So this is the planned build

Jadarite

Jadarite

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Hi all amasingly people actually think i know what i'm doing when it comes to computer builds, and hence i've been asked to put together a rig for my cousin, who was impressed with several of the reviews and other forum members comments. So this is the planned build list if there's any suggestion on how to improve the following list would be most welcome.

Many thanks in advance:

　

Windows 7 Professional Retail £165.54

Silverstone Raven RV03 Case £104.98

Corsair AX750 £124.99

LG BH10LS38 Blu-Ray Drive £63.99

MSI Z77A-GD65 £144.99

Intel Core i7-3770K £249.99

Crucial 16GB kit (8GBx2), Ballistix Smart Tracer £157.19

Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green £89.98

Crucial 64GB M4 SSD £61.99

Noctua NH-D14 £64.99

MSI GTX 670 965MHz 2GB OC £329.98

Delivery Cost £1.98

Sub total £1560.59

and with £90 Discount

Total £1470.05
 
Ditch the retail Windows 7 for an OEM 64 Bit version, exactly the same but will save you some wonga.

Also, what's the rig going to be used for?
 
flip thats a really hefty price for that rig considering im going to be running a 2011 rig with a 7970 and full CPU/GPU water cooling with modding for £1513 total, if you want a spec list I can PM you it
 
also just in passing, if you are buying a windowed case to show off the nice goods inside, why ruin it with the ugly NH-D14? alright, best CPU cooler out there, but it really really is ugly as sin! I would also just give a personal recommendation in that the cruical RAM is the same preformance as many other 16GB kits out there, but is over the odds pricing, you are literally paying for the LED's on top (and by paying, if you consider 16GB corsair vengeance at 1600MHz is roughly 90 quid, then its a hefty pricetag for a few LED's)
 
go with an OEM copy of windows 7 professional it'll save you a bunch. ^^ Otherwise it's pretty good
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PetrolHead247 said:
Ditch the retail Windows 7 for an OEM 64 Bit version, exactly the same but will save you some wonga.

Also, what's the rig going to be used for?
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good suggestion about windows 7 as this would save me about £50 and the intention for the rig is gaming mainly

blaindev said:
flip thats a really hefty price for that rig considering im going to be running a 2011 rig with a 7970 and full CPU/GPU water cooling with modding for £1513 total, if you want a spec list I can PM you it
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yes please and the noctua NH-D 14 is a good air cooler but mainly to keep costs down
 
Cram said:
yes please and the noctua NH-D 14 is a good air cooler but mainly to keep costs down
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Sent to your inbox, I have also posted it into a new thread if anyone would like a look for themselves also

And I totally agree, the NH-D14 is for me the best price vs preformance and silence cooler there is (alright silver arrow POSSSIBLY beats it, but theres minute amounts in it) as I owned one myself and used it in a windowed case for near 2-3 months, but i hated having to look at the bugger!
 
Seeing as it's for gaming ditch the 16GB of ram and go for 8GB's. Also, go for a 3570K over a 3770K, you'll see no performance differences whatsoever between the 3570K and 3770K during gaming. Blu-Ray drive... Really? Do you really need a £64 optical drive? Waste of money imo as the vast majority of PC gamers just download games from Steam. Another thing, are you running multiple screens? If not, the 2GB 670 is perfect, but for multi screens the 4GB model would be better.
 
PetrolHead247 said:
Seeing as it's for gaming ditch the 16GB of ram and go for 8GB's. Also, go for a 3570K over a 3770K, you'll see no performance differences whatsoever between the 3570K and 3770K during gaming. Blu-Ray drive... Really? Do you really need a £64 optical drive? Waste of money imo as the vast majority of PC gamers just download games from Steam. Another thing, are you running multiple screens? If not, the 2GB 670 is perfect, but for multi screens the 4GB model would be better.
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Blu-ray drive is important as he is a avid movie collector as well as a massive gamer i did also explain about the 3570k but he want the 3770k instead, and did also explain about the RAM but after talking about the cruical RAM that i've got he decided to go with the same, and i'll see what i can do about the graphics card
 
Cram said:
Blu-ray drive is important as he is a avid movie collector as well as a massive gamer i did also explain about the 3570k but he want the 3770k instead, and did also explain about the RAM but after talking about the cruical RAM that i've got he decided to go with the same, and i'll see what i can do about the graphics card
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Tell him to save his pennies and get 8GB of RAM and a 3570K and spend those pennies on dem Blu-Ray movies. He won't regret it
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first of all get an OEM win7 and probably ultimate would be better off then the pro version

next up RAM, Im not a great fan of crucial rams, and i think that tracers are really overpriced, id get something like mushkins or corsairs instead

The last thing i can be picky about is the nhd14, for that price you can get a more than decent watercooling cpu kit, and another fan for pushpull for maybe £10

apart from that the specs look very good
 
Pr3d4t0r said:
first of all get an OEM win7 and probably ultimate would be better off then the pro version

next up RAM, Im not a great fan of crucial rams, and i think that tracers are really overpriced, id get something like mushkins or corsairs instead

The last thing i can be picky about is the nhd14, for that price you can get a more than decent watercooling cpu kit, and another fan for pushpull for maybe £10

apart from that the specs look very good
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I have been sent some spec for a water cooled rig that might get built and i will get him to have a look at what people have had to say and take it from there as the ram and cpu suggestions are all good ones
 
Echoing what people have already said:

As a gaming build don't get an i7 (and as an aside a 2011 build with the 3820 is exactly the same cost and performance as an i7 build). 3570k all the way - same performance and a lot cheaper.

