Spec Me A Computer

Darkninja462 · 5 May 2009 at 13:38

I have been asked to buy a computer for a freid and he has given me a £2,000 - £2,300 he wants a i7 and a Nvidia 295, 6Gb Ram.

will be used mainly for games and storage.

Many Thanks

Ninja

siumatfung · 5 May 2009 at 13:53

stuff the gtx 295 i reckon sli gtx 275s will be much quicker

Glaucus · 5 May 2009 at 13:56

Do you need monitor kb/mouse etc?

Darkninja462 · 5 May 2009 at 13:57

nope just tower

Glaucus · 5 May 2009 at 16:09

TFleming · 5 May 2009 at 17:06

Went for the bundle to save abit of cash, PSU is designed for high end g-cards too. Left some cash for extra HDD or SSD depending on how much space he needs.

Glaucus · 5 May 2009 at 17:19

TFleming said:
Went for the bundle to save abit of cash,

You don't really save anything for £20 more you can get the asus p6t board and 1600 ram, by buying sepratley.

TFleming · 5 May 2009 at 17:25

AcidHell2 said:
You don't really save anything for £20 more you can get the asus p6t board and 1600 ram, by buying sepratley.

It's already over clocked too, i'm not sure if his friend can/is intending on overclocking. But indeed, if he can do it himself, for £20 you can get a worthwhile upgrade.

Darkninja462 · 5 May 2009 at 18:05

yea I can overclock and my friend wants me to if that helps

Ninja

D D Danneh · 5 May 2009 at 18:29

£180 left over for a case.

Okay, so it's hitting max budget, but you've got two 295's (overkill, but when you're spending this kind of moolah you expect overkill performance), 128GB of raid 0 SSD, 2TB (or 1TB raid 1) of storage, blu-ray, and an overclockable D0 i7 chip.

cmndr_andi · 5 May 2009 at 18:43

D D Dannah: Nice spec there, I agree that for overkill prices you want an overkill rig.

However, you may want to spend the extra 30 quid for the Gigabyte UD5 and just get this instead of 1 Blu-Ray reader and 1 DVD RW. All else looks awesome, I wish I could afford it

D D Danneh · 5 May 2009 at 18:49

cmndr_andi said:
D D Dannah: Nice spec there, I agree that for overkill prices you want an overkill rig.

However, you may want to spend the extra 30 quid for the Gigabyte UD5 and just get this instead of 1 Blu-Ray reader and 1 DVD RW. All else looks awesome, I wish I could afford it

Good recommendations. Also, to OP, if you do get a 295, or two, go for BFG. When it dies, their customer service is excellent. You might get a free upgrade, and some have even ended up with two free upgrades due to needing their SLI.

siumatfung · 5 May 2009 at 18:53

i still think that 2 x GTX 275 would be better than one GTX 295

D D Danneh · 5 May 2009 at 18:57

siumatfung said:
i still think that 2 x GTX 275 would be better than one GTX 295

So do I, but I think two 295's is better than two 275's.

siumatfung · 5 May 2009 at 19:09

nah it wouldnt be worth it tbh but he could just buy a gtx260 as a gap card will the DX11's come out

cmndr_andi · 5 May 2009 at 19:10

D D Danneh said:
So do I, but I think two 295's is better than two 275's.

Lol, thats for sure.

If you want ultimate performance (read: crazy) then get 3 285s in triple SLI. Costs £860 (about the same as 2x 295) using these but the performace will beat 2 295s. That said, you will likely need a new PSU.