Spec a £1000ish system

gbradders123

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here is what i have come up with.

Which fans would people reccomend?

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systems to be used mainly for gaming and impressing the chicks with.

Any sugestions on moniters around 24"?
 
I think the size of your overclock is the last thing on a girls mind:D

By the way what are you doing with your i5? Why don't you build around that it's a good chip. Won't really see any benefit in games.
 
sponge999 said:
I think the size of your overclock is the last thing on a girls mind:D

By the way what are you doing with your i5? Why don't you build around that it's a good chip. Won't really see any benefit in games.
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This spec isnt for me, ill be keeping my i5 for a bit hopefully skip the sandy bridge chips, im cant decide weather to mm a cheap 5770 for crossfire or go for a 69XX when they are release, but i will come to that quandry in a couple of weeks i think.
 
I would drop the Windows 64 DVD disc + the DVD drive and get the image direct from Microsoft + USB boot pen drive, also drop the hard drive and get an SSD. The others look good. Will be a bit off your budget but much worth in the long run.
 
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WHY drop a hard drive and get an SSD. we all know that SSD are cool things that make your load up times faster but dont recommend to drop a hard drive for the sake of an SSD.
SSDs are luxury and the one you recommended on another thread(Intel X25-V 40GB) is really slow, if the OP was to get an SSD please choose a faster one
 
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It comes down to reliability and or performance. I would go Intel for reliability. The X25-V is a slow writer but I doubt users or the OS will write more than 35 MB/s. The read speed of 170Mb/s and the 4K random performance are the most important things.
 
Metroid said:
It comes down to reliability and or performance. I would go Intel for reliability. The X25-V is a slow writer but I doubt users or the OS will write more than 35 MB/s. The read speed of 170Mb/s and the 4K random performance are the most important things.
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so what are you going to do with 40gb?
 
Metroid said:
It comes down to reliability and or performance. I would go Intel for reliability. The X25-V is a slow writer but I doubt users or the OS will write more than 35 MB/s. The read speed of 170Mb/s and the 4K random performance are the most important things.
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You do realise the OP needs a primary hard drive for storage. a cheap 40gb SSD is not what the OP is looking for. Please do not listen to Metroid and carry on with the spec you posted, with the sammy 1tb. Then get an SSD as a luxury if need be. And no, do not get the x25-v either it is not good atall.
 
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You have a point there, not many people are like me anyway. One of my systems uses this SSD and is 50% free with Windows 7 64 Professional. It depends on how the user manages it. I have 4 x 2TB drives for storage. Well to me SSD's are for the System, Boot, Pagefile, Active, Crash Dump as Primary Partition. No more than 20GB is needed.

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I thought it was for the system and not system + storage.
 
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sponge999 said:
You do realise the OP needs a primary hard drive for storage. a cheap 40gb SSD is not what the OP is looking for. Please do not listen to Metroid and carry on with the spec you posted, with the sammy 1tb. Then get an SSD as a luxury if need be. And no, do not get the x25-v either it is not good atall.
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Or do what I said - since this is for gaming and an i5 would be no slower than the i7, get an i5, then OP can afford a proper SSD :)
 
Hard drive x SSD are world's apart. I never looked back moment my system booted with one SSD, to me is the best hardware upgrade I've had in many years.
 
Just thought id throw in an AMD build for your consideration...

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Includes a bluray player, loads of storage and a 120gb SSD and should suit her needs just fine.
 
Thanks for all the replies> Think buying tonight.

SSD'sn what real benefit do they offer aprt being awesome? Seeing as all the games cant be stored on a ssd assuming a steam would be at least 300gb, so you wont be running games of them, is it just a faster boot?

As for an i5 system is very tempting as if honest the i7 doesnt offer that much of a improvement in gaming!


hows this i5 board:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-248-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1495

and for ram

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-046-PA&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1387

would be an i5 760?

What fans work with the megahalems for the push pull setup?

Thanks.
 
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