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L1ght

L1ght

L1ght

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Well my current computer is in bits and broken and not posting so I need to upgrade at some point this week. I was spec'd this rig a month or two ago and want to see whether anyone has any ideas on how to improve it or let me know whether its a good build:

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - £250.99Retail
Gigabyte EX58-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard - £159.99
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail - £152.98
OCZ Intel i7 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666 Triple Channel (OCZ3X1333LV6GK) - £75.99
Coolermaster Real Power 520w Modular Power Supply - £67.99
LG GGC-H20L Blu-Ray Reader & HD-DVD ROM Serial ATA Drive - Retail - £76.98
Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB 10000RPM SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD1500HLFS) - £110

Total : £906.42

I've got a 24" monitor running at 1920x1200 and wanting a system able to handle current games at this resolution, use 3d sotware e.g maya zbrush and watch HD movies.

If anyone has any suggestions on how I can improve this build it would be much appreciated, my budget is around £900. Cheers
 
a few minor changes.

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz - Retail £225.99 inc VAT
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R Intel X58 £148.99 inc VAT
Asus ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 £164.99 inc VAT
Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 £68.99 inc VAT
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent Modular Power Supply £68.99 inc VAT
LG GGC-H20L Blu-Ray Reader & HD-DVD ROM - Retail £79.99 inc VAT
Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB 10000RPM SATA-II 16MB Cache £126.99 inc VAT

Total = £897.01 inc vat & del

what a difference a couple of months make price wise, better ram, psu & gfx card for less money than your original spec.
 
Thanks VoG, I know its crazy how all the prices go down in a couple of months, I think its only the LG Blu-Ray player thats gone up in price.
Is there any other products you would recommend around this price/ performance? I was previously spec'd this motherboard Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P Intel X58, and wondered how it stands up to the one I've got listed at the moment. Thanks again for the feedback mate.
 
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Does anyone have any advice/ input on this build? Any help is very welcome, I'm hopefully ordering at the end of the week.
 
if you wanted to up the mobo Id go for the UD5, which for some reason is cheaper than the UD4P even though its better, the one youve got is a nice budget option but the UD5 is great, depends if you can afford it, looks a very solid build, enjoy
 
Thanks 95thrifter, I reckon I could stretch my budget for the UD5. I'm looking aswell at maybe getting a 1tb hard drive and running my OS off the Western Digital VelociRaptor.

Is there any other components in my build worth upping to the next level to get better performance without spending too much more money?

Cheers for the reply mate
 
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UD5 is a very nice board, in the process of overclocking one as I type (prime 95 checks)

bios is nicely laid out and all of the overclocking relaited stuff is in in the one section

only problem I had was getting the raid setup on the intel southbridge

for some reason it would not enter configuration if I ued the left cntrl instead of the right cntrl
 
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