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What should i buy?

Marine-RX179 said:
Yea...should go socket 1155 and SandyBridge, since it is faster for gaming and a more future-proof socket, not like the deadend socket 1366.
Also, I think you are pushing it with the 750W PSU if you gonna be doing any overclocking on the six cores i7 980, as well as a pair of 6950 Toxic (especially if you can unlock them to 6970).

The money you save by going i5 2500K or i7 2600K instead of the i7 980X would be enough for your to get a pair of GTX570 2560MB instead of the pair of 6950 2GB Toxic, as well as upgrading the PSU to a more powerful unit.
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750w PSU?? im getting 1000w i was under the impression socket 1155 wasn’t as good as the 1366 well not so much the socket more the CPU's available for that socket?

So with a 2k spend what would you recommend?
 
It's cheaper than the i7 980 and the SB chips overclock so well, with a good cooler 5.0 Ghz is easily achievable. It's newer tech as said above and the new Z68 boards and will have a longer lifespan.

With £2k for just the tower I would go for something like this:

OcUK GeForce GTX 580 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with FREE Batman: Arkham City PC game** £399.98
(£333.32) £799.96
(£666.64)
Lian Li PC-P80N Full Tower Case - Black £249.98
(£208.32) £249.98
(£208.32)
Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £239.99
(£199.99) £239.99
(£199.99)
Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £159.98
(£133.32) £159.98
(£133.32)
OCZ ZX Series 1000W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £143.99
(£119.99) £143.99
(£119.99)
Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £139.99
(£116.66) £139.99
(£116.66)
Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD204UI) £127.99
(£106.66) £127.99
(£106.66)
Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM3) £54.98
(£45.82) £54.98
(£45.82)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £42.98
(£35.82) £85.96
(£71.64)
Samsung SH-S222AL/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
(£15.82) £18.98
(£15.82)

This comes to £2040 inc VAT and shipping.

That would be a BEAST and the best solution for all your needs within budget imo. The 3GB 580s will be the best for ur resolution when you get the other monitor. Price Vs Performance the 6950s are better so if you want to save around £360 now and get the third monitor now, do that.


EDIT: Although to be safe I'd prolly spend less on the case and get this PSU just to be sure:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-054-OC
 
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Marine-RX179 said:
Yea...should go socket 1155 and SandyBridge, since it is faster for gaming and a more future-proof socket, not like the deadend socket 1366.
Also, I think you are pushing it with the 750W PSU if you gonna be doing any overclocking on the six cores i7 980, as well as a pair of 6950 Toxic (especially if you can unlock them to 6970).

The money you save by going i5 2500K or i7 2600K instead of the i7 980X would be enough for your to get a pair of GTX570 2560MB instead of the pair of 6950 2GB Toxic, as well as upgrading the PSU to a more powerful unit.
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+3 - from a 1366 user.

I'd never buy an I7 980 over an Asrock Extreme 4 + I5 2500k.
 
Cheers for all your input guys really appreciate it, ok so you all have defiantly got me interested in sandy bridge and ur right no point going with old tech the only thing that concerns I'd I feel slightly limited with memory as the max I can get (without paying silly money) is 16 gb due to all mb having only 4 slots, also should I go 2600k or 2700k whats the difference?
 
Using software such as after effects just eats up ram for the sake of it also this machine will be used for a lot of rendering, fluid/particle effects an general cg work
 
I only just read your sig, do you really need to upgrade from an I7 920 @ 4.2 Ghz to Sandybridge?

LGA 2011 is just a few months from release now - Faster CPUs and 8 memory slots with quad channel ram and native 2400+ Mhz ram clock support, why wouldnt your current system last until then?
 
bhavv said:
I only just read your sig, do you really need to upgrade from an I7 920 @ 4.2 Ghz to Sandybridge?

LGA 2011 is just a few months from release now - Faster CPUs and 8 memory slots with quad channel ram and native 2400+ Mhz ram clock support, why wouldnt your current system last until then?
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I need the machine within the next month really, as its for my business

Do you know when this is due for realease? really dont want my machine to be out of date in weeks.
 
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