The end product!

[Josh]

Cheers for everyone's help on the forum for helping me to get a final spec, it goes a little like this:

Case
PCS MAELSTROM T900 BLACK GAMING CASE

Overclocked CPU
Overclocked Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core (3.40GHz @ max 4.80GHz)

Motherboard
ASUS® P8P67 PRO (NEW REV 3.0): USB 3.0/SATA 6Gb/s, CrossFireX™ & SLI

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

Graphics Card
1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 570 - 2 DVI,mHDMI - DX® 11, 3D Vision Ready

2nd Graphics Card
1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 570 - 2 DVI,mHDMI - DX® 11, 3D Vision Ready

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
120GB INTEL® 510 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 450MB/sR | 210MB/sW)

2nd Hard Disk
640GB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD6402AAEX, 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 (£169)

Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER) (£49)

Thermal Paste
ARCTIC COOLING MX-3 HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)

Sound Card
Sound Blaster® Audigy™ SE (£19)

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 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

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

So this is my creation for high end gaming and maybe a bit of video editing in the near future. I just gotta say that if anyone does see a fault with this, don't be a stranger and let me know Just in case anyone spots that my PSU is well over what it should be, which is 800W, i decided to pick the 1000W as i will be overclocking it quite a bit. [I hope this is enough power to increase the processor to 4.5GHZ the graphics cards by a bit and the RAM GHZ]

Regards Josh

 

[Luckless]

The only thing I would change perhaps is the sound card. Onboard sound is great these days and if you really want a card to prevent driver conflicts you can get a Xonar and install that which is around the same price but much better.

As for PSU... it's always good to have more than enough...!

 

[Josh]

Ah so just get the normal sound card and buy the Xonar seperate?

 

[pez]

yep, that's what he's saying although, I suppose it would depend how confident you are installing a new piece of kit in your shiny new PC

 

[Josh]

^^ I am pretty confident with it, got a few friends who can build PCs so i will be fine By the way is that case any good for ventilation?

 

[pez]

Certainly looks like it. If you have a look around the forums, there's a thread with some people opening their PCS pc's and the maelstrom is one of them. Clean build, plenty of space, and a huge ass fan

 

[bg92]

I would reccomend cm 690 II advanced as it has black interior, tool-less design, and it can accomodate plenty of fans up to 10 I think, or a haf 912 would be great as well

 

[Josh]

Wasn't planning on adding many fans with the liquid cooling, think i may keep with the maelstrom. Looks extremely awesome to.

 

[pez]

Make sure the fans/lights/leads/PSU all have yellow tint Looked Awesome.

 

[Josh]

Yeah cheers for all your help guys, will order it pretty soon then

 

[Josh]

btw actually what xonar did you say to get?