Money to burn (sort of)

spitzoid · 30 Nov 2008 at 19:03

Chaps/Chapesses,

I have got £2100 available to build a new system. The system will be used for mainly gaming, video editing, interweb, & Microsoft apps (Excel, Word, etc.) and must include a 21" (or more) monitor.

I am a stickler for the "latest and greatest", so I DEMAND that it is a Core i7 system, with at least one 4870 X2.

My main problem has been trying to decide which type of storage is best (by best I mean quickest for the budget). I only need a maximum of 300GB at one time so would be grateful if I could have your opinions on what I should go for: HDD, SAS, or SSD. In RAID 0, 1, etc.

So, apart from a 21" (or more) monitor, I do not need any peripherals, just a sweet, fast, beast of a tower.

SPEC ME!! (or not).

(Also, do OcUK do a January sale? I have only known of this site since the middle of the year)

EdGey · 30 Nov 2008 at 19:23

what id do.

(assuming the GTX260's scale fairly well in SLi (Havnt looked))

reflux · 30 Nov 2008 at 19:29

The spec above but get an HD4870X2 instead of two 260s and use the spare cash to buy 6GB of rams.

Slashiem · 30 Nov 2008 at 19:30

I would wait till January for the release of the AMD new CPU's.
Would think that it would drop the price of the Intel i7 down and also offer good performance.

GSDog · 30 Nov 2008 at 19:33

Paul11 · 30 Nov 2008 at 19:44

1k on a CPU and motherboard is just crazy, imo..

thread title was right about money to burn

edit: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17912431

OneTime · 30 Nov 2008 at 19:54

Paulus said:
1k on a CPU and motherboard is just crazy, imo..

thread title was right about money to burn

edit: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17912431

Agreed...Asus rampage is cool...but it is extremely expensive.
Personally i would get the 920 and overclock it...save some money to put elsewhere (Family holiday?

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Paul2506 · 30 Nov 2008 at 20:05

Ouch i could spend that and make 2 top end computers xD

Glaucus · 30 Nov 2008 at 21:13

if you remove the peripherals it's around 2100..

Although tbh I would get 2xsamsung f1 320GB and raid them. No way I would spend £200 on a hard drive.
Or wait and see how the new ocz ssd perform and get a samsung f1 as a data drive.

Helios1234 · 30 Nov 2008 at 21:19

Why spend so much money on the oc palm edition motherboard and the velociraptor when the money could be spent on a nice non tn monitor instead like the Hazro 24inch or even the dell 2707wfp.

Edit: just noticed the normal p6t is only slightly less and out of stock but point still stands on the hdd.

spitzoid · 1 Dec 2008 at 17:56

No-one would go for a SAS HDD then?

jak731 · 1 Dec 2008 at 21:49

SAS drives are very noisy seeing as they run at 10000 - 15000rpm and are designed for server racks located where no-one will care about noise. If you only need 300gb then just get the 300gb raptor drive, the drive is small form factor (attached to a massive heatsink to fit normal sized bays) so it is relatively quiet and it will give you quicker load times than raiding slower drives due to its quick seek times.