£2000 for a new build

[Donok]

Hey guys

New on this forum

Got £2000 for a new Pc

Got u2711 for monitor

Need An was thinking

CPU - 970

Mobo - Asus rampage 3

Graphics - gtx 580 3gb

Memory - 6th corsair dominator gt

Case - 800d

Cooler - h50

SSD - ocz vertex 3 120gb

Hdd - 2tb samsung/ WD

Psu - corsair ax1200

Any help or advice would help

 

[Donok]

All that is just over £2000

 

[ciksas]

Awesome, 3gb is overkill, but if you fancy it and fit your budget ok(maybe wanna wait for the 6990, 590 to be released for prices to drop). The h50 aint worth the money, get a noctua nh d14 and maybe some smaller ram, cause the dominator won’t fit under the d14.

Everything else is A+

 

[SieB]

Nice build but if you have a large budget you may as well go full water cooling, like ciksas said the H50 isn't worth the money, I have a CoolIT ECO which is exactly the same as the H50 performance wise and it is loud. If you don't want to go full water cooling the D14 is what you want to be getting and it will keep your CPU cooler than the H50 will.

Also the 6990 is out Tuesday which means the 590 can't be far behind so go for one of those if you can.

 

[Squuiid]

I have a few criticisms.

RAMsinks are so overhyped IMO, especially the Dominators. Get some low voltage, low latency G.Skills ECO with no sinks. These run cool at 1600, something the Dominators need sinks for due to their higher voltage requirements and lower tolerances.

The Corsair AX1200 PSU is known to have noise issues, read up more about it and you'll find the Antec HCP-1200 is a far better PSU. http://hardocp.com/article/2010/10/24/antec_high_current_pro_1200w_power_supply_review/

Google "ax1200 coil whine".

You really should go Sandy Bridge, the motherboards are newer, cheaper, have amazing performance for a fraction of the price of X58 and you can replace it in 6 months and ebay the mobo and CPU if you really want to upgrade to X68. Plus, the Vertex3 and Intel 510 SSD reviews have shown that SSD performance on the Sandy Bridge platform cannot be beat and is miles ahead of the 6Gbps controllers found on X58 boards as per the one you selected.

Great monitor choice!

H50 is noisy and overrated, get Noctua as per other comments.

Definitely WD over Samsung, Samsung HDs tend to run HOT.

SSD, if you will be moving around compressed data, get the Intel 510, if not, the Vertex 3 will be great. Sandforce controllers as found on the Vertex3 are slow when dealing with compressed data such as video.

I have always preferred mATX. With the ASUS SB models you are hardly compromising. The LIAN-LI V354 case below is simply superb, looks pro and doesn't have any of the boy racer look other cases tend to have. But I guess its all about personal taste at the end of the day. http://www.techspot.com/review/323-lian-li-mini-q-pc-v354/

Are you ever going to fill all those 5 1/4" slots on the 800D?

Count them...

If you don't want to go mATX, get the Asus P8P67 PRO, same great reviews as the once I specced, only bigger. The UEFI BIOS of the current SB Asus boards is excellent and very futureproof.

Here are my recs:

LIAN LI PC-V354B Black Aluminum MicroATX Mini Tower Computer Case

$149.99

ASUS P8P67-M PRO LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

$149.99

Palit GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

$599.99 (may wait for GTX 590 instead, depending on release date)

Antec High Current Pro HCP-1200 1200W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply

$299.99

Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I72600K

$329.99

G.SKILL ECO 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL8D-8GBECO

$174.99

x2= $349.98

Intel 510 Series (Elm Crest) SSDSC2MH250A2K5 2.5" 250GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

$614.99

Pioneer Black Blu-ray Burner SATA BDR-206BKS

$129.99

Noctua NF-P12-1300 120mm CPU Cooler and Case Fan

$24.99

x3=$74.97

Noctua NH-U9B SE2 92mm SSO CPU Cooler

$59.94

Noctua NF-P14 FLX 140mm Case Fan

$29

You will see that the spec above runs cool and above all, silent!

It can hold a LOT of drives and can do GTX580 (590 too?) SLI. I've specced 16GB RAM but the board can hold 32.

Here's a great thread on that Lian-Li case, it has quite the following:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1523895

 

[Donok]

Gtx 580 3gb is due as my res is 2560x1440

Corsair psu has black cables so no need to braid them.

Corsair h50 or h70 is just for looks and decent cooling. Love noctua but hate the colour.

Hate sandy bridge - easy overclocking is cheating.

No need for 16gb of ram lol

Will deffo wait for gtx 590 release before committing.

