Spec Advice

Jonnyk · 12 Dec 2009 at 14:12

I've been looking to upgrade my system for a few weeks now, and noticed that a couple of the parts i was looking at are on This Week Only at the moment. Can anyone take a quick look over the spec and see if there's any major flaws?

There are two motherboards as i was undecided between the two, hopefuly someone will be able to help me choose? I don't game a ton, and it's only at 1650x1080, havent got much room for a much larger monitor either. budget isnt too much of an issue but obviously would like to keep it as cheap as possible. Also can someone recommend a decent cpu cooler as i plan to overclock and hopefully unlock the extra cores

Cheers.

95thrifles · 12 Dec 2009 at 14:52

Looks good, but if you can afford it spend a few quid more on this board with a 790 chipset in case you do want to add a 2nd card later
Re cooler the Akasa 968 is quite reasonable

Ast3r · 12 Dec 2009 at 14:54

Asus M4A785TD-EVO is the better mobo higher memory frequency,2xPCI-Express slots and better cooling that could help you when you overclock.Other than that there is nothing else that I could suggest.And what about HDDs and optical drives.Do you have any?This would be a good cooler for what you wanna do http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-035-AR&tool=3

Jonnyk · 12 Dec 2009 at 15:01

ahh forgot to say about drives, I currently have a 1TB samsung for storage and a WD raptor for bott drive, don't think i need to upgrade these at the moment. i have optical drive aswell for now, will look at swapping one out for a blue ray drive in the future. THanks for your help.