Please help

[reygjabla]

Helped and sorted

After about a year of helping fix and sometimes upgrade parts of friends and relatives computers, i have decided to join this great forum. My predicament at the moment is that my sister-in-law is asking me to build her a computer based on this cpu:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-203-IN

Can anyone help me choose components that is compatible with this cpu?
Budget is around £800. (She already has keyboard/mouse, 22" Asus monitor)

Apart from replacing memory, hardrive, dvd drive and installing software, I know nothing else.

What inspired me to try getting on with it is the kind of help and support that i'm seeing in this forum.

Thanks and yeah! i'm a certified noob!

 

[reygjabla]

She does'nt have it yet but she wants the speccs based on this cpu. Any advice though would be highly appreciated. Gaming speccs should be okay.

 

[reygjabla]

Wow! That was fast m8. I'll email this to her and maybe get a reply in a bit. She want's it done first week of may if possible. Thanks for the favor.

 

[reygjabla]

Sure! I definitely will. If she decides on it, then it's gonna be my first "overclocker's forum" influenced build. Just waiting for her reply now.

 

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Just got the reply and was told that it would be used for photo/video editing and CAD design or something. Is this specs okay or is there any possible revisions?

 

[reygjabla]

Thanks guys

Thanks guys. Just woke up and found this. Bet she'd be glad to know what this things can do. Off to work now. be back at 7 tonight. Thanks a lot.

 

[reygjabla]

Hi guys! just got back from work and got a word from her that she want's the best card and possible upgrade path to two graphics card in the future when the need or maybe budget arise. extra 2 - 300 quids tops.

 

[reygjabla]

Thanks chief! That certainly fits the budget with some extra. Well finalize the components in a little while and i'll cetainly give a holler when she presses the "BUY NOW" button

Women

 

[reygjabla]

Here's what i've come up thru your recommendation (Gone over budget a bit)

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail £255.99
(£222.60) £255.99
(£222.60)
Gigabyte EX58-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £159.99
(£139.12) £159.99
(£139.12)
Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU) £149.49
(£129.99) £149.49
(£129.99)
OcUK Value GeForce GTX 260 "Core 216 55nm" 896MB GDDR3 Dual DVI (PCI-Express) + Mirror's Edge £139.99
(£121.73) £139.99
(£121.73)
Corsair TX 850W ATX SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-850TXUK) £118.98
(£103.46) £118.98
(£103.46)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66I-01939) £91.99
(£79.99) £91.99
(£79.99)
OCZ Gold 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel (OCZ3G1600LV6GK) £79.99
(£69.56) £79.99
(£69.56)
LG GGC-H20L Blu-Ray Reader & HD-DVD ROM Serial ATA Drive - Retail £77.99
(£67.82) £77.99
(£67.82)
Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366) £54.99
(£47.82) £54.99
(£47.82)
Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD5001AALS) £54.04
(£46.99) £54.04
(£46.99)
Sub Total : £1,029.08
Shipping cost based on delivery to Home, NW10 9RH with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75
VAT is being charged at 15.00% VAT : £156.42
Total : £1,199.25

You think the power supply can handle additional hard drive, graphics card, Audio card and memory sticks, say 12 gigs? Sort of future proff?

 

[reygjabla]

Im after of the fans on the case because the last thing i would want to hear from her is the things getting too hot.

As for the hard drive, i'll look into it.

thanks for the support. I'll shot you a pm when i lay my hand on the components. Looks like a go already.

 

[reygjabla]

cmndr_andi

Finally completed the build and here's the final spec;


1 Asus Rampage II Extreme Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard

1 Asus GeForce GTX 285 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

1 Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail

1 Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366)

1 OCZ Gold 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel (OCZ3G1600LV6GK)

1 Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD6401AALS)

1 LG GH22NS30 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM

1 Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 1000W ATX2.2 Modular SLi Compliant Power Supply

1 Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU)

Unfortunately, my sis-in-law backed out from the original idea and opted for a Lenovo Thinkstation D10 instead, so i end up sourcing the money and get on with the build for myself.

The hardest part was waiting for the components to arive one at a time while reading and re-reading the recent I7 build logs of the members. then, came the most scary part, assembling the components in the case and pressing the start button
When I finally did pressed the start button and saw the screen start to come alive, the emotions I had simply rocketed beyond description. Now i know why some members become addicted to building rigs. The feeling is just WOOOW!!!

Finally I would say, your recommendations in particular and this forum in general has really influenced my decision to get on with it and i'd say i'm very happy I did. Thank you for that.

A poor but very happy guy