Major upgrade (£3000+ build) critique? :P

[OCdude]

lol i dont need 4TB of space and im certainly not forking out £800 for it! :O

 

[Bonjour]

It's for RAID 0 + 1

You'd only have 2TB of space. Substitute for 500GB if you want 1TB.

 

[Bonjour]

Plus the mobo comes with a free X-Fi PCI-E, so you could ditch the Asus if you wanted.

 

[OCdude]

i think id rather put the money towards a bigger screen and gfx tbh

 

[Bonjour]

That's cool.

Your choice. Each person would have their own priorities. Top HDD performance and reliability is one of mine.

 

[Azza]

This will do you fine.

And then spend a few hundred on some nice watercooling for the CPU and save the rest.



Why you would want to spend £600+ on a CPU I dont know and then £250 on a motherboard is just silly to be honest. Especailly when your not going to be doing some extreme overclocking with them or anything.



@ bonjour - 8800GT cannot run in Tri-SLI

 

[Ranger07]

Go TriSLI with this set up-


XFX nForce 780i SLI (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-N780-ISH9) £159.99
(£187.99) £159.99
(£187.99)
Razer Lachesis Banshee Blue 4000dpi High Precision Gaming Mouse - Retail (RZ01-00170100-R3M1) £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
Logitech G15 Rev.2 Gaming-Grade Illuminated Keyboard - Retail £46.99
(£55.21) £46.99
(£55.21)
Acer P243W Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black/Silver £219.99
(£258.49) £219.99
(£258.49)
Lian-Li PC V2100 PLUS Black Aluminium Full-Tower (No PSU) £174.99
(£205.61) £174.99
(£205.61)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - OEM £192.99
(£226.76) £578.97
(£680.28)
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB 10000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM + Battlefield 2 Complete Collection (WD1500AHFD) £113.99
(£133.94) £227.98
(£267.88)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2N1066SR2GK) £54.99
(£64.61) £109.98
(£129.22)
Pioneer DVR-115DBK 20x DVD±RW IDE Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)
Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition QX9650 "LGA775 Yorkfield" 3.00GHz (1333FSB) £559.99
(£657.99) £559.99
(£657.99)
Thermaltake ToughPower 1200W Modular Power Supply £149.99
(£176.24) £149.99
(£176.24)
Thermalright Ultra-120A CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) £22.99
(£27.01) £22.99
(£27.01)
Logitech Z-5500 THX Certified 5.1 Speaker System £167.99
(£197.39) £167.99
(£197.39)
Sub Total : £2,474.83
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £40.82
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £440.24
Total : £2,955.89

 

[prosk]

For £3k I'd go for a Skulltrail based rig tbh...

 

[Bonjour]

...


@ bonjour - 8800GT cannot run in Tri-SLI

Well that's a shame.

Take them out and put in a couple of GTX's then..

 

[Azza]

For £3k I'd go for a Skulltrail based rig tbh...

@ 1k per Yorkfield CPU... you would need more than 3k for that type of system.

 

[OCdude]

This will do you fine.

Why you would want to spend £600+ on a CPU I dont know and then £250 on a motherboard is just silly to be honest. Especailly when your not going to be doing some extreme overclocking with them or anything.

Yeah i'm not My spec was using the Q9550 (£387)

as for Tri-SLI - hmm tempting... but im not sure i want the extra noise + heat (and cost lol)

I'll wait til the 9800GTX (maybe GX2) comes out and weigh it up i think...

 

[helmutcheese]

Nope the X48 is simply a Cherrypicked X38 but you can get DDR2 ones, I have not seen benches that make it better than any others or make me want to buy one.

The 790I Ultra so far on XS is great but only DDR3 so far.

As to the part up top about DDR3 and sky high Latencys or Timings (he means this), thats not true as some on the new DDR3 has good timings and its not compairable to DDR2 same as for DDR1.

There is no need to run the Memory at same speed as FSB apart from a few benches will score higher, so running DDR3 bellow 1600mhz DDR Speed the likes of Corsair can run very tight Timings, Tighter than most DDR2 (there was review few months back).

So a good CPU at 1600FSB with Memory at 800mhz or a very good CPU at 2400FSb with Memory at 1200mhz (limit of DDR2 and slack Timings and is it avail as 2x2GB ?, DDR3 is and will run that speed like a walk in the park.

 

[stewart.r@ntlwo]

I'm sue the system I'm looking at would be a close match for just over £1300...

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHz Processor

Intel Quad Core Q6600 2.40GHz overclocked too 3.00GHz

Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler

Asus P5N-T Deluxe nForce 780 SLi Motherboard

OCZ SLi Approved 4GB 1000MHz (2x2GB)

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 768MB

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB 7200rpm 32MB Cache Hard Drive

Samsung 20x DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter

Antec Nine Hundred Case

Sony Black Floppy Drive

Onboard Sound

OCZ GameXstream 850W Power Supply

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit

Logitech G15 rev.2 Gaming Keyboard

Logitech G5 Gaming Mouse

I'd never spend 3K on a PC - rather spend it like i did on a new Mini cooper but hay if thats your bag then 3k it is.....I'd rather not see 2k ****** away to have just a good system in five months as everything has moved on. save your cash and go on holiday do somthing worth the Money.

 

[OCdude]

OK so you're saying spend less money and go on holiday - that's really helpful. thanks for that.

 

[Bonjour]

Yeah i'm not My spec was using the Q9550 (£387)

as for Tri-SLI - hmm tempting... but im not sure i want the extra noise + heat (and cost lol)

I'll wait til the 9800GTX (maybe GX2) comes out and weigh it up i think...

Good plan. Especially if you're spending that kind of dough.

At least spending the money on a computer leaves you with something tangible. Once you get back from holiday, you've actually got nothing to show for the money you spent..

 

[addylad]

Seems like a waste of money to me to be honest. Its not even a dual sli or crossfire set up!

I have a set up nearly as good as that and it didn't cost me a grand

Can i hear yours please? That's my budget.

 

[OCdude]

Good plan. Especially if you're spending that kind of dough.

At least spending the money on a computer leaves you with something tangible. Once you get back from holiday, you've actually got nothing to show for the money you spent..

Excatly!

Plus - I bet if i posted "im spending £3k on a holiday" someone would post: "zomg what a waste - spend £1k on a package deal to xyz and spend the rest on a decent PC" lol

 

[stewart.r@ntlwo]

OK so you're saying spend less money and go on holiday - that's really helpful. thanks for that.

Not wishing to cause offence Bud, Just personal preference –you wish to spend 3K on your PC go for it. Just about to spend five times that on a new car I don’t really need as there is a brand new Company car on the drive as it is…….

Thing is with PC you spend 3k on a system and the guy next to you spends £1200 and it runs just as impressive. I think it not what you want to spend but what you need it for.

Unless your producing high end media that is but for simple gaming is it not over kill?

 

[stewart.r@ntlwo]

Excatly!

Plus - I bet if i posted "im spending £3k on a holiday" someone would post: "zomg what a waste - spend £1k on a package deal to xyz and spend the rest on a decent PC" lol

spot on get the PC that is fantastic and have a holiday or get the cutting edge pc that gives 3% more and thats it

 

[helmutcheese]

The guy did not ask about a Holiday, so spec him a PC or dont bother even commenting.