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[Azirius]

I'm not entirely sure what my budget might be at the moment, but this is what I possibly might purchase:

Case
InWIN BLACK DRAGON RIDER GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-960 (3.20GHz) 4.8GTs/8MB Cache

Motherboard
ASUS® P6X58D-E: DDR3, USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, 3-Way SLI

Memory (RAM)
24GB KINGSTON HYPER-X TRI-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (6 x 4GB KIT)

Graphics Card
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 580 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item
Free Item
FREE Batman Arkham City with any Nvidia® GeForce GTX560 or above!

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
2TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD20EARX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT

Power Supply
600W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)

Processor Cooling
INTEL SOCKET LGA1366 STANDARD CPU COOLER

Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities
ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)

USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Firewire & Video Editing
1 x IEEE 1394a FIREWIRE PORT ONBOARD

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 HD 1920x1080 (£139)

DVI-D & HDMI Monitor Cables
1 x 2 METRE GOLD PLATED V1.4 HDMI CABLE (£8)

Keyboard & Mouse
LOGITECH® K200 USB MEDIA KEYBOARD (£10)

Mouse
LOGITECH® OPTICAL USB MOUSE (£5)

Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)

Is 24GB of RAM overkill? I'm guessing it probably is. But that's the problem, I have no idea what kind of specification it'll need and I don't want to purchase something that wont last me for a decent amount of time.

This PC will be for gaming at the highest settings with all the fancy bits on. It'll also need to handle Flash games at high quality without lagging behind. I'm also programming in PHP too, so it'll need to handle the software I work with, which should be easy as this PC handles it fine (and it's an awful machine).

I'm going to purchase Skyrim when it comes out later this year and would be most pleased with a system that could pump it out at full settings. If someone could advise me on a set up that should be able to play the way I'd like, I would be very grateful :]

Thanks in advance!

 

[liamnic2]

LOL 8GB RAM is enough

Try and get yourself a branded PSU

 

[Azirius]

Okay, so, I'll have the 12GB Kingston RAM (because they don't have 8GB and 6GB might be a tad too low) and the Corsair 650W Enthusiast series instead.

Also, is 2TB of storage excessive? I do enjoy my music.

 

[Wozza63]

what is your budget here, you will most likely be better off with a sandy bridge CPU

 

[ace1]

green hardrive as main? you be better off with a black

 

[Azirius]

I'm not sure what my budget is at the moment. Is the 'Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-960 (3.20GHz) 4.8GTs/8MB Cache' not a sufficient CPU? I've heard about Sandy Bridge CPU but I don't know enough about the components to identify models. I was under the assumption that the i7 was a Sandy Bridge model... Shows what I know about computers!

 

[ace1]

I'm not sure what my budget is at the moment. Is the 'Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-960 (3.20GHz) 4.8GTs/8MB Cache' not a sufficient CPU? I've heard about Sandy Bridge CPU but I don't know enough about the components to identify models. I was under the assumption that the i7 was a Sandy Bridge model... Shows what I know about computers!

its called i7 2600 and 2600K

 

[Wozza63]

Case
COOLERMASTER CM STORM SNIPER - NEXT GEN GAMING CASE


Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2500 Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics


Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z68-V: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, NVIDIA®SLI™, ATI®CrossFireX


Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)


Graphics Card
1.5GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 580 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item

Free Item
FREE Batman Arkham City with any Nvidia® GeForce GTX560 or above!


Memory - 1st Hard Disk
750GB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD7502AAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)


1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM


Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£72)


Processor Cooling
SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£19)


Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)


Network Facilities
ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)


USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD


Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)


Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE


Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE


Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)


Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)


Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 10 to 12 working days

£1191.00

 

[oviavlis]

might want to add an ssd for extra speed

 

[Azirius]

Okay, a few more questions:

1) What is the difference between the 8GB Samsung RAM and the 8GB Kingston RAM? They seem to have different frequencies?

2) Why the 1.5GB Graphics card and not the 3GB? Considering there is a £43 difference for double the power, is it not worth that little bit extra?

3) I presume from what I have read that 'K' in relation to CPU is ready to over clock? So that's not necessary for me. Is the i5 2500 sufficiently powerful? Is there not enough difference to warrant getting the i7 2600 instead?

4) Why would I want/need a SSD? I'm not familiar with the benefits of a Solid State Disk.

Anyway, with the recommendations above I've come up with:

Case
COOLERMASTER CM STORM SNIPER - NEXT GEN GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2500 Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics

Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z68-V: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, NVIDIA®SLI™, ATI®CrossFireX

Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)

Graphics Card
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 580 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item
Free Item
FREE Batman Arkham City with any Nvidia® GeForce GTX560 or above!

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

SSD CACHE DRIVE
20GB INTEL® SSD 311 SERIES - CACHE DRIVE FOR SYSTEM / 1st HDD

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT

Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£72)

Processor Cooling
SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£19)

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities
ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)

USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

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 HD 1920x1080 (£139)

DVI-D & HDMI Monitor Cables
1 x 2 METRE GOLD PLATED V1.4 HDMI CABLE (£8)

Keyboard & Mouse
LOGITECH® K200 USB MEDIA KEYBOARD (£10)

Mouse
LOGITECH® OPTICAL USB MOUSE (£5)

Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)

Which would cost me £1528 including VAT rates.

 

[ace1]

Okay, a few more questions:

1) What is the difference between the 8GB Samsung RAM and the 8GB Kingston RAM? They seem to have different frequencies?

2) Why the 1.5GB Graphics card and not the 3GB? Considering there is a £43 difference for double the power, is it not worth that little bit extra?

3) I presume from what I have read that 'K' in relation to CPU is ready to over clock? So that's not necessary for me. Is the i5 2500 sufficiently powerful? Is there not enough difference to warrant getting the i7 2600 instead?

4) Why would I want/need a SSD? I'm not familiar with the benefits of a Solid State Disk.

Anyway, with the recommendations above I've come up with:



Which would cost me £1528 including VAT rates.

looks much better

 

[ace1]

looks much better

1, is just a bit faster but not much at all with out being oc but same price so i don't see why not to get it
2, its not double the power
3, im getting a i5 and from what i looked up it seems to be very good and only a bit slower then a i7 but still very fast and much better value
4. is just a small high priced hard drive what is faster then normal hardrives

 

[Azirius]

I don't understand how Graphics Cards work, so I assumed that 3GB would be very, very powerful. I don't plan on running games on super huge TVs and the 22 inch HD monitor will probably be the one I continue to use.

Could someone explain why I shouldn't purchase the 3GB one over the 1.5GB? Bare in mind I want something future-proofed so I don't have to continually upgrade it all the time.

Well, I assumed the SSD would be better performance than a standard HDD, but is there any reason to own one? What would I store on it? It's only 20GB so that might be two-three games.

 

[ace1]

the 3gb is for using 2-3 monitors so if your just using one then is just a waste of 43 pounds, the 20gb ssd would have your os on it

 

[Azirius]

Okay then :] What is the maximum resolution the 1.5GB 580 would support? Just in case I decide to hook it up to my 46 inch TV?

Would the OS be installed on the SSD by pcspecialist by default or something I'd have to request? I'm assuming by default considering the SSD option is labelled as 1st HDD.

 

[ace1]

Okay then :] What is the maximum resolution the 1.5GB 580 would support? Just in case I decide to hook it up to my 46 inch TV?

Would the OS be installed on the SSD by pcspecialist by default or something I'd have to request? I'm assuming by default considering the SSD option is labelled as 1st HDD.

i would think by default but not 100% sure did not order one with mine and my pc has yet to come, no clue about the tv