Spec me a 1.5k build please

Great il place the order tonight then :) , by case cooling do you mean fans? sorry if that sounds a bit of a stupid question

Cheers for all the help

Michael
 
i managed to squeeze in two ATI 6950's that can be flashed into 6970's and the silverstone fortress case. then i remembered about the OCZ gold rated 850W PSU which brought it over budget (was going to go for the lepa 750W bronze but the 80+ gold rating would save the money on the electric bill after a while)

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1 x Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game £239.99
2 x Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6950 TOXIC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE DIRT3 & Deus Ex Games £233.99 (£467.98)
1 x Silverstone Fortress 2 FT02B-W Windowed Gaming Case - Black £219.98
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £154.98
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £139.99
1 x OCZ Z-Series 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £89.99
1 x Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD204UI) £55.99
1 x Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM3) £50.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £49.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222AL/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £1,507.09 (includes shipping : £16.85).

however, if you dont fancy changing the cards into 6970's then you can go for the OcUK 6950's and an antec 650W PSU to save a bunch of cash
 
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Mr Krugga said:
I don't think getting the Toxic cards is worth the £80 extra.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/299?vs=298
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wow, theres a lot less of a difference than i thought. go for my build with the OcUK 6950's. if you really want to you can swap out the PSU for an antec 650W or a lepa 750W but i'd go with the OCZ even though its a bit overkill power wise because its 80+ gold rated.
 
Reaper 392 said:
wow, theres a lot less of a difference than i thought. go for my build with the OcUK 6950's. if you really want to you can swap out the PSU for an antec 650W or a lepa 750W but i'd go with the OCZ even though its a bit overkill power wise because its 80+ gold rated.
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The OCZ PSUs are very decent and there's no reason not to pay £15 extra for 1000W PSU that he may as well use at a later date.

Remember that most PSUs have the highest efficiency at 50% load and it's the same case with this one.

http://www.plugloadsolutions.com/psu_reports/OCZ TECHNOLOGY_OCZ-ZX1000W_ECOS 1474.1_1000W_Report.pdf

I would also not recommend swapping that G.Skill sticks for Kingston Hyper-X. Sure, the Kingston became popular with their constant deals but it's a) £2 more expensive, b) not any more reliable than G.Skill, c) potentially requires more volts.

I don't see why he'd choose your build over what he's already speced himself.
 
Mr Krugga said:
The OCZ PSUs are very decent and there's no reason not to pay £15 extra for 1000W PSU that he may as well use at a later date.

Remember that most PSUs have the highest efficiency at 50% load and it's the same case with this one.

http://www.plugloadsolutions.com/psu_reports/OCZ TECHNOLOGY_OCZ-ZX1000W_ECOS 1474.1_1000W_Report.pdf

I would also not recommend swapping that G.Skill sticks for Kingston Hyper-X. Sure, the Kingston became popular with their constant deals but it's a) £2 more expensive, b) not any more reliable than G.Skill, c) potentially requires more volts.

I don't see why he'd choose your build over what he's already speced himself.
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you're missing the fact that the kingston are low profile while the g skills have fins and the cpu cooler you suggested doesn't play well with ram that has mid/high profile heat spreaders.
 
fowler002 said:
you're missing the fact that the kingston are low profile while the g skills have fins and the cpu cooler you suggested doesn't play well with ram that has mid/high profile heat spreaders.
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It seems to have enough clearance for high profile RAM sticks if you use only two fans and two RAM slots.
 
Mr Krugga said:
It seems to have enough clearance for high profile RAM sticks if you use only two fans and two RAM slots.
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the thermalright silver arrow will not clear Gskill ripjaws properly unless you move the fans around, which will make temps go up by 1-2C. kingston's seem the sensible way to go.

Mr Krugga said:
The OCZ PSUs are very decent and there's no reason not to pay £15 extra for 1000W PSU that he may as well use at a later date.

Remember that most PSUs have the highest efficiency at 50% load and it's the same case with this one.

http://www.plugloadsolutions.com/psu_reports/OCZ TECHNOLOGY_OCZ-ZX1000W_ECOS 1474.1_1000W_Report.pdf

I would also not recommend swapping that G.Skill sticks for Kingston Hyper-X. Sure, the Kingston became popular with their constant deals but it's a) £2 more expensive, b) not any more reliable than G.Skill, c) potentially requires more volts.

I don't see why he'd choose your build over what he's already speced himself.
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they arent any less reliable than the Gskill, and the voltage requirement is perfectly fine for sandybridge motherboards.

fair enough if you want the 1000W for the extra efficiency, but to be honest even 850W is being a bit ridiculous for cards that will at maximum use just over 600W
 
Ordered this last night , didnt see the bit about clearance , what is the best way to make it fit , which fans will i have to move ?

Cheers

Michael
 
first off try speaking to ocuk and see if they can change the order to the Corsair 1600mhz thats on the "this week only offer".

otherwise depending on how you can orinitate the silver arrow you might be able to switch it so that it could pull the cold through the cooler rather than pushing, or set it so it pushes the hot air up towards the top of the case.
 
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yup thats the stuff :).

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if you have your order number maybe try posting in the customer services forum at the bottom of the main page ?
 
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