Review a £999 setup for me please?

Why not go SB?
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What is SB?

I want the PC for gaming, but I also do a lot of work in photoshop.

Will the slower RAM still allow for a good overclock? My current setup is limited because i didn't get memory that will clock fast enough for the CPU.
 
Stubbsy said:
What is SB?

I want the PC for gaming, but I also do a lot of work in photoshop.

Will the slower RAM still allow for a good overclock? My current setup is limited because i didn't get memory that will clock fast enough for the CPU.
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Intel Sandy Bridge - it's the way forward at the moment!
 
Stubbsy said:
is it though? the processors seem to cost more for the same clock speed with less cores... what's good about them?
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sandybridge processors can do a huge amount more work per clock than intel processors. check out this benchmark:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/203?vs=288

as you can see the i5 2500k obliterates the 1100T, despite having two less cores and identical clock speeds. the 2500k will also overclock far higher than the 1100T. even if games could use all 6 cores of the 1100T (which they cant, usually they can use 3) the sandybridge would be faster.

heres what i;d go for if you had £1k for a gaming rig:
YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS ATI Radeon HD 6950 IceQ X Turbo 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Dirt3 & Deus Ex PC Games £199.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game £167.99
1 x IIyama Prolite X2472HD 24" Premium VA Panel Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** LOWEST UK PRICE ** £99.98
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £73.99
1 x Antec TruePower New Modular 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £69.98
1 x Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD204UI) £60.98
1 x Samsung SH-B123L/RSBP 12x BluRay ROM DVDRW DL & RAM Lightscribe SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £52.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £47.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £42.98
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £24.98
Total : £1,014.78 (includes shipping : £19.10).

you already know about the processor being way better

graphics card is WAY better: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/296?vs=293
the 6770 is a rebadged 5770: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4296/amds-radeon-hd-6770-radeon-hd-6750-the-retail-radeon-5700-rebadge
the PSU and motherboard can still cope with crossfire/SLI

case is better with a window, cable tidy options and a fan controller included

blu ray drive comes with the software to play blu ray movies (which would be ~£10 elsewhere)

cooler should be good for a 4.5Ghz overclock.

the RAM is not affected in any way by overclocking. there is also barely any difference between 1600Mhz RAM and 1800Mhz+ RAM (at least nothing worth the £35 price difference) RAM timings make no difference atall to sandybridge processors. i could have saved a few quid with the Gskill or the corsair vengance, but they are quite tall and get in the way of some coolers
 
speed of processing, have a look round for bench marks/testing.

did you pick the 850w psu for a reason, the 6770 gfx card you chose wouldn't need that much.

with reapers spece could always drop the 6950 to the 6870 to save a bit of money if needed.
 
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ive just noticed that your 26 posts away from getting free shipping. i'd wander around the life section of the forums for a bit until you got to 100 posts, then you'd save ~£23 on my build (VAT is charged on shipping)
 
Stubbsy said:
thanks for such an excellent comment!
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You're welcome. I was about to post but Reaper's got it sorted anway. Oh well, here we go

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game £167.99
IIyama Prolite X2472HD 24" Premium VA Panel Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £149.99
Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £134.99
OcUK ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Deus Ex PC Game £124.98
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** LOWEST UK PRICE ** £99.98
Antec TruePower New Modular 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
BitFenix Shinobi Gaming Case - Black £49.99
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £47.99
Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
BitFenix Spectre Plain BLACK 120mm Fan £5.99
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £19.10
Total : £1,017.78

Zalman case, saves you a tenner. Although I prefer the Shinobi as a gaming case, and it's a bit quieter.
 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS ATI Radeon HD 6950 IceQ X Turbo 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Dirt3 & Deus Ex PC Games £199.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game £167.99
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £154.98
1 x IIyama Prolite X2472HD 24" Premium VA Panel Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £149.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £73.99
1 x OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply £59.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi Gaming Case - Black £49.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £47.99
1 x Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £33.98
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £24.98
1 x Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £1,004.78 (includes shipping : £19.10).

 
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** LOWEST UK PRICE ** £99.98
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i'm afraid i would never buy gigabyte or MSI mainboards again, after being let down by both in the past, but that item is pretty much replacable by an ASUS board i presume?
 
mp260767 said:
asrock pro3 mobo is around the same price.
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but it doesnt do crossfire/SLI (at speeds that wont bottleneck the cards anyway)

if you dont want gigabyte or MSI then your going to have to go for the Asus Z68-V at £132 or the asrock Z68 extreme 4 gen3 at £155 (the non gen3 version is about £245, so it seems silly not to go for the gen3 version at that price

MSI and gigabyte are really leading the way price wise for sandybridge motherboards (except for the Z68 gen3 ones, where asrock is king)
 
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