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:confused:Can anyone spec me an i7 rig + i5 so i can compare them to make up my mind. Budget of 1K - Will need OS as well.

It will be used for gaming + encoding

Cheers
 
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im a bit of an amateur but this is the i7 build i was planning on
Monitor Samsung SM2333SW LCD 23"
Processor Intel I7-920
Motherboard Gigabyte EX58 UD3R
Chassis Thermaltake V9
RAM Corsair XMS3 DDR3 6GB
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 4890
HDD Seagate Barracuda 500GB
Power Supply OCZ 600W
Fan Megahalems
OS Windows 7 professional
comes up to £1100
 
Didaco said:
im a bit of an amateur but this is the i7 build i was planning on
Monitor Samsung SM2333SW LCD 23"
Processor Intel I7-920
Motherboard Gigabyte EX58 UD3R
Chassis Thermaltake V9
RAM Corsair XMS3 DDR3 6GB
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 4890
HDD Seagate Barracuda 500GB
Power Supply OCZ 600W
Fan Megahalems
OS Windows 7 professional
comes up to £1100
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Cheers mate, Will not be needing screen. Cheers
 
how about this mate may be a bit over your budget:
Antec 902 case
core i7 920 (overclock it)
Gigabyte x58 ud5
12gb xms3 1600mhz corsair
powercolour 4890
wd 500gb black x2 (raid 0)
sony lightscrive dvd burner
windows 7 (when it comes out)
Corsair 750w psu
h50 corsair watercooling
 
Ben-Irvine93 said:
how about this mate may be a bit over your budget:
Antec 902 case
core i7 920 (overclock it)
Gigabyte x58 ud5
12gb xms3 1600mhz corsair
powercolour 4890
wd 500gb black x2 (raid 0)
sony lightscrive dvd burner
windows 7 (when it comes out)
Corsair 750w psu
h50 corsair watercooling
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Why bother with the two 500GB drives, when one 1TB drive costs less than 2 500GB ones.

Or is there a reliability issue with the 1TB drives?
 
There's a bigger reliability issue with raid 0 than with any terabyte drive :)

[pedantic]Raid 0 isn't strictly speaking a raid, since there are no redundant disks. [/pedantic]

12gb of ram will not help overclocking, consider carefully whether you'll actually be able to push the system past 6gb before getting the second set. Ideally buy one set, and if you ever manage to run out then buy the second.

"Gaming and encoding" remains terribly unspecific. What games, what res, what encoding? Which matters more? P55 or AMD is likely to dominate for gaming at this budget, but for encoding the X58 chipset will be quicker.

I have a suspicion people quote encoding just to encourage forum people to quote the processor they've decided they want, rather than one which actually fits the requirements. Do you really care if it takes one hour or two to rip a DVD, when you can queue several and leave it running overnight?
 
Hotwired, you're missing a big point of 2-drive raid :)

2x500 can either produce (in terms of what's visible to windows)
RAID0: 1tb of space, but much faster than a single drive
RAID1: 500gb of space, but if one drive dies your data is safe.

It's a case of whether you want the extra performance or the extra safety - or either.

Considering that the new samsung F3 (1tb) is meant to have 70-140mb read times, it's actually nearly as fast as the RAID'd 500gb drives, I'd go for that - since it's also a fair amount cheaper at £60.
 
JonJ678 said:
There's a bigger reliability issue with raid 0 than with any terabyte drive :)

[pedantic]Raid 0 isn't strictly speaking a raid, since there are no redundant disks. [/pedantic]

12gb of ram will not help overclocking, consider carefully whether you'll actually be able to push the system past 6gb before getting the second set. Ideally buy one set, and if you ever manage to run out then buy the second.

"Gaming and encoding" remains terribly unspecific. What games, what res, what encoding? Which matters more? P55 or AMD is likely to dominate for gaming at this budget, but for encoding the X58 chipset will be quicker.

I have a suspicion people quote encoding just to encourage forum people to quote the processor they've decided they want, rather than one which actually fits the requirements. Do you really care if it takes one hour or two to rip a DVD, when you can queue several and leave it running overnight?
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about one of the best replies i have seen all week,atleast i,m not alone...+1
 
this is the reason ,intel prices r so high, thy r jst playing with customers brain, to me few seconds delay in encoding doesnt matter, and having more ram doesnt mean ur system will b super dooper :) ,will jst make overclocking more difficult, and i havnt seen any software atm which takes all the 6gb ram
 
Cheers Stormar

Not seen you for a while Audigex, back to uni soon?

Software which uses more than 6gb of ram, which I use personally

1/ Virtualbox. Will take as much as you can feed it. 12 gb split into 3/3/3/3 works nicely, 3gb for OS and 3gb for the three virtual machines running. 4/4/4 is also good. Personal preference is two screens, each showing a virtual machine, one ubuntu, one windows. The host OS is hidden until I get a third screen.

2/ Ramdisks. Format ram as ntfs, put stuff on it. Excel spreadsheets are excellent. Other uses are firefox portable (very quick) or putting games/applications on it

3/ CAD. I'm fighting with 64 bit windows at present, but it's easily chewing through 3.5gb and I'm pretty sure will make it through 6 comfortably.
 
This is a reasonably generic 1k build which will fit the bill, you can alter it in a few ways, the SSD is optional, obviously, but fits within budget, as Jon said do you need the extra RAM? or do you just think more is better? try 4, you can add another 4 later if required, unless you KNOW youll need it. You could also wait and see what ATIs new gfx cards are like, for both performance/price, you may have to ditch the SSD to get one in cost, which would make general use a bit slower but gaming better, depends on your res really. You could alternatively include a blu-ray drive if you wanted but as you didnt mention it I didnt bother, figured the SSD had more benefit

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