My biggest ever PC BUILD. Help!!!!!
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Sorry but I don't believe this thread is true. I mean, are we expected to believe it? If someone wants to spend thousands of pounds on a computer and build it themselves then surely they're going to have some knowledge of what to buy to even think about spending that sort of money?
They way the OP said that he made £500k by the time he was 18 just doesn't sound right to me, I mean.. say he started work at the age of what.. 15? That gives him 3 years to make 500k averaging at about 167 THOUSAND pounds a year. Now I highly doubt that unless of course he won the lottery or had money passed down to him.
Maybe i'm wrong and if so then I apologise but seriously.. it's like me posting saying "I have £2 million to spend on a new supercar, spec me please". Would you believe me?
They way the OP said that he made £500k by the time he was 18 just doesn't sound right to me, I mean.. say he started work at the age of what.. 15? That gives him 3 years to make 500k averaging at about 167 THOUSAND pounds a year. Now I highly doubt that unless of course he won the lottery or had money passed down to him.
Maybe i'm wrong and if so then I apologise but seriously.. it's like me posting saying "I have £2 million to spend on a new supercar, spec me please". Would you believe me?
This = £8,712.12
+ Custom Watercooling = ?
Maybe add a SATA controller if it'll fit on the mobo for some high-capacity storage drives in a fast RAID 0 Array.
Fans are for the optional fan slots in the case.
Oh, and get OcUK to build it for you!
EDIT: It looks like the Sound card may not fit with the SLI config, so look into getting a high-quality external firewire audio interface!
Despite being a very cheap model, I have the Edirol FA-66 and its great to me.
Look at the RME Fireface series for something in your budget.
EDIT AGAIN: It looks like the idea of adding a SATA controller may not work for the same reasons the Soundcard won't.
Look into getting a High-capacity storage server.
I saw someone post a VIA model on these forums earlier!
Check the Hard Drives section of the forums.
I'm sure you can get a much better one, but just so you know the kind of thing to look for!
Maybe something like this: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...ology Disk Station DS-508 5-Bay NAS Enclosure
With five of these: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp... 1.5TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31500341AS)
Maybe you could also get one of these for a mere €2,425 also.
That rig would use a bit of power I bet...way ott tho if you ask me and just silly
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Ok, maybe he shouldn't have said 'half-million at 18' and spark this envious hatred, but such a system is perfectly reasonable if the OP is a professional film-maker. Consider the amount of rushes a feature film has and the storage needed to accomodate it and the idea isn't that insane especially if shooting HD material.
4 years ago I bought the best rig you could buy, costed about £2000. All I can say when I look back on it, what a waste of money, and I will never buy the best that money can buy again. Its such a waste with computers I think, basically £500 - 1000 is more then enough to get a very decent gaming rig that will last a few yrs, if you keep upgrading the graphics card, dont you think guys??
I bought my system last march, see sig for system (minus the graphics card, cos took that out of my old sys, had diff hdds, and only had 4gb of mem then). That cost just over £550 and it still runs games perfectly smooth now, I think my system will last another year easy, but I dont think the graphics card will tho
I bought my system last march, see sig for system (minus the graphics card, cos took that out of my old sys, had diff hdds, and only had 4gb of mem then). That cost just over £550 and it still runs games perfectly smooth now, I think my system will last another year easy, but I dont think the graphics card will tho
Its frustrating that you can never keep on top but then we did choose one of the most expensive hobbies 
Last time I spent any cash on a PC was back in feb 07, and just thinking of upgrading now. I tend to spend about 1500 quid every couple of years, which I dont think is to bad, dont spend any cash on smoking or drinking so it all goes on toys instead!!
Sorry I took it off topic just thought would add my comments
Last time I spent any cash on a PC was back in feb 07, and just thinking of upgrading now. I tend to spend about 1500 quid every couple of years, which I dont think is to bad, dont spend any cash on smoking or drinking so it all goes on toys instead!!
