Building a custom PC - £2000

[Chippiewill]

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

Looks good, I may upgrade some bits

[N!ck]

A better choice imo.



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


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

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 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 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 . 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.