Hey guys any comments and suggestions are welcome! my target was £700 it was originally £500 but you know how these things get # Intel Core i5 750 2.66Ghz # 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 # Intel P55 Motherboard £379.98 (for these 3 parts in a pack) # Optiarc AD-5240S 24X DVD+/-RW Dual Layer DVD-RAM SATA Black - OEM £18.19 # Novatech GeForce GTX260 Sonic SLI 896MB DDR3 HDMI/Dual DVI PCI-Express £129.94 # Xigmatek MidGard Midi Tower £57.49 # Novatech 750W ATX Power Supply for AMD and Intel Motherboards 20Pin + 4Pin £32.98 # eagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB SATA II 7200rpm 32MB Cache 8.5ms 300Mb/s £87.99 it totals around £706.77 including vat, ive been wondering if i need 750watts and also not been sure wether graphics card should be this or a ati 5770..... thanks in advance guys jtf
In regards to the power supply, you could probably get away with something lower, but it is a good idea to get a higher watt PSU than you need. PSU's will last much longer if they are not overtaxed so it is better to have more than necessary than not enough. I'm not personally familiar with the brand you are getting, but sometimes it helps to do some checking into the brand and check out reviews for the products. Sometimes they help, but admittedly they can be misleading too. My first impression of Novatech's PSUs is: Cheap. Cheap doesn't automatically mean poor quality but the two often correlate.
socket 1156. intels lower range, intergrated memory controller on the cpu as well as pci-express x16 controller. system bus is a DMI 2gb/s bus. only one chipset known as PCH (Platform controll hub). never seen these motherboards in action but personally for what your paying out I would recommend a intel core i7 920 on a socket 1366 x58 chipset, you will have much better performance for the money also more future proof because they will support the intel core i9 series same socket but might require a bios update, the x58 system bus is QPI (quick path interconnect) which is on average 4.8gt/s which averages out about (3200mhz), alot of the x58 series have two clock generators one for the system bus and one for the PCI-express x16 bus because most of them have two ore more busses running at 4gb/s. Also buy another disc and go for a raid 0. price will probs be around £800 as for graphics card, gtx 260 is a good card but out of date becuase it's only direct x10 not 11, but still buy the gtx 260 you won't be disapointed.
