i7, SSD & GTX580 rig for under £1,000?

Doz007

Doz007

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:)Good afternoon,

Can anyone spec me a whole rig (no mouse, keyboard or monitor) that includes an i7, SSD and the GTX580 for under a grand?

I have a 500gb HDD lying around that could be used as a storage drive to save costs if needs be.

Or maybe it's just an impossible dream for under a grand including VAT..... :p
 
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Palit GeForce GTX 580 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £429.99
(£365.95) £429.99
(£365.95)
Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail £234.99
(£199.99) £234.99
(£199.99)
Foxconn Quantum Force Flaming Blade GTI Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £119.99
(£102.12) £119.99
(£102.12)
Geil Black Dragon 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C7 1333MHz Triple Channel (GB36GB1333C7TC) £69.99
(£59.57) £69.99
(£59.57)
Kingston SSDNow V-Series 30GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (SNV125-S2/30GB) £57.99
(£49.35) £57.99
(£49.35)
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply £57.99
(£49.35) £57.99
(£49.35)
Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black £28.99
(£24.67) £28.99
(£24.67)
Sub Total : £851.00
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £151.11
Total : £1,014.61

you'll have to use the stock cooler till you can afford a new one the psu should just be powerfull enuff and the memroy timings are 7-7-7-24 losen them to 9-9-9-26 and you'll get 1600mhz out off them ssd is a bit small but it is do able just
 
Ew - nasty SSD and really not sure about that cheapo X58 mobo either. Assuming this is a gaming rig, do yourself a big big favour and go i5 760. It's no slower than the i7 in gaming and you can make your budget with quality components.
 
Liampope said:
Ew - nasty SSD and really not sure about that cheapo X58 mobo either. Assuming this is a gaming rig, do yourself a big big favour and go i5 760. It's no slower than the i7 in gaming and you can make your budget with quality components.
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This gets my vote ^^
 
I would definitely suggest going I5. Foxconn's motherboards have been a bit hit and miss recently (flamingblade board to name one) and the Kingston SSD only has 50mb/s write speed.

How about the below? I'm not too hot on CPU coolers atm, so I chose the one I had in my old build, a good performer:

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That SSD has very fast read and write speeds, as well as being 60gb.
That motherboard is the P55 version of the P6X58D-E I have, a very stable and performing board, as well as having USB/SATA3
 
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Cheapest I would fo for on an i7 build with SSD and 580

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £429.99
Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail £234.99
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £145.21
Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1) £99.99
Kingston HyperX 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel (KHX1600C9D3K3/6GX) £79.99
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Power Supply £69.99
Coolermaster Storm Scout Gaming Case - Black £59.98
LiteOn IHAS124 - DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM drive - Serial ATA - 48x (CD) / 16x (DVD) 48x (CD) / 24x (DVD±R) /12x (DVD±R DL) 32x (CD) / 6x (DVD-RW) / 8x (DVD+RW) / 12x (DVD-RAM) - Internal - Black £12.91
Sub Total : £964.31
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £170.94
Total : £1,147.75

Thats assuming you need i7? If its for encoding etc then yeah, if its purely gaming then as Liam said go i5 which would look more like this

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £429.99
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £139.99
MSI P55-GD65 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard with Free USB 3.0 PCI Controller Card £99.99
Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1) £99.99
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Power Supply £69.99
Coolermaster Storm Scout Gaming Case - Black £59.98
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £58.74
LiteOn IHAS124 - DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM drive - Serial ATA £12.91
Sub Total : £826.89
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £146.89
Total : £986.28

Neither has an aftermarket cooler, if youre going to clock then add as a minimum a Freezer 7 pro, if not a Titan Fenrir
 
Thanks for all the reply so far guys, it would be mainly a gaming rig tbh.

I appreciate that the i5 is a great performer atm but in the next year or so games may start to take advantage of the i7s hyper threading architecture. And due to the CPU being the most difficult component to upgrade I'd prefer to be a future proof as possible.

How about a 6 core AMD paired with 8gb of ram, am I still outside the realms of possibility? :D
 
Doz007 said:
I appreciate that the i5 is a great performer atm but in the next year or so games may start to take advantage of the i7s hyper threading architecture.
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Highly unlikely, and even if they do you're only really looking at 10-15% potential performance gain from hyperthreading, if that. You only get an absolute max of 25% in a few heavily optimised repetative encoding-type apps that can squeeze every last cycle of CPU time out. A game just can't be coded that way. And you'll only even see that small gain if you're CPU bottlenecked, and you wont be, even with a GPU like a 580. Even a previous gen Q6600 overclocked, for example, wont be a CPU bottleneck in current games. You'll most likely never see i7's hyperthreading giving it a significant performance boost over i5 in games for the entire useful life of those CPUs.

And due to the CPU being the most difficult component to upgrade I'd prefer to be a future proof as possible.
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In that case (not that future proofing is really possible) you better wait for Sandy Bridge in January. That will bring 32nm i5 and i7s that are faster than current i5/i7s clock-for-clock and most likely to overclock much higher too. All at the same price points.

If you really must buy an i7, maybe consider a decent bang-for-buck GPU like a 6870 and add another later. Then you don't have to compromise so much to stay in budget.
 
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Thanks for that Liam, some really sound advice! Are the current crop of 6 core AMD cpus not worth considering with regards to gaming? It seems logical to assume that the 2 extra cores must give some advantage, or am i well off the mark?
 
95thrifles said:
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £429.99
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £139.99
MSI P55-GD65 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard with Free USB 3.0 PCI Controller Card £99.99
Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1) £99.99
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Power Supply £69.99
Coolermaster Storm Scout Gaming Case - Black £59.98
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £58.74
LiteOn IHAS124 - DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM drive - Serial ATA £12.91
Sub Total : £826.89
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £146.89
Total : £986.28

Neither has an aftermarket cooler, if youre going to clock then add as a minimum a Freezer 7 pro, if not a Titan Fenrir
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Just to thank you for this post. I've just purchased this precise build for delivery monday.

Thank you buddy :cool:
 
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