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My budget is £700 - I don't need a case and I have a good few hard drives.
I'll primarily be playing Empire: Total War, maybe a bit of video editing.
http://forums.hexus.net/members/m0nk...14-i7-deal.jpg
Saw this deal on a Scan email. What are your thoughts?
Seems ok to me - and if I add a 4890 or some such, and a SSD to boot from; I think it could be a decent system for £650-700.
Please let me know your thoughts. :)
Heh. Apart from my cooler (which isn't quite as good as the Megahelens) that is exactly my system. See on the left.
I'm waiting for a little price drop on SSD's and 5870s...
Think the deal's decent value?Quote:
Originally Posted by Phage
I do. Prices on those items have been quite stable for some months now, and that's what I paid. However, I would be looking at getting NightKhaos to give an opinion on the RAM (although Corsair have a good rep I'm thinking of timing issues), and that mainboard is not one I'm familiar with. I would have chosen either the P6T, the UD5, or the MSI X58 Pro.
I assume you are going to OC the chip ? Hence the Megahelens ? Nightkhaos would be your man there too.
Yes: With a little help from Nightkhaos I'll be OCing the chip.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phage
My wife's going to kill me.
:O_o1:Oh and 4890 at £130; or 5770 at £110?:juggle:
5770, it's not that much further behind and it's a lot cooler and quieter so more headroom. Room to improve with drivers, and DX11, too.
Tough one that. The 4890 has more grunt, but chews a few more watts and is therefore hotter and lacks DX11. But there's no games for that yet anyway...If it was me (I think I play more games than you) I'd put my old GPU back in and order a 5870 in the new year.
Did a bit of research - DFI mainboards are rated highly. In fact I think Clunk may have one.
Are we not allowed to link to reviews now ? When did that change ?
Looks like a good deal. And yes, your wife will kill you. I spent weeks concocting the aruments around why I needed Deep Thought in my study.
Eh? Did it not let you submit the post or something?Quote:
Originally Posted by Phage
No I posted with a link to *********** who had a review, and it asterisked out the *********** name, breaking the link. As the OCUK forums do.
Is *********** a competitor to Scan ? I wouldn't have thought so. A competitor to Hexus, but not Scan.
As you can see.
:O_o1::O_o1:Quote:
Originally Posted by Phage
blimey - careful what you say?!
I know Clunk's site, I have a mooch round there if you're not allowed to link
overclockers
ebuyer
novatech
(just testing!)
Weird I know. Still Google is your friend.
2x7800 GTX in SLi may actually see a fair bit of improvement from upgrading teh CPUQuote:
Originally Posted by Phage
True. Tough choice. A SLI set-up says gamer to me, so I'd stretch the budget on the GPU as far as I could.
My golden rule of builds has always to buy the biggest/baddest GPU you can afford, as it dates the fastest of any component. In your case can you go 5850 at around £200 ?
Guess I'm a gamer, but I tend to play one game for ages, rather than race through a load. Haven't bought a game on release day since HL2Quote:
Originally Posted by Phage
It'd sort of blow my budget a bit - but what the hey, I like your logic! It's certainly what I did before 7800gtx was a lot of wonga back then and I added another a couple of years after.
From looking about I'd have to wait 'til after xmas for a 5850 as availability is zero, so may just end putting the 78s back in
Makes more sense. Run them a little longer whilst saving up the extra cash. Hopefully prices will fall and availability will improve in the new year.
At the mo the proposed system is:
Motherboard: DFI DK x58 T3eH6
CPU: i7 920
RAM: 6GB (3x2GB) CorsairXMS3, PC3-12800 (1600)
Prolimatech Megahalems cooler
Bundle above = £471
GPU: ATI 5850 in the new year £200... keeping 2x7800GTX until 5850 available....
New HD: can someone recommend me a SSD as a boot and apps drive?
So about £670 +SSD....
let me know what you think
The SSD I'll be going for is the intel MLC 80 GB,
has anyone got any experience of this?
No experience, but you won't get a better drive than those Intels.Quote:
Originally Posted by M0nkeyb0Y
Hey Monkey.
Got your PM regarding this build, and yes that RAM's good. 1600MHz CAS 8, what I recommend for most people. Corsair do excellect RAM, however some of it can be a bit expensive. The XMS series tends to be the best value.
Everything else seems to be covered. Good luck with the build. :)
Thanks mate - will check funds and get it ordered...Quote:
Originally Posted by nightkhaos
Although reluctant to until 5850s come into stock somewhere - any ideas anyone???
Personally I'd hold off on the graphics until eairly next year (aka a month or two) as 1 stocks on the ati cards should be in and 2 the new nvidia series will be out which might well shake up the ati prices.
PS that does look like a nice bundel if you want to go for i7 :)