Have a look
here to see what features of Win7 Ultimate you may actually use. Would have thought Home Premium would be fine.
Something along the lines of this would be fantastic. Maybe consider 8GB Dual Channel RAM as prices are dirt cheap at the moment. Large 2TB drive for storage for photoshop/etc and small SSD for Windows and key applications.
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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Lost Planet 2 PC Game - Retail £191.99
(£159.99) £191.99
(£159.99)
Asus GeForce GTX 460 Direct CU TOP 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £113.99
(£94.99) £113.99
(£94.99)
Foxconn P67A-S Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
OCZ Vertex 2 "25nm Edition" 50GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTX50G) £88.79
(£73.99) £88.79
(£73.99)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £83.99
(£69.99) £83.99
(£69.99)
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Power Supply £74.99
(£62.49) £74.99
(£62.49)
Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD204UI) £63.98
(£53.32) £63.98
(£53.32)
Samsung SH-B123L/RSBP 12x BD-ROM / 16x DVD Writer Drive - Black (Retail) £57.98
(£48.32) £57.98
(£48.32)
Antec 100 One Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £44.99
(£37.49) £44.99
(£37.49)
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP34GB1600C9DC) £35.99
(£29.99) £35.99
(£29.99)
Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3) £35.74
(£29.78) £35.74
(£29.78)
Sub Total : £743.67
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.25
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £150.98
Total : £905.90
Good bang-for-buck graphics card at that price and will be fine for gaming at high detail at 1920*1080 resolution for 90% of current games. Or look at a 5770/5830 for slightly less (£90-100).
Motherboard will allow you to Crossfire if you go down the ATI route and add in a second 5770 (which are pretty cheap at the moment particularly second hand ones).
Regarding budget, think you should be able to get a very good system for less than £1000 (and treat the wife with the rest).
To improve on the system consider;
