General use with at least some gameage

[Dudley]

So PCs don't seem to evolve as much now, or are at least useful for longer. My Core 2 Duo, even with it's Geforce 7600GS has served me for 4 years and cost £700 so I feel I can go up in budget now with the new one.

So for £1494, for all uses including video encoding and games (although to be honest mostly iRacing which runs in an ugly fashion on my current PC), does anyone see any gotchas here. (based on the core i7 build your own)

Antec Nine Hundred Two

Core i7-950 (306ghz * 4)
Asus P6x58D Premium
12gb Kingston Hyper-X-Tri 1600mhz
2gb Nvidia Geforce GTX460

120gb OCZ Vertez 2 SSD
1tb WD Caviar Black
2tb WD Caviar Green
(another 2tb Samsung I already have will be going in)

10x Blu-ray, 16x DVDRW

Corsair 850W TX
Titan Fenrir evo extreme

 

[Rakk]

Well, you probably don't need the 1600MHz RAM, the Samsung 1333MHz stuff should be absolutely fine, unless you're planning on overclocking.

 

[Dudley]

Thanks

Interesting, I think the price difference was so marginal I left it. Now you mention it, it'd be nice to have the option although I wouldn't OC at first certainly.

 

[PCS]

Looks good to me - will be a gaming monster!

 

[Sleinous]

this is a nice spec but I wouldnt go for the 2GB GTX 460, ok it has a mild mild overclock over the 1GB but its not worth it, as the extra DDR5 memory would only be useful for running a computer with a very very high res monitor attached, (way higher than 1920x1200 for example).

I'd go for the 1GB GTX 460 and your power supply is good enouigh for another 1GB GTX 460 in SLI later on if you want to increase the life of your PC

Nice choice of Caviar drives, consider possibly waiting on the SSD, you can get a 1260gb gen 3 Intel SSD for about teh price of a Gen 2 80GB intel SSD by Feb 2011

 

[Dudley]

Yeah, I considered waiting for Sandy Bridge too but ultimately I tend to think you can find yourself waiting forever in these situations.

Interesting call on the 460 though, I like that idea.

Many thanks.