Pls Check my £1700 Gaming Spec...

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d0z3y

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Hi all,
First build for a couple of years and so I am a bit out of date. I plan to do some moderate overclocking and will use it mainly for fps. I would be grateful for any feedback. I like the idea of the solid state drive for the OS but am not 100% sure.

Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD753LJ) £109.99 (£129.24)
Razer Barracuda HP-1 Gaming Headset £74.99 (£88.11)
Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £99.99 (£117.49)
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC2 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £269.99 (£317.24)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £129.99 (£152.74)
Samsung MCAQE32G5APP-0XA00 32GB 2.5" Solid State Hard Drive £189.99 (£223.24)
Razer Lachesis Banshee Blue 4000dpi High Precision Gaming Mouse - Retail (RZ01-00170100-R3M1) £33.99 (£39.94)
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB) £64.99 (£76.36)
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £57.99 (£68.14)
Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP-HC 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey £359.99 (£422.99)
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £27.99 (£32.89)
Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case £61.99 (£72.84)
Sub Total : £1,481.88

Shipping : £22.87
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £263.33
Total : £1,768.08

Thanks in advance..
 
there is no point in a SSD, as their performance isnt worth their price in my opinion, you could add another Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA as a backup drive or for raid 0 for less.
have you considered the OCUK 8800GTX, its a lot less and you may be able to overclock it to the BFG speeds.
 
I agree with ^jak731^. get yourself a cheaper h/d and bump in 12 months when prices get mainstream - if you really, really have to.

otherwise, very nice spec.
 
Ok, I have gone for the ocuk 8800 gtx and dumped the ssd which brings down the price quite a lot.

Akasa AK-ICR-01A Internal Card Reader £9.99
(£11.74) £9.99
(£11.74)
Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard£99.99
(£117.49)
Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD753LJ) £109.99
(£129.24)
Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP-HC 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey £359.99
(£422.99)
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB) £64.99
(£76.36)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £129.99
(£152.74)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - OEM £199.99
(£234.99)
Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case £61.99
(£72.84)
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £57.99
(£68.14)
Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £24.99
(£29.36)
Razer Lachesis Banshee Blue 4000dpi High Precision Gaming Mouse - Retail (RZ01-00170100-R3M1) £33.99
(£39.94)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99
(£7.04)
Sub Total : £1,159.88
Shipping : £22.42
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £206.90
Total : £1,389.21

Should I save the additional £300 or is there anything else that it would be worth spending it on to further improve performance. (I am not interested in SLI)?


Thanks
 
d0z3y said:
Should I save the additional £300 or is there anything else that it would be worth spending it on to further improve performance. (I am not interested in SLI)?
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the samsung f1 is not the next gen 333gb per platter one...go for the 1tb samsung if you feel like splashing out or more 500Gb models for same price.
 
ginjaninja said:
the samsung f1 is not the next gen 333gb per platter one...go for the 1tb samsung if you feel like splashing out or more 500Gb models for same price.
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I thought both the 750gb and 1tb samsung drivers have the 333gb per platter but the 750gb has the final platter restricted/reduced.

I could well be wrong though :o
 
The 750GB model has 3x 250GB platters and not the quicker, 333GB ones! (funnily enough, 333 doesn't go into 750 :P)
 
d0z3y said:
Ok, I have gone for the ocuk 8800 gtx and dumped the ssd which brings down the price quite a lot.

Akasa AK-ICR-01A Internal Card Reader £9.99
(£11.74) £9.99
(£11.74)
Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard£99.99
(£117.49)
Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD753LJ) £109.99
(£129.24)
Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP-HC 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey £359.99
(£422.99)
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB) £64.99
(£76.36)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £129.99
(£152.74)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - OEM £199.99
(£234.99)
Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case £61.99
(£72.84)
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £57.99
(£68.14)
Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £24.99
(£29.36)
Razer Lachesis Banshee Blue 4000dpi High Precision Gaming Mouse - Retail (RZ01-00170100-R3M1) £33.99
(£39.94)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99
(£7.04)
Sub Total : £1,159.88
Shipping : £22.42
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £206.90
Total : £1,389.21

Should I save the additional £300 or is there anything else that it would be worth spending it on to further improve performance. (I am not interested in SLI)?


Thanks
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you missed out an optical drive.

whats your main use, just gaming, do you need tons of storage for films/ tv shows/ games etc? mabye a TV card?

if you are overclocking i dont know about the cooler on the GTX, but an aftermarket 1 will be handy. also do you like neons/uv etc, mabye some case modding would suit you?

and for the Razer Lachesis, IMHO, it doesnt look good on pictures, shape doesnt look right, and ive heard from few people that it sucks basically. im using the G7
 
d0z3y said:
Ok, I have gone for the ocuk 8800 gtx and dumped the ssd which brings down the price quite a lot.

Akasa AK-ICR-01A Internal Card Reader £9.99
(£11.74) £9.99
(£11.74)
Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard£99.99
(£117.49)
Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD753LJ) £109.99
(£129.24)
Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP-HC 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey £359.99
(£422.99)
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB) £64.99
(£76.36)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £129.99
(£152.74)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - OEM £199.99
(£234.99)
Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case £61.99
(£72.84)
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £57.99
(£68.14)
Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £24.99
(£29.36)
Razer Lachesis Banshee Blue 4000dpi High Precision Gaming Mouse - Retail (RZ01-00170100-R3M1) £33.99
(£39.94)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99
(£7.04)
Sub Total : £1,159.88
Shipping : £22.42
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £206.90
Total : £1,389.21

Should I save the additional £300 or is there anything else that it would be worth spending it on to further improve performance. (I am not interested in SLI)?


Thanks
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More or less *** i have just recived other than diff case/monitor

Very good system got my up at 3GHZ at stock volts bios report 1.18 volts...

Can play crisis on very high but to increase performace i have 2 of the sliders on high. Thats in 64bit vista.

Have fun!

PS - the abit boards boot then turn off then come back on! & i ordered the 620 corsair PSU as the 520 was out of stock.

All good though :)

Dont be fooled by this as i was - spent ages thinking it was shorting out!
 
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The IP35 Pro doesn't have the dual-boot issues the non-pro versions suffer from - and I think (not 100%), there's a bios update to either reduce it or fix it entirely.
 
Ok, thanks for the comments.
I have added an optical drive, changed the mouse (I was looking for a G7 but no-one seems to sell them) and have gone for the G9. Have also dropped the card reader as I didn't realise the monitor came had one.
The whole gts vs gtx question is confusing the hell out of me (and a lot of others!) I am now swinging back towards the gts on the basis of lower power consumption, noise and the hope that as drivers improve it's performance may increase too.


Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £99.99 (£117.49)
Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP-HC 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey £359.99 (£422.99)
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB) £64.99 (£76.36)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £129.99 (£152.74)
Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case £61.99 (£72.84)
Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £24.99 (£29.36)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99 (£7.04)
2 x Samsung SpinPoint T 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD501LJ) £107.98 (£126.88)
Pioneer DVR-212DBK 18x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99 (£19.96)
Logitech G9 Gaming-Grade Laser Mouse - Retail £46.99 (£55.21)
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £213.99 (£251.44)
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £74.99 (£88.11)

Sub Total : £1,208.87
Shipping : £23.00
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £215.58
Total : £1,447.45
 
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