Looking for comments on potential setup

Averick · 9 Mar 2011 at 12:54

Hello Overclockers

,

The time has come for my third purchase of a new computer using Overclockers and I would love to hear any feedback on it before I hit 'Buy'.

Gainward GeForce GTX 580 "GOOD Edition" 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £383.99
Intel Core i7-2600 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £235.99
Intel 510 Series "Elmcrest" 120GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive £227.99
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9) £129.98
Zalman ZM750-HP Heatpipe Cooled 750W Modular Power Supply £122.54
Gigabyte P67A-UD3 Intel P67 Chipset (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £107.98
LiteOn iHBS112 12x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Drive - Black (OEM) £79.99
Lian Li PC-A05NB Aluminium Mini-Tower Case - Black £72.98
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium 7.1 Sound Card - OEM (30SB088200000) £67.99

Total : £1,444.44

Just a bit of information to help put the above in context:

I have no desires to overclock anything.
The PC will be used for Gaming.
I don't plan on ever upgrading it - I'll buy a new PC in a few years.

Just an additional question regarding usage of the SATA ports. There are two SATA III ports on this motherboard, I'll be using one for the SSD and the other two SATA components I'll have are the Blu-Ray drive and a secondary HDD. Just curious as what you would recommend I use the second SATA III port for - the Blu-Ray drive of the second HDD? One or the other will have to go into one of the potentially faulty SATA II ports.

Thanks for any and all help!

King Damager · 9 Mar 2011 at 12:58

Main suggestion really is just wait a bit, seems that OCUK are swiftly getting in B3 Revision motherboards, and will probably have the UD3 in soon... No more faulty SATAII issue

I'd probably put the HDD in the SATA III, but don't think it makes too much difference

kd

pastymuncher · 9 Mar 2011 at 13:08

Any reason why you chose that particular case? Things may get quite toasty in there as it has poor ventilation. It also does'nt have a vent on the base for the psu to suck in cool air so you are not going to get the best out of your psu as you will have to have it mounted with the fan facing up and sucking hot air through it. I would change the case to one with better airflow.

95thrifles · 9 Mar 2011 at 13:16

Get one of the boards that is a B3 revision, they already have some, and whilst you may not want to OC now, Id still pay the £4 extra and get the OEM version of the K variant chip, gives you the option in the future and it will also likely hold higher resale value

Reaper 392 · 9 Mar 2011 at 13:22

had a quick look, and this is what i came up with for around your budget. a few points though:

- the sound card, and case i went with simply because those are the ones you chose. i really dont know whats good/bad in that area
- the PSU i went with the same make, but more power because my build has 2 graphics cards in crossfire. i dont know which are good/bad here either
- ive heard that the intel SSD's are very overpriced for their performance (stickied thread in harddrives area), but i have literally no idea what makes a good/bad SSD, so i just went with the one you had. i would ask in the hard drives area about it
- the i7 is a complete waist of money compared to the i5 if your only gonna be gaming - the only difference is hyperthreading, which doesnt do much in gaming.

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
"Radon Allosaur" Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.40GHz Overclocked Bundle - Asus £429.98
(£358.32) £429.98
(£358.32)
Intel 510 Series "Elmcrest" 120GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive £227.99
(£189.99) £227.99
(£189.99)
MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £219.98
(£183.32) £439.96
(£366.64)
Zalman ZM850-HP Plus Heatpipe Cooled 850W Modular Power Supply £132.98
(£110.82) £132.98
(£110.82)
LiteOn iHBS112 12x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Drive - Black (OEM) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Lian Li PC-A05NB Aluminium Mini-Tower Case - Black £72.98
(£60.82) £72.98
(£60.82)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium 7.1 Sound Card - OEM (30SB088200000) £67.99
(£56.66) £67.99
(£56.66)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM 1yr Warranty (ST31000528AS) £37.99
(£31.66) £37.99
(£31.66)
Sub Total : £1,241.57
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 20.00% VAT : £250.81
Total : £1,504.88

do you need a normal hard drive along with your SSD? there wasnt one in your post, but i didnt know if your using an old one, or had simply forgot

pastymuncher · 9 Mar 2011 at 13:27

I don't think that the 850w Zalman will fit in that case as it's quite a bit longer than the 750w and below.

Reaper 392 · 9 Mar 2011 at 13:49

pastymuncher said:
I don't think that the 850w Zalman will fit in that case as it's quite a bit longer than the 750w and below.

didnt even look at the case, let alone check if everything fitted (insert blushing smiley here)

R088ieS86 · 9 Mar 2011 at 14:23

Advanced Dominator is on sale this week

infernox · 9 Mar 2011 at 15:08

Sandy bridge and no clocking :O.

We will teach you. You buy that chip, you need to clock it

Whatever you choose good luck and have fun.