Hows this build?

[Mr.Mccoy]

Hello there again,

I want to know how good this build is.

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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Dirt3 & Deus Ex PC Games £235.99 X2
(£196.66) £471.98
(£393.32)
Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi Tower - Black £129.98
(£108.32) £129.98
(£108.32)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 980 Black Edition "140W Edition" 3.70GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail with FREE Deus Ex PC Game £127.99
(£106.66) £127.99
(£106.66)
Asus Crosshair IV Formula AMD 890FX (Socket AM3/AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £114.98
(£95.82) £114.98
(£95.82)
Lepa B-Series 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £74.98
(£62.48) £74.98
(£62.48)
Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
(£57.00) £68.40
(£57.00)
Options applied to the above product:
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £32.99
(£27.49) £32.99
(£27.49)
G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL ) £53.99
(£44.99) £53.99
(£44.99)
Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
(£14.99) £17.99
(£14.99)
Sub Total : £911.07
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £185.16
Total : £1,110.98

 

[Mr.Mccoy]

Wrong place to post I meant to post this in general hardware. :S

 

[dfour]

IN all honesty I would dump the 980 for the cheaper AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail with FREE Deus Ex PC Game for £85:99. You have an overclocking board so just overclock it to 980 speeds or more for free.

The ripjaws (they look good on the crosshair series boards) can be had for £14 les at a place that sounds like a rainforest.

Spend the money on a OCZ Z-Series 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £94:99 I know its overkill but it is more power efficient so will save you money in the long term. Also upgrade the stock cooler to a Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler £25:99 to help with the overclock.