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This system will be used for general use and a bit of gaming.

- CPU and disk drive have already been bought! Not negotiable!
- How's my memory? Too much? wrong type?
- How's the mobo? Is there better out there?
- Should I go for the 6870 for another 30 quid over the 6850?
- Also, the 6850 PASSIVE is looking sweet....very tempted to make another part silent...but I guess i can just adapt the fan on the 6850 to be practically silent when idle anyway
- How's my cooler? I just went fo rthe first and cheapest thing that said quiet.
- The monitor, had one of these before seems ok right?

Input appreciated! Open mind!

Thanks!

Also - how do you do that output that amny people seem to do in posts where it gives links?
 
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for general use lol save yourself a lot of money and build a amd based system for around 300-400 quid will do everything this can anyways.

The people suggesting you spend nearly a grand for a general use pc need shot tbh.
 
for example your ploughing 170 quid into a ssd? buy a 60gb cache one and save 110 6850 is a nice card but overkill for low end gaming your chipset is a insane choice for a do nothing pc (i.e just look at internet and stuff) the psu is massively overkill for the system a 450 would easily suffice. Z77 board over a z68 not really worth it either paying for neww tech you wont take advantage of anyways and your ram choice is overkill any more then 6gb is overkill id still suggest 8 but meh lol.
 
I already bought the SSD over here in Australia, not only is it a little cheaper but I bought it here as I can write off the tax on specific items. All in the SSD will have cost me about 100 quid tops.

Also, I just sold my PC because shipping was too much. It was an i5 760, 460GTX, 120GB SSD, etc. So the idea of going to a PC with less is a bit...wrong. Money isn't too much of an issue but i've always been a bit rpude when it comes to PC bits - always the middle of the road kit and never really top end unless the price is really right.

I like the advice around the memory and mobo. Will look into that now.
 
unless you plan to encode a lot id suggest wating till ivybridge and seeing what it brings atm the value chip is the i5 2500k and pairing it with a z68 mobo and 8 gig ram will save you in excess of £100 which you could use to buy a storage drive/better card like a hd 7950 (well not quite but its close :-P) which clock like beasts which all in all will give you a high end gaming rig for the price point your aiming for rather then a middle of the road pc.

Also for the cooler a gelid tranquilo will more then do the job and at a price point 15£ cheaper.
 
there is quieter cpu coolers out there but for me the cooling power to cost is insane its 2 degrees hotter then my phanteks which is noisier and 3 times the price.

you could always change the fans but that adds cost also.
 
Is there anything wrong with the H61 or H67 mobos for my configuration?

They seem a good 50 quid cheaper. I understand they are older but will I even notice?

Consider my old mobo was a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 - are the H range older or newer?
 
The H61 chipset motherboards are low-end boards and don't include features like SATA3, USB3 (on some boards), SLI/CF, CPU overclocking or many RAM slots.

The H67 as better appointed as they have USB3, SATA3 and some even do SLI/CF. However, they don't allow any CPU overclocking either and are relativly expensive for the features you get.

The H range (unlike the H55 and H57 boards available when your P55 board was current) now is meant be the consumer-focused motherboards that don't allow CPU overclocking. In contrast, the P67, Z68, Z75 and Z77 all allow CPU overclocking and many of these also offer more enthusiast level features like SLI/CF, SSD caching and Lucid virtu.

If you really want to keep costs down while not comprimising on performance and features - then the Gigabyte Z77X-D3H board is pretty much ideal. It should have all the features you will need (CPU overclocking, SLI/CF, USB3, SATA3, PCIE gen3, lucid virtu, SSD caching) while being good value at only £102. If you want to spend even less then the Z77-D3H is worth looking at - it is currently only £80, though it does lack SLI support and the second main PCIE slot only runs at x4 speed.
 
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