You've only got 2 storage drives on the list - you could save £30 and get the GD55. The only difference is that the 65 has 2 extra 6gb/s ports which a lot of people don't use (both also have 4x 3gb/s ports).

Again - 2x4gb RAM sticks, corsair LP 1600 mhz are great, cheap and won't get in the way of a big cpu cooler. What kind of watercooling are we talking about to replace this? Not an H100 I'm guessing? You can barely get sensible sized rads for that price let alone an entire loop.
 
Master&Puppet said:
Echoing what people have already said:

As a gaming build don't get an i7 (and as an aside a 2011 build with the 3820 is exactly the same cost and performance as an i7 build). 3570k all the way - same performance and a lot cheaper.

You've only got 2 storage drives on the list - you could save £30 and get the GD55. The only difference is that the 65 has 2 extra 6gb/s ports which a lot of people don't use (both also have 4x 3gb/s ports).

Again - 2x4gb RAM sticks, corsair LP 1600 mhz are great, cheap and won't get in the way of a big cpu cooler. What kind of watercooling are we talking about to replace this? Not an H100 I'm guessing? You can barely get sensible sized rads for that price let alone an entire loop.
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The spec i got sent are as follows

HIS HD 7970 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - AMD 3 for FREE Promotion

Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail

Gigabyte X79-UD3 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard

BitFenix Shinobi XL Full Tower Gaming Case - Black

Corsair Enthusiast Series TX850M High Performance 850W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020004-UK)

Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2)

Mushkin Redline Ridgeback 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz DIMM Kit (997052)

XSPC X2O 750 Dual 5.25” Bay Reservoir Pump

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002)

XSPC EX360 Multiport Radiator

XSPC RayStorm CPU WaterBlock (Intel) Out of stock

BitFenix Alchemy 24pin ATX extension 30cm - Green

BitFenix Alchemy 8pin PCI-E extension 45cm - Green

BitFenix Alchemy Molex to 4 x SATA power extension - Green

Cooler Master 12cm Sickleflow Green LED System Case Fan

BitFenix Alchemy 6pin PCI-E extension 45cm - Green

BitFenix Alchemy 8pin EPS extension 45cm - Green

BitFenix Alchemy SATA 6GB/s braided cable 30cm - Green

Mayhems Dye, UV Green - 10ml

BitFenix Alchemy Molex to 3pin x3 Fan adaptor 12V 20cm - Green

Mayhems Ultra Pure H20 Watercooling Fluid 1L

BitFenix Alchemy Internal Audio Extension Adaptor 30cm - Green

BitFenix Alchemy 2pin I/O extension 30cm - Green

BitFenix Alchemy 3pin Fan extension 30cm - Green

EK PSC Compression Fitting 1/2" - Black

XSPC 1/2" ID High Flex Hose - Clear

Total: £1530.72
 
Yea, 3820, that's what I thought lol. Although it's a great rig it's not exaclty on target here.

I see raystorm, 360mm rad... that watercooling setup is going to be way more than the £70 for a D-14.

His total price doesn't include your £165 for windows, which I know you are now changing but the price comparison isn't fair, as it makes his the equivalent of £1700.

Prices mostly taken from Aria unless yours are cheaper or not stocked.

CASE Silverstone Raven (£105)

CPU 3570k (£166)

COOLER NH-D14 (£66)

MOBO MSI z77 GD55 (£120)

RAM 8gb - 2x4gb corsair low profile vengeance 1600 mhz (£40)

SSD Crucial M4 64gb (£65)

HDD WD 2tb caviar green (£90)

OD LG BH10LS38 Blu-Ray Drive (£64)

GPU MSI GTX 670 (£330)

PSU Corsair TX650M modular (£82)

OS Windows 7 prof 64 bit OEM (£101)

= £1229

That is bang on, cutthroat gaming. Massive performance at the best price. Let him have a look at that. It has freed up quite a lot of cash from the other two lists so if he wants to upgrade the to the 3770 or anything else then he can.
 
My new list and still working on the graphics card

Windows 7 Professional oem 64bit £107.35

Silverstone Raven RV03 Case £104.98

Corsair AX750 £124.99

LG BH10LS38 Blu-Ray Drive £63.99

MSI Z77A-GD65 £144.99

Intel Core i7-3570K £175.99

Corsair 8GB (2x4GB) Vengeance Blue DDR3 1600MHz DIMM 240-pin CL9 LP £38.98

Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green £89.98

Crucial 64GB M4 SSD £61.99

Noctua NH-D14 £64.99

MSI GTX 670 965MHz 2GB OC £329.98

Delivery Cost £1.98

Sub total £1308.21

and with £80 Discount

Total £1228.21
 
Cram said:
My new list and still working on the graphics card

Windows 7 Professional oem 64bit £107.35

Silverstone Raven RV03 Case £104.98

Corsair AX750 £124.99

LG BH10LS38 Blu-Ray Drive £63.99

MSI Z77A-GD65 £144.99

Intel Core i7-3570K £175.99

Corsair 8GB (2x4GB) Vengeance Blue DDR3 1600MHz DIMM 240-pin CL9 LP £38.98

Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green £89.98

Crucial 64GB M4 SSD £61.99

Noctua NH-D14 £64.99

MSI GTX 670 965MHz 2GB OC £329.98

Delivery Cost £1.98

Sub total £1308.21

and with £80 Discount

Total £1228.21
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the 3570k is an i5 and a unless you plan for sli then a 650w psu will do fine
 
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