The better halves PC has been playing up recently, rebooting randomly then failing to POST until it had a chance to cool down. It had been getting pretty noisy so gave it a good old clean, swapped the 6950 out with a 7770 I had kicking about (she only plays the Sims and hidden object things anyway). Still no good so took out half the RAM and that helped a bit.
This morning got tasked with fix my PC this weekend please so ordering online was out of the question. Took myself down to Tottenham Court Rd with a bit of research beforehand so I could haggle them down.
Came back with the following components:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £99.98
1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML16GX3M2A1600C10) £74.99
1 x Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 Pro Extreme Performance CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/1155/1156/1366/AM3/AM2+/AM2) £26.99
Total : £393.35 (includes shipping : £9.50).
Mad haggling skills got them down to slightly lower than this, would have probably gone OcUK and got the sweet deal on the Sniper but it had to be sorted right now. Picked up a MATX build as she's getting her Mahoosive FT01 case replaced with something a little smaller.
So sad to say, the trusty old i7 920 12GB UD5 build has been put out to pasture. It was far from really needing to be upgraded (and i'm secretly hoping it's a PSU issue so it can end it's days quietly serving media). Just over 3 years old and it was still bloody fast, if a little toasty
She got lucky and nicked my Samsung 256 SSD as well.
This morning got tasked with fix my PC this weekend please so ordering online was out of the question. Took myself down to Tottenham Court Rd with a bit of research beforehand so I could haggle them down.
Came back with the following components:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £99.98
1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML16GX3M2A1600C10) £74.99
1 x Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 Pro Extreme Performance CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/1155/1156/1366/AM3/AM2+/AM2) £26.99
Total : £393.35 (includes shipping : £9.50).




Mad haggling skills got them down to slightly lower than this, would have probably gone OcUK and got the sweet deal on the Sniper but it had to be sorted right now. Picked up a MATX build as she's getting her Mahoosive FT01 case replaced with something a little smaller.
So sad to say, the trusty old i7 920 12GB UD5 build has been put out to pasture. It was far from really needing to be upgraded (and i'm secretly hoping it's a PSU issue so it can end it's days quietly serving media). Just over 3 years old and it was still bloody fast, if a little toasty

She got lucky and nicked my Samsung 256 SSD as well.