Only reason for dominator ram is due to red and black colour theme on mobo

 

[Grizzly]

Gtx 580 3gb is due as my res is 2560x1440

Corsair psu has black cables so no need to braid them.

Corsair h50 or h70 is just for looks and decent cooling. Love noctua but hate the colour.

Hate sandy bridge - easy overclocking is cheating.

No need for 16gb of ram lol

Will deffo wait for gtx 590 release before committing.

Only reason for dominator ram is due to red and black colour theme on mobo

If you're getting a Corsair water cooling kit obviously you don't need to change the RAM but there is always Mushkin Redline if you want options.

 

[SieB]

Just thought i'd mention the Prolimatech Genesis if it's the looks of the Noctua that puts you off. It doesn't come with fans but if you are spending £2000 on a PC whats £30 extra for a couple of good silent fans

There is a thread about it here with a link to a review LINK which shows it getting ~ 2c lower temps than the D14, the only place I have found selling it though is SpecialTech LINK.

 

[ciksas]

Definitely WD over Samsung, Samsung HDs tend to run HOT.

Can’t agree there have samsung, wd, seagate drives and samsung is the coolest.

 

[Donok]

CPU coolers look nasty but the corsair h50 and h70 both look amazing and have pretty good cooling.

It's the next best thing apart from spending another £500 on a dual loop water-cooling system.

However doing that with a single gpu would be pointless so i'd go sli which would cost another £400.

That's £1000 I don't have. Especially after spending £700 on this amazing monitor.

 

[ciksas]

For 400£ you will get uber water cooling, at least considering the nh d14?

 

[SieB]

CPU coolers look nasty but the corsair h50 and h70 both look amazing and have pretty good cooling.

It's the next best thing apart from spending another £500 on a dual loop water-cooling system.

However doing that with a single gpu would be pointless so i'd go sli which would cost another £400.

That's £1000 I don't have. Especially after spending £700 on this amazing monitor.

It's up to you at the end of the day but you will get lower temps with the D14. If you do buy a H50/70 get some quiet fans for it because they are noisy.

 

[Donok]

Yeah I have two noctua fans that I might use or some scythe fans

 

[Donok]

Any other comments / advise on the rig

 

[Grizzly]

Any other comments / advise on the rig

You don't fancy raiding 2 1TB drives for performance instead of 1 bigun? If not then everything sounds a-ok.

 

[Donok]

I have a synology ds1511+ with 5 x 2TB hdd in for storage and backup. The Hdd is just incase I leave for uni And need some extra space

 

[Icekube]

Well the first thing I would change is your case choice mate, like Tom said when he reviewed it the 800D is a hot box. I would only really go with that case if your going to do some major water cooling. If it's a big case your after try the Lian Li PC-P50R or Coolermaster RC-1000 or NZXT Phantom to name but a few.

As for air cpu cooling I would spend my money a Nocuta NH-D14, not to everyones taste, but it does a lot better job than an H50, I have an H70 and if I had the chance to go back and pick the Noctua I would.

I would maybe hold off on buying your card until the end of the month (if you can that is) due to the iminent release of the Amd's 6990 and Nvidia's Gtx 590.

But you seem to have a pretty killer setup planned mate, looking forward to seeing the finished rig and test results

 

[Donok]

Thanks alot

I just thought I would post to see if there was anyone with experience of the components.

Or anything that I had missed like a recall lol at sandy bridge.

 

[Squuiid]

Gtx 580 3gb is due as my res is 2560x1440

Corsair psu has black cables so no need to braid them.

Corsair h50 or h70 is just for looks and decent cooling. Love noctua but hate the colour.

Hate sandy bridge - easy overclocking is cheating.

No need for 16gb of ram lol

Will deffo wait for gtx 590 release before committing.

Only reason for dominator ram is due to red and black colour theme on mobo

Wow...just wow.

 

[Stryker64]

If you are going to get the 800D, you might want to look at the XSPC 3x120mm Radiator water cooling kit.

For RAM, get Mushkin, like the Redline Ridgebacks, it will suit the colour scheme of the motherboard quite nicely, and if you want to get 12GBs than get a set of the Blackline Ridgebacks, since they use the same RAM modules =D.

SSD, I would personally stay away from OCZ, since in OC3D reviews, they are behind similarly priced SSDs.

GPU: 580 3GB is kinda pointless unless you are running at like 2560x1400 resolution with AAx16 or something. I just don't see you requiring that much memory on the GPU.

EDIT: The Redlines are a nicer red than in the photo.