£1000-£1200 Desktop for oding, gaming and media Editing

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APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Mid April

BUDGET RANGE: £1000-£1200

SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: coding, gaming, media(mainly photo) Editing

PARTS NOT REQUIRED: Monitor, Keyboard/Mice

PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: http://www.ebuyer.com/

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: UK

PARTS PREFERENCES: Intel/ATI

OVERCLOCKING: Maybe

SLI OR CROSSFIRE: Maybe in future

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Possibility for a SSD system disk? (in this case, any adepter required?); include wireless network card; cooling fan for CPU?; may purchase more hard drivers in future

 

[Silvune]

CPU: Intel i5 750 Retail £160
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/172755

CPU Cooler: Scythe Mugen 2 Rev B £36
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/158603
Only needed if you will overclock or perhaps if you want to eliminate some noise.

Mobo: Asus P7P55D-E Evo £190
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/186592
The E Pro would be the better mobo to get, but it is not available on ebuyer.

RAM: G-Skill 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz/PC3-12800 Ripjaw Memory Kit CL7(7-8-7-24) 1.65V £105
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/180490

GPU: Sapphire HD 5850 £250
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/199655

PSU: XFX 650W XXX Edition Single Rail Modular 80Plus Bronze £80
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/191826
Perfectly fine for crossfiring 5850s.
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SSD: Intel X25-M 80GB G2 Retail £198
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/175723
Will come with a kit to fit it into a 3.5in bay.
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Perhaps it would be best to wait until the end of the year to get an SSD, as buying a good one now seems to destroy your budget when getting a Intel CPU. Additionally, they should have matured in terms of cost per GB, size, reliability and cost. If you are determined to have one now, then you could get a much cheaper one and compromise on one or two other components.

HDD: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB £63
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173804

Windows 7 64bit Home Premium
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173791 £78

Optical Drive: Samsung SH-S223 22X DVD±RW £15
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145450

Case: Your choice of
CoolerMaster CM 690 II Advanced £104 - Has a 2.5in drive bay, so you could buy an OEM SSD and be able to mount it no problem.
Antec Nine Hundred Two £87
CoolerMaster HAF 922 £80
Antec Nine Hundred £79
Antec Three Hundred £43 A good budget case.
Unless you have your eye on something else.

Wireless networking isn't something that I know anything about. So D-Link AirPlus Xtreme-G DWL-G520 108Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter? £34.

Total: £1116 (without the SSD and with the most expensive case I listed)

 

[Prawneh]

I recently purchased an i5 750 pc, using the Coolermaster CM 690 II advanced. Can't recommend it highly enough, the advanced edition (which comes with a SSD adapter on one of the hard drive bays) is £91 on overclockers UK. That same RAM as mentioned above (which i also bought, again very good) is cheaper at £96 on overclockers, albeit you'll pay additional postage. Just trying to help.