This look good?

Speedz · 25 Oct 2011 at 19:34

Hey everyone I'm looking to get a new pc for xmas. How does this look? Anything missing or should be included?

MSI GeForce GTX 580 OC Twin FrozR II 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with FREE Batman: Arkham City PC game**

Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge)

Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred (V3 with USB3.0) Ultimate Gaming Case

Asrock Z68 PRO3 Intel Z68

Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 750W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply

Seagate Barracuda 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache

Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit

Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler

Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter

Arctic Cooling MX-4 Thermal Compound (4g)

Comes to a total of £1,018 excl. VAT and £1,239 incl. VAT.

95thrifles · 25 Oct 2011 at 19:59

Hi and welcome
Overall yes, though a few possible tweaks could be
- if it's just for gaming save a bit of money and get a 2500k as its just as good
- you could maybe use this money to get the extreme4 gen3 mobo
- a modular psu such as the antec true power would be good

mickyflinn · 25 Oct 2011 at 20:05

Have you considered an ssd ?

Speedz · 25 Oct 2011 at 22:27

Um i was originally thinking of an i5 but I am going to use it for video editing and rendering at least two or three times a week so I decided for the i7. (As well as gaming)
Um I'm not much of a "techie" so what advantage would there be to having a modular psu over the one i picked?
Yes I have considered an SSD but obviously money is the limiting factor. Might be able to get a 60-ish gb one and put the OS on there. How much space would the OS take up on 64gb SSD? Just so I can get an idea of what other programs I could put on there.
Thanks for the help as well guys

MonsterMoshi · 25 Oct 2011 at 23:20

I have a 60gb ocz agility 3 which is a great ssd. Dead cheap now!
I have window 7 professional and if you allow 20-25gb of that for windows with the main files from first install and other files that somehow always end up there after a few months then you'll be left with 30 ish for your most used programs.
The main ones on mine are, iTunes, Steam and photoshop. Then i have 200gb partion of a 500gb drive allocated to other programs and steam games. This is massively useful as you can restore your system without worrying about the hassle of reinstalling all your programs and losing program config and data

azibux1 · 25 Oct 2011 at 23:31

MonsterMoshi said:
Then i have 200gb partion of a 500gb drive allocated to other programs and steam games. This is massively useful as you can restore your system without worrying about the hassle of reinstalling all your programs and losing program config and data

I am in the process of building a PC and would like to know how you do that.

Is it literally just make a partition and install all your programs in there? How come that doesn't get affected by a system restore? And if you DO want to restore that section is it still possible?

Thanks

Speedz · 25 Oct 2011 at 23:39

Thanks man

Think I will might have to invest into one now

95thrifles · 26 Oct 2011 at 06:32

azibux1 said:
I am in the process of building a PC and would like to know how you do that.

Is it literally just make a partition and install all your programs in there? How come that doesn't get affected by a system restore? And if you DO want to restore that section is it still possible?

Thanks

Because windows is separate, on the SSD so if you do a system restore it only effects that drive, not the other(s) with everything else
You would need to set up back ups rather than being able to do the restore which is a windows feature really

Speedz · 26 Oct 2011 at 20:41

Umm another quick question is all of this compatible and will it all fit in the case i have selected?

chris_holmes · 26 Oct 2011 at 20:48

Yes and Yes that case is huge

Speedz · 26 Oct 2011 at 22:35

Ok thanks a lot

Speedz · 26 Oct 2011 at 22:37

Is there much difference between the:

Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68

and the

Asrock Z68 PRO3 Intel Z68

azibux1 · 26 Oct 2011 at 23:04

95thrifles said:
Because windows is separate, on the SSD so if you do a system restore it only effects that drive, not the other(s) with everything else
You would need to set up back ups rather than being able to do the restore which is a windows feature really

Thanks for explaining it

Makes sense now

Michaeljcox24 · 26 Oct 2011 at 23:06

I would change Antec 1200 for Haf-X if you can get one for same price.

Speedz · 30 Oct 2011 at 16:50

um just been looking around for different possibilities for gfx cards. i could get 2x gtx560ti's for the same money as the gtx 580. Which one should i go for because i've seen reviews that 2 560ti's in sli has a better performance that the 580 alone. but i've also heard that some games have trouble with sli rigs. What do you guys think?

Tommyzz · 30 Oct 2011 at 17:19

Speedz said:
um just been looking around for different possibilities for gfx cards. i could get 2x gtx560ti's for the same money as the gtx 580. Which one should i go for because i've seen reviews that 2 560ti's in sli has a better performance that the 580 alone. but i've also heard that some games have trouble with sli rigs. What do you guys think?

580, will consistently perform over all games whereas SLI/Crossfire differs from game to game.