Spec check and buying advice.

mufcmark · 12 Mar 2011 at 19:51

I need to buy the following for my new system.

HD 6850
i5 2500k
ocz special ops ram (already bought)
gelid tranquillo cpu cooler
antec 100 case
P8p67 motherboard B3 revision
XFX 650w pro/ OCZ StealthXStream 2 600W*

Is the xfx worth the extra £20 over the ocz psu?

Seeing as I'm still at school I won't have the funds to buy it all at once so I'm buying each part every month or so.

What parts should I hold off from buying until last? The cpu and gpu are the obvious choices but apart from them, what should I buy next?

Any advice would be great,

Thanks.

King Damager · 12 Mar 2011 at 19:54

Chances are not much is going to happen revolutionary in the case area, nor the cpu cooler really. If they work they work. I might hold off on motherboard as well. PSU you can probably get fairly early.

Also this PSU
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-042-BQ&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1083
should be capable for your needs

kd

mufcmark · 12 Mar 2011 at 20:03

I'd rather have a psu with a larger wattage as it gives me more choices if I was to upgrade again.

mufcmark · 12 Mar 2011 at 20:06

To raise some cash for the build I'll sell my hd 5670 and cx400 and hopefully get around £70-80 seeing as they were only bought in December.

I could probably sell my dell dimension e521 for £60-70 as well.

danzhang16 · 12 Mar 2011 at 21:26

What about Case and Cooler => PSU => CPU => GPU => Motherboard?

Reaper 392 · 12 Mar 2011 at 21:31

i would definitly hold off buying the processor, because the AMD bulldozer chips are being released in june/july (i forget which), which will almost certainly push the price of the sandybridge down.

danzhang16 · 12 Mar 2011 at 21:37

Reaper 392 said:
i would definitly hold off buying the processor, because the AMD bulldozer chips are being released in june/july (i forget which), which will almost certainly push the price of the sandybridge down.

Really? How come? Apparently intel won't lower prices unless the new AMD chips are good enough competition that they have no choice.

malcolm · 12 Mar 2011 at 22:46

The Sandybridge chips are still quite new, so expensive, their prices will only go one way, which is down.