New Build: Suggestions needed

Devu

Devu

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Hey was looking to build my first pc and just wanted to get some input from you guys before buying the parts. My budget for the build is £900-£1100.

Is there anything you would change and does everything look compatible. I wasn't sure which graphics card to go with, the one chosen, the MSI GTX 560Ti 2048MB on offer today or a different card altogether even none and just waiting a while, so let me know what you think.

Thanks.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £217.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £155.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £147.98
1 x Asus P8Z68-V GEN3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £144.98
1 x Silverstone Raven 3 RV03B-W Full Tower Windowed Case - Black/Gold £109.99
1 x XFX 750W Black Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) **BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL DEAL** £34.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
1 x Asus 24x DVD±RW DRW-24B3ST - Retail (Black) £19.18
Total : £1,053.58 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
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Thank you, i'll read that thread in a bit any suggestion on what to do about a graphics card?.

Edit: Oh nvm I see you edited the post.
 
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I've added a little bit above about another card, the only other thing to do is get a MSI GTX570 for £240 (the PSU is still ok for this and even GTX570 in SLI)
 
If the 750 wont be enough could you pick out a good psu for me since i would like to maybe overclock a bit and add second card in the future once i read up more on it.
 
It is enough, what he failed to pick out is the test system used at Guru3D,

Mainboard

eVGA X58 Classified

Processor

Core i7 965 @ 3750 MHz (25x150 @ 1.35v)

Graphics Cards

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 570 (x2)

Diverse

Memory

Corsair Dominator 6144 MB (3x 2048 MB) DDR3 @ 1600 MHz CAS7 1T
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Which uses much more power than a newer Sandybridge setup.
 
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You will be wanting a "dual" or even "quad" channel kit, the RAM kit above is triple channel for socket 1366 systems.

Basically you are wanting to install pairs of RAM sticks.

Heres two cheap 8GB kits that will still fit under that heatsink,

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-113-KS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-290-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

Bare in mind having the four RAM sticks will fill up all your slots.
 
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