Hi all, I have spent last two weeks looking for parts in to my new gaming rig. My budget is £1700. I have picked up fallowing : I would appreciate if you would tell me what would you change and why. Note: Later on I will be buying another GTX580 that's why 850 W PSU. Thank you.
Do you really need 2 SSDs? That's a lil' bit overkill. Don't spend money for the sake of spending money. I would replace the P8P67 Pro with a Z68 motherboard instead. deltatux
you could easily strip back a few items and have a GTX590, Check Scans Deals of the day for bumndle saving!!.. you could even go i7sandy too
i7 sandy, scale back a little and get a standard 580 and drop the 60gb ssd, best thing would be 1 120gb ssd and two 1TB drives in raid0, Ive got rendition RAM for £12.50 a stick also so would save you a few quid, in fact Ive an i7 and stuff for sale, PM me if you want mate that cpu cooler is overkill for sandy also.
his HDD situation is something I would change immediately, its a dog slow setup compared to what I suggested.
What if he swapped the P67 for a Z68 and then dropped the 120GB SSD and just used the 1TB Western Digital and used the 60GB SSD for the SSD Caching Technology thats in the Z68 Chipset? Also see no reason to get an i7 2600K over the i5 2500K That G Skill RAM can be bought for like £85 at OCUK where r u seeing it at £115?
Only thing I would change is the motherboard to the newest P8Z68-V PRO. I can vote that this is a great board and from what I read beats any P67 board hands down!!
Are you sure you need 2 SSDs, and don't you want to get a sound cards, headset and a proper mouse and keyboard? That would probably mean that you'd have to cut hardware but personally I'd get proper peripherals one time, and use them for 10 years or something... Save money, and they are of course better.
You might as well get the Lightning MSI 580 instead, fastest gpu on the planet. I also get this psu if i was you---> http://www.scan.co.uk/products/900w...s-gold-93-eff-sli-crossfire-eps-12v-139mm-fan A bit more money but well worth it i'd say.
This Valor should be a proper mouse , I will wait for review. About Razer I hate them ... I had 2xCooperhead , 1x Lachesis , 1x Imperator , 1x Abysus and Logitech G9 and I didn't like them .... I really hope Valor will be good. We will see.
