Spec me & Hello!

[Mmm_Badger_Soup]

Hi good people of OcUK,

First post so go easy!

I am going to be building a desktop system in couple of months time. I have got a max budget of £2,500 to play with and I need EVERYTHING!!

This is obviously a lot of money to spend on a computer and some people will fundamentally disagree with me spending this amount but can we just avoid any money wasting/morality debates - I can afford it and want a high-end system that will last a few years (obviously things like the GPU etc. might get upgraded during that time).

Here is what I had in mind:

n.b. I know the GPU market is in silly season at the moment - if the 5870 (or X2 when it arrives) live up to the hype then I will swap the 295 out for one.

It'll mainly be used for gaming & video/image editing.

A critique from you learned folk would be most appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Mmm_Badger_Soup]

Thanks to those who posted constructive criticism - it is appreciated, thanks. To all the others who said "2.5k!!! Pah, that's too much, I could build one that would perform just as well for a lot less." Don't just say it, where are your specs? I'm open to suggestions.

 

[Mmm_Badger_Soup]

Here - Add the Behringer MS40's from Dolphimusic - £96, then a headset, £35 (I'd personally go with the Gamecom one)

Note: I added seperate optical drives to save £60, this won't be an issue as they'll be hidden by the purdy door on that sleak Lian Li. Also, I forgot to add graphics card, so add another £130 for 4890, or whatever.

I've got my heart set on the Corsair case - it's getting some great reviews and I really like the design.

Also I want at least 128GB's worth of SSD - not too fussed about RAID'ing, they're quick enough without it surely?

I will defo consider some of your other suggestions though, thanks.

 

[Mmm_Badger_Soup]

With a 1.5TB SATA 2 HDD I don't see much point getting such a large SSD personally.

I have read somewhere that you should not fill SSDs up completely, and that you should leave approx 20% free for best performance? I obviously want to put my OS and quite a few programs/games on this - I was thinking 128GB would be too small if anything?