Thoughts on this £1000 build?

agnes · 17 Aug 2011 at 14:00

stulid · 17 Aug 2011 at 14:01

Heatsink?

Apart from that it looks ok.

agnes · 17 Aug 2011 at 14:05

stulid said:
Heatsink?

Apart from that it looks ok.

Oooooooo, good point... Normally watercool but won't be in this machine till next year... Think I can get away with stock cooler until then? Might do a little bit of a OC on the cpu, maybe a further gig?

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stulid · 17 Aug 2011 at 14:06

You will be wanting the retail CPU then as it includes a stock heatsink, the oem doesn't.

The stock cooler is fine for 4ghz'ish

Jordan97 · 17 Aug 2011 at 14:07

It doesn't come with a stock cooler because it is OEM. You just get the chip and nothing else.

Also, change the PSU to this one:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-039-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1098

Same wattage, same price, but 80 plus gold.

Hyburnate · 17 Aug 2011 at 14:10

May I ask are you going to be holding this in your hands or have you already got a case?

agnes · 17 Aug 2011 at 14:10

stulid said:
You will be wanting the retail CPU then as it includes a stock heatsink, the oem doesn't.

The stock cooler is fine for 4ghz'ish

Cheers mate

Any suggestions then on something cheapish (within £50) to tide me over for 6 months?.

Jordan97 said:
It doesn't come with a stock cooler because it is OEM. You just get the chip and nothing else.

Also, change the PSU to this one:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-039-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1098

Same wattage, same price, but 80 plus gold.

Thanks as well, what is the main difference between a gold and bronze then other than the sticker and title?

Been a while (previous machine was a E6600 8800GTX sli rig lol) since I built a machine from scratch

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stulid · 17 Aug 2011 at 14:12

agnes said:
Cheers mate Any suggestions then on something cheapish (within £50) to tide me over for 6 months?.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-039-AR&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

That will tide you over, or the Retail CPU at £169.

agnes · 17 Aug 2011 at 14:12

Hyburnate said:
May I ask are you going to be holding this in your hands or have you already got a case?

Already got one chap

Either going in my old Lian Li PC-A10B or in a older Lian Li midtower I got lying around up in the loft.

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Jordan97 · 17 Aug 2011 at 14:12

The gold is more efficient. It will draw less power from the wall than an 80 plus bronze, but will still output 850W.

agnes · 17 Aug 2011 at 14:16

Jordan97 said:
The gold is more efficient. It will draw less power from the wall than an 80 plus bronze, but both will still output 850W.

Ah, cheers chap

Thanks for the help, updated

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olivier renault · 17 Aug 2011 at 14:29

You sure you want to go SLI? Personally, I would prefer a single 580. Unless you have triple displays.

Do you need 2TB right now? If not I'd get the second drive later.

Stock cooler good for a little overclocking, even though a stock 2500K is fast enough for anything.

I would also go for a gen3 Z68 motherboard.

olivier renault · 17 Aug 2011 at 14:33

Gainward GeForce GTX 580 "GOOD Edition" 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £371.99
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £169.98
Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 850W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CMPSU-850TXV2UK) £99.98
Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £82.99
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £47.99
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £41.99
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
Total : £996.91

Your build is under £930 if I read correctly.

agnes · 17 Aug 2011 at 14:37

olivier renault said:
You sure you want to go SLI? Personally, I would prefer a single 580. Unless you have triple displays.

I have read a bit into it and it seems the sli 560 TI's are performing very well for the pricing.

I had sli 8800 GTX's back in the day... Never had many issues, very few infact. Sure a driver issue here and there but never anything to make me doubt doing it again. So on that basis, I will stay with sli

Do you need 2TB right now? If not I'd get the second drive later.

I need the space chap, badly! I would even buy them for my current rig now, but will wait.

Already have over 4TB's of storage lol, so don't worry about the extra couple

Stock cooler good for a little overclocking, even though a stock 2500K is fast enough for anything.

I would also go for a gen3 Z68 motherboard.

Yea, cooling really isn't a worry right now, nor is overclocking, might have a little tinker, but until next year (after crimbo! bloody crimbo ) I will be watercooling the lot.

As for the mobo... Hmmmm, will have a look mate Cheers

agnes · 17 Aug 2011 at 14:47

olivier renault said:
Gainward GeForce GTX 580 "GOOD Edition" 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £371.99
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £169.98
Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 850W V2 High Performance '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CMPSU-850TXV2UK) £99.98
Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £82.99
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £47.99
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £41.99
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
Total : £996.91

Your build is under £930 if I read correctly.

The 560 ti sli's are almost the same price but perform better... £348...

Gone for that board, looks a lot better for £25 extra! good suggestion, thanks.

No need for 8GB in my eyes, going to be a gaming and net browsing machine...

As for all the other slight minor upgrades, going to skip, my current price including cpu air cooler is £1008, minus the £10 shipping, £998.

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stulid · 17 Aug 2011 at 14:48

So what does the spec look like now?

olivier renault · 17 Aug 2011 at 15:05

agnes said:
The 560 ti sli's are almost the same price but perform better... £348...

They sure do, but I haven't seen a game a 580 can't handle. If you game on single display, SLI is OTT and more complicated. Just my $0.02.

I like 8GB. I have these sticks, and I disabled virtual memory (and hiberation, that was taking 6GB of SSD prime real estate). That's useful on a SSD, especially a small one. Can always move the page fil on a hard drive though.

agnes · 17 Aug 2011 at 15:08

Not overly different other than the mobo change and the cooler added (I know, it's a zalman!!! always wanted one though and it's only going to be a temp thing

lol

olivier renault · 17 Aug 2011 at 15:08

These zalman, iirc, are quite noisy and spin like crazy. Double check.

agnes · 17 Aug 2011 at 15:10

olivier renault said:
They sure do, but I haven't seen a game a 580 can't handle. If you game on single display, SLI is OTT and more complicated. Just my $0.02.

I like 8GB. I have these sticks, and I disabled virtual memory (and hiberation, that was taking 6GB of SSD prime real estate). That's useful on a SSD, especially a small one. Can always move the page fil on a hard drive though.

I understand what you mean about the sli, and I am not going to disagree with you on the single display.

But I have always enjoyed having sli and the performance it gives.

As I said, it will save me a few pennies and then give me performance for my tasty 30"

olivier renault said:
These zalman, iirc, are quite noisy and spin like crazy. Double check.

Also, I know, mate had one years ago, was a noisy thing. But I use headphones

So noise really isn't an issue lol.

Also, going back to the memory discussion... Think the extra £30 on another 4GB is really worth it then?

Repeating that back sounds silly, £30 for 4GB DDR3 is a bloody bargain lol.