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Rious

Rious

Rious

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Hi all
i will admit to being a complete novice at computers, but thought it about time i had a good gaming odd job pc ,rather than giving my local high street salesman all my cash , and end up with crap ,
So i would like to get your opinion s on this spec plz

Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred (V3 with USB3.0) Ultimate Gaming Case - Black
- Stage 2: Overclock of CPU - 15% Overclock (Proceesor speed x1.15)
- Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor
- Asus P8P67 PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION **
- Corsair Hydro H70 High-Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
- MSI GeForce GTX 580 OC Twin FrozR II 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
- MSI GeForce GTX 580 OC Twin FrozR II 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Intel 510 Series "Elmcrest" 120GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache WD10EALX - OEM
- Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599)
- Corsair Professional Series Gold AX1200 High Performance 1200W Modular Power Supply (CMPSU-1200AXUK)
- Asus Xonar D2X 7.1 PCI-E Sound Card
- OcUK Premium Aluminium 4GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive.
- Samsung SH-B123L/BSBP 12x BluRay ROM / 16x DVD±RW Lightscribe SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (OEM)
Benq XL2410T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Widescreen LED Monitor - Black

Total : £2,608.92

ty for looking
 
Hi there, Welcome etc.

WOW is my first thoughts at the spec and the price, can i ask a few simple questions before I go any further?

1) Can you build a PC yourself?

2) Do you have that sort of money to spend, or would saving around £1K - 1.5K be at all useful to you?
 
This is an OcUK Build? It's a monster rig all right. The power supply seems over-specced, and SLI 580 seems OTT, although you have a 24'' 3D monitor in there (but no NVidia 3D glasses?).

It seems expensive, just wondering how much it would cost self-build, but the specs are really high overall.
 
Hello there sir

As in wow Bad or Wow to much money ??

I just want a decent enough machine that will last a few years with not much to change
 
It's a very good system, albeit incredibly expensive. Do you think you could build it yourself? If so, you'd save a lot of money.

I'd also advise dropping the sound card (you don't need one for gaming, onboard is great now), dropping the BluRay drive (you'd need to buy expensive software for the drive to work, so you may as well get a normal DVD drive, and a separate BluRay player) and dropping the overclock (a 15% increase is pitiful on an i7 2600K- they can easily do twice that. Max OC, or do it yourself- it's easy now).

I would also switch the i7 with an i5 (better for gaming), and drop the graphics a bit, unless you must have full 120Hz with max settings on every game.
 
Rious said:
Hello there sir

As in wow Bad or Wow to much money ??

I just want a decent enough machine that will last a few years with not much to change
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WOW as in monster spec and price.

put some questions up for you too.
 
I really dont think i could build it , i am a bit bull in a china shop to be honest , and for the money i really dont /wouldnt want to mess it up

yup was going to go to 3k as like i said i dont want to be changing much in the near future,as they gotta bite the bullet sometime.
 
Rious said:
I really dont think i could build it , i am a bit bull in a china shop to be honest , and for the money i really dont /wouldnt want to mess it up
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OK.

So a pre-built PC will be perfect for you.

have you seen this?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-175-OE

That with a few choice options, gives this,


Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
"Ultima Mosasaur" Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz @ 4.60GHz DDR3 Sandybridge System £979.98
(£816.65) £979.98
(£816.65)
Options applied to the above product:
No Memory Upgrade £0.00
(£0.00) £0.00
(£0.00)
Options applied to the above product:
Overclock selected £20.00
(£16.67) £20.00
(£16.67)
Options applied to the above product:
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Options applied to the above product:
No Crossfire Upgrade £0.00
(£0.00) £0.00
(£0.00)
Options applied to the above product:
OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G) £174.98
(£145.82) £174.98
(£145.82)
Sub Total : £1,045.80
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £15.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £212.26
Total : £1,273.56


Add in this IPS monitor - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-046-DE&groupid=17&catid=1425&subcat=

and its £1507.45 delivered
 
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this is a system that is basically the same for £800 less!


