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CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition

Motherboard: Asus M5A99X EVO

RAM: Corsair Vengeance Black 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz

Graphic Card: EVGA 1280MB GeForce GTX 570 Superclocked

HDD: 750GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATA III

ODD: SAMSUNG SH-S222AB/BEBE

Case: Corsair Carbide 400R

PSU: Antec TruePower New 650W

Total Price: £679.06

Click my profile to see my current rig for comparison.

So what do you guys think?
 
Looks good but if you want to save money, you could get the top of the range black edition phenom dual core processor then unlock it to 4 cores with your motherboard. Also two EVGA GTX460 1Gb superclocked cards would destroy one of their gtx 570s for the same price, but try and get the rear exhaust ones if you can (unless you have decent airflow)
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In the picture bear in mind that these are the stock cards, with the superclocked edition they will be faster XD
 
wassupdoc said:
Looks good but if you want to save money, you could get the top of the range black edition phenom dual core processor then unlock it to 4 cores with your motherboard. Also two EVGA GTX460 1Gb superclocked cards would destroy one of their gtx 570s for the same price, but try and get the rear exhaust ones if you can (unless you have decent airflow)
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In the picture bear in mind that these are the stock cards, with the superclocked edition they will be faster XD
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whatchootalkinboutwillis????? hahaha just chiming in with my 2P get the 570 best bang for buck around and sli later if needed. And if planning sli in future you'll need more juice from a psu go 850watt min on another note as well if the Green is ur only hdd (no ssd) then I'd go Black there awesome drives
 
I'd spend the extra £35 quid or so and get a 1090T istead of the 955. Also if you ever thinking of going sli in the future your choice of board doesnt support it, gd80 I think is the closest sli board for price
 
I have looked at caviar blacks and the 1090T but I can't fit them in on my budget, I am buying this with birthday and Christmas money as well as some cash I got for my GCSE results and money from the rig I'm going to sell lol, can't really go any higher than what I am at now but I am looking to see if there is something I can drop and replace with something as good but cheaper I'm thinking maybe about getting a non modular psu (maybe lower wattage) I am going to get SLI in the future (oh and @Paulie my board does support it, I'm pretty sure it does anyway) so I will get a new card plus psu then and swap the 955 with the 1090T not sure I can though, really want to though those six cores are on my mind lol.
 
Sileo said:
If I swap to a non modular psu I can get it but hopefully I am picking all this up tomorrow and the 500GB is out of stock and I cba waiting lol, I will probably get one in the future though.
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Jonny, ignore whoever said your psu isn't powerful enough, I doubt they know anything about rails and wattage, 500W is plenty with a decent rail, like your power supply has. And your board does support Sli, it's one of it's main features, but i agree about the hdd
 
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition

Motherboard: Asus M5A99X EVO

RAM: Corsair Vengeance Black 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz

Graphic Card: EVGA 1280MB GeForce GTX 570 Superclocked

HDD: 750GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATA III

ODD: SAMSUNG SH-S222AB/BEBE

Case: Corsair Carbide 400R

PSU: Antec TruePower New 650W

I have made the order my dad is picking it up tomorrow, I went today but it is shut lol, as you can tell I squeezed in the 1090T and as for the HDD at xmas I am getting an ssd to run windows plus games and using the hdd for storage. Thanks for the tips guys!
 
Sileo said:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition

Motherboard: Asus M5A99X EVO

RAM: Corsair Vengeance Black 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz

Graphic Card: EVGA 1280MB GeForce GTX 570 Superclocked

HDD: 750GB Western Digital Caviar Green SATA III

ODD: SAMSUNG SH-S222AB/BEBE

Case: Corsair Carbide 400R

PSU: Antec TruePower New 650W

I have made the order my dad is picking it up tomorrow, I went today but it is shut lol, as you can tell I squeezed in the 1090T and as for the HDD at xmas I am getting an ssd to run windows plus games and using the hdd for storage. Thanks for the tips guys!
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where are you buying it from? could have saved a fair bit £20-30 by getting the 1055T
 
specs look good and i stand corrected your board does support sli, I saw a press release before the 990 boards came out, originaly only the sabretooth and crosshair supported sli, looks like you've got a cracking board for the price.
 
I have set it up and got it running and it looks beautiful but I am pretty sure the HDD is faulty as S.M.A.R.T. has an error and Windows advises me not to install to disk as it may fail soon, so I'm gunna take it back and swap it and then hopefully I can use my machine! Also I am a little worried about the health of the RAM because some referenced memory error thingy popped up on the first install of Windows but on the second install it didn’t and that is when I noticed that the HDD was playing up so hopefully I am just being paranoid and the RAM is fine but nevertheless I am going to run Memtest86+ on individual sticks anyway. When I get it running like it should I shall post pics so you guys know I'm not just making all this up.
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I installed the new HDD last night and I then found another problem with the ODD but this time it was my fault, I simply had it on a SATA III port and cable so all I had to do was use a SATA II port and cable and it works fine. I then cleared RTC RAM, set up the BIOS, formatted the HDD (because it had failed partitions from when I tried to install through the ODD on the SATA III port and cable), installed Windows 7 64 bit and everything works perfectly!

Oh and Memtest86+ returned 0 errors the RAM is fine.

Here is my Windows Experience Index results:

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I obviously need an SSD, I will also post pics soon, right now I wanna play some games!
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Stock cooler for shame lol

Tidy build mate.

Try routing the cpu fan cable around the heatsink and then plugging it in. Also reccommend nzxt or bitfenix 8pin cable extension in black.
 
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