sortedford Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Graphics - Gigabyte ATI Radeon 6850 820MHz 1GB PCI-E HDMI OC Windforce 2x - dabs.com 129.99Processor - i5 2500k 3.3 ghz - amazon £164/ dabs 169.99Motherboard - z68x-ud3p - amazon £114.99/ dabs 114.99 – do as bundle and save £10!!!!!!ssd hdd - OCZ Technology 60GB Vertex Plus Series SATA 3Gbs - amazon £74.98/dabs 59.98Psu - OCZ Technology PSU, ModXStream Pro, 700W- amazon £69.80 (not amazon supplied) /dabs £62.98 ram - corsair vengance 16gb (4x4) - amazon £70.50/ dabs 71.98Case - Cooler Master Elite 335 Mid Tower ATX PC Case - Black amazon 32.48 Ill stick another few TB of discs in there too, but this is what i'm looking at for the main system.Is there a decent alternative thats cheaper for the PSU? All in all at the moment its around the £660 mark, which i dnt think is bad value?Opinions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Can't really comment on the spec unless you detail your requirements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sortedford Posted December 2, 2011 Author Share Posted December 2, 2011 Just something half decent really, around the £650 mark.I will play occasional games, I may use it to feed the projector so the ability to play HD contentPhotoshop & Premier useage, some AE useage, DW, Fireworks etc... Something that wont be too bad 4 years down the line. (my one I use the most in the house is by far the oldest one, and its 8 years old, so this is to replace that). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Just something half decent really, around the £650 mark. It meets this. It's half decent and is around £650. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottg17 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Spec Looks good, the 2500k will OC to 4.0ghz and run like that all day, My mates system is pretty much identical expect the GFX card, he's running a 6950.RAM might be a wee bit overkill for what your going to be running, id say 8gb would do for the above mentioned You may find the case a bit naff in terms of cable management if you like your cables neat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markbsi Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Seems good for the price, i run the i7 2600k (@4.6) after upgrading from core 2 quad (@3.6) and the difference in performance in games is staggering. On the graphics card front i would go for Nvidia like a GTX 560ti as ATI cannot make a driver for toffee. they continually have problems with certains games/features and rarely get resolved. They bring an update which makes things worse most of the time. I had the HD4890 and although the card was good on some games it was terrible on others or wouldn't play them at all. I use a gtx 480 now and never have problems, the 4 lads i go online with all ahve nvidia, 2 changed from ATI for the same reason as me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sortedford Posted December 2, 2011 Author Share Posted December 2, 2011 Thanks, I will take those points into consideration Whats about PSU's? I think from what I have read 700W is what would be a good supply, but are there any other makes that would suit my needs that are a bit cheaper than what I have selected without moving to a crap one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markbsi Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 The only thing to find on the PSU is the amps it supplys versus the amount needed. I have a coolermaster gx750w, it supplies 60amps from a single 12v rail, my gpu takes 48a from that and leaves 12 for my system. The gtx560ti/ati radeon you posted above will probably be around 30amps so if you are only using 1 GPU the gx550w or different make but with 40amps or higher will do. Scottg17 is right tho 16gb is overkill i only have 8gb and i have been playing Battlefield 3 on max settings at 1360x768 and it plays at 90fps and barely uses 2gb of memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithyandco Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 You've missed an optical drive... but yeah, it'll do the job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sortedford Posted December 2, 2011 Author Share Posted December 2, 2011 I wasnt going to have an optical drive on this one,, but then there wad a BD writer for what I felt was a good price, so seemed silly not to.I went for this in the end: ATI Radeon 6850 820MHz 1GB PCI-E HDMI OC Windforce 2x £121.65 1 £121.65 60GB Vertex Plus Series SATA 3Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Drive £56.13 1 £56.13 PSU, ModXStream Pro, 700W - UK £58.94 1 £58.94 8GB (2x4GB) Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz CL9 XMP £31.81 1 £31.81 LG BH10LS30.AUAR10B 10x BDRW Lightscribe Internal $ £58.02 1 £58.02 Gigabyte Z68X-UD3P + i5 GA-Z68X-UD63P-B3 S1155 Intel Z68 Express DDR3 ATX £99.78 1 £99.78 Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz S1155 6MB £157.56 1 £157.56 Image(s) for illustrative purposes only voucher discount £40.03 Delivery charges £0.00 Total (inc VAT) I need to get the case, then a few TB's and finally a multi touch monitor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottg17 Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 (edited) The only thing to find on the PSU is the amps it supplys versus the amount needed. I have a coolermaster gx750w, it supplies 60amps from a single 12v rail, my gpu takes 48a from that and leaves 12 for my system. The gtx560ti/ati radeon you posted above will probably be around 30amps so if you are only using 1 GPU the gx550w or different make but with 40amps or higher will do. Scottg17 is right tho 16gb is overkill i only have 8gb and i have been playing Battlefield 3 on max settings at 1360x768 and it plays at 90fps and barely uses 2gb of memory. Ive only got 4 and its been fine so far for BF3, another 4 is for sure on my list Edited December 3, 2011 by scottg17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 I assume youre running 64bit version of windows if youre looking to use that much memory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sortedford Posted December 5, 2011 Author Share Posted December 5, 2011 I plan to yeh BF3 for free with the processor too I think I'm going to go for this case now: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NZXT-Source-210-...=item19ca9818c2 with a few extra fans and dust filters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sortedford Posted December 14, 2011 Author Share Posted December 14, 2011 http://www.evo-host.co.uk/getimg/28472.png Not bad results, although a bit of a dissapointment with the SSD. I opted for a Dell multitouch monitor too.Reduced from £250 to £200, and then an £80 trade in. So £120 for a 21.5inch multi touch with 3 years warrenty - can't be bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottg17 Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Overall very good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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