My new build your advice?

abercromb

abercromb

abercromb

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Just looking at a new build and thought I would ask the advice of you all here. Bits I am unsure about are do I need to buy more cables for anything? Will this power supply and board deal with a second 580 later on and can it be easily overclocked.
It's also probably good to ask if I am missing anything obvious.

Your thoughts?



Gainward GeForce GTX 580 "GOOD Edition" 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
£369.98
(£308.32)

Oz vertex 3 120GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (VTX3-25SAT3-120G)
£199.99
(£166.66)

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail
£161.99
(£134.99)

MSI Z68A-GD65 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
£149.99
(£124.99)

BeQuiet Dark Power Pro P9 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply
£144.98
(£120.82)

Corsair Graphite 600T Midi Tower Case - Limited Edition White
£129.98
(£108.32)

Corsair Hydro H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/LGA2011/AM2/AM3)
£79.98
(£66.65)

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ)
£41.99
(£34.99)

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599)
£79.99
(£66.66)


Total :

£1,132.40

Shipping :
£14.75

VAT is being charged at 20.00%
£229.43

Total :
£1,376.58
 
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Probably a stupid question but will the 1kw psu use more power and cost more while I don't have a second 580 than the 850. Or do they simple draw off what they need?
 
Updated after advice


Gainward GeForce GTX 580 "GOOD Edition" 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
£369.98
(£308.32)

Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive
£173.99
(£144.99)

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail
£161.99
(£134.99)

OCZ ZX Series 1000W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply
£149.99
(£124.99)

MSI Z68A-GD65 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
£149.99
(£124.99)

Corsair Graphite 600T Midi Tower Case - Limited Edition White
£129.98
(£108.32)

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599)
£79.99
(£66.66)

Corsair Hydro H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/LGA2011/AM2/AM3)
£79.98
(£66.65)

Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX)
£49.99
(£41.66)

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ)
£41.99
(£34.99)

Samsung SH-B123L/BSBP 12x BluRay ROM / 16x DVD±RW Lightscribe SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (OEM)
£46.98
(£39.15)

Total :

£1,452.55
 
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I have an external hard drive but hold a lot of music and movies on my hard drives. So the price difference is so small that its worth it.

Not heard of the silver arrow at all, have a H50 on my current rig and been pretty happy with that.
 
Taken your suggestion. Just noticed the Sata 3 bit.



Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit
£68.40
(£57.00)
western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX)
(£24.99)


Total :

£1,431.48
 
Looks close to perfect now.

Just a couple more questions.

Will I need any other cables than the ones I get with the boxes (I hope)?

As there are 2 hard drives (one a SSD) do I have to configure them in any certain way? Or is it simply they get plugged into the mother board independently?

This would be my 2nd ever build and the 1st one was very simple. Hence the newb questions.

Thanks
 
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