Tips on building a new computer??

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reedjdi

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Hi,

Looking at building myself a computer and have come up with the following for £850


LN28275
Xclio A380Plus-36 Tower Black+Window & 25cm Front & 36cm Side Super Cooling Fans Screwless w/o PSU £72.79

