Spec me a rig please

lanceley · 2 Jul 2012 at 21:00

Hi everyone would appreciate if anyone has some spare time to give me a quick spec please. I posted a week or two ago but have kind of thought i need a bit more grunt and expandability

Im looking for the following I5-3570K (which Im looking to OC so guessing aftermarket cooler also)
Decent looking case not too overboard maybe max £60 on that (do like the bitfenix's)
SSD is a must for the OS
Don't need a graphics card at the moment but it is something that i would like to add later on in the year

May need Win 7 so if we could incorporate that that would be handy. Don't need mouse keyboard and mon at the moment a

Im replacing a old spec machine that is slow Im wanting something thats fast responsive and that i can upgrade to gaming easily when the time is right.

Budget Im thinking £500 maybe £580 with the OS

Thanks in advance guys.

stulid · 2 Jul 2012 at 21:04

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £167.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-DS3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £74.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £59.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - White/Black £44.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £43.19
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket LGA2011/1366/1155/1156/775/ AMD AM3/AM3+/AM2/AM2+/FM1) £26.39
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-7280S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £582.49 (includes shipping : £12.50).

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £167.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-DS3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £74.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £59.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - White/Black £44.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £43.19
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket LGA2011/1366/1155/1156/775/ AMD AM3/AM3+/AM2/AM2+/FM1) £26.39
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-7280S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £588.49 (includes shipping : £12.50).

lanceley · 2 Jul 2012 at 21:18

Thanks for the quick reply. Some very nice looking setups there. quick question's i know developers windows 8 is out now is it quite easy to put onto a new rig.Is a matter of burning the iso to the disc then using that to boot or am i missing something.

And i have originally been looking at this mb because of the optical output built into the board is that the only difference from the one above?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-391-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2261

Thanks again

stulid · 2 Jul 2012 at 21:23

The two boards in a side by side comparison - http://uk.gigabyte.com/products/comparison/list.aspx?ck=2&pids=4140,4147

And yeah, download the ISO and burn to a disk.

lanceley · 2 Jul 2012 at 22:16

cheers. Final thing then Im ordering. Wireless network cards Im thinking better to have it built in than USB any ones that are good buys at the moment. (Currently have a wireless N300) router and BT infinity getting 78 meg hardwired

Oh and is that everything i would need apart from some thermal compound

stulid · 2 Jul 2012 at 22:19

The aftermarket cooler does come with a little sachet of paste.

Not so great on WiFi cards sorry.

lanceley · 3 Jul 2012 at 09:43

Order placed

Decided to take both win7 and ssd and went for Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler

Thanks for your help will wait for wifi card 25m Ethernet for now lol.

Can't wait until tomorrow although dreading installing CPU