New Set up help - see config

bringans · 6 Apr 2011 at 19:13

Hi All

Getting some money in the comming weeks, of witch Ill prob spend about £2500 on set up.

I have atm, msi P7Ndiamond, E8400, some older HD's and a 8800gtx. corsair HX620w PSU, dell 24" (got the screen in 07)

this is what I am thinking of getting, how does this look and is there any other ideas ?, I play high end games, watch movies, internet, use it for work.

Hazro HZ27WA 10-Bit 27" LED Widescreen Professional Monitor - Black

Gainward GeForce GTX 580 "Phantom" 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor

OCZ Vertex 3 120GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (VTX3-25SAT3-120G)

Corsair Professional Series™ Gold AX850 High Performance 850W Power Supply (CMPSU-850AXUK)

MSI P67A-GD65 Intel P67 (socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION **

Corsair Graphite 600T Midi Tower Case - Black

Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD2002FAEX)

Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9)

Western Digital MY PASSPORT ESSENTIAL 320GB - USB3.0 BLACK

thanks for any help and ideas.

Jay

sk82jack · 6 Apr 2011 at 19:19

with that sort of money you could probably get a better mobo. Have a look a this and it'll give you a good idea on your other options.

Predicament · 6 Apr 2011 at 19:21

Nice looking setup Jay

Change your i7 to an i5 to save some dosh. Hyperthread, the main difference between the i5 and i7, won't help your gaming much and the performance between the two chips will be negligible.

Personally, I would buy a 30" as I believe once you go BLACK *Ermm I mean big* you can never go back.

You can get some dosh for your old PC kit which should soften the expenses in a rather significant way.

danewesley · 6 Apr 2011 at 19:24

why not get a 3d surround/eyefinity set up? or as above a nice 30"?

bringans · 6 Apr 2011 at 19:28

to all above, been thinking about the 30"s, maybe ill look into those more. taken note on the i7 i5 set up as well, thanks guys.

EDIT - Note not -- Not

danewesley · 6 Apr 2011 at 19:28

something like this?

bringans · 6 Apr 2011 at 19:35

danewesley said:
something like this?

Now ya got me thinking in over drive Lol

Predicament · 6 Apr 2011 at 19:37

Dan... why on earth would you spec him a 6990 and a 1920 x 1080 monitor..?

bringans · 6 Apr 2011 at 19:42

Predicament said:
Dan... why on earth would you spec him a 6990 and a 1920 x 1080 monitor..?

Ive just put the 30" into my basket and keeping the 580

like my nvids heheh

EDIT: and got the i5

danewesley · 6 Apr 2011 at 22:35

Predicament said:
Dan... why on earth would you spec him a 6990 and a 1920 x 1080 monitor..?

3 x 1920 monitors I specced not 1, Dane is my name too.

Buchanan0204 · 7 Apr 2011 at 00:46

If you ditch the Hitachi deathstar HDD and the crappy all in one watercooler for a high end air cooler. It would have been a very neat setup