JaffaTB
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thinking of building a new gaming pc, here is a quick list of parts i have picked, i wont need a monitor as i can use the one i currently have and can always buy another one later down the line, pc will be mainly used for browsing and playing games, not really bothered about overclocking but may want to in the future, here are the bits i have chosen so far:
Gigabyte GTX 560 OC Edition 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI Mini HDMI PCI-E Graphics Card
Intel Core i5 2500K 3.3GHz Socket 1155 6MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor
Asrock P67 PRO3 SE Socket 1155 8 Channel HD Audio ATX Motherboard
Corsair 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz Vengeance Memory Kit CL9 1.5V
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro rev 2 Socket 775, 1156, 1155, 1366, AM2, AM3 Heatpipe CPU Cooler
Casecom 6788 All Black Case
OCZ 750W Fatal1ty Series Semi-Modular PSU
Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATAII 7200RPM 16MB Cache - OEM Caviar Blue
total: £650
looking for any advice or recommendations about different bits i should go for etc, would like to stay intel and nvidia though, unless theres a good reason to change
i currrently have an e6600 core2duo, p5k mb, 8800 gt, 2gb ram, 750gb hd space
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Sam
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CPU already comes with a heatsink and fan if it's a retail box.
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Bart
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Krypton Z68 600i Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.60GHz Overclocked Bundle
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LukesCorsaSXi
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Dont get a western digital, the fail rate on them is high 
[Edited on 18-11-2011 by LukesCorsaSXi]
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by LukesCorsaSXi
Dont get a western digital, the fail rate on them is high
It's hit and miss.
I'd have a gander at the Scan overclocked bundles as they are well priced for what you get.
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Oli_p
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spec looks alright, i almost went for almost exactly same setup recently, but ended up going for the GTX570 OC, very capable system have ran BF3 on it on high settings and all seemed fine
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Sam
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Won't have much chance of getting many WD drives at the moment TBH 
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JaffaTB
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ordered a slightly different spec earlier, same processor, 8gb of ddr3 1600mhz ram, geforce 560ti, z68 mb, no hd's as im going to use my 2 existing 250gb ones until the prices come down a bit
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Sunz
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SSD needed really, you are just slowing the pc down with "hd's"
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JaffaTB
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can always order one of those later down the line though
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chris_uk
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get the hybrid HDD
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Sam
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The problem with SSDs is their relatively slow capacities - I've not seen any bigger than 320GB (and they are VERY expensive at that kind of capacity).
Unless you are minted, you'd only have a smallish capacity one as a boot/application drive and a mechanical HDD for storage at the moment.
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chris_uk
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the hybrid one is 500GB and its not quite as fast as a true SSD but its far far faster than anything else
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
The problem with SSDs is their relatively slow capacities - I've not seen any bigger than 320GB (and they are VERY expensive at that kind of capacity).
Unless you are minted, you'd only have a smallish capacity one as a boot/application drive and a mechanical HDD for storage at the moment.
What you end up doing is purchasing a smaller drive, say 64GB, and only using it for OS and important applications; everything else gets bunged onto a standard HDD.
Saying that SSD's are needed though, is a load of betty 
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csweatherston
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Obviously been on ocuk, every threrad is riddled with "needs an SSD"
Would recommend chopping out the sata2 hdd for a sata3 one though.
The case is ugly.
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Sunz
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I use a 120gb ssd for daily use, depends how much you need to store on your pc if it's useful or not.
Is just pointless to me for people to spend £100s on a new system them slow it down with hard drives.
Kind of defeats the object of upgrading it in some sections.
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John
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Depend's what you are using it for really.
After it's loaded into memory it doesn't really matter so much.
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by Sunz
I use a 120gb ssd for daily use, depends how much you need to store on your pc if it's useful or not.
Is just pointless to me for people to spend £100s on a new system them slow it down with hard drives.
Kind of defeats the object of upgrading it in some sections.
Agree 100%.
SSDs are where its at.
I currently have two of the first gen SSDs in raid0, which are slow by todays SSD standards, but the difference over standard hard drives is unimaginable.
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