Building a custom PC - £2000

[Chippiewill]

Sorry about creating yet another thread however I want to try and build it over half term and I am not going to wait longer for a new 'Something' since there is always a new 'something' coming soon. What I currently have is very expensive and I need people to help me trim down the price...


Current Spec:

Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Full Tower Case - No PSU (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143852) £129.99

Antec TruePower Quattro 1000W PSU (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/129283) £140.87

Zotac GTX295 1792MB DDR3 Dual DVI HDMI PhysX and Cuda ready PCI-E Graphics Card (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/155573) £419.98

Maxtor 500GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm *32MB Cache* - OEM (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/141471) £48.22 £96.44

Asus P6T DELUXE X58 Socket 1366 7.1 channel audio ATX Motherboard (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/151858) £239.94

Plexus Serial ATA 2.0 7-pin Cable (Red) 61cm / 24" (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/151962) £2.55 £5.10

OCZ 6Gb (3x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz Memory CL7(7-7-7-20) 1.6V Compatible with I7 Motherboard (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152747)£159.99

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium w/SP1 - Complete package - 1 PC - DVD - English International (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142788) £133.08

Microsoft Desktop 8000 - Wireless Bluetooth Entertainment Keyboard & Mouse (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/125008) £171.72

Extra Value F6102 Adjustable Fabric Office Chair Blue (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/144048) £59.99

Samsung SM2433BW 24" TFT Monitor 1920x1200 20000:1 300cd/m2 5ms VGA/DVI Glossy Black 3 Years On-Site Warranty (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150970) £206.50

Logitech G51 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker System - 155W RMS (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/133295) £94.39

NETGEAR RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N USB Adapter WNDA3100 (draft 2.0) (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143169) £63.43

Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz Socket 1366 8MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/151477) £255.25

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/4342d11fafc5751spec.jpg

[Stephen!]

You could skim down on the speakers.. unless you're a fan of high quality sound

[Chippiewill]

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/116853 better?

[scottish]

Get OEM of vista instead of retail, free £50 or something.

[Stephen!]

get a cheaper PSU. 850w or so.

[Chippiewill]

maybe, I read in a book though that they're copy got suspended as they weren't a system manafacturer

edit: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152604 for psu?

[DarrenToogood]

Get rid of the OS. Just download it? Also maybe cut back on the keyboard/mouse.

Doing that will save you £250-300.

[scottish]

Get rid of the OS. Just download it? Also maybe cut back on the keyboard/mouse.

Doing that will save you £250-300.

Not everyones cheapskates who need free stuff.

[Chippiewill]

With OS you need to be careful as it can be patched so you cant use a downloaded copy. Also I want this keyboard in particular as it runs on 2.4 frequency giving it excellent range.

edit: down to £2050, it would be great if I could get below £2000

[Agnostic Bear]

Sorry about creating yet another thread however I want to try and build it over half term and I am not going to wait longer for a new 'Something' since there is always a new 'something' coming soon. What I currently have is very expensive and I need people to help me trim down the price...




Holy christ that is expensive, here, buy this:

http://jewbear.net/build.png

[Chippiewill]

Thanks for the placeholder (Dont get why you posted first tbh)

Looks good, I may upgrade some bits xD

[N!ck]

A better choice imo.

http://uploadpicz.com/images/NBYZBYK.png

I will have a look on Aria now to see if i can do anything better.

[Chippiewill]

Looks good, 6gb is almost nessercary on i7 now since it has to be triple channel for performence and 3gb is just silly for i7


edit: sorry didnt notice the x2 on there xD


1800th POST WOOOP!!!

[Oleh]

Just go for a i7 custom built pc , thats close to £1000 and their pretty good, dont just go for the stuff what costs alot

[Agnostic Bear]

Just go for a i7 custom built pc , thats close to £1000 and their pretty good, dont just go for the stuff what costs alot

Jesus christ why does nobody read the thread.

[Chippiewill]

for a non slow i7 you need quite a bit of money

[N!ck]

Looks good, 6gb is almost nessercary on i7 now since it has to be triple channel for performence and 3gb is just silly for i7


edit: sorry didnt notice the x2 on there xD

Yeah, it's 8GB total in the one i posted and also a higher frequency (no tripple channel though - 2 x dual channel). You've got more HDD space as well as them being better drives in mine as well.

Just realised you'll be needing an optical drive which will be around £16.

Some of the parts are cheaper on www.aria.co.uk so i'd recommend getting half from Ebuyer and half from Aria if you want to try and cut down a little more.

