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Dram

Dram

Dram

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Could some kindly soul cast there eye over this basket please and see if they can spot anything worth changing.

HIS ATI Radeon HD 6950 IceQ X Turbo 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Dirt3 PC Game £199.99
(£166.66) £199.99
(£166.66)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £155.99
(£129.99) £155.99
(£129.99)
Asus P8Z68-V Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £131.99
(£109.99) £131.99
(£109.99)
OCZ Z-Series 850W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
OCZ Agility 3 60GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-60G) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £59.99
(£49.99) £59.99
(£49.99)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £44.99
(£37.49) £89.98
(£74.98)
Thermalright Archon CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/AM2/AM3)

Have two Dell 2407 monitors reason that I took the 6950 for the extra Vram over a 570, not sure if I would be better off with a 570 instead?

Cheers

Dram
 
looks to me like youve forgotten to copy the last few lines of the spec into the post because i dont see the bottom line of the cooler or any of the DVD drives.

you wont need the extra VRAM of the 6950. someone did a test of a 3GB 580 against a 1.5GB 580 and there was no difference between the two cards on super high end graphics settings. personally i'd go for the 570

also, what will the PC be used for. by the looks of things it'll be gaming, but will there be anything else?

i would also change the HDD because £90 on a 1TB drive is a total waste, take one of the £45 drives as they will be very nearly as fast
 
Hi its 2 HDD in the spec,Dvd drives , case etc already have. As you thought machine intended mainly for gaming.

Cheers for the tip on the SSD.
 
Dram said:
Hi its 2 HDD in the spec,Dvd drives , case etc already have. As you thought machine intended mainly for gaming.

Cheers for the tip on the SSD.
Click to expand...

erm.... i knew that
*facepalm*

only thing i would change is the cooler to the (sadly out of stock) thermalright silver arrow. its a little more expensive, but it means you wont need any fans to go with it.

also, if you want the 570 over the 6950 then go for it. the twin frozr version has a great cooler on it for overclocking if you can wait for it
 
Updated to this.

MSI GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £259.99
(£216.66) £259.99
(£216.66)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £155.99
(£129.99) £155.99
(£129.99)
Asus P8Z68-V Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £131.99
(£109.99) £131.99
(£109.99)
OCZ Z-Series 850W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £94.99
(£79.16) £94.99
(£79.16)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £59.99
(£49.99) £59.99
(£49.99)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ)

Thanks for the tip on the cpu cooler will source that elsewhere.
 
Cheers Stulid

I have seen you do so many specs if I was to say gaming rig 1k budget need the operating system but no case dvd drive etc, pretty much what I have in the thread would you change anything ?

Was looking at the MB really , am looking to go sli at some point and have heard good things about the borad in the spec. Is there any advantage in taking the pro instead ? Or maybe a different board?

Any input welcome as im going to hold off for the card you linked.
 
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