New PC plans

[Yang]

Hey guys, I am gonna build a PC sometime soon, wanna make this a decent PC for playing some games on and some programming, these are the current specs I've been looking at so far, please comment/recommend on anything, I am aiming to keep the price of this computer under 900, but haven't included money so far for cooling/case/PSU (Please recommend me some )


Graphics Card:
Asus Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI-E, DVI, TV Out, Retail - £105
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/38771/Asus-Radeon-HD-4870-512MB-GDDR5-PCI-E--DVI--TV

Motherboard:
Gigabyte motherboard EX58-UD3R Intel Core i7 X58 LGA1366 DDR3 ATX - £142
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/39727/Gigabyte-motherboard-EX58-UD3R-Intel-Core-i7-X58

CPU:
Intel CPU Core i7-920 2.66GHz - £215
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/38998/Intel-CPU-Core-i7-920-2-66GHz

Memory:
Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) TwinX XMS3 DDR3 PC3 12800 Memory Kit TWIN3X4096 -1600C7DHX – £93 (Maybe 2 of them for 8GB)
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/41545/Corsair-4GB--2x2GB--TwinX-XMS3-DDR3-PC3-12800

Hard Drive:
Western Digital 500GB hard disk drive Caviar SE16 SATA II 300 7200rpm 16MB - 40
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/16566/Western-Digital-500GB-hard-disk-drive-Caviar-SE16

SSD:
Transcend 32GB 2.5 Inch IDE MLC Flash Solid State Disk Drive - 80
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/27683/Transcend-32GB-2-5-Inch-IDE-MLC-Flash-Solid-State

 

[atsanjose]

shame that blackwolf quit the forums

 

[Azzer]

Stick with nvidia for your graphics, get something like this for your budget;
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/160748

Otherwise all good choices, sounds like you'll have a very nice system - just avoid ATI/Radeons no matter what you may hear!

 

[Ram]

Case;
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129043
Plenty of cooling

 

[Yang]

Is the 512MB version of the graphics card you showed me also a worthy Candidate Azzer?

 

[aGit]

Stick with nvidia for your graphics, get something like this for your budget;
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/160748

Otherwise all good choices, sounds like you'll have a very nice system - just avoid ATI/Radeons no matter what you may hear!

might i ask why?

i've had r4850 for 2months now, and so far no problems.

 

[Iamsmart]

I'm going to have to go with Azzer - I've had quite bad experiences with Raedon/ATI

 

[MattM]

A message from BlackWolf:

[20:21:45] <BlackWolf> Can you do me a favour?
[20:21:56] <BlackWolf> http://plaza.fi/muropaketti/artikkelit/naytonohjaimet/ati-radeon-hd-4890-rv790,2
[20:22:04] <BlackWolf> Post that to that PC thread...
[20:22:12] <BlackWolf> tell its from Bw... or what evah
[20:22:22] <BlackWolf> and to look for graphics only
[20:22:57] <BlackWolf> http://plaza.fi/muropaketti/artikkelit/naytonohjaimet/nvidia-geforce-gtx-295-285-asus,3
[20:23:00] <BlackWolf> and put that too

 

[Mattheus]

Guess we'll have to look at the pretty pictures until we learn Finnish?

 

[Iamsmart]

 

[Gooner]

I'm going to have to go with Azzer - I've had quite bad experiences with Raedon/ATI

I currently have the Radeon 4850 and I love it

 

[Changer]

Guess we'll have to look at the pretty pictures until we learn Finnish?

http://translate.google.com/transla...lit/naytonohjaimet/ati-radeon-hd-4890-rv790,2

 

[Azzer]

Because ATI driver support always has been and always will be terrible

 

[f0xx]

Because ATI driver support always has been and always will be terrible

Win.