spec me a system gaming build

Post your phone number in the customer services section explaining that you want to place an order and someone will call you back. :)

I am off work at the moment, so cannot help you myself unfortunately.
 
Set the SATA controllers to AHCi, so if you add a SSD later thats done for you.

Fit the RAM in the slot closest to the CPU, skip a slot, then the other stick, thats Dual channel operation sorted.
 
redknight333 said:
you sure about that just had a look at the manual says
Dual Channel mode with two memory modules, we recommend that you install them in the DDR3_1 and DDR3_2 sockets.
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Will work in either pair.

My mates does.

Also try and avoid using the Marvel controlled SATAIII ports(Grey) these have worse performance than the intel ones (White) for a SSD.
 
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redknight333 said:
which is the best port to use for HD boot and dvd writer?
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Well a HDD even when it says SATAIII on it, cant even get anywhere close to even maxing a SATAII port, so use the 3XSATAII ports and leave the SATAIII ports free for a future SSD drive.

You can even turn the Mavel sata controller off, one less thing to slow the boot up process.
 
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Hope this basket turns up today i just looked at my Outstanding Orders in accounts, says "Order Status: In our warehouse queue" thats not looking good.
When i first tried to place order online the bank check at the very end didn't pass for some unknown reason, then it asked me if i wanted to have a call back to place order over phone at OC which i did, but time slot for the call back came and passed by, so i phoned Sales and Order Enquries, placed order over phone. The guy on the phone said i would get a email which i did "Your order has been received" i also ask would this order show in my accounts Outstanding Orders he said no, about 1 hour later i got a call from the bank automated service asking if the charges on the card was authorized, 2 checks was from OC 1 online 1 over phone, both i answered yes too and some charges on the card also which i knew about. I did phone OC Enquries yesterday to double check there wasn't a double up on the order after i got the card check from the bank. He said no but i just checked this morning and there is a Outstanding Order In our warehouse queue :confused: Internet Reference number are the same on the email as the Outstanding Order.
 
If you haven't had a despatch e-mail with a courier tracking number then it's likely your order hasn't left OcUK yet.

If you want to chase it up post in Customer Service.
 
just phoned Order Enquries, yep the order as not left warehouse, payment as been taken, i guess with the glitch of the web order which failed and that was a a large basket cost and then i placed the order over phone which was another large amount, then the phone call from the bank check a very stressfull order this as been. I love to know what did hold up the dispatch of the order. The order has been received was at 15:07 what is the cut off time for next day delivery?
 
well another update to the shopping experience at OC just got a email MSI GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card Backordered due to stock shortage, No ETA. I was told earlier this morning that all my basket was in stock. I just phoned up yet again to swap out the MSI card for the Gainward GeForce GTX 570. Well at least the price of the basket as gone down by £18, i was in 2 minds just to cancel the order.
 
I got the basket friday around 12:30 and started to build it around 5pm me and a friend, got the heatsink fans and so that was nightmare took us about 1hrs to just put the heatsink and fan together and install it onto the MB. Fast forward to the time we was going to start the system up, didnt plug any HD's in at first boot, just want to make sure system powered on ok, press button system boots ok into bios had a look. we shut down system added the seagate and dvd, power on the system didnt find any HD in bios at all Pioneer 24x Internal was there ok, so we power down change the sata ports around but sometimes it would find the HD it always found the Pioneer writer. Anyway around an hour or so later it was still active so we try to install win 7 on the seagate, it went through the install and when it got to the part where it says its about to restart system, it power down restarted, and when it tried to boot into the HD we got a system error on boot of HD. So i gave up on the seagate, and then tried a older 250gb HD WD i had, and that booted fine found the HD installed windows 7 and its still up and running now using atm. So what to do with the seagate, what i can see its a bad drive. rma ? or anything else i can try?
Oh and i have two other 2x2tb slaves in this system also, so i have 3 HD's in this system working fine, plus DVD writer.
 
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