New PC Specs

[ShutUpAndFire]

Ok this is a starting point not sure if I will go with it!

First question is AMD or New Intel went for AMD mainly due to price!

Any SENSIBLE HELPFUL comments are more than welcome!!




Processor

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 940 Black Edition 3.0GHz (Socket AM2+)

Motherboard

Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3

Case and coolers

Coolermaster RC-1000 Cosmos Silent Full Tower Case - Black (No PSU)
Akasa AK-967 Nero Direct Contact Heatpipe CPU Cooler (AM2/AM2+/939/LGA775/LGA1366)
Startech.com 2 Drive 2.5in Trayless Hot Swap SATA Mobile Rack
Scythe Kaze-Master 5.25" Fan Controller - Black
Akasa AK-VC03-BLUV Vortexx NEO VGA Cooler

PSU
Corsair HX 1000W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply

Memory and Storage
2 * Corsair 4GB DDR3 DHX 1600C9DHX Twin3X (2x2GB) (TW3X4G1600C9DHX)
2* OCZ Apex Series 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1APX60G)
2* Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3250410AS)
Scythe Card Reader & Floppy Drive - Black

Optical Drives
LG GGW-H20L Blu-Ray Rewriter & HD-DVD ROM Serial ATA Drive - Retail
LG GH22NS40 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM

Graphics Card
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 2048MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI

Sound Card
Fatal1ty Professional Series 7.1 Sound Card

Monitor
Iiyama ProLite E2407HDS 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor

Speakers
Logitech Z-5500 THX Certified 5.1 Speaker System

Keyboard and mouse
Logitech diNovo Media Desktop Laser



Cheers,

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[Bert]

very nice

not sure if AMD is the best choice at the minute...... but I like em :)

I actually dont know ATI's well but do you really need the 2 card?? Pete got me thinking this... I have used SLi since it came out, but why 2.....

apart from that sweet m8 :good2:

[Fehn]

not that bad, but i would never pay extra for a soundcard just because they use the nick fatal1ty :)

[JDREADD]

to be honest u can get the same sound quality from on board sound now
and u dont get the driver issues like creative lol

and solid state too expensive for what they are no good in my system id fill them way to quick lol

im a big amd fan but at this moment in time amd dont have the speed to beat intel and they take a bit moor cooling

[JDREADD]

ill be happy if they bring out 1tb 10000rpm hdds or bigger

[GUEST]

I got the Z5500's so has faceman and Mitch... Nice speakers. I use em for the living room now tho

bass is mint at max volume, no distortion. SSD RAID 0 is a good move

and you can OC that chip no prob.

Don't forget a 64bit OS is a good move too m8. I use vista 64 and no probs here

for a noticably good performance increase (maybe xp 64 would be better) ;)

Looks good m8 :)

[GUEST]

ill be happy if they bring out 1tb 10000rpm hdds or bigger

The SSD drives are still faster m8 altho not cheap lolz.

I'm not gonna bother with sata SSD's, I'm gonna wait to see what happens to the pci-e SSD HDD's 1st.

[JDREADD]

ye i got same speakers getting another set for media center pc for my tv

and yes they faster but i wouldnt get anything on them way to small.

but again im waiting for somert bigger and faster

[ShutUpAndFire]

Thanks for the feed back folks, I thought i would try the ssd drives mainly for os and other system files/games as for storage I have a 1TB NAS so storage aint really an issue on my gaming pc, all I want is speed. So the pair of 500GB of hdds would be enough for other junk that i would keep on my gaming rig.

As for the intel vs amd issue, I might go i7 920 and give the fatal1ity a miss (use the saving on the sound card to pay for the difference!!)

Pete made me think about going for a 4870x2 rather than the 4850x2 but i aint sure about the cost/performance difference I feel that the 100+ quid saving would leave me in a position to get better other specs and upgrade the gpu later from the 4850x2 (I am only using a BFG 8800GT OC2 so either card will be a huge upgrade for me in any case).

Just given me more to think about but thats a good thing dont wanna spend that much without doing some thinking!!

Cheers folks

[Fehn]

the real big diff between 4850 and 4870 is in higher resolutions if im not misstaking.

[Deathtaker27]

the real big diff between 4850 and 4870 is in higher resolutions if im not misstaking.

and your bank balance

[kegNeggs]

sounds good will you give that one to me?

[JDREADD]

if u got pci-e i got a spare 7900gtx or a spare alpha dog 8800gs

[ShutUpAndFire]

Got £2600 spare

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-025-OC&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1427

[JDREADD]

ouch ????? i have but wanting a new tdi disco so that might have to wait lol

[JAMESW0403]

put it through hd tele its great

[Kharak]

Dude... oooold tread...

But Intel i7 920... Or if you really wanna kick the cat, go for the Intel i7 975 Extreme edition!

And Solid State, is simply incredible.. Speechless! It´s amazing speed!