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dachbo

New member
I'm about to order this, any suggestions before I do?

Case
COOLERMASTER CM STORM SNIPER - NEXT GEN GAMING CASE (£129)
Overclocked CPU
OverClocked Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-950 (3.06GHz @ max 3.8GHz)
Motherboard
ASUS® P6X58D PREMIUM: DDR3, USB 3.0 & SATA 6.0GB/s, 3-Way SLI
Memory (RAM)
6GB KINGSTON HYPER-X TRI-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (3 x 2GB KIT)
Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX460 GDDR5 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
120GB OCZ VERTEX 2 SATA II 2.5" SSD (upto 285MB/sR | 275MB/sW)
Power Supply & Case Cooling
CORSAIR 850W PSU (TX850) 80+ ULTRA QUIET (£100)
Processor Cooling
TITAN FENRIR EXTREME DIRECT TOUCH COPPER CPU COOLER (£39)
Thermal Paste
STANDARD OVERCLOCK THERMAL PASTE
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
 
PaulH

PaulH

Bright Spark
Cannot knock that spec at all, the 850 is a little extreme for that system, but will enable you to pop another GTX460 in at a later date.
 
Meds

Meds

Moderator
Moderator
Might also be worth getting the Arctic Cooling MX-3 Paste for the OC CPU too.
 
Phoenix

Phoenix

Prolific Poster
Is 120gb enough for you? seems a bit low, wouldn't cost a lot more to get a larger HDD (640gb caviar green) to go with the SSD.
 
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dachbo

New member
Phoenix said:
Is 120gb enough for you? seems a bit low, wouldn't cost a lot more to get a larger HDD (640gb caviar green) to go with the SSD.
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I already have a 1TB SATA drive in my current PC so that will be getting put in to hold the all the photos/videos etc.
 
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dachbo

New member
Thanks all for the helpful responses. One other point, I'm struggling to choose between the following:

1GB ATI RADEON™ HD 5850 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX460 GDDR5 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11

Any suggestions?
 
Phoenix

Phoenix

Prolific Poster
The 5850 will outperform the 460 in games (frames per second) but the 460 would be quite a lot better if you're intending to use photoshop or something similiar for the GPU acceleration.
 
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