Hi All,
I am planning a new build to be bought on April 1st (end of the fiscal year over here in merry England, and also a day for fools) and was wondering if such wise folks as yourselves would care to share your thoughts? It's going to be an upgrade from a Intel Q6600 build with 2 Nvidia GT 8800 s in SLi built back around the end of 2007. I am giving the old computer, along with peripherals and monitor, to my girlfriend and so basically I'll need a new everything.
At the moment my current plan goes a little something like this:
CPU: Intel Sandybridge i7-2600K
MOBO: Asus P8Z68-V/GEN3
RAM: 16GB G-Skill Ripjaws X (4x4GB DDR3-1600 PC3 12800)
GPU: 1 x ATI Radeon HD 7970 (3GB GDDR5)
PSU: OCZ 850W ZX Series (80+ Gold Rated)
SSD OCZ Vertex 3 120GB
HD: Western Digital 2TB SATA
CASE: Fractal Design Define R3
FAN: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2
MONITOR: ASUS VE278Q 27" LED
Most of the peripherals don't really matter too much to me (aside from the monitor) so I'll be getting relative standard 5.1 speakers, and a microsoft keyboard/mouse set I imagine. I'll also be buying a copy of windows 7 and a basic optical drive within the budget.
The final key point is that I would like to leave the option open of upgrading to Crossfire HD7970s at some later date.
So, thoughts? And thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
I am planning a new build to be bought on April 1st (end of the fiscal year over here in merry England, and also a day for fools) and was wondering if such wise folks as yourselves would care to share your thoughts? It's going to be an upgrade from a Intel Q6600 build with 2 Nvidia GT 8800 s in SLi built back around the end of 2007. I am giving the old computer, along with peripherals and monitor, to my girlfriend and so basically I'll need a new everything.
At the moment my current plan goes a little something like this:
CPU: Intel Sandybridge i7-2600K
MOBO: Asus P8Z68-V/GEN3
RAM: 16GB G-Skill Ripjaws X (4x4GB DDR3-1600 PC3 12800)
GPU: 1 x ATI Radeon HD 7970 (3GB GDDR5)
PSU: OCZ 850W ZX Series (80+ Gold Rated)
SSD OCZ Vertex 3 120GB
HD: Western Digital 2TB SATA
CASE: Fractal Design Define R3
FAN: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2
MONITOR: ASUS VE278Q 27" LED
Most of the peripherals don't really matter too much to me (aside from the monitor) so I'll be getting relative standard 5.1 speakers, and a microsoft keyboard/mouse set I imagine. I'll also be buying a copy of windows 7 and a basic optical drive within the budget.
The final key point is that I would like to leave the option open of upgrading to Crossfire HD7970s at some later date.
So, thoughts? And thanks in advance for any help you can provide.