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[richieuk]

See anything wrong with my build? Leave a message with an idea on how to fix it before I order it at 12am. The budget isn't the tightest, but I'd like to be a bit stingy with my money, so only pay money where I need to.

Also, feel free to suggest cheaper alternatives from Scan

[jimborae]

Personally I'd go with an Antec True Blue psu over an XFX one & are Z68 chipsets better than P67 ones? I didn't think there was too much in it, finally depending on what your're using the PC for you could save some more money but get nearly equal performance by getting 2500K & overclocking it rather than a 2600k.

See what others say as I've not really been following hardware for some time now but those are my thoughts.

[danroyle]

Xfx Psu's are actually quite good Sigle 12v rail and the votages are very stable on my 750w one.

I kind of agree on the 2500k but thats an i5 and the 2600k is i7 not sure what the differences are.

Z68 over p67 means you can overclock cpu and gpu i think so as buying a 6950 not really needed go for the one with best features on the board.

Is that 23" monitor and ips panel? if so not bad price if its not you can get LG ips for around £160

[richieuk]

@DanRoyal - IPS? This is a 120Hz one if thats what you mean?
@Both - The 2600K is for Video Rendering and 3D Modelling so I'm willing to spend the extra I might go Crossfire/SLI in future. I also want the Z68 for the SSD Caching to speed up read-writes to the HDD.

[danroyle]

IPS is a form of panle used in lcd screens TN is cheapest and IPS and Pva or whatever the other one is called give miles better colours,

Have you bought the monitor for 3d use? yours is not ips

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/...roductId=44384

thats an IPS version

[shakerist]

Your motherboard is out of stock and has been since the 9th

[Pob255]

Your motherboard is out of stock and has been since the 9th

beat me to it.

afaik the Z68 behaves just like the H67 chipset in that if you plug in a graphics card it shuts off onchip gpu, it's just an H67 that allows unlocking of the multiplier.
So the P67 would be better if you want it now.

The XFX psu's are made by Seasonic and are internally the S12II-Bronze or M12II-Bronze models, so yes they are good.

[richieuk]

About the monitor - Is it possible to get an IPS 3D Monitor from Scan for less than £200? I maybe able to change the monitor as I'm waiting a few days for finance and stock of the mobo so I'd pay a little extra for that if its worth it!

[Skulltrail]

About the monitor - Is it possible to get an IPS 3D Monitor from Scan for less than £200? I maybe able to change the monitor as I'm waiting a few days for finance and stock of the mobo so I'd pay a little extra for that if its worth it!

It is possible to get a Dell Ultrasharp U2311H 23" 1920x1080 IPS monitor for less than £200, but from Aria rather than Scan, and it's not 3D.

I don't believe that there are any 3D IPS monitors about at the moment - Mitsubishi and Panasonic have launched in Japan but for many thousands of dollars, and I believe they remain as 60Hz rather the 120Hz so don't quite look the same as other 3D pannels.

[Skulltrail]

Just a thought on the Z68 - if it is Lucid equipped it can pair the Intel HD and AMD graphics sort of like hybrid Crossfire, and the Z68s seem to require slightly less voltage for overclocking, but it is probably worth saving the £30 or £40 and going P67.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this, but the SSD cacheing is only in use when you pair an mSATA SSD and a regualr HDD, but if you have a normal SSD stuff will run off it and cache off it anyway?

[RabidDeathGnome]

I'm not sure about that watercooler, but I'd be willing to place bets that it's crap and beaten by air units of the same price/cheaper.

I haven't followed the watercooling market in a while though, so things may well have changed. I can't imagine they have but I'm willing to be proved wrong.

The rule with watercooling was go hard go home.

[Skulltrail]

The 620 is actually quite good - it will keep up with £60+ air coolers for £45, and if configured with another fan will outperfom them - http://www.kitguru.net/components/co...oler-review/4/

I'm allways slightly hesitant about the long term reliability of these self contained units, but there doesn't seem to be that many adverse comments about H50s failing, and they have been out 3 years or so.

[Pob255]

Bit late here, missed the 3d monitor request, have a look at the Zalman Trimon I don't think it IPS, however it is the best 3d monitor, it's a non-flicker 3d system, it works by polarized interlacing and passive polarized lenses.
Can use it with the nvidia 3d drivers or you can buy 3d party drivers from DDD and iZ3D that will let you get 3d from ati cards.

Not cheap though
21" http://www.scan.co.uk/products/215-z...ith-3d-glasses
24" http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/pro...roducts/trimon

[richieuk]

The Kuhler outperforms the H50 and H60 and comes in close to the H70s performance before a second fan is added. Its cheaper than all of them too and for the sake of looking pretty too, I am very happy to buy Antec cooling for a small premium. It also saves the whole 'huge heatsink hanging off a board' problem that I don't like. I fitted my old Xigmatek with a crossbow but I still never enjoyed the idea of it all there putting strain on the mobos coppercladding.

I think I'll say with the 120Hz monitor then as I'm very eager to keep the 3D avenue open for the future. Its one of those things where I like to keep my options open, hence why I've gone for the i7 so when I am video rendering in Sony Vegas or Adobe After Eff76ecyyy8y76666666666666 <cat there> I can utilise the extra threads.

Again, with the SSD question, Is there any way to split it like a partition 20/40 setup with 40 for windows and drivers and 20 for caching to the HDD?

[richieuk]

Actually, again about the monitors. My friend had an Asus monitor 24" like 3 years ago and it was a crisp and beautiful screen in comparison to my Neovo (Not 100% sure if it was due to his screen or 4870x2). Although, my neovo was a good monitor and server me well, will I potentially see the disparity between his 24" and my 23" LG or would you say they are, after 3 years of similar calibres.

[Skulltrail]

Regarding the cacheing, you could always upgrade to 12 or 16GB of RAM and then have a 4GB RAMdisk which would be both cheaper and quicker than the SSD route. Have a look at http://memory.dataram.com/products-a...wnload-ramdisk