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Gunda

Gunda

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Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 OC Special Edition 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE MAFIA 2 PC Game £379.99
Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - OEM £217.99
Gigabyte X79-UD3 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £174.98
BeQuiet Dark Power Pro P9 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £145.99
Asus Xonar D2X 7.1 PCI-E Sound Card £89.99
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £85.99
Noctua NH-D14-2011 Dual Radiator CPU Cooler with PWM Fans (Socket LGA2011) £72.98
Samsung Green 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit (MV-3V4G3D/US) £59.99 x 2
Xigmatek Midgard II Gaming Tower Case - Black £59.99

VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £224.65
Total : £1,347.89

Anything anyone would change? better value for money / speed etc? budget is kinda flexible, and i already have a Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB to put as the OS drive.

Planning on selling the desk my current pc is built into.
http://s438.photobucket.com/albums/qq107/Gundapics/PC in a desk/?start=all

{Edit was ment to be x2 on the ram kit, reflected in total price just not on individual item}
 
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Whats the uses going to be for this PC?

One thing I personally would do is get four sticks of RAM to get the quad channel benefit from that chipset.

Do you use a Nvidia card for the benefits of CUDA? if not then a 7950? or wait for Kepler which is supposedly due in April.
 
Intended for gaming. playing mostly Riftgame at the moment, but prob some Skyrim in the furture.
 
Heres an alternative using a i5 2500K.


YOUR BASKET
1 x gigabyte geforce gtx 580 oc special edition 1536mb gddr5 pci-express graphics card with free mafia 2 pc game £379.99
1 x intel core i5-2500k 3.30ghz (sandybridge) socket lga1155 processor - retail £179.99
1 x gigabyte z68x-ud3h-gen3 intel z68 (socket 1155) ddr3 motherboard £122.98
1 x xfx 850w xxx edition modular '80 plus silver' power supply £119.99
1 x asus xonar d2x 7.1 pci-e sound card £89.99
1 x seagate barracuda 7200rpm 1tb sata 6gb/s 64mb cache - oem (st1000dm003) £85.99
1 x alpenföhn k2 mount doom cpu cooler (socket lga1156/1155/1366/am2/am2+/am3/am3+/fm1) £59.99
1 x samsung green 8gb (2x4gb) ddr3 pc3-12800c11 1600mhz 30nm dual channel kit (mv-3v4g3d/us) £59.99
total : £1,111.50 (includes shipping : £10.50).




• sli/crossfire board also supports ivybridge when thats released.

• not included a case as the above build is so much cheaper you could get a bigger, better one?

• review of the k2 cooler - http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/alpenfoehn_k2_cpu_cooler_revisited,11.html - I changed the PSU to, the XFX is made by Seasonic:)
 
I'd get a 7950/70 for the extra VRAM over the 580 - if you're into BF3 etc you'll be needing the extra head room!

EDIT:
Out of curiosity, what level are you on RIFT? ;D
 
gaming at 1920x1200 and the game thats my current fav seems to perform best with the nvidia cards, is the reason i opted for the 580.

The way i see it i'm only 1-200 more for the 2011 socket, and its quad channel memory, more future proofed?
 
50 rogue, 50 Cleric, 38 Mage, 32 Warrior, all crafts to 300 other than apoth.
The rogue is my main and is rank 28 as well, Cleric is only rank 9 i think.
Great game, i play on american servers due to friends over there, on the Faeblight server.
 
Gunda said:
more future proofed?
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Errr, not really.

Socket2011 is getting Ivybridge-E, while socket 1155 will have Ivybridge in a month or two.

But then theres something called Haswell (next year?) which uses yet another socket design.
 
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