In testing, hope for delivery next week

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TyB

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Case
COOLERMASTER HAF-X FULL TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD PHENOM II X6 1100T (3.30GHz/9MB CACHE/AM3) - BLACK EDITION
Motherboard
ASUS® M4N98TD EVO: DDR3, 2-Way SLI, SATA 3.0GB/s
Memory (RAM)
16GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (4 X 4GB)
Graphics Card
1280MB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX570 - 2 DVI,mHDMI - DirectX® 11, 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics Card
1280MB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX570 - 2 DVI,mHDMI - DirectX® 11, 3D Vision Ready
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
640GB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD6402AAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1000W PRO SERIES (HX1000) 80+ MODULAR PSU (£175)
Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO C240 A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER) (£105)
Sound Card
Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Xtreme Gamer (£59)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£109)


I built my own gaming rig about 4 years ago at a cost of about £800. Sadly its now seen its day and can barely keep up with WoW on semi decent graphics settings so time to pass it on to my little sister :) After all the hassle of researching compatibility between parts last time i decided this time to get someone else to do the hard work. Thanks PCspecialist!
 
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Roobarb

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Nice graphics setup..... your gonna max WoW settings for sure.

I hope mine does as well, when it finally leaves processing. Couldn't order express as pieces being outta stock :(

Roob.
 
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TyB

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yeah WoW will be blown away with this... hopefully for a good few years lol. I like to make videos etc too so the 'over the top' power is as much for that as it is just to have all settings to max!!

Mine was in processing for nearly 2 weeks before it progressed. Think these guys are just busy, when you got a good rep like these guys do it easy to understand that they would be flat out building pc's :)
 
bg92

bg92

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Wow, thats a really good spec, just wondering why you went with amd for your cpu? Intel has better motherboards that support Sli.
 
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TyB

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i went with AMD for a few reasons.
firstly cost was a big factor, made a difference between it costing £2.1k for the intel or £1.8k for the AMD. As i had blown most my budget on the graphics cards i had to cut costs somewhere.
secondly, ive always been a fan of AMD for gaming rigs, not sure why. i had it explained to me once that the difference between AMD and intel was like the difference between a 2.5litre 6 cylinder engine and a 2.0 turbo 4 cylinder. both pump out about the same power they just both get there slightly differently with slightly different perks to the build. (finely tuned torque -- Raw power)
thirdly - Ive had friends who were avid intel fans and used to have to replace their proccessors more often than i tended to upgrade my computers so it kinda led me to believe that intels didnt last long, not sure how accurate that is but its something that occured to me when placing this order.
 
bg92

bg92

Expert
Amd does make very good stuff, but they do not seem to want to improve their motherboards which support sli, and for gaming the cpu will not make much difference anyway, so its mainly the gpu that matters. and I guess that with your setup you will be fine for the next 4 years without the need for any upgrades, the only thing you could add soonish would be an ssd. I need to get one as well :D
 
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TyB

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you'll have to forgive my ignorance, this is probably really obvious... but whats an SSD? i cant for the life of me think what it stands for /blush
 
Rakk

Rakk

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SSD=solid state drive

Much faster than your standard hard drives and at the moment much much much much more expensive, though hopefully when the next gen ones come out the prices should drop to something a lot more reasonable.
 
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Roobarb

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You may find your intel friends just stay further ahead than your AMD ? Intel has been ahead of AMD for a while now, and Intel releasing the I7 980 just rubs AMD's face in do do showing the power difference.
 
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TyB

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intel may well be the best. im sure theres a load of bench marking tests available online to prove it too but at the end of the day the build i made up on the intel processor/board with the ram differences etc put the rig at over £2.1k. considering my original budget was 1.5k i kinda felt i should go for the cheaper option hehe. maybe in 4 years time ill save some more pennies and go down the intel route :)
 
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Roobarb

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TyB, completely understand your point ! saving pennies is important, My wife gave me a budget of £3100 for my new machine, of course i have gone over it, by the time i added a NEC 232wmi monitor, steelseries G7 keyboard, Steelseries Cata mouse, and a soundblaster Arena3d headset....

Buying PCS saved me a fortune, i was going to buy alienware.
So glad i shopped here.
 
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TyB

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nice budget, nice wife lol

well thankfully i already have a 22" widescreen monitor so that much is already sorted. My girlfriend bought me a cata mouse for my birthday which was ace (though many WoW addons dont support it yet btw if you use them) and my dad just bought me a G19 keyboard for my birthday so i kinda landed on my feet this year... turning 30 has its perks :)
 
Phoenix

Phoenix

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bg92 said:
Wow, thats a really good spec, just wondering why you went with amd for your cpu? Intel has better motherboards that support Sli.
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Better in the sense of having faulty SATA ports that will degrade over time and lose all of your data :detective: ?
 
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