Soldato
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“£800 is a limit, not a target”
Now I'm sat here kind of debating with myself. Do I take the lazy man's approach and get a prebuilt OC'd machine, do I do a halfway house and buy a bundles and the rest as components, or do I just build it from components myself. I've built and overclocked loads of PC over the years... it's just laziness creeping in and also if/when it breaks "**** it, not my problem. OcUK will sort it". That said, overclocking SandyBridge to normal levels isn't hard...
Two key things really, lack of noise and bang for buck power. Graphics card isn't an issue as it's not gonna see much gaming.
The Prebuilt Machine - Titan Spinosaur - £786.98
Bundle & Components - £787.39
Building Myself - £793.98
Comments gratefully received on which route you'd take
. As you can see the problem with me getting a prebuilt machine is that I "know" hardware... so I look at the spec and have comments rather than being a n00b and it all going over my head 
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If building from components, what would you get?
Now I'm sat here kind of debating with myself. Do I take the lazy man's approach and get a prebuilt OC'd machine, do I do a halfway house and buy a bundles and the rest as components, or do I just build it from components myself. I've built and overclocked loads of PC over the years... it's just laziness creeping in and also if/when it breaks "**** it, not my problem. OcUK will sort it". That said, overclocking SandyBridge to normal levels isn't hard...
Two key things really, lack of noise and bang for buck power. Graphics card isn't an issue as it's not gonna see much gaming.
The Prebuilt Machine - Titan Spinosaur - £786.98
- Antec 300 Case - Perfectly happy with this, got a couple already.
- Un-named Purple LED Fans - I'd get OcUK to change this as noise > bling in my book!
- XFX 650W Pro PSU - Meh, if OcUK warrant it that's fine by me. Though I'm a Corsair fanboy!
- i5 2500K @ 4.60GHz
- Un-named Z68 motherboard - No name is ringing alarm bells in my head. When building myself I stick to ASUS or MSI. Would rather a good P67 than a naff Z68...
- Corsair H50 CPU Cooler - Again noise is king in my book, and I'd probably rather a good air cooler like a Noctua or Megahalems than these integrated water jobbies...
- 4GB Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
- Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB - Don't need masses of space thanks to NAS, but would use a Caviar Black for speed if building myself (I like WD).
- Gigabyte GeForce GT 430 OC "Dual Fan" 1GB - Not gonna be gaming so don't need a 580, but would rather something like a 460. Again, the lack of noise is important.
- LG DVD+/-RW SATA Drive
Bundle & Components - £787.39
- Antec 300 Case
- 2x Sharkoon Silent Eagle SE 120mm Fans
- Corsair HX 650W PSU
- Radon Torosaur Z68[*]i5 2500K @ 4.40GHz
[*]Gigabyte Z68X-UD4
[*]4GB Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey PC3-12800C9
[*]Corsair A50 - Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB
- Gigabyte GeForce GTS 450 OC 1024MB
- LG DVD+/-RW SATA Drive
Building Myself - £793.98
- Antec 300 Case
- 2x Sharkoon Silent Eagle SE 120mm Fans
- Corsair Professional Series Gold AX650 PSU
- i5 2500K OEM
- Asus P8Z68-V PRO
- Noctua NH-U12P SE2
- 4GB Corsair XMS3 PC3-12800C9
- Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB
- MSI GeForce GTX 460 HAWK "Super-OC" 1024MB
- LG DVD+/-RW SATA Drive
Comments gratefully received on which route you'd take
. As you can see the problem with me getting a prebuilt machine is that I "know" hardware... so I look at the spec and have comments rather than being a n00b and it all going over my head .If building from components, what would you get?
