£1000 Budget looking for Suggestions

Forum Systems : New Build £1000 Budget looking for Suggestions

Approximate Purchase Date: Early March

Budget Range:£1000

System Usage from Most to Least Important:Gaming, Light Modeling (Blender, Photoshop), Browsing, general stuff

Parts Not Required: keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers

Preferred Website(s) for Parts:CCL Computers or others

Country: UK

Parts Preferences: AMD CPU (Though open to suggestion), Nvidia Graphics (Not so open to suggestion)

Overclocking: Most Likely

SLI or Crossfire: No

Additional Comments: My Current list is below just wanted to here some feedback and maybe some suggestions as to other options

AMD Phenom II X4 960T - Use one of these in my current Setup it unlocked to 6 core and OC's nicely so the plan is if the new one doesnt unlock i switch em round!
http://www.cclonline.com/product/6 [...] r/CPU0067/

Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3
http://www.cclonline.com/product/6 [...] d/MBD0167/

8GB G.Skill Ripjaws - X2 to make 16GB
http://www.cclonline.com/product/5 [...] 3/RAM1230/

KFA2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 - Not sure about this brand?
http://www.cclonline.com/product/5 [...] d/VGA0203/

Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB X2 of these as well. Avoiding Seagate as a while ago a number of them bricked on me
http://www.cclonline.com/product/4 [...] e/HDD1106/

LG GH22NS70 DVDÝRW - Cheap and cheerful i barely use thing
http://www.cclonline.com/product/6 [...] -/CDR1123/

Antec DF-35 Dark Fleet Mid Tower Case - Because i want a side window!
http://www.cclonline.com/product/4 [...] e/CAS1274/

700W OCZ ModXStream Pro Modular Power Supply
http://www.cclonline.com/product/3 [...] y/PSU1090/

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OEM
http://www.cclonline.com/product/5 [...] -/SFT0066/

Cooler Master Hyper TX3 CPU Cooler
http://www.cclonline.com/product/2 [...] r/CLR4124/

TP-Link TL-WN781ND 150Mbps Wireless Lite N PCI Express Adaptor - I am always wired but its there just incase
http://www.cclonline.com/product/4 [...] r/NET1476/

LAMPTRON ClearPuk 5-Spread Clear LED - So i can see inside my side window :sol:
http://www.cclonline.com/product/4 [...] D/CAS9097/

Ok Totals on that £917.17 so leaves a bit of room to play with.

Like i said I'm really open to suggestions though on the graphics im less open I'm quite welded to Nvidia. Thanking you in advance for the ideas/help.

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Reply to wr6133

Its a good build. Better buy a good brand video card , EVGA , XFX , Asus ,Msi,Gigabyte.

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Reply to sosofm

Thanks I wasn't sure on that brand as had never really heard about them.

So revised to

EVGA GeForce GTX 570 HD Superclocked 1280MB

http://www.cclonline.com/product/6 [...] d/VGA0330/

Bringing it to £943.86

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Reply to wr6133

You could wait until april and get a new Gtx 670.
^+1 to sosofm's video card brands.
You could upgrade to Ivy Bridge as well although its not necessary.

Reply to Devastater6194

That video card is good EVGA make the best Nvidia cards.

Waiting for the 670 is very tempting. I have a buyer for my old rig though that wants it by mid march so i suppose an option to wait for the 670 could be to throw in a cheaper 550ti when I initially build then buy the 670 later on and chuck the 550ti on Ebay. Though the release price on the 670 may push me over budget? Its a tempting thought as it'll be all shiney and new but in reality as I will probably do another build in just over 2 years I have to wonder if its needed.

As to Ivybridge I'm guessing it'll release around or somewhat above the current price of Sandybridge. I know Sandybridge currently sits as top dog for gaming but it also commands the price there. The 960T I use currently i have had no issue with performance wise. Right now its Running unlocked to 6 core and stable at 3.6GHZ, it makes 4GHZ stable on 4 core. Would moving to the intel route really give me a performance hitch inline with its price increase?

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Reply to wr6133

My advice would be that if they haven't announced the 6xx series officially when you sell your computer then stick with the 570.
According to this article http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Nvid [...] 37693.html the 670 is supposed to be about £315 which would still keep you under budget.
Also my advice would be to shop around. Another couple of shops are www.scan.co.uk www.aria.co.uk www.overclockers.co.uk
For example your cpu is a couple of quid cheaper at scan but your mobo is bit more expensive so shop around.
Another couple of good cards are http://www.scan.co.uk/products/128 [...] 40mhz-plus
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/312 [...] -i-dp-hdmi

As for Ivy bridge, if your having no problems now then there's no point changing as your going to do a new build in a couple of years.
With only one card your not likely to see any gain. If it isn't broken don't fix it.