YOUR BASKET
2 x MSI GeForce GTX 580 OC 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £349.99
1 x Benq XL2410T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £281.99
1 x OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-120G) £194.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £164.99
1 x Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred (V3 with USB3.0) Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £139.99
1 x MSI P67A-GD53 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £109.99
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 850W Power Supply £109.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 920 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM2+/AM2+/AM3+) £84.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £37.99
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £1,867.52 (includes shipping : £22.20).
 
KiiYzOo said:
this is a system that is basically the same for £800 less!


YOUR BASKET
2 x MSI GeForce GTX 580 OC 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £349.99
1 x Benq XL2410T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £281.99
1 x OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-120G) £194.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £164.99
1 x Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred (V3 with USB3.0) Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £139.99
1 x MSI P67A-GD53 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £109.99
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 850W Power Supply £109.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 920 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM2+/AM2+/AM3+) £84.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £37.99
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £1,867.52 (includes shipping : £22.20).
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cant build it, needs to be a pre build
 
This prebuilt should be just the business for you.

An i5 2500K overclocked to 4.6GHz, you can select upgrades to give it Win7 HP, 8 gigs of RAM (it's only an extra £26, why not), a GTX 580 and a 120GB SSD. It also has the H50 water cooler and a Z68 board.

Buy a SM2233RZ to go with it, and you're set for under £1600, for a faster CPU (after clocking) and near identical graphics.
 
These are reviews of the DELL screen

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_u2311h.htm
http://www.flatpanelshd.com/review.php?subaction=showfull&id=1275291737
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/monitors/363970/dell-ultrasharp-u2311h

As you can see its about as good as it gets.

The "Ultima Mosasaur" includes the latest Z68 chipset motherboard, and will allow you to add a second ATI 6950 GPU later on for a Crossfire setup,

giving this sort of boost - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/299?vs=293

• It has the fastest i7 2600K CPU @ 4.6GHZ

• 8GB of RAM, thats a huge amount

• H70 water cooler!!

• 1TB HDD
 
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Rious said:
ty stulid looking at the links now but would prefer gtx580 over ati.
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You can talk to the sales team who will be more than happy to swap it over for you, they have mentioned in the past, that anythings possible really.

You would want a good 850w+ PSU ( such as Corsair, XFX) for a twin SLI GTX580 setup if you ever decide to go that route in the future.
 
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yeah but I just did one like the separate components spec I did but with the ips dell (cant remember the name) and it came to just over £1600
 
This one?

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Sandybridge Gaming PC - Configure your own Intel i5 / i7 (Socket 1155) Based Gaming PC £1615.38
(£1346.15) £1,615.38
(£1,346.15)
Options applied to the above product:
- No Webcam Option (Zero Cost)
- No Headset Option (Zero Cost)
- Dell Ultrasharp U2311H 23" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey
- Mouse Not Selected
- Keyboard Not Selected
- Full Cable Management
- Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599)
- Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 850W V2 High Performance Power Supply (CMPSU-850TXV2UK)
- Onboard Sound Card (ZERO COST)
- OcUK Premium Aluminium 4GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive.
- Samsung SH-B123L/BSBP 12x BluRay ROM / 16x DVD±RW Lightscribe SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (OEM)
- No RAID Option (ZERO Cost)
- No Second Hard Drive Option (ZERO Cost)
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS)
- No Graphics Card Upgrade
- MSI GeForce GTX 580 OC Twin FrozR II 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
- G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL )
- Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION **
- Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3)
- Stage 2: Overclock of CPU - 15% Overclock (Proceesor speed x1.15)
- Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor
- Cooler Master HAF 912 Plus Case - Black



Sub Total : £1,346.15
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.00
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £271.83
Total : £1,630.98


What really strange is I know for a fact that the Ripjaw memory and that Venom wont fit.
 
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