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oxygene

oxygene

oxygene

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So seeing as I'm rolling in money now (lol), ie I have my first full pay coming soon from my new job, I decided to put together a dream pc listing for myself. I listed down all the parts I'd like, then divided them in to buy blocks. As in buy one block with one months wages, another with another. And I've grouped them to be complimentary, like buying the cpu ram and mobo together.
BUT seeing as I've not bought anything new in about 5 years I'm a little out of the loop on whats good and whats not, so I'm hoping some friendly people could whip down my list and tell me where I'm watsing my money and where I could get better value!

The full excel sheet is here if you dont want to start from scratch!

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Any suggestions appreciated!
 
A Ivybridge i5 3570K + Z77 chipset board wouldn't go amiss.

Whats the PC used for?


Edit, taken most of your list of bits and made it less "sucky"


YOUR BASKET
1 x Hazro HZ27WB 10-Bit 27" Widescreen Professional Monitor - Black £379.99
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 Windforce 3X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £319.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99
1 x Silverstone Strider Plus 750W Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply (ST75F-P) £104.99
1 x NZXT Phantom Enthusiast USB3.0 Full Tower Case - White £99.98
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Notebook/Apple Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128N/EU) £85.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 920 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM2+/AM2+/AM3+) £80.40
1 x Corsair Vengeance Blue 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9B) £65.99
Total : £1,459.44 (includes shipping : £20.10).




Just add fan controller and fans.
 
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If it's a gaming PC mostly?

Then 8GB of RAM is all you need,


YOUR BASKET
1 x Hazro HZ27WC 8-Bit 27" LED Widescreen Professional Monitor - Black £419.99
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 Windforce 3X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £319.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99
1 x NZXT Phantom Enthusiast USB3.0 Full Tower Case - White £99.98
1 x Seasonic M12II 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £99.98
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Notebook/Apple Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128N/EU) £85.99
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB2133C11DC) £35.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket LGA2011/1366/1155/1156/775/ AMD AM3/AM3+/AM2/AM2+/FM1) £29.99
Total : £1,414.02 (includes shipping : £20.10).

 
Oh yeah I should have mentioned. It is a gaming pc purely (well, cept for some movies). It currently has a 27" 1920x1080 as the main screen and a 22" 1920x1080 as secondary. Obviously I dont want the higher res screen until I have the power to run it lol. But eventually the listed one will be main with my current as secondary.

Also another quick note. I currently have a 60gb ssd, the same model listed in my spec. Because its a small one I thought it bettert to buy another identical and raid them as opposed to binning this one and buying a larger. Do people agree?

oh and as previous people have realised... The case is non negotiable :p

As for the psu. you guys are def going for 750 instead of 650?

Oops just realised its one person posting twice lol
 
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The mobo in both specs support dual card(sli/xfire) should you wish to go that route in the future, so a 750w Psu makes sense. If you don`t think you are likely to go dual card then a decent 500w+ Psu will do fine.
 
triggerthat said:
I wouldn't bother with the 27" (seems an expensive route when you have to go SLI to run the native resolution).

What's your current monitors?
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oxygene said:
Oh yeah I should have mentioned. It is a gaming pc purely (well, cept for some movies). It currently has a 27" 1920x1080 as the main screen and a 22" 1920x1080 as secondary. Obviously I dont want the higher res screen until I have the power to run it lol. But eventually the listed one will be main with my current as secondary.
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I was just thinking actually. Looking at the recommended cpu cooler there, I am currently using a tuniq tower. Would that do a comparably good job? Although I may need to hunt to find my alternate socket fittings...
 
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