[Agnostic Bear]

Yeah, it's 8GB total in the one i posted and also a higher frequency (no tripple channel though - 2 x dual channel). You've got more HDD space as well as them being better drives in mine as well.

Just realised you'll be needing an optical drive which will be around £16.

Some of the parts are cheaper on www.aria.co.uk (http://www.aria.co.uk) so i'd recommend getting half from Ebuyer and half from Aria if you want to try and cut down a little more.

I'd have to disagree here, getting 4x500gb drives and raid 0 x 2 would be better than 2x1TB and using an SSD for the OS drive would be a very well performing drive.

[N!ck]

I'd have to disagree here, getting 4x500gb drives and raid 0 x 2 would be better than 2x1TB and using an SSD for the OS drive would be a very well performing drive.

I agree with the SSD part, but that's getting even more expensive.

1TB drives perform faster than 500GB drives in general, and Samsung drives perform better than those Seagates in a similar capacity drive. With the amount of RAM he will be getting i'd advise turning the paging file off therefore there will be no performance increase by moving the paging system to a separate drive as there will be no pagefile at all.

[Chippiewill]

Yeah, it's 8GB total in the one i posted and also a higher frequency (no tripple channel though - 2 x dual channel). You've got more HDD space as well as them being better drives in mine as well.

Just realised you'll be needing an optical drive which will be around £16.

Some of the parts are cheaper on www.aria.co.uk (http://www.aria.co.uk) so i'd recommend getting half from Ebuyer and half from Aria if you want to try and cut down a little more.

I reckon I am going to mash together yours and jewish bears. (Maybe get some from aria if big difference however with one supplier then I can get one delivery day)

So I am going to get his hdd config (4x 500gb, I loled and then another ssd with 64gb or something) Not sure why jewish bear went for palm version though for mobo xD. Keeping my case for space. Is the cooling in the case enough or do I need more like gfx card cooling? Also with the fan that comes with cpu is it going to cope with overclock or not as I heard this processor gets to 3ghz quite easily.

[Agnostic Bear]

I reckon I am going to mash together yours and jewish bears. (Maybe get some from aria if big difference however with one supplier then I can get one delivery day)

So I am going to get his hdd config (4x 500gb, I loled and then another ssd with 64gb or something) Not sure why jewish bear went for palm version though for mobo xD. Keeping my case for space. Is the cooling in the case enough or do I need more like gfx card cooling? Also with the fan that comes with cpu is it going to cope with overclock or not as I heard this processor gets to 3ghz quite easily.

You'll need to get a non-stock cooler for the CPU, get my GFX card and the cooler, that'll overclock nicely, also get my case if you can, it's the same amount of space, just the P182 doesn't look like OH GOD BLUE LED's and has good cable management.

[N!ck]

I reckon I am going to mash together yours and jewish bears. (Maybe get some from aria if big difference however with one supplier then I can get one delivery day)

So I am going to get his hdd config (4x 500gb, I loled and then another ssd with 64gb or something) Not sure why jewish bear went for palm version though for mobo xD. Keeping my case for space. Is the cooling in the case enough or do I need more like gfx card cooling? Also with the fan that comes with cpu is it going to cope with overclock or not as I heard this processor gets to 3ghz quite easily.

It's up to you, but in my opinion 2 x 1TB HDDs in RAID 0 would perform better than 4 x 500GB HDDs in two RAIS 0 arrays.

If you go for the 4 x 500GB option then i recommend going on Aria and getting 500GB Samsungs. Ebuyer don't seem to have any.

[Stephen!]

It depends what models of 1TB hard drives and 500GB drives you get. If you have a 1TB with 3 320GB platters and a 500GB with 2 250GB platters, the 500GB drive would outperform the 1TB.

Also, remember you're talking about onboard RAID here. two arrays running side by side is going to damage performance.

[Chippiewill]

Currently In my basket (the x2 8gb kit wasnt designed for i7 so I decided it was best to stay safe)

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/6215ec598cc5412spec2.jpg

I am currently looking on aria to look for cheaper parts....

[N!ck]

Currently In my basket (the x2 8gb kit wasnt designed for i7 so I decided it was best to stay safe)

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/6215ec598cc5412spec2.jpg

I am currently looking on aria to look for cheaper parts....

What you getting all the extra SATA cables for? You still need a DVD-RW drive as well.

[Stephen!]

SSD's are not worth it at the moment. I mean what can you do with 60GB? Yes, you can install your programs onto the 500gb drive but that defeats the purpose as it'll only go as fast as the hard drive will allow. The only benefit would be a quicker boot time for windows. Paying £100 for 10-20 seconds off boot time? Not worth it

[Chippiewill]

What you getting all the extra SATA cables for? You still need a DVD-RW drive as well.


x4 500gb drives for the sata cables, just added dvd drive after posting, removed ssd also aria isnt cheaper due to shipping charges on top are just going to add to much.