Sorry I took it off topic just thought would add my comments
IMO this type of thread serves one of two purposes - showing off or trolling.
Like that last one, that actually proved to be real, the guy didn't want advice as every suggestion to go for another (generally cheaper) part met with a 'money isn't important and I just want the best' type response. If that is the case then just trawl the component sections, highlight the most expensive bits and then give OCUK a call and they can do the rest - you don't need advice from anyone on these forums to do that.
If the OP is not a troll and really does want advice, then they should listen when people respond with the advice that the rig is complete overkill and you're probably paying the last 4 (or 6) grand for about 10% performance improvement.
If on the other hand you are after genuine advice on things like the GFX then a word of advice - you'd be better off posting specific questions about that in the specialist forums - you're more likely to get focused advice and less likely to end up with a thread like this one.
Regarding the storage - 7.5TB is ridiculous - if you really do need that much storage (and are not a troll) then I would suggest getting a NAS device (or two) and put a couple of 1.5TB drives in, but don't fill the whole thing as there will be higher capacity drives coming out soon, which means the 1.5s will be cheaper or you can up your capacity even more.
FYI, like most people have said, future proofing is a fools game - whatever you buy will be outdated in 12 months (at best). Spending loads more doesn't future proof, it just means you lose more money over that 12 months.
Like that last one, that actually proved to be real, the guy didn't want advice as every suggestion to go for another (generally cheaper) part met with a 'money isn't important and I just want the best' type response. If that is the case then just trawl the component sections, highlight the most expensive bits and then give OCUK a call and they can do the rest - you don't need advice from anyone on these forums to do that.
If the OP is not a troll and really does want advice, then they should listen when people respond with the advice that the rig is complete overkill and you're probably paying the last 4 (or 6) grand for about 10% performance improvement.
If on the other hand you are after genuine advice on things like the GFX then a word of advice - you'd be better off posting specific questions about that in the specialist forums - you're more likely to get focused advice and less likely to end up with a thread like this one.
Regarding the storage - 7.5TB is ridiculous - if you really do need that much storage (and are not a troll) then I would suggest getting a NAS device (or two) and put a couple of 1.5TB drives in, but don't fill the whole thing as there will be higher capacity drives coming out soon, which means the 1.5s will be cheaper or you can up your capacity even more.
FYI, like most people have said, future proofing is a fools game - whatever you buy will be outdated in 12 months (at best). Spending loads more doesn't future proof, it just means you lose more money over that 12 months.
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4 years ago I bought the best rig you could buy, costed about £2000. All I can say when I look back on it, what a waste of money, and I will never buy the best that money can buy again. Its such a waste with computers I think, basically £500 - 1000 is more then enough to get a very decent gaming rig that will last a few yrs, if you keep upgrading the graphics card, dont you think guys??
I bought my system last march, see sig for system (minus the graphics card, cos took that out of my old sys, had diff hdds, and only had 4gb of mem then). That cost just over £550 and it still runs games perfectly smooth now, I think my system will last another year easy, but I dont think the graphics card will tho
quite right, pointless wasting a ton of money on something that's really unnecessary (unless you have the money with nothing else to spend it on) both my current rig (that i'm working on) and my previous one were built on a budget and i got a lot of the stuff from the MM, things like p5w DH deluxe for £50/£60 and p5b deluxe for £40 when they were still around £100-£120 brand new certainly shaves off the £.
agreed, raikiri from this forum taught me that one with my first build (and first PC
) AMD was quite hot and we both went for a nice little 939 Venice core, I decided that i wanted mine to last a bit longer and spent £100 on a 3500+, raikiri bought a 3200+ (might have been second hand (can't remember)) and overclocked it, within 4 months the processor i had spent £100 on was worth £30 and at the end of the year C2D was on the horizon, his £50 processor had served him just as well as my £100...BALLS
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meh, if i spend more than £600 every 1.5-2 years i know i'm just piddling it up the wall
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My advice.
