Spec me PC £1600

Schoieuk

Schoieuk

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Hi guys spec me your best £1,600 PC.

I have a prety good idea what ima gonna get but let me see what u guys come up with.

Must have i7 Sandybridge,

Must include a Screen.

Must have, SSD 120gb,

Must have atleast 8gb ram,

Must have a 1tb 6/gbs drive,

Not interested in full watercooling but must have a CPU watercooling kit (120mm radiator (NOT double)).

Must have Corsair Graphite 600T Midi Tower Case - Limited Edition White

Doesnt need an OS i got Win 7 Serial.


Pc Uses - Heavy gaming.

Other than that its down to you to chose and do not tell me to wait for somethign to come out gonna buy monday.

Thanks a lot.
 
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Don't bother, wait 3-4 weeks and see what Sandybride-E brings if you want something with processing power and lots of RAM.


A few important questions though are,

Uses of the PC? gaming at all?

Is it just a tower unit? need an OS? etc
 
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No need for an OS got win7 Serial key to use up and its for heavy gaming, BF3 - SWTOR and all future games this, has got to last 5 years or untill it cant handle the current games at the time.
 
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OTT such as the 16GB of RAM but o well.
 
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Nice build stulid although i wouldnt go for the blue ray player i got no need for it, and also the EK Watercooler is nice but would rather use the pre made ones. also i got a Crucial Real SSD and prefer the OCZ one or corsair SSD.

ITs a PC that isnt replacing my one in my Sig, Please ignore :p

Re- make the build there stulid replacing those what would you spend the difference on? was v. similar to my current mock-build
 
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i'll put the usual reminders up:

i5 2500k vs i7 2600k: no difference in gaming. there are about two games on the market that make use of hyperthreading. complete waste of money for a gaming rig imo

SATA II vs SATA III mechanical HDDs: no difference in performance. mechanical HDDs cant saturate SATA II lines, so giving it a bigger line wont make it go any faster

crucial M4 is the best SSD out there for the price. if you ignore the OCZ revodrives its the fastest in the real world
 
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i'll put the usual reminders up:

i5 2500k vs i7 2600k: no difference in gaming. there are about two games on the market that make use of hyperthreading. complete waste of money for a gaming rig imo

SATA II vs SATA III mechanical HDDs: no difference in performance. mechanical HDDs cant saturate SATA II lines, so giving it a bigger line wont make it go any faster

crucial M4 is the best SSD out there for the price. if you ignore the OCZ revodrives its the fastest in the real world
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How is the crucial the fastest explain?
 
To be honest my first suggestion of just waiting 3-4 weeks for SB-E is the best thing to do.

But for your viewing pleasure,
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I have just put a review up of the Corsair SSD, fastest thing i've had yet:)
 
why the GTX 580 ? Is the increase of roughly 7-9 fps in games over the 6970 worth it for an exta £150 or have i been looking at the wrong comparisons?
 
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why the GTX 580 ? Is the increase of roughly 7-9 fps in games over the 6970 worth it for an exta £150 or have i been looking at the wrong comparisons?
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GTX580>6970;)

You mentioned BF3, Nvidia cards are fastest, even things like the GTX570 with its 1.28GB of Vram are looking a better option than a 6950.
 
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GTX580>6970;)

You mentioned BF3, Nvidia cards are fastest, even things like the GTX570 with its 1.28GB of Vram are looking a better option than a 6950.
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Explain, saying 'it's better' doesnt help me beleive it.

And If you dont mind me asking, what is Sandybridge- E likely to bring?

Also realy sorry to mention but a screen neeeds to be added into the £1600 limit can u suggest me a good one?
 
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To be honest my first suggestion of just waiting 3-4 weeks for SB-E is the best thing to do.
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agreed. however, if you had to buy now this is probably what i'd do. the only thing i'm not so happy about is the motherboard which i cut back on to keep it (almost) under budget.

YOUR BASKET
2 x MSI GeForce GTX 580 OC Twin FrozR II 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with FREE Batman: Arkham City PC game** £359.99 (£719.98)
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £167.99
1 x Corsair Graphite 600T Midi Tower Case - Limited Edition White £139.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £139.99
1 x Lepa G-Series 900W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply - with FREE LEPA Hard Drive Enclosure £129.98
1 x MSI Z68A-G45-G3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £114.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DL002) £92.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £42.98
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler (Socket Intel LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AMD AM2 / AM3 / AM2+ / AM3+) £42.98
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM (Version B - with new Firmware) £16.99
Total: £1,608.86 (includes shipping: FREE).


i know it doesnt have the i7 2600k but personally i feel the money could be better spent elsewhere if your mostly gaming

also, i was torn between the gainward GTX 580s and the twin frozr IIs, but went with the twin frozrs in the end

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while i was typing this you asked for a screen. change the motherboard to the one stulid chose, remove one of the GTX 580s and put ~£280 towards a screen
(and an i7 2600k if you are determined to have one)
 
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Sandybridge-E brings upto hex core cpu's with hyperthreading, Quad channel RAM, proper 16X bandwidth for the PCI-E slots when using multiple cards (but the difference between 8X/8X vs 16X/16X isnt much) theres a huge chunk more L3 cache on some of the cpu's,
http://www.guru3d.com/article/sandy-bridge-e-and-x79-preview/2

The GTX580 performance is assured in BF3 and wiyth 3GB of Vram it will monster huge resolutions,
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/10/25/battlefield_3_preview_performance
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-3-graphics-performance,3063.html
 
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Ok fair point thanks for the info Stulid.

Could you find me a monster screen and build for the 1600.

need max graphics detail and not bothered about cooling.

Remember the current stuff i MUST HAVE =D

Nice builds tho
 
1600 is a lot of money but

£500 on a monitor Choose this first
£400 on a GTX580 Next most important
£350 I5-2500k motherboard and Ram
£200 SSD and mechanical drive
£140 for your pig ugly case
£50 for watercooling cpu cooler

and you have run out of budget...

So find a monitor you like and suit your budget from there.
As a gamer your screen and graphics card are no 1.
 
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