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PlayedDan

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This is the build I was thinking of getting, I've never water cooled before, so would this set up be okay?

Would be nice if I could have some suggestions, I currently run a double monitor set up, one which I often switch out to use for my xbox, so was thinking of getting another one.

Thanks.
 
Hi and welcome,

Firstly what is the PC to be used for? There are a few changes I'd make but exactly what depends on if this is just for gaming :)
 
beejjacobs said:
Hi and welcome,

Firstly what is the PC to be used for? There are a few changes I'd make but exactly what depends on if this is just for gaming :)
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Didn't realise there would be such a quick response, I apologise for taking so long.

I edit gaming videos for youtube and also stream online games, so it will be for Gaming, Streaming and Video editing.

Is there any changes I should make? I could probably stretch another £200 if it will make a huge change.

I will be overclocking myself as well.
 
PlayedDan said:
Didn't realise there would be such a quick response, I apologise for taking so long.

I edit gaming videos for youtube and also stream online games, so it will be for Gaming, Streaming and Video editing.

Is there any changes I should make? I could probably stretch another £200 if it will make a huge change.

I will be overclocking myself as well.
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That's no problem.

Well it sounds like you might benefit from an i7 2700k but if you wanted to save money an i5 2500K is still fast and overclocks well too.

Do you want to watercool it? Those pre-assembled cases seem a good idea but remember the loop is for a CPU only, and would already be set up. So you'd have to ask them to add a GPU block.
If you skipped the water cooling, you could get a better GPU for instance, or a new monitor as you mention - not saying watercooling's a bad idea though!

Mostly good choices, I'd change a few things:
YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7870 IceQ 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H787Q2G2M) £269.99
1 x Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x OcUK Tech Lab - V8 Watercooled Case - Cooler Master CM-690 Lite Dominator £215.00
1 x Mayhems Ultra Pure H20 Watercooling Fluid 1L £4.99
1 x Intel Bracket Fitted £0.00
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £134.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £116.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003) £89.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Blue 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B) £71.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £1,276.39 (includes shipping : £11.25).




  • Comparison of the 570 with a 7870
    http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/548?vs=518
  • Unless theres some specific features of that motherboard you need, it's very expensive and this board will run one or two GPUs well :)
  • Bare in mind that ivybridge [intel's latest CPUs] are out soon, so when spending this much it might be worth waiting to see how they perform
  • An SSD for the OS offers speedy booting/loading times and the M4 is fast and reliable :)
 
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beejjacobs said:
That's no problem.

Well it sounds like you might benefit from an i7 2700k but if you wanted to save money an i5 2500K is still fast and overclocks well too.

Do you want to watercool it? Those pre-assembled cases seem a good idea but remember the loop is for a CPU only, and would already be set up. So you'd have to ask them to add a GPU block.
If you skipped the water cooling, you could get a better GPU for instance, or a new monitor as you mention - not saying watercooling's a bad idea though!

Mostly good choices, I'd change a few things:
YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7870 IceQ 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H787Q2G2M) £269.99
1 x Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x OcUK Tech Lab - V8 Watercooled Case - Cooler Master CM-690 Lite Dominator £215.00
1 x Mayhems Ultra Pure H20 Watercooling Fluid 1L £4.99
1 x Intel Bracket Fitted £0.00
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £134.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £116.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003) £89.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Blue 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B) £71.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £1,276.39 (includes shipping : £11.25).




  • Comparison of the 570 with a 7870
    http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/548?vs=518
  • Unless theres some specific features of that motherboard you need, it's very expensive and this board will run one or two GPUs well :)
  • Bare in mind that ivybridge [intel's latest CPUs] are out soon, so when spending this much it might be worth waiting to see how they perform
  • An SSD for the OS offers speedy booting/loading times and the M4 is fast and reliable :)
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I'll have a look into these when I get home at around 6:30, do you have Skype?

If so add me: DanzHD or I will get back to this when I get home.

Would it be better to buy the watercooling system myself and install that rather than getting the pre-made?
 
PlayedDan said:
I'll have a look into these when I get home at around 6:30, do you have Skype?

If so add me: DanzHD or I will get back to this when I get home.

