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Dan_Ding

Dan_Ding

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Hey, Just wanted to check this spec with you guys as iv not build a pc in a while. Making sure every thing goes together and not missing any parts out haha :D
I have a Budget of £1400 and would like the Pc to last me a few years.
The PC the mainly used for gaming and the odd bit off Video Editing.
It will be using a 27" Monitor (1920 x 1080 )

Side note - Already have a Copy of windows 7, Dvd-Rw and 4GB of the DDR3 Ram in spec (so the build would add up to 12Gb)

Any changes i could make would be Welcome! Thanks in advance.


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I'd swap the Vertex 3 for the Crucial M4 and I'd try and pay the little extra for the 'Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM'.

I'm all about good graphics, but the 7970 is maybe abit overkill for that resolution(that's considering you're only using the one monitor), maybe buy something cheaper and see what nVidia have to offer in the coming months? It's always a tough one:)
 
LanceCrossfire said:
I'd swap the Vertex 3 for the Crucial M4 and I'd try and pay the little extra for the 'Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM'.

I'm all about good graphics, but the 7970 is maybe abit overkill for that resolution(that's considering you're only using the one monitor), maybe buy something cheaper and see what nVidia have to offer in the coming months? It's always a tough one:)
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I agree with LanceCrossfire here.

The Crucial M4 is the fastest and most reliable SSD out at the moment, and even better with the latest firmware update that Crucial released for it, making it even faster. The 64GB will do you for windows and a few games, but if you want to add lots of games to it, get the 128GB version, I know it costs a lot more, but you won't regret it xD

I would also wait and see what is released in the next couple of months. That 7970 is only the first revision of the card and is mainly only the reference design with the reference cooler. Wait until new cards come out i.e. GTX680/670 and the newer ATI cards, or even get a GTX580 when the price drops when the newer cards come out.

It is what I am doing. I am replacing my HD5770 in the summer and waiting for the newer cards to come out so the older 6950 drops in price by a lot, then I will get one of them.
 
olivier renault said:
It's no big deal imo. The rest is pretty much the same. And what matters for OS drives are read speeds and IOPs / small files / access times.

Also the Firmware improves on that.
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You would just think they would be the same throughout the entire M4 range.

I suspect they did this to make you want the faster speeds, so you would have to spend a bit more money to get the 128GB to make sure you got the faster read/write speeds.
 
Yeah looks good! I'd agree with the SSD comments, you will see the M4 spec'd a lot on here.

I'd opt for the Kingston genesis grey RAM which is on offer this week. You could buy the 8GB and the 4GB kit (12GB total) for practically the same price as that 8GB of corsair RAM!!

I'm not familiar with that case. Might be worth checking what GPUs can fit inside it, that 7970 is going to be quite large.
 
honosuseri said:
Yeah looks good! I'd agree with the SSD comments, you will see the M4 spec'd a lot on here.

I'd opt for the Kingston genesis grey RAM which is on offer this week. You could buy the 8GB and the 4GB kit (12GB total) for practically the same price as that 8GB of corsair RAM!!

I'm not familiar with that case. Might be worth checking what GPUs can fit inside it, that 7970 is going to be quite large.
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The 7970 will fit in that case nicely dude!

Also 12GB memory?? Why??

8GB is more than enough!
 
CinderzFTW said:
The 7970 will fit in that case nicely dude!

Also 12GB memory?? Why??

8GB is more than enough!
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I was just making sure it did fit.

I didn't spec 12GB! I said you can get 12GB of that Kingston Ram for nigh on the same price.... 8GB is £35ish. Same speed and CAS rating so why pay extra? Low profile will make no difference as he is getting a watercooling kit so the RAM won't hamper the heatsink.

Oh and the M4 SSD will be slightly dearer so saving money on the RAM can be diverted back into the SSD budget ;)

*EDIT* Seems he will have 12GB! As he already has 4GB of that corsair RAM, now i see why he included it.
 
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Hey Thanks for all the reply's.
As for the 7970 i see your point but the new Cards coming out will be pushing the £700 mark don't think i could afford that to be fair and my Pc is on its way out.
As Lance said the 7970 is a overkill so it will last me some time? :D

Also As for the Liquid cooler does it come with Coolant or do i need to buy it.

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The cooler is a closed loop system. You don't have to fiddle with it other than possibly changing the socket mount on the mobo.

I can see why you went with that corsair RAM originally now. Nice to keep everything corsair and matching. The kingston RAM should work absolutely fine next to the corsair ;)

The case I was wondering on the size, i'll assume it takes full ATX sized mobos so all is good especially if it can take the long GPUs.

Speaking of GPUs. Nvidia cards have cuda which can some software (adobe etc) can use the GPU as an extra CPU for encoding and such like. Nothing wrong with the ati card but no cuda. If you like the idea of cuda but a single nvidia GPU isn't man enough, you could consider SLI'ing two 560ti's. Would be wise to look at benchmarks first ;)

Just food for thought, good luck with the build any probs or more Q's you know where we are.
 
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