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card OcUK GeForce GTX 560Ti 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £199.99
(£166.66) £199.99
(£166.66)
Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £151.99
(£126.66) £151.99
(£126.66)
XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £122.99
(£102.49) £122.99
(£102.49)
Silverstone Raven 3 RV03B-W Full Tower Windowed Case - Black/Gold Silverstone Raven 3 RV03B-W Full Tower Windowed Case - Black/Gold £109.99
(£91.66) £109.99
(£91.66)
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Kingston HyperX Genesis 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3K4/16GX) Kingston HyperX Genesis 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3K4/16GX) £59.99
(£49.99) £59.99
(£49.99)
Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler (Socket Intel LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AMD AM2 / AM3 / AM2+ / AM3+) Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler (Socket Intel LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AMD AM2 / AM3 / AM2+ / AM3+) £43.98
(£36.65) £43.98
(£36.65)
Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.98
(£14.15) £16.98
(£14.15)
Sub Total : £959.90
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £194.73
Total : £1,168.38

will adjust it a bit to suite you a bit more later when I'm fully awake, thonlooking at it you can knock the i2700k down to a i2500k and add a samasung spinpoint f3 500gb hard disk(£90).

16gb ram not really needed(unless you do lot of photo editing and the like that require lots of ram) but for the price(£60) may as well go for it.

 

[Tyrael]

Thanks for both specs, I'm checking them out.

Is there a set release date for the cards (I heard late dec/jan)? It's really tempting me to hold off until they're released.

I've got a spare HDD I can use until the prices drop again - thanks for the tip (also didn't know SSD were unaffected!).

 

[fowler002]

as long as its a sata hard disk then you'll be fine, new motherboards don't have the ide connector and require a ide pci card(£10-£15) if you want to reuse ide hard disk/optical drive. whats the make/model of the hard disk you have?

I've still not seen any solid dates but as you said its ment to be this month/next month, tho the higher end ones are a little later.

 

[Tyrael]

It's a western digital 500GB (sata), can't recall the exact model but it should work no problem!

Tricky choice with the graphics card, guess I'll think about it for a few more days before I decide.