Would it be better to buy the watercooling system myself and install that rather than getting the pre-made?
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Well if you've not done it before, having it pre-made seems a good idea. You can always ring and ask them if you wanted to change something [like adding a GPU]. Maybe post here
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=116

I'll add you on Skype if you like
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x VTX3D HD 7950 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - AMD 3 for FREE Promotion £299.99
1 x Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x Asrock Z77 Extreme4 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £119.98
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £116.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003) £89.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 920 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM2+/AM2+/AM3+) £84.98
1 x Cooler Master CM-690 II Advanced USB3.0 Dominator Case - Black £84.98
1 x Corsair Vengeance Blue 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B) £71.99
1 x LG GH22NS70 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £1,244.35 (includes shipping : £13.75).



Similar to Beejs spec. However I used a closed loop watercooling system, this is a much simpler solution and requires no maintenance.

The case i used is similar but includes USB3 ports (feel free to change the case it's personal preference anyway).

Better GPU, the DVD writer is slightly faster for the same price. Note that 850W XFX PSU is on offer and is nigh on the price of the 750W version :) THe RAM isn't colour coded to the mobo, if that bothers you, change it to the corsair vengenance gold 16GB kit or the corsair vengenance LP 8GB kit X2.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/518?vs=550
 
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honosuseri said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x VTX3D HD 7950 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - AMD 3 for FREE Promotion £299.99
1 x Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x Asrock Z77 Extreme4 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £119.98
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £116.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003) £89.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 920 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM2+/AM2+/AM3+) £84.98
1 x Cooler Master CM-690 II Advanced USB3.0 Dominator Case - Black £84.98
1 x Corsair Vengeance Blue 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B) £71.99
1 x LG GH22NS70 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £1,244.35 (includes shipping : £13.75).



Similar to Beejs spec. However I used a closed loop watercooling system, this is a much simpler solution and requires no maintenance.

The case i used is similar but includes USB3 ports (feel free to change the case it's personal preference anyway).

Better GPU, the DVD writer is slightly faster for the same price. Note that 850W XFX PSU is on offer and is nigh on the price of the 750W version :)

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/518?vs=550
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Would it be possible for you to add my skype aswell? I have some questions on water cooling
 
honosuseri said:
It would be wise to ask your questions here in the forum bud. This will increase your post count, and there are benefits such as free delivery and the members market to loyal forum users.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17943556&posted=1&utm_source=forums&utm_medium=banner

P.S I almost forgot.......Hey Beej ;) lol
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Okay, would you suggest watercooling?

If so would it be better to install it myself rather than getting the pre-built cases? I will reply to the rest of the posts later.
 
Personally no i wouldn't but then I never look to do "extreme" overclocking anyway. I've done i5K builds OC'd to 4.4ghz on "budget" aircoolers, ok it might have got to 5ghz or over on a custom water cooler but i dont think it's worth the expense myself.

You could use say the gelid tranquillo air cooler for £20ish and a cheaper case maybe to "save" more cash towards that extra screen you were toying with. Although there are better air coolers for less cash than the closed loop water coolers, such as the Noctua NH-D14 for example.

Same goes with the water block for the GPU, that's £50 you could put towards a better GPU which you could still overclock. I have a 460 SC in my HTPC @900mhz on the stock cooler (default clock is 763).
 
Didn't see that, hey Hono :)

I agree with the above, personally anyway. Bare in mind full watercooling set ups require maintenance too.

If your budget was higher [several 1000] then watercooling could be added on without compromising anything else. That's not to say watercooling is a bad idea, just as Hono says it might be better spent on a nice new monitor or similar.

On a side note, I've got a Noctua NH-D14 and could run at 5GHz stable no problem. I don't because I don't need that sort of speed and would rather it run a bit cooler, but high end air coolers are very good.
 
I'll scrap the water cooling then, could you help me set up a decent case and fans for air cooling? Is it possible to get the touch screen thing that tells me the temperature and lets me control fan speeds?
 
There are loads of cases to choose from! Here's a spec for you with a good case and very good air cooler:


YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7970 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - AMD 3 for FREE Promotion £379.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £134.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £116.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Corsair Carbide 500R Midi Tower Case - Black/White £93.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003) £89.99
1 x Phanteks PH-TC14PE CPU Cooler - Silver (Socket LGA 2011/1155/1156/1366/775/AMD AM2/2+/AM3) £66.98
1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9) £39.95
1 x NZXT Sentry 2 LCD Touch Screen Fan Controller £27.98
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £1,260.31 (includes shipping : £13.75).



Much better graphics card, see this comparison:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/508?vs=518
Despite what I said earlier I think the i5 2500K is a better choice, as it is still very good for editing and can be overclocked easily too :)

Though I put an i5 2500K in that spec waiting for Ivy bridge is a good idea!

It might be easier for you to look through the cases and pick one you like?
 
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