Seeming as I can't do much on this computer any more, upgrading it is a waste of time and money. I mean the only thing I won't change is the case or the hard drive. But as a student, I need to keep to a tight budget. PC or Car, with the latter the more fun. I want to keep the price under £1k though. I have no idea how these things go together, and whether these components are compatible with one another, so here goes, any advice would be appreciate. These are the best deals I have found so far, Also, 4GB of Ram should be suffice for now, and when I have some spare change I could add some more.
Motherboard
Asus P6T SE Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 PCI-Express (£147)
Case
Antec Six Hundred Gaming Midi Tower (£58)
Power Supply
Antec TruePower New Series 750W Blue Modular (£100) - Not sure here, I've had a power supply fail on me before. Too cautious or not enough?
CD/DVD Drive
LG GH22NS50 22x SATA Internal DVD±R/RW Drive (£17)
I'm also putting together a new build. The core i5-750 performs similarly to the i7 920 and costs a lot less, also socket 1156 mobos are cheaper. That power supply is overkill. You will also want more ram for 3d work and a good air cooler is a better option than the water cooling. You can also skip all that anti static gear and just make sure you don't work on carpet and try and touch something grounded pretty often.
Here's the build I am putting together that is cheaper and will be faster in most situations. You can also put a radeon 5850 in it instead of a 5870 and save some money. I only have the 5870 because I am planning and eyefinity setup.
Those two links you posted don't mention the video card which accounts for their suspiciously low pricing.
I would suggest you more the 1156 Socket with a i7-860!
I also want to buy a new system but i do not have the money for that as a student but if anybody would give me in the next time money for a new system, i would buy this:
Basis:
- i7-860
- Asus P7P55D
- 4x2 GB DDR3-1333 G.Skill Ripjaws (in future if the ram prices lowered then i would buy 4x4GB)
and other
Alec Moody - that looks like a good build, much more cost effective as well. Surely the video card has little effect? I mean I'm not going to want to play something like crysis on full settings on the machine. Well even if it is a really bad gfx card, I could buy the i5 package and then buy a card separately and install that. The only thing about the water cooler is that its silent, I really hate working or sitting in the room when the fan is making too much noise - esp under rendering conditions.
DaveCox - yeah these new i series have a lot of hype, seems they're worth it?
jaystyle - I have no idea what the difference between sockets are and why 4Gb of ram is bad, is there some sort of quantity of Ram required for it? I will look into that. The only way I can make this work - well two ways, ask my parents very nicely since my bday is coming up (not gonna happen =p), or with this student award scheme in Scotland, where if not living on the uni campus - my travelling expenses are paid for, and they amount near enough to £800 I think.
Time to make some phone calls and a lot more web searching for prices.
The differences:
- The 1366 Socket supports Triple Channel (3 x XGB), the 1156 supports Dual Channel (2 x XGB)
Reasons for 1156:
- i have read that the 860 has the better Turbomode
- you dont need to buy (expensive in contrast to Dual) Tribble channel Kits
- the only advantage of 1366 is SLI and tribble channel
Reasons for 1366:
- More Ram (if you have the money)
- SLI
- assured of a good future cuz of the Gulftown CPU's with 6 threads
But in this case i would buy the 860 becauce of the simply question of money
Alec Moody - that looks like a good build, much more cost effective as well. Surely the video card has little effect? I mean I'm not going to want to play something like crysis on full settings on the machine. Well even if it is a really bad gfx card, I could buy the i5 package and then buy a card separately and install that. The only thing about the water cooler is that its silent, I really hate working or sitting in the room when the fan is making too much noise - esp under rendering conditions.
DaveCox - yeah these new i series have a lot of hype, seems they're worth it?
jaystyle - I have no idea what the difference between sockets are and why 4Gb of ram is bad, is there some sort of quantity of Ram required for it? I will look into that. The only way I can make this work - well two ways, ask my parents very nicely since my bday is coming up (not gonna happen =p), or with this student award scheme in Scotland, where if not living on the uni campus - my travelling expenses are paid for, and they amount near enough to £800 I think.
Time to make some phone calls and a lot more web searching for prices.
I'm a game artist so for me the video card is more important. You could probably drop down to a 5850 and then put a i7 860 in for about the amount you would save and end up with a better machine for offline rendering/working in max.
Originally Posted by Pan3sar