[N!ck]

x4 500gb drives for the sata cables, just added dvd drive after posting, removed ssd also aria isnt cheaper due to shipping charges on top are just going to add to much.

Motherboard will come with them lol.

[Agnostic Bear]

x4 500gb drives for the sata cables, just added dvd drive after posting, removed ssd also aria isnt cheaper due to shipping charges on top are just going to add to much.

Why did you remove the ssd?


SSD's are not worth it at the moment. I mean what can you do with 60GB? Yes, you can install your programs onto the 500gb drive but that defeats the purpose as it'll only go as fast as the hard drive will allow. The only benefit would be a quicker boot time for windows. Paying £100 for 10-20 seconds off boot time? Not worth it

What are you talking about, you install OS and programs onto the SSD, all your storage goes onto the 4x500gb, it's very worth it.

[Stephen!]

I don't know about you, but i can no way fit all my programs into 45GB not including games. Right click on your program files folder and tell me how much space it's taking up.

It would be better to get 2 and RAID them

[Agnostic Bear]

SSD's are not worth it at the moment. I mean what can you do with 60GB? Yes, you can install your programs onto the 500gb drive but that defeats the purpose as it'll only go as fast as the hard drive will allow. The only benefit would be a quicker boot time for windows. Paying £100 for 10-20 seconds off boot time? Not worth it


I don't know about you, but i can no way fit all my programs into 45GB not including games. Right click on your program files folder and tell me how much space it's taking up.

It would be better to get 2 and RAID them

30GB ish

[Chippiewill]

Removing SSD brought me back down to budget, also I can cope without one at the moment so I doubt I need one now. I will wait for the price to come down.

Also x2 30gb is a tiny bit more than x1 60gb....

[Stephen!]

I meant get two 60GB's :P but that would just blow the price out of proportion. I guess if you REALLY wanted SSD you could cheapen down some of the other parts.

[no waiii]

i didnt read the other post s sorry if someone said it,

Why do you wanna sepnd £200 on a mouse and keyboard....

tesco sell them for like £3

[Chippiewill]

because £3 tesco ones are naff, also read the bloody thread!

[Flisker]

I don't know about you, but i can no way fit all my programs into 45GB not including games. Right click on your program files folder and tell me how much space it's taking up.

It would be better to get 2 and RAID them
my program files is 73.7GB big :P

[Nick.]

mines 25GB but that's the apps alone not including preference files and such.

[Recursion]

like 40GB and thats just after a format...

[Chippiewill]

This will end up as a post your program files size thread xD

[Chippiewill]

Sorry for bumping however I have a small update.

I have made the final adjustmants to the purchase and I am about to pay for it. I have decided to upgrade some of the components to make it all easier:

The motherboard I (re)upgraded to palm edition as when looking through the asus website about it I discovered that:

a) (not definate about this) that it can be used as a windows side show thing
b) It is very useful for overclocking as it can interface with the mobo and change settings (I think) whilse the computer is fully booted up (e.g. windows is up and running)

I have also decided to add cooling paste (Thought upgrading from stock stuff would be beneficial) and a decent fan (Akasa Nero socket 1366 cooler)

Here is my final setup (ps if someone can find a better chair for a similar price on another website then I would prefer to go for that):

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[scottish]

why 6 sata cables.
i doubt you'll need that gfx card cooler - waste of 25 quid

[Chippiewill]

Not a waste if you compare it to £2000, or considering that I inherit £240k when I am 18

[scottish]

Yes it is a waste; it doesn't matter how much it costs, nor do i care what you inherit. The fact is its a waste of 25 quid, unless your going to max the overclocking on your gfx which i can't see you doing or even overclocking near it.

also why the 6 sata cables.

[Agnostic Bear]

Not a waste if you compare it to £2000, or considering that I inherit £240k when I am 18

It is a waste because it doesn't work with the X2.

[Soy]

If you want to spend that much, you will be getting a killer gaming PC.

I mean you would be using alot of energy even whilst browsing, if you think this will be all you will be paying wait untill the energy bill arrives..

[bigdavecox90]

Wish I had 2 grand to spend on a PC.

[Turbocom]

you could save for school.. :eusa_whis

[Recursion]

you could save for school.. :eusa_whis

Ditto.

[Janet Snakehole]

woah woah, better be a good pc haha ;)