Need help with choosing right components for £1000 rig

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Hello, been looking for a new PC, and got something picked up already, but just couldn't decide with the rest. Also I do not have any recent experience with building pc from components, just from what I read recently. So I'm not sure if things I have chosen are compatible and is it the best I can get for a budget.

My budget would be around £900, but I could stretch to £1000 for a round number. And I'm mainly using pc for a office style purposes, though I like having gazilion tabs open, as well as programs like photoshop at the same time, and with my current 6gb of RAM I find myself constantly reaching the limits.
Also from time to time I like to play some games, like FSX or Train simulators, which on my current laptop barely running but I expect the new pc to to run them smoothly on full HD resolution. In the future I also plan to run on two monitors.

I'm not familiar with OC, but as I understand with appropriate components, like i5-3570K, CPU cooler and proper mobo there shouldn't many difficulties.

I'm only looking for a ~250GB SSD, I have couple external HDD's, and thinking that I could use one internally.

This is what I have chosen so far, though I have doubts about mothercard. And it is missing GPU, CPU cooler, CASE and thats probably it. I would like the CASE have a simple solid look, no LED's required.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT256M4SSD2) £164.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10) £99.95
1 x Asus P8Z77-V LX Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £85.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 750w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020061-UK) £78.98
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £638.89 (includes shipping : £10.00).



Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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http://ark.intel.com/products/65520/
this tells that i5-3570K CPU only supports DDR3-1333/1600 memory types, or am I mixing things up and it is not about RAM?

Also you think 450W would be efficient enough for a OC?
 
How soon do you want the PC?

Haswell is a few months away and would be better to wait for that

There is however, socket 2011:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail with Dead Space 3 PC Game £239.99
1 x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III Boost Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **NEW REVISION** with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £220
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 256GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5P) £185.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UD3 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £169.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit £99.95
1 x XFX 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £96.98
1 x NZXT Phantom 410 Enthusiast Midi Tower Case - Black £84.95
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £59.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £1,189.82 (includes shipping : £12.50).



I know it's £200 over budget, but if using Photoshop as well as loads of tabs and some gaming, this would give you a level playing field. The 2011 has more chips being released in the future.
 
Well this one looks really nice, hopefully till tomorrow that GPU wont be sold out. Is it safe though to buy **B Grade** card? Is that means it is refurbished?
 
Sorry but it's likely by tomorrow it will be gone :p

B-Grade is usually returned/ex-display stock that might be missing accessories but who needs a driver cd or manual anyway? ;)

You can always by the rest of the components and grab a B-Grade bargain later as they come about often :)
 
Well this one looks really nice, hopefully till tomorrow that GPU wont be sold out. Is it safe though to buy **B Grade** card? Is that means it is refurbished?

A lot of people have bought "B" grade cards and seem happy enough with their purchase. They are unwanted or returned items, they are not as far as I know, refurbished.
And don`t forget to claim your cash back on the ssd.
 
A lot of people have bought "B" grade cards and seem happy enough with their purchase. They are unwanted or returned items, they are not as far as I know, refurbished.
And don`t forget to claim your cash back on the ssd.
Surprise surprise the card is gone :) Someone out there was faster than me.
Anyway I was looking around for a replacement and found this one and thinking is it a good choice? I read few reviews, which points out that it tends to be quite noisy when stressed. But overall it still looks quite a nice choice to me, though I'm no expert. And I see that this one is more hungry for power when stressed so again I'm without any knowledge how much extra room the 500W PCU has left with previous specifications, in doubt about is PCU powerful enough?

1 x **B Grade** Gainward GeForce GTX 670 Phantom 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Borderlands 2 & Assassin's Creed III PC Games £229.99

 
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Surprise surprise the card is gone :) Someone out there was faster than me.
Anyway I was looking around for a replacement and found this one and thinking is it a good choice? I read few reviews, which points out that it tends to be quite noisy when stressed. But overall it still looks quite a nice choice to me, though I'm no expert. And I see that this one is more hungry for power when stressed so again I'm without any knowledge how much extra room the 500W PCU has left with previous specifications, in doubt about is PCU powerful enough?

1 x **B Grade** Gainward GeForce GTX 670 Phantom 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Borderlands 2 & Assassin's Creed III PC Games £229.99


That has gone as well.:( Get this.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III Boost Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **NEW REVISION** with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99
Total : £250.79 (includes shipping : £9.00).

 
That has gone as well.:( Get this.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III Boost Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **NEW REVISION** with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99
Total : £250.79 (includes shipping : £9.00).


Bought it, the final components are just the same you offered in the first post, and I took the same GPU, just sadly had to pay original price. Was quite tricky to choose between MSI HD 7950 and HIS HD 7950 IceQ, but I really preferred the noise of the ventilators from HIS and the comment on MSI about that diode failure scared me a little as well.

Now waiting time and then a challenge to put everything together, I bet that will be fun.. :)

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795QC3G2M) with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £251.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD256BW) ** Cash Back Promo ** £179.99
1 x Asus P8Z77-V LX Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £85.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 400R Midi Tower Case - Black £84.95
1 x TeamGroup Elite 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED316GM1600HC11DC01) £79.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £54.98
1 x Thermalright HR-02 Macho CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366) £39.98
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps High-Gain Wireless-N USB Adapter (TL-WN822N) £17.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £1,007.84 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
I been reading quite many reviews about each of them, but this Thread was particularly helpful and helped me made my mind, especially the link to Noise Comparison Videos.

I don't expect much silence though, but just the it sounds slightly better, and my GF even got annoyed while I was listening for MSI HD 7950 sound :D but that's probably because it was second..

Anyway, what's done is done, for a games I play it will be more than enough :)
Thanks again though for an advice, was very helpful! :)
 
Thanks, one thing off my head.

Anyway, now I'm freaking out about PSU, I tried the Asus calculator and it told me I need around 550-600 Watt power supply, and I'm wondering will the one I have chosen be enough for normal work and OC in the future?
 
Thanks, one thing off my head.

Anyway, now I'm freaking out about PSU, I tried the Asus calculator and it told me I need around 550-600 Watt power supply, and I'm wondering will the one I have chosen be enough for normal work and OC in the future?

500W is ample for a single GPU setup. Under load I doubt your rig would hit 400W
 
Thanks for quick reply. Now this is a relief, I actually tested a few more places where you can build pc from components and everywhere with as similar combination as possible it asked for more powerful PSU, so if you say it not even suppose to hit 400W, I have no more options just to trust your word :)
 
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