Ultima 9300i Prism project
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Firstly let us say hello to one and all, our first post on the OCUK forums but me and my eldest son have been reading around on here for some time.
I used to be, many years ago (cough cough) a PC gamer and can remember when Dual ISDN was first offered by BT and paying £120 a month for the service and play Kingpin multi player and many others, ooh how things have changed over the years. Both myself and eldest son use A8 laptops but have now decided to invest in a dedicated system which will have to integrate into our home cinema which I will come on to shortly, and be able to easily play through the likes of Battlefield 3, Far Cry 3, ect ect at max settings and not have to really worry about upgrading for around 3 years or so.
So we have set a firm max budget of £2k delivered with a 2 day fast track system build ready to ship 2 days.
Using the bundle of Ultima 9300i Prisim Intel Core i7 3820 3.6GHz @ 4.20GHz with the following options the all in price come in at £1,863.90 inc VAT
BitFenix Colossus Blue LED Big Towered Window Case - White
Intel 330 Series 180GB SSD
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
Microsoft Office starter edition
Asus Geforce GTX 690 4096MB GDDR5
A few questions we have.
Firstly is this as a guide a good choice ?
Can we change the optical drive to a Blu-Ray reader, DVD writer
Would the Corsair TX650w PSU need to be uped a little ? 850w ?
We have a BT Home Hub 3 so would the Asus PCE-N53 300Mbs Dual Band Wireless N600 PCI-E adapter be the best choice ? The reason for this is currently there is no capacity for ethernet as all home plugs are used and I really do not want a cable laying on the floor to the rear of this unit so I have late January somebody coming in to trunk into the wall some extra cableing for us.
Now I am seriously fussy about quality of sound and have Kef floorstanders and a BK Monolith plus version subwoofer. We also want the ability to use on the odd occasion our headphones which do really need a headphone amp. Any ideas recommendations on this ?
Set up, well this will be connected in conjunction with a 50" Panasonic 3D TX-P VT30B THX reference Plasma and an THX certified Onkyo TX-NR 1008 AV receiver. can I assume the best route would be HDMI to the screen for visual from the GTX 690 and route from the sound card to the AV amp. I can audio return via HDMI back to the Onkyo if needed but really do not want to loose any sound quality.
Finally, maybe a silly question, are all original boxes / discs / manuals ect for components sent with the unit once built ?
I know this is a lot to cover but all advice welcome as we intend to order with in the next seven days and needs to fall in the 2K budget as mentioned earlier.
We also both use Logitech Wirless combo MK520 Mouse and Keyboard.
Many thanks in advance.
Alan / Gixer1970
Scroll down for final build pictures
Firstly let us say hello to one and all, our first post on the OCUK forums but me and my eldest son have been reading around on here for some time.
I used to be, many years ago (cough cough) a PC gamer and can remember when Dual ISDN was first offered by BT and paying £120 a month for the service and play Kingpin multi player and many others, ooh how things have changed over the years. Both myself and eldest son use A8 laptops but have now decided to invest in a dedicated system which will have to integrate into our home cinema which I will come on to shortly, and be able to easily play through the likes of Battlefield 3, Far Cry 3, ect ect at max settings and not have to really worry about upgrading for around 3 years or so.
So we have set a firm max budget of £2k delivered with a 2 day fast track system build ready to ship 2 days.
Using the bundle of Ultima 9300i Prisim Intel Core i7 3820 3.6GHz @ 4.20GHz with the following options the all in price come in at £1,863.90 inc VAT
BitFenix Colossus Blue LED Big Towered Window Case - White
Intel 330 Series 180GB SSD
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
Microsoft Office starter edition
Asus Geforce GTX 690 4096MB GDDR5
A few questions we have.
Firstly is this as a guide a good choice ?
Can we change the optical drive to a Blu-Ray reader, DVD writer
Would the Corsair TX650w PSU need to be uped a little ? 850w ?
We have a BT Home Hub 3 so would the Asus PCE-N53 300Mbs Dual Band Wireless N600 PCI-E adapter be the best choice ? The reason for this is currently there is no capacity for ethernet as all home plugs are used and I really do not want a cable laying on the floor to the rear of this unit so I have late January somebody coming in to trunk into the wall some extra cableing for us.
Now I am seriously fussy about quality of sound and have Kef floorstanders and a BK Monolith plus version subwoofer. We also want the ability to use on the odd occasion our headphones which do really need a headphone amp. Any ideas recommendations on this ?
Set up, well this will be connected in conjunction with a 50" Panasonic 3D TX-P VT30B THX reference Plasma and an THX certified Onkyo TX-NR 1008 AV receiver. can I assume the best route would be HDMI to the screen for visual from the GTX 690 and route from the sound card to the AV amp. I can audio return via HDMI back to the Onkyo if needed but really do not want to loose any sound quality.
Finally, maybe a silly question, are all original boxes / discs / manuals ect for components sent with the unit once built ?
I know this is a lot to cover but all advice welcome as we intend to order with in the next seven days and needs to fall in the 2K budget as mentioned earlier.
We also both use Logitech Wirless combo MK520 Mouse and Keyboard.
Many thanks in advance.
Alan / Gixer1970
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As promised, here are some pics for those that were interested in the final out come.
