New rig wanted, suggestions and questions

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Hi all, (hope this is posted in the right place!)

Really after a new gaming rig, as my last Overclockers machine is now about 3.5-4 years old and showing signs of needing an upgrade.

I'm considering the Ultima Black Ops machine, here:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-159-OE&tool=3

But I definitely do NOT want a machine with water cooling. Does this machine have that, do you know? I couldn't tell :(

Not sure what else I should look for. About the £1500 mark is about right (was going to add a 90GB SSD drive for Windows, go for Win 7 Pro and upgrade the card to the GTX 580).

Does that all sound like a reasonable rig for the next 3-4 years, do you think? If not what other suggestions could you offer, please, folks?

Ta!
 
Welcome to the forums.

The Ultima Black Ops machine seems to come with a Prolimatech Megahalems CPU Cooler w/ Akasa Apache Black 120mm cooler as standard, so no water cooling. If you have the money to spend then yes an SSD would be a very good choice.

If you don't want to build yourself its a very capable system and no doubt will last many years.
 
Hi Greywolf - thanks for welcoming me to the forums :)

Thanks very much for your advice. I've got no idea how quiet that machine will be, but it looks like a good machine.

I used to build my own systems but I got fed up of components not interacting correctly and last time bought an Overclockers machine and have never looked back.

Might seem like a dumbass question, but there's no different in loading games from the secondary drive as opposed to the primary, is there?

Cheers again for your help, much obliged.
 
Thats a good system, Id go for the 120 gig SSD as for the small increase its worth the extra capacity, youll be able to squeeze more games on that one, its fine to use the 2nd hdd but they will be slower (thats the point of the SSD make everything superfast)
 
I'd intended to use the SSD for Windows and that's it (maybe photos, don't have too many of those) and non-gaming apps, but my current rig has over 300GB of games.
 
Thats a lot of games, lol, you cant be playing them all at all times surely, with a SSD I tend to put my ten or so fave games (at the time) on the SSD then others on 2nd HDD, as new games come out n need more space, relegate the older games to 2nd HDD, does mean an uninstall and reinstall but it means you keep playing your modern games nice n fast
 
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