What do you think of this build ?

BlueLipBill

BlueLipBill

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recently just been my birthday and ive got some money to buy a new pc. my budget is around 700 pounds. heres what ive got but i would like to see your view on the components ive picked and to let me know if i should change anything.

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ATI Radeon HD 6950 IceQ X PLUS Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with Battlefield 3, Dirt 3 & Deus Ex PC Games**

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM

Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard

Antec TruePower New Modular 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply

Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM

Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black

Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit

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You will need to order before the morning for that HDD price, also you do have a heatsink for the CPU as it doesn't come with one. The retail version does though and also has a 3year warranty.
 
stulid said:
You will need to order before the morning for that HDD price, also you do have a heatsink for the CPU as it doesn't come with one. The retail version does though and also has a 3year warranty.
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god dam HDD's so exspensive at the moment, and cheers for spotting that completely missed out.
 
One more thing, did you ever want to go Crossfire in the future?

that motherboard isnt ideal as it runs the top slot at 16X and the second slot gets 4X bandwidth, better (more expensive boards) do it at an equal 8X/8X. If a single GFX card is all that interest you then ignore.
 
mmm i was considering crossfire, but then i just went for a single quite exspensive graphics card as id thought it would do the job and play the majority of the games i want to play on highish settings.
 
if you've not ordered yet you better get a move on as onlly 3 hdds left.

as for the xfire situation you don't need to buy 2x cards now, as long as you've get a compatible mb & psu now you can get a 2nd 6950 in the future for cheap.
 
fowler002 said:
if you've not ordered yet you better get a move on as onlly 3 hdds left.

as for the xfire situation you don't need to buy 2x cards now, as long as you've get a compatible mb & psu now you can get a 2nd 6950 in the future for cheap.
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arrr well im not ordering it till friday morning im guessing ill just have to chip in a go for a more exspensive hdd, yh im going to stick with the one 6950 if i was going to add another one it would be till a while in the future.
 
BlueLipBill said:
Yh going to take my old drive out my old pc. but going to invest in a blu-ray drive in the near future.
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Check to make sure it's a sata one not IDE.
And when you get a blu-ray drive, make sure it's a retail version so you get the software with it as there are no freeware versions.

OH and if you need a decent cooler, these are pretty good for up to around 4.5 - 4.6GHz.

Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler
 
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Davefran said:
Check to make sure it's a sata one not IDE.
And when you get a blu-ray drive, make sure it's a retail version so you get the software with it as there are no freeware versions.

OH and if you need a decent cooler, these are pretty good for up to around 4.5 - 4.6GHz.

Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler
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yh its a sata one, and ok will do. cheers for the help, its my first build so much appreciated.
 
Do the 3.5" versions of the WD Caviar Blue suffer from the same head parking problem that the 2.5" laptop version suffer from?
 
With todays HD on offer + Cooler


YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS ATI Radeon HD 6950 IceQ X PLUS Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with Battlefield 3, Dirt 3 & Deus Ex PC Games** £215.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £155.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £79.98
1 x Antec TruePower New Modular 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £69.98
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £49.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) **BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL DEAL** £34.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
Total : £732.90 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
cheers for that looking nice, ive been looking for a HDD everywhere at a suitable price. im ordering my system tomorrow morning, i may just get everything you posted. will that card and cpu be able to run games like bf3,mw3 skyrim etc on high/ultra settings smoothly?
 
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