Spec me a Build £1500

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Wondering if people out the there could give me a hand with putting together a build for my Gaming Pc. :)

Already got the OS - Windows 7 Pro
Already got Dual 24" Acer GD245HD 120htz Monitors
Got other things like ,Keyboard, Mouse & Speakers

So basically all i am after the The Case with all the bits on the inside for the build.

Would like 2 Drives - 1 Bluray Player - 1 Dvd Player/Burner


Just 3 things i like to do when i put together a build

No Amd products (I have no brand confidence - Long story)
No Watercooling (Wouldnt trust myself)
Preferablly something that will last a good 2 years

I like to think i am pretty capable with regards to building a PC but this will be my first in quite sometime.

Looking at some of the older posts you guys seem to be pretty hot with your answers for peoples builds - Do you ever get sick of helping people out lol ?

Many Thanks for your help in advance ;)

Paul
 
What will be your main uses for the PC?
What resolution are those monitors at?

Sort of depends whether you go high end GPU or CPU
 
having gone to bed at 4am i wouldnt trust myself to spec you something right now, but may i ask why you want a separate blu ray drive and DVD drive? blu ray drives can happily play and burn DVDs
 
Hey there,

Righty then,
1st off the native screen res is 1920x1080 for the monitors
2nd - would love a 3rd monitor but have no space for it :-( so that's a no go
3rd - for aslong as I remember I have had 2 drives (DVD/bluray) in my pc as I always have a game permanently in 1 and a spare so Its just a personal preference
4th - I would like a happy medium with regards to chip/ gfx to get 2 years out of

Cheers for the quick replies guys ;)
 
I like the above spec.

You have the option to improve open the case by going Full Tower (HAF X, Raven 3 are options.)

Alternatively you could forget the 570 and get 6950CF within your budget or SLi 560Ti's.

I would personally leave out the HDD too as the prices are just ridiculous at the moment due to the floods and it's be better to up to the 256GB SSD and get a storage drive sometime next year.

Wu
 
£1500 is a big budget, which means you can indulge in quality components. I run crossfire 6950 and it's been really good. Agreed SSDs seem like a better option at this time, although 256GB is still big money. If you can recycle some SATA HDD, then a 128 will be penty enough, even a 64GB.

Capacity don't matter so much if you have HDDs, I have run a Vertex 2E and never run into capacity problems. I use the mklink command and moving user data and temp folders folders ont a HDD, also moving the games I want optimised for loading back and forth from the SSD.
 
To be honest I never even knew the price of normal HDD's were sky high in price :eek: on that note I can recycle 2 x 500gb samsungs I have from the old machine and I can re-use the blu-ray drive to free up some more capital for the build, I've no problems with using all the £1500 for the build as I want to treat myself :D
 
Yeah, it's a bad time to spend on hard drives.

Thing is, if you anything above 570 SLI IMO would be OTT, and even that would be beastly. Then you have the next gen cards round the corner.

My recommendation is post a build that you like, soundcard, GPU, CPU (2500K, or 2700K if you do a lot of video transcoding, or stick to 2500K in the meanwhile and wait for ivybridge i7), Z68 motherboard, with a case you like (favorite would be the Silverstone FT02), and we'll tweak it. Budget like that, with only core components, you can go any way you want really.
 
Ok I fancied making a colour coded build.
Went with white & black.
Couple of issues, OcUK seem to be out of stock on almost all gold rated high powered PSUs.
They also don't have this case anymore which would have got my pick as well:

on that note I can recycle 2 x 500gb samsungs I have from the old machine and I can re-use the blu-ray drive to free up some more capital for the build

taking the above into account here you go:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-2700K 3.50GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail **Supplied with BattleField 3 PC Game** £275.99
2 x HIS ATI Radeon HD 6950 IceQ X PLUS Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £221.99 (£443.98)
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £179.98
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £154.99
1 x BeQuiet Dark Power Pro P9 750W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £139.99
1 x Corsair Graphite 600T Midi Tower Case - Limited Edition White £134.99
1 x Phanteks PH-TC14PE CPU Cooler - Silver (LGA 2011,1155,1156, LGA 1366, LGA775 and AMD AM2/2+/AM3) £79.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Arctic White 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99
1 x LG GH24NS70 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - Retail £19.99
Total : £1,507.58 (includes shipping : £14.75).

 
Managed to put together this tonight - anyone want to have a dig at it & rip it to shreds for me & tell if anything should be changed or better available for less
 
- I would pick up low profile ram with air. The ram heat spreader will interfere with the cooler.

- The Voodoo cooler, AFAIK is a Venom with two Viper fans, so not a bad cooler.

- Unsure about the CPU. It's a lot of money, where the 2500K might be all you need.

- Not sure about the Corsair Force SSD. I would just get a M4 128GB. Still think £275 is a lot of money, but that's your prerogative :)

- HX850 is a good PSU. Note that the XFX 850 Black imo is a better PSU and cheaper (but out of stock). The XFX XXX version is all black with no green fan. Thirdly, The AX850 is available elsewhere for not much money.

- The Gainward is expensive for a 570.

- I have that motherboard, and nothing to report. Runs very well, fast boot, and looks great.
 
Managed to put together this tonight - anyone want to have a dig at it & rip it to shreds for me & tell if anything should be changed or better available for less

Yeah for gaming just no need for i7 so just stick with the i5 2500K.

I'd lower the SSD to 128GB the Crucial M4 128GB drive and with the money I'd go 6950CF or 570SLi.

Whilst the ASRock board is very popular - it's risen in price quite a bit also so you could get it cheaper if you decided to wait for the next gen gfx cards which are due from AMD apparently in Q1 2012.

So i5 2500K and 128GB SSD and CF or SLI imo....
 
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