Ordering a new PC today - Help!

[Wesley]

Help!

 

Yeah I'm going to order a new PC today - I'm fed up of having to live at work because my home PC is so crapped out.

 

I have up to £900 to play with (although coming under that would obviously be nice) and I don't need to worry about a case, main hard drive (I want an SSD to boot off) or CD drive.

 

Everything thing else needs filling in (apart from peripherals and monitors obviously).

 

I was looking at i7 cores, but I'm confused about Sandy Bridges and what's not going to crap out motherboard wise.

 

Looking at 8 gig of RAM, or maybe more... maybe 12 actually.

 

An SSD around 120Gig.

 

And as for graphics... I'm not really sure, I wanted a high end work station graphics card, but decent ones cost so much... so maybe just a decent gaming card.

 

I'll post some stuff I've found, but mostly this is suggestions.

 

Also, I'm going to order this today.

 

I hope to build on Wednesday.

 

THANKS!

 

OH!

 

I didn't mention what I use it for.

 

Lots of 3D programs, digital sculpting programs, Photoshop, game-engines and lots of stuff that requires as much computing power as possible.

 

Also a lot of this stuff uses decent GPUs for decent viewport performance (such as lighting calculations while doing lighting, etc.)

 

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/850w-corsair-hx-series-modular-80-plus-silver-90-eff-sli-crossfire-eps-12v-7-year-warranty

 

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/12gb-(3x4gb)-corsair-vengeance-ddr3-pc3-12800-(1600)-non-ecc-unbuffered-cas-9-9-9-24-xmp-150v

 

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel-core-i7-2600k-340-ghz-sandy-bridge1155-qd-core-gpu-850mhz-8mb-cache-95w-retail

 

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-sabertooth-p67-rev3-intel-p67-s1155-pci-e-20-ddr3-1866-sata-6gb-s-sata-raid-atx

 

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-gainward-gtx-560-ti-phantom-40nm-4008mhz-gddr5-gpu-822mhz-shader-1644mhz-384-cores-hdmi

 

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/40gb-intel-320-series-25-sata-3gb-s-ssd-mlc-flash-read-200mb-s-write-45mb-s-w-desktop-kit

 

A tad over.

 

Any suggestions are welcome.

 

I'm unsure about cooling... my last PC mostly messed up because of heating.

 

I have a Antec P182 case with 3 fans... I'm always scared about stuff over-heating.

 

Maybe I should get an extra cooler for the CPU?

 

It doesn't mention fans on the CPU, I presume it has a regular fan though...

[gmac]

as long as you don't get an OEM version of the CPU then it'll come with a cooler.

 

All the motherboard issues with Sandybridge chips should be sorted now, so you should be fine going with them.

[Wesley]

Changed the mobo to this:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/gigabyte-ga-pa65-ud3-b3-intel-h61-s-1155-pci-e-20-(x16)-ddr3-1066-1333-sata-6gb-s-raid-atx

 

Not as good, 70 quid less, and also doesn't have the problem of using Sandy Bridge with the P67 or H67 chipset.

 

The only major downside is that its' max RAM is 16 instead of 32.

 

Also changed the graphics, http://www.scan.co.uk/products/72gb-palit-gtx-560-ti-40nm-4008mhz-gddr5-gpu-822mhz-shader-1645mhz-384-cores-2x-dvi-hdmi-vga

 

Same card different manufacturer (although both the same company essentially).

 

Also changed the RAM.

 

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/8gb(2x4gb)-corsair-xms3-ddr3-pc3-10666-(1333)-nonecc-unbuffered-cas-9-9-9-24-new-connector-160v

 

It's duel, isn't wasting speed like the last and I have 4 Gig in a pair that I can shove in anyway.

 

May add a wireless card...

 

Ordered.

 

Didn't go with the 2600k but 2600; couldn't overclock with that mobo.

 

RAM changed to 1.5v instead of 1.6v.

[Emasher]

With the Antec case keep in mind that the fans might have switches on the end rather than connectors to plug them into the motherboard, so you may need to either replace the fans, or control them manually.

[Wesley]

Yeah I have to do that at the moment.

 

Put it on mid if I'm just webbing and high when doing work/games.

 

What kind of fans would I get o fix this then?

[McPhee]

I use the Antec fans at the moment. Had some Scythe S-Flex in my last build and they were definitely better than the Antec Tri-Cool. They're quieter, push more air and plug in to the motherboard (they can be set up to change speed based on temp).