Would u do it better for £2000ish ?

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Yea go for the 920, and don't buy vista, preorder windows 7 :)... well thats what most people would recommend on here.
The cooler? you sure you would go for a V8... how about a Prolimatech Megahalems or a Noctua ;)

Oh i would like someone to answer my question...
Im confused about the RAM, looking to build a rig similar to this but i was wondering what is better between these *2*
Corsair Dominator GT 1866 - 7-8-7-20... or the 2000MHZ version which has C8 timings?
 
If I had £2000 to splash out on a PC/upgrade, I would go for this...

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But tbh you would be better off with the 920 D0 and just overclocking it instead... but if you have £2000 to burn, the above spec would be pretty decent...

Though if you went for the 920 you could add a decent monitor to that spec as well...

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Forgot to add a 120mm fan for the HSF!!!
 
Save on a 920 and go for Solid State Hard Drive or no need ? its just to play WoW at the moment but like to be future proof for at least 6 months
 
zuludawn said:
Save on a 920 and go for Solid State Hard Drive or no need ? its just to play WoW at the moment but like to be future proof for at least 6 months
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LoL, a £2000 rig "just to play Wow"!!!!

The spec I posted above has 1 x 64GB SSD for your boot drive, and 2 x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F1's for a RAID0 config...
 
Ok be honest with me im running a Quad Q67OO with 2 gig RAM on XP Pro with a
ATI Radeon HD 4890 1024MB. Which i was going to give my daughter. How much faster in real terms will the above make MASSIVE AMOUNTS or not????
 
Personally if I was looking at building an uber rig it's worth putting in the legwork to get a dedicated hardware raid controller in the mix and throw some SSD's at it. Drive access time/transfer speed is one of the area's you'll really notice the money well spent.

I've gone the cheap route at the moment and grabbed a perc 5i raid controller (generally a few floating around the bay for the £80 mark, with cables and BBU around £120). With 3 SSD's that can shift decent volumes you'd likely get the 450MB/sec max read from the raid card (even in raid 5) without much effort. Definitely consider hardware raid tho, the difference even with "slow" drives like the 4 blues I got at the moment is pretty decent/
 
zuludawn said:
Save on a 920 and go for Solid State Hard Drive or no need ? its just to play WoW at the moment but like to be future proof for at least 6 months
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:eek: £2000 to play WoW, that's like using a flamethrower to cook toast.

Seriously spend £400-£500 on a decent AMD based system and spend the other grand and a half on other things. You could even get two, one for your daughter lol

Or if you must £1000 will get you a nice i7 920 system.
 
Mercutio said:
Personally if I was looking at building an uber rig it's worth putting in the legwork to get a dedicated hardware raid controller in the mix and throw some SSD's at it. Drive access time/transfer speed is one of the area's you'll really notice the money well spent.

I've gone the cheap route at the moment and grabbed a perc 5i raid controller (generally a few floating around the bay for the £80 mark, with cables and BBU around £120). With 3 SSD's that can shift decent volumes you'd likely get the 450MB/sec max read from the raid card (even in raid 5) without much effort. Definitely consider hardware raid tho, the difference even with "slow" drives like the 4 blues I got at the moment is pretty decent/
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Apart from bench marks you won't gain a huge amount having raid SSD's, may as well just get the fastest 128Gb like the falcon, 260Mb read on its own.

To the op, you won't gain a massive amount tbh, I went from a 3.8Ghz Q6600 to a 4Ghz i7 920, sure the i7 does everything I need but guess what, so did the Q6600. of course if it's epeen your after then go for it. Bit over kill for wow though.
 
950 is a waste of time. just overclock the 920
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However I would wait for the new intel ssd they should be out in the next day or two.
Pre-order windows7 for £45

And no it won't make a huge difference.

If you want just upgrade the ram, fit an ssd and if you really want a 2nd gfx card.
 
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This may be the noob in me but if you can overclock a 920 to 4Ghz could you not overclock a 950 to almost 5 as its core speed is higher? Or is that not the case?

*I'm a overclocking noob*
 
Jonny Wright said:
This may be the noob in me but if you can overclock a 920 to 4Ghz could you not overclock a 950 to almost 5 as its core speed is higher? Or is that not the case?

*I'm a overclocking noob*
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Higher could be possible provided the right cooling but under top end air I doubt you would get a lot more, 200Mhz or so wouldn't justify more than double the price that's for sure.
 
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