samas spec

[Sama<]

Intel Core i5 2500K 3.3GHz
ASUS P8Z68-V LE Z68
Corsair Vengeance 8GB
HD 6950 PCS+ Vortex II 2GB GDDR5
WD 2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s Caviar Green Hard Drive

Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme
Corsair 850W HX
Logitech G9x
Keyboard G510
Iiyama E2773HDS TFT LCD 27"
Win 7 64 bit

looking forward to blowing stuff up "not my pc i hope"

[Phil-Gurthang]

How much does something like that cost?

[Klaev]

Nice one Sama!

[Syllabear!]

"mumbles" old bastard T_T gimme that !!

[Gambiet]

I got almost the same specs as far as processor/Motherboard and memory go ...

Got myself a OCZ Agility SSD though, and loving it. Loading times are non-existent :D

[Sama<]

yeah i liked the sound of those SSD drives and boot up speeds.

sorry for the late reply phil i got a budget from £1000 to £1500 set up above i think came in around £1200 ish mark but ive made a few changes on cooler and gfx

[Sama<]

Core i5 2500K 3.3GHz
Corsair CWCH80 Hydro Series
Asus SABERTOOTH P67
Corsair Vengeance 8GB
Corsair TXM 850W
WD 2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s Caviar Green

Gigabyte GTX 570 OC Windforce3X 1280MB
Roccat Isku keybord
Roccat kone+ mouse

Display still unknown till january

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

a few changes from the old spec but game on

[Erza_Scarlet]

Get star wars then :P

[M*A*S*H]

Are you planning to overclock as your probably 200+ watts more than you need one the PSU :D

Trying to spec a new PC for ME3 and stuff need new

MB - prob asus will need 7 ATA ports due to my silly HD set up :D
CPU - (is the i5 best value atm? been an AMD man so not sure any more)
HD - ocz agility 3 would like the 240 gig but prob a bit much
RAM - corsair 8gig min i think
GPU - ATI still best value?

any feed back would be good, want it to last 2-3 years

[Klaev]

I'd definitely say go for a i5 2500, high performance for the price and comparible to some much pricier chips.

I always like an Asus board, the P8Z68 range are sweet atm.

8gig is optimum on RAM at the moment from what I remember, so you're probably looking in a pretty good area.

Graphics cards are really dependant on how much you want to spend, I always recommend this site for an idea on where components are ranking against each other, check the other buyers guides, they'll come in handy I reckon.

[M*A*S*H]

Yeah coming to the same conclusions myself after looking on the web.

Can't find any good reviews for quite CPU coolers don't plan to over-clock so prefer as quite as possible instead.

[M*A*S*H]

another question anyone with an SSD do you find that apps running from a normal ATA drive load faster if the system cache is on the SSD?

I ask as 120gig drive might be a bit small for me to use as a boot drive and run all my games from there and the 240gig is silly money.

[Sama<]

SSD is nice if you got the cash but im finding the HDD i bought to speed along very well.

water cooler i got h80 comes with 2 120 fans in a push pull setup quiet enough even at top speed

cpu idle temp 16 oC 2 hrs of gaming bf3 cpu temp 30 oC never goes past that gfx card temps 35 oC system temp 35 - 40 oC

[Sama<]

Display Samsung SA350 27" i love it ;)