New Gaming PC Ordered

Jedi

Jedi

New member
i placed an order for a new gaming pc on Friday, i have potsed the spec below.

All thoughts and opinions most welcome:

Case
COOLERMASTER CM STORM SNIPER - NEXT GEN GAMING CASE (£129)
Processor (CPU)
AMD PHENOM II X6 1090T (3.20GHz/9MB CACHE/AM3/) - BLACK EDITION
Motherboard
ASUS® M4A89TD PRO/USB3 : DDR3, USB 3.0, SATA 6.0Gb/s, CrossFireX
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)
Graphics Card
1GB ATI RADEON™ HD 5850 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
2nd Graphics Card
NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
640GB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
3rd Hard Disk
NONE
4th Hard Disk
NONE
RAID
NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
10x BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW (£55)
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NONE
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply & Case Cooling
CORSAIR 850W PSU (TX850) 80+ ULTRA QUIET (£99)
Processor Cooling
TITAN FENRIR EVO EXTREME HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£39)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Modem
NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND
Floppy Disk Drive
NONE
Firewire & Video Editing
NONE
TV Card
NONE
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£109)
Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Monitor
IIYAMA E2271HDS 22" LED WIDESCREEN, HDMI/DVI-D FULL HD 1920x1080 (£139)
2nd Monitor
NONE
3rd Monitor
NONE
4th Monitor
NONE
DVI Cable
NONE
GeForce 3D Vision
NONE
Keyboard & Mouse
Logitech® Wireless Desktop® MK250 Keyboard and Mouse Combo (£19)
Mouse
NONE
Speakers
NONE
Webcam
NONE
Headsets (VOIP)
NONE
Surge Protection
NONE
Printer
NONE
External Hard Drive
NONE
Home Installation
NONE
Warranty
3 Year Gold Warranty (2 Year Collect & Return, 2 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£69)
Data Recovery
NONE
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 12 working
:D
 
Sleinous

Sleinous

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Consider upgrading the 1tb hdd to a 1tb wd10ears 64mb cached drive rather than 16mb, for £5 more. Nice spec though!
 
Sleinous

Sleinous

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Thatll raise price a bit. Also consider doing same change with that 640gb drive, up it to the 64mb cached version.
 
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Shibin

Enthusiast
Dont really need a titan fenrir if you arent overclocking.Dont really need blue-ray drives unless you intend to watch bluray movies,blur ray games on pc are a thing for the way future.Waste of money going for the professional windows compared to home edition. (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/compare). Overall use all the saved money to upgrade to an 5870 instead of a 5850.

Good luck.
 
Jedi

Jedi

New member
all the above comments have been most helpful and very welcome, the hard drives are a certain consideration as they use 40% less power. i have gone with windows 7 professional as the pc will be joining my own private domain and the home version doesnt allow this due to the software being a lite version ( no networking capabilities).

The cooler is slightly overkill i have to agree, however as internal components will be superseeded and new products become available i have the option to upgrade them myself, obviously they will require more power (wattage etc) and this will already be in place hence the slightly more powerful power supply and cooler. Im sure at some point in the next 12 months i will have a play with the over clocking options but have been advised to keep it well under 4.0mhz as this instills instability in the pc. As you mentioned in your previous comments - smoking kills.
 
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Shibin

Enthusiast
If your a gamer i would still go with what i said and upgrade gpu. But your call :D....amd like you said smoking kills for sure tehehe. Sleinous underclocking is the new overlocking,get with the flow dude.
 
Sleinous

Sleinous

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Haha, oh boy im gonna under clock to 1ghz tomorrow, starting off high, dont wanna go mad now do we? :p
 
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