Show me my options at £2000

[Deleted member 651465]

Hey all,

I'm going to be building a PC in the future, and would like to designate £2000 to the costs. It will be used for everything from gaming to high res photography and excel to web surfing and HD movies.

I've been out of the building circuit since the days of the 7800gtx so I'm completely out of touch with the latest and greatest. Hence where you chaps come in

I'll need everything EXCEPT a case. I already have a Fractal Design R3. I can do with 2.1 speakers too as I'll probably buy some decent monitoring speakers later on.

Go go go

 

[95thrifles]

Havent included peripherals, you can choose those yourself as its very muh personal choice anyway
Included quality IPS monitor for photogrpahy work, nice 570 with aftermarket cooler for gaming, SSD for fast booting, i7 + 8 gig of RAM again for photogrpahy work and its all powered by one of best PSUs there is

Dell UltraSharp U2410 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey (3yr On-Site Warranty) £469.99
Gainward GeForce GTX 570 Phantom 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £309.98
Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £241.98
OCZ Vertex 2 "25nm Edition" 100GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTX100G) £167.99
Corsair Professional Series™ Gold AX850 High Performance 850W Power Supply (CMPSU-850AXUK) £155.99
Asus P8P67 PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £149.99
GeIL 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP38GB1600C9DC) £89.99
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £81.98
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £41.99
Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3) £35.74
Pioneer 24x Internal S19LBK DVD Rewriter including Labelflash SATA Retail £19.99
Total: £1847.59

 

[stulid]

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Oops, forgot to mention I already have Home Premium 7

 

[95thrifles]

knock £80 off totals then, lol

 

[stulid]

have redone the image.

 

[95thrifles]

have redone the image.

showoff, lol

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Why the downgrade in GPU?

 

[95thrifles]

its not a downgrade, thats quite a serious upgrade, sure he had a 6950 in there before

 

[stulid]

Why the downgrade in GPU?

huh?

 

[J-FRO]

I love these threads, would love to have 2k myself to invest in a top notch PC

Good luck with it mate

 

[MumboJumbo]

You'd be a fool to spend that much money on a gpu with only a 1 year warranty.

 

[stulid]

You'd be a fool to spend that much money on a gpu with only a 1 year warranty.

huh?

- Warranty: 2 Years

 

[buttkinz]

nice system stulid, bluray drive is a good addition, only variables id have trouble thinking about would be to have 2 6950's in crossfire or the single 580

all depends on if you like tinkering, the 6950's will unlock to 6970's with a bios tweak.
the 580 is a safer bet tho for standard running, do you overclock?

 

[stulid]

all depends on if you like tinkering, the 6950's will unlock to 6970's with a bios tweak.
the 580 is a safer bet tho for standard running,

I was thinking maybe two GTX580 later?

 

[Mr. May]

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Dell UltraSharp U2410 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey (3yr On-Site Warranty) £469.99
(£391.66) £469.99
(£391.66)
Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £241.98
(£201.65) £241.98
(£201.65)
Enermax Revolution 85+ "80 Plus Silver Certified" 1020w Modular Power Supply £224.66
(£187.22) £224.66
(£187.22)
Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Far Cry 2 ***PRE-ORDER ONLY PRICE*** £194.99
(£162.49) £389.98
(£324.98)
Asus P8P67 PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £149.99
(£124.99) £149.99
(£124.99)
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9) £144.98
(£120.82) £144.98
(£120.82)
Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1) £94.99
(£79.16) £94.99
(£79.16)
Saitek Cyborg R.A.T. 7 5600 DPI Gaming Mouse £76.58
(£63.82) £76.58
(£63.82)
Corsair Hydro H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1155/1156/1366/AM2/AM3) £64.99
(£54.16) £64.99
(£54.16)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31500341AS) £54.98
(£45.82) £54.98
(£45.82)
Saitek Cyborg V5 Illuminated Gaming Keyboard £35.74
(£29.78) £35.74
(£29.78)
Samsung SH-S223L/RSMN 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Beige/Black/Silver) - Retail £15.98
(£13.32) £15.98
(£13.32)
Sub Total : £1,637.38
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £330.43
Total : £1,982.56

SB i7 2600k with 8gb of ram one off the best p67 boards and 2 480's in sli with a beast off a psu and a dell 24" isp top quality key board and mouse with ssd and 1.5 tb back up

 

[buttkinz]

I was thinking maybe two GTX580 later?

i like your thinking

 

[MumboJumbo]

huh?

- Warranty: 2 Years

Thought ocuk gpu's were only 1 years. Even 2 years is too short imo. If you are spending that much just spend a bit more and get a bigger warranty. GPU's are by far the most temperamental component from my experience at least.

 

[stulid]

Thought ocuk gpu's were only 1 years. Even 2 years is too short imo. If you are spending that much just spend a bit more and get a bigger warranty. GPU's are by far the most temperamental component from my experience at least.

All my gpu's have never died, and are still working in other pc's, your doing it wrong springs to mind.

 

[reflux]

I bought an OCUK 580 and it was Palit; came with a 2 year warranty. OCUK said that they also sell Inno3D and PNY cards under this name - I checked; they both come with 2 years as well.