Spend the money elsewhere. £7500 on a PC and a cambridge audio amp? Bit odd. I'd spend £5K on the amp/speakers and the rest on the PC.
You don't need all that SSD storage. Get a couple for your OS/apps maybe but you don't need it for media storage. Also, if you're using that PC in the same room as that setup i'd spend more time worrying about the noise being generated - even with watercooling you can still end up with a noisy system.
Spend the money elsewhere. £7500 on a PC and a cambridge audio amp? Bit odd. I'd spend £5K on the amp/speakers and the rest on the PC.
You don't need all that SSD storage. Get a couple for your OS/apps maybe but you don't need it for media storage. Also, if you're using that PC in the same room as that setup i'd spend more time worrying about the noise being generated - even with watercooling you can still end up with a noisy system.
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LOL @ this thread.
Reminds me of the guy that wanted a £150,000 car recommending in Motors.
Reminds me of the guy that wanted a £150,000 car recommending in Motors.
Yeah I also thought it a little weird somebody would want to go for truly top of the range for little performance improvement for a computer but would then choose a Cambridge Audio amplifier.
Now Cambridge Audio are nice enough, for the budget to mid-priced range, but I would personally re-evaluate priorities.
Oh and I have known people become millionaires by at least 20 so it's easily possible, even if it's not due to the Lottery of similar. I withhold judgement and think people should stop with the bitching. Until this point I had thought this forum was a friendly and helpful place, I'm starting to re-evaluate that. Started with the comments in the build thread to be honest...
It has to be a fake because people with money don't usually tell others they have money. If it isn’t fake then enjoy the system mate and build it yourself.
I don't know why everyone keeps saying get OC to build it. Half of the enjoyment is building it yourself and I don't care how good OC are they will not put the same amount of effort into it as you would yourself, certainly not more than me anyway. Plus, I don't like the thought of systems in transit once they've been built.
RoEy
I don't know why everyone keeps saying get OC to build it. Half of the enjoyment is building it yourself and I don't care how good OC are they will not put the same amount of effort into it as you would yourself, certainly not more than me anyway. Plus, I don't like the thought of systems in transit once they've been built.
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Agree with above about building your own system - shiny bits everywhere!
I wouldn't jump to suspecting a fake tbh, plus what's the harm in humouring someone if it is?
Natima's spec is total overkill, but set a budget of something sensible (maybe max 2k?) and get a machine specced up. It'd have to be i7 920 (oc'd) and 6GB, gigabyte board, GTX295...etc. Storage may aswell go for 1TB HDD raid 0 array, can't see anyone using much more than that, and it's easy peasy to upgrade. An SSD boot drive if in budget perhaps.
I wouldn't jump to suspecting a fake tbh, plus what's the harm in humouring someone if it is?
Natima's spec is total overkill, but set a budget of something sensible (maybe max 2k?) and get a machine specced up. It'd have to be i7 920 (oc'd) and 6GB, gigabyte board, GTX295...etc. Storage may aswell go for 1TB HDD raid 0 array, can't see anyone using much more than that, and it's easy peasy to upgrade. An SSD boot drive if in budget perhaps.
Look at the size of the OC forum, there has to be a few people that have done well for themselves, its really not that unbelievable is it? The guy is merely asking for an opinion on what he want to spend his money on, this is the equivalent of a rich person buying a small hatchback, its £7-8000 thats nothing to someone that has the money. As for asking where he got his money from that's his business and he doesn't have to justify himself to anyone here and even if he is lying and is a troll who cares? Is it really that much of big deal?
If he is telling the truth and I were in his shoes i'd most definately have the best system possible and if they're honest i'm sure most others would aswell.
If he is telling the truth and I were in his shoes i'd most definately have the best system possible and if they're honest i'm sure most others would aswell.