final spec

[vanthus]

This is what ive decided on after 2 weeks on this forum & checking up elsewhere.what i want is a medium gaming & good performance machine.still open to some last minute advice.

Case
COOLERMASTER ELITE 310 BLUE CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD PHENOM II X4 970 (3.50GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3) - BLACK EDITION
Motherboard
ASUS® M4A87TD/USB3: DUAL DDR3,SATA 6.0GB/s, USB 3.0
Memory (RAM)
4GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 2GB)
Graphics Card
1GB ATI RADEON™ HD 5850 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD10EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD10EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
10x BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW (£89)
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD, MS, CF, SD, etc)
Power Supply & Case Cooling
CORSAIR 650W PSU (TX650) 80+ ULTRA QUIET (£76)
Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER) (£59)
Sound Card
Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Titanium PCI Express (£66)
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
Firewire & Video Editing
3 Port IEEE 1394a Firewire PCI Card (£9)
TV Card
HAUPPAUGE HI-DEF SATELITTE DVB-S2 TV RECIEVER (WinTV-NOVA-HD-S2)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£108)
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Keyboard & Mouse
Logitech® Internet 350 USB Keyboard (£9)
Mouse
Logitech® MX™518 Optical Gaming Mouse (£29)
Speakers
LOGITECH Z323 2.1 Stereo speakers with Rich bass and 360-degree sound (£39)
Headsets (VOIP)
Logitech® PC Headset 860 Stereo with in-line volume control (£15)
Surge Protection
Belkin 8-Socket 2M SurgeMaster with £175,000 Protection Warranty! (£18)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 12 working days
Quantity


Price: £1,312.00 including VAT and delivery.

 

[Sleinous]

Excellent setup! Yes and yes on those 2 64mb cached WDs Good choice on the warranty and CPU. One thing that stands out for me is, will you be overclocking your rig? If not no real need in liquid cooling, stock or the triple heat pipe would be more than enough and the extra money could be put into the 5870 GPU.

 

[vanthus]

Excellent setup! Yes and yes on those 2 64mb cached WDs Good choice on the warranty and CPU. One thing that stands out for me is, will you be overclocking your rig? If not no real need in liquid cooling, stock or the triple heat pipe would be more than enough and the extra money could be put into the 5870 GPU.

thanks for that sleinous,i think ill do that.i was just thinking the liquid cooler would make pc run quiter.

 

[Sleinous]

thanks for that sleinous,i think ill do that.i was just thinking the liquid cooler would make pc run quiter.

Fenrir runs v quiet, liquid would indeed, but only by a marginal amount, and, wouldnt really make much diff as youd stil be getting marginally more noise from your GPU which wouldnt be water cooled.

 

[Meds]

A few things I'll pick up on;

1) Do you plan to burn to BluRay? On average they cost between £5 - £10 per disc so they still very expensive. You could save yourself a bit of money buy just going for a BluRay ROM/DVD RW.

2) As mentioned earlier the Fenrir will probably be better suited should you not plan on OC the CPU - still a very quiet and very good CPU Cooler.

3) Soundcard - the on you have chosen is very "high end", are you planning on using this for recording audio or for audio work? If not then I think you could get away with a cheaper model (maybe the Xtreme Audio) as this would be suffice. Infact, a lot of people these days are just sticking with the onboard audio as the quality is still very good.

4) Windows 7 Pro - again, do you really need this? A majority of people don't, the main benefit is XP Mode - is this something you plan on using?

5) The case - you have chosen very good component elsewhere and then selected on of the cheapest cases we stock. It may be better to go for the CM 690 to help aid the cooling?

 

[vanthus]

A few things I'll pick up on;

1) Do you plan to burn to BluRay? On average they cost between £5 - £10 per disc so they still very expensive. You could save yourself a bit of money buy just going for a BluRay ROM/DVD RW.

2) As mentioned earlier the Fenrir will probably be better suited should you not plan on OC the CPU - still a very quiet and very good CPU Cooler.

3) Soundcard - the on you have chosen is very "high end", are you planning on using this for recording audio or for audio work? If not then I think you could get away with a cheaper model (maybe the Xtreme Audio) as this would be suffice. Infact, a lot of people these days are just sticking with the onboard audio as the quality is still very good.

4) Windows 7 Pro - again, do you really need this? A majority of people don't, the main benefit is XP Mode - is this something you plan on using?

5) The case - you have chosen very good component elsewhere and then selected on of the cheapest cases we stock. It may be better to go for the CM 690 to help aid the cooling?

glad you brought these points up.
1.Yes.
2.Going to go with fenrir as advised,i wont be overclocking.
3 I will be doing recording & audio work.
4.only reason i opted for pro version is the one you mentioned,but as i plan on keeping pc i have with xp maybe i really wont need it.
5.I was in doubt about the case,ill have a look at cm 690,thank you.