Possible new system

adams901 · 5 Aug 2010 at 20:21

Hey guys,

Having a boring night while on holiday and thought I would spec a new computer.

As I haven't been keeping up with much over the last 2 to 3 years do the items below look ok?

Asus ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (Rev. 2) £323.11
Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail £223.24
Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 16000C9 (2000MHz) Tri-Channel Kit (CMX6GX3M3A2000C9) £162.98
Asus P6X58D-E Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £159.99
Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1) £129.98
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit - OEM (FQC-00765) £116.99

PraxxtorCruel · 5 Aug 2010 at 20:23

Yeah no problemo with that.

Essexraptor · 5 Aug 2010 at 20:28

Expensive and nice!!!!

Perhaps a extra Samsung F3 for data storage to supplement that smallish SSD?

adams901 · 5 Aug 2010 at 20:42

I'm trying to justify the price lol.

My current system is about 3 years old but I will be keeping the case and psu.

Was gonna keep my drives as well.

The ssd would be for the o/s and essential installs like virus checker.

Then I have a 1tb samsung for downloads and a 500gb samsung spin point for games and apps

stulid · 5 Aug 2010 at 20:43

just buy it!!

thats all the justification you need.

but get a retail copy of win7

R088ieS86 · 5 Aug 2010 at 20:52

I like how every new system is being specced with a 64Gb Crucial C300!!

I bet they wish they'd released the 64Gb version much sooner!

I'm also very jealous!!

Back on track - maybe get a 3rd party cooler for the i7 930, just incase overclocking pops into your head.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-044-ZA&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395
or a
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-002-CS&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395
or even
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-003-CS&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

adams901 · 5 Aug 2010 at 21:16

Cheers for the links.

I'm current using the ASUS Silent Square EVO CPU Cooler, it is keeping my core2duo temps down with nearly a 1ghz overclock.

Will have to do some checking to see if it will be ok with the i7.

Out of interest, why the retail win 7?

Biz.Kid09 · 5 Aug 2010 at 21:19

So then you can use it again if you want to change pc's...OEM once used thats it.