Hey, I've been lurking this forum far too long, time to post!
Like many people I'm going to be rebuilding my machine when Ivy bridge is out and would like to run it by a few like minded individuals to see if I've gone horrible wrong anywhere or if anyone has any suggestions.
Primarily I'm going for gaming performance, but I do like a quiet system too.
I have a budget of around a £1K.
I store a lot of media (over 1TB) and do quite a lot of photo editing and the odd bit of video rendering
I will want to overclock the CPU, ram and graphics.
Current hardware I'll be transferring over:
2048x1152 screen and a 1080p screen
2xWD Black 1TB raided
1xWD Green 500GB
Antek Kuhler H20 920
Corsair TX750W
many 120mm fans
DVD drive
Items I'm looking at getting:
CPU: i7-3770k
HDD: WD 2TB Green
SSD: OCZ 60GB Agility 3
GPU: ATI 7950
RAM: Samsung Green 8GB
CASE: Fractal Design Define R3 usb 3.0
MOTHERBOARD: Asus P8Z77-V
I'm planning on booting win 7 from the SSD, ditching the 500GB and using the 2TB green to store all my media (yes i have filled up my 2TB on the black drives).
I'm looking to buy hopefully within 10 days of Wednesday and hoping the 10% code works on a whole basket!
Questions:
Any better SSD's within the same price range as the OCZ?
Will the Samsung Green RAM be good for this build? i know it OC's well but I've heard Ivy wont benefit too much from super RAM.
The motherboard choice? I'm a bit stuck on this one, the only thing that swayed me towards this one was the price and something to do with T-Topology memory.
Like many people I'm going to be rebuilding my machine when Ivy bridge is out and would like to run it by a few like minded individuals to see if I've gone horrible wrong anywhere or if anyone has any suggestions.
Primarily I'm going for gaming performance, but I do like a quiet system too.
I have a budget of around a £1K.
I store a lot of media (over 1TB) and do quite a lot of photo editing and the odd bit of video rendering
I will want to overclock the CPU, ram and graphics.
Current hardware I'll be transferring over:
2048x1152 screen and a 1080p screen
2xWD Black 1TB raided
1xWD Green 500GB
Antek Kuhler H20 920
Corsair TX750W
many 120mm fans
DVD drive
Items I'm looking at getting:
CPU: i7-3770k
HDD: WD 2TB Green
SSD: OCZ 60GB Agility 3
GPU: ATI 7950
RAM: Samsung Green 8GB
CASE: Fractal Design Define R3 usb 3.0
MOTHERBOARD: Asus P8Z77-V
I'm planning on booting win 7 from the SSD, ditching the 500GB and using the 2TB green to store all my media (yes i have filled up my 2TB on the black drives).
I'm looking to buy hopefully within 10 days of Wednesday and hoping the 10% code works on a whole basket!
Questions:
Any better SSD's within the same price range as the OCZ?
Will the Samsung Green RAM be good for this build? i know it OC's well but I've heard Ivy wont benefit too much from super RAM.
The motherboard choice? I'm a bit stuck on this one, the only thing that swayed me towards this one was the price and something to do with T-Topology memory.
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