New gaming build

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Hello dose this this new setup look ok I will be using my 650 watt tagan psu from my old system and my 8800gts for a couple of weeks until I have enough money for a new card. Also my budget only allows me to buy 3x1gb of ram instead of 3x2gb when I buy the another set of 3x1gb will I get the same performance as the 3x2gb. Thank you.

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail + World In Conflict PC Game £215.99 (£187.82)

Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £166.99 (£145.21)

OCZ Solid Series 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1SLD60G) £154.99 (£134.77)

Kingston HyperX 3GB (3x1GB) Intel XMP DDR3 2000MHz CL9 Non-ECC Triple Channel(KHX16000D3T1K3/3GX) £137.99 (£119.99)

Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU)£137.99
(£119.99)

Coolit Systems Domino A.L.C Silent Watercooling System £79.99 (£69.56)

Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ) £67.99
(£59.12)

Total £985.
 
Don't put that 'watercooling' thing on an i7, it won't cope. Stick with air or do water properly.

The solid series are widely discredited due to stuttering issues, Id suggest conventional hard drives or a better ssd

3x2gb will overclock higher than 6x1gb, otherwise no difference.

If you're gaming, a far wiser choice is amd. It is lower price, which leaves more funss for graphics cards and cooling, and will perform the same as games are gpu limited.
 
why the expensive and tacky 1200 case??? although the case is a personal thing.

This Lian Li and Silverstone are far more pleasing on the eye and around the same price bracket.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-157-LL&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=187

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-055-SV&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=1092

Also why the expensive 3 gigs of ram when this 6 gigs is supposed to be very good and also lets face it Patriot make Ram just as good as Corsair, Ocz, Crucial. etc.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-008-PA

and the Gigabyte UD3R is on this week only :D

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-159-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1283
 
JonJ678 said:
If you're gaming, a far wiser choice is amd. It is lower price, which leaves more funss for graphics cards and cooling, and will perform the same as games are gpu limited.
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Source games are CPU intensive

:D

And face it intel i7 is a generation above the AMD 955 regardless whether it holds the record for the highest OC on a quad core. I dont know if Intel have tried cooling the i7 with liquid helium to see how high it can go yet... You are right in that AMD are cheaper.
 
I don't care in the slightest that its a generation ahead, or which group clocks higher on helium. i7 is not fast enough to justify the premium if its a gaming build.
 
JonJ678 said:
I don't care in the slightest that its a generation ahead, or which group clocks higher on helium. i7 is not fast enough to justify the premium if its a gaming build.
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What?

And I agree about getting a decent air cooler rather than that 'watercooling solution'. A noctua or true would be good.
 
you have a good point... well tbh the intel i7 is cheaper than the 955 because of this week only and the ud3r is just as expensive as a top AM3 board so the cheaper factor fails on this occasion.

and not fast enough? thats why people hit 4 ghz on air no problem and the 955 starts to not like it past 3.8 on air..
 
Again, I'm not saying i7 is slower than amd. I'm saying that for a set budget, amd motherboard/ram/processor can be done cheaper leaving more space for the graphics card.

It doesn't matter which one is faster if either system is limited by the graphics card.

I don't game, so I personally would buy the i7 system. If however I did primarily play games on my computer, I would not even consider i7.

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Not finished, and could be further refined. However it will absolutely shred the OP spec at the same price bracket, despite having two 4890s rather than reusing the current card
 
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oh yes ofcourse amd can be done cheaper than i7 but the prices are getting a lot nearer to an amd setup so i7 would be the best overall and thats incl gaming.
 
You're not really refuting my point here. Processor is not the limiting factor for this application, so making the processor faster isn't going to do anything. Faster graphics cards will do. So spend the money on the graphics cards not on the processor.

Instead you're proposing spending more money on a computer which will play games worse. That's not so sensible.
 
Thanx for all the replies. This is the amd system I choose earlier but after checking a benchmark on a website called techspot the i7 really out performed the amd except for games. Jon you said that it dose not matter as games are gpu limited but will this still be be the case when they release new games and a higher spec gpu. Also the watercooling system I picked got really good reviews is it the weight noise or the cooling thats the problem. Shawreyboy I don't like the look of any of the silverstone cases however the Lian Li Amoursuit looks good but it just puts me over my budget on both specs.

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.2GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £217.99 (£189.56)

Intel X25-M Mainstream 80GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (SSDSA2MH080G1) £262.99 (£228.69)

Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-14400C8 Dual Channel (KHX14400AD3K2/4G)

Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU) £137.99 (£119.99)

Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £107.99 (£93.90)

Coolit Systems Domino A.L.C Silent Watercooling System £79.99 (£69.56)

Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ)£67.99
(£59.12)

Total : £968.25
 
Its the cooling ability. It can barely cope with a quad core, it's got no hope in hell at cooling an i7 system. Might do alright with amd, not sure how hot the newer ones run. Go for TRUE or proper water cooling.

Of course if you wait long enough cpu speed is going to start to matter for games. At this point however, the amd board will take a newer, faster cpu and the intel one wont. Buying for future proofing is a fools game, get a solid, balanced system now and it'll still be solid and balanced several years down the line. Don't pay a premium for an unbalanced machine which will run slower until some point in the future.

That ssd? What for? Stick with vertex man, its where it's at for performance drives.
 
Thanks Jon do you know when the OCZ Vertex Series will be in stock there are pre order at the moment and I wish to place my order by friday.
 
Not even a clue man, got to ask ocuk about that one. You can probably call them now, I believe they're open on sundays.

The 30gb one is in stock, I'm using one of those at the moment. If you go with two 30gb ones in raid 0 you're looking at properly ridiculous speeds and 60gb capacity for almost the same price as a 60gb drive. I'll be getting a second one at some point
 
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