System Overhaul for new games (like Skyrim!)

[Bloodrayne]

Yep - currently have a 10" card; and that's snug, with the wires and HDD placement I don't think I could comfortably find another inch.

I think that I'll basically be replacing the entire contents of the tower (and the tower) except for the PSU...

 

[mp260767]

Yep - currently have a 10" card; and that's snug, with the wires and HDD placement I don't think I could comfortably find another inch.

fair enough, nothing worse than having a cramped case.

 

[Bloodrayne]

Just to say that I went for King Damager's suggestion and it's been great so far - ages since I last did a PC build so pleasantly surprised that it seems to have got easier!

Only slight oversight on my part was that I overlooked the need for a Wireless connection; picked up a Wireless-N Dual Band USB for the interim; which seems to work okay.

Played Witcher 2 on high settings last night - suitably impressed!

Also, Windows 7 is much nicer than Vista, and has made the transition from XP pain-free!

Thanks to all for your recommendations and thoughts

 

[danbt]

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The PSU should just about cope with SLI in future for the 560's if it starts to struggle with games

SSD in there as well - a good one, You'll struggle to fit a 128GB into a £800 budget.

If you need Windows, well either stretch the budget slightly or I'd drop out the SSD for it, and you could pick it up in future when the money is available

Im liking this. Pretty close to the build I want, but with a GTX 570

 

[mp260767]

Just to say that I went for King Damager's suggestion and it's been great so far - ages since I last did a PC build so pleasantly surprised that it seems to have got easier!

good to see your enjoying it .

 

[Xelene]

XP X64 was the absolute dogs danglies too, was running it for ages before I moved to win7 and it was VERY stable.

That's cause it had more in common with Server 2003 than XP.

 

[King Damager]

Just to say that I went for King Damager's suggestion and it's been great so far - ages since I last did a PC build so pleasantly surprised that it seems to have got easier!

Only slight oversight on my part was that I overlooked the need for a Wireless connection; picked up a Wireless-N Dual Band USB for the interim; which seems to work okay.

Played Witcher 2 on high settings last night - suitably impressed!

Also, Windows 7 is much nicer than Vista, and has made the transition from XP pain-free!

Thanks to all for your recommendations and thoughts

Wow, someone's actually using a build I recommended!

Glad it's doing everything you wanted it to though! Surprised about the wireless connection though, would think the motherboard would have a wireless chip built in. May not though, so that may have been my oversight...

Im liking this. Pretty close to the build I want, but with a GTX 570

Yeah, it's still a solid build. Just swap the 560 out for this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-129-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1010

Also, if you were looking at the possibility of SLI in future, then I'd get the OCZ 850W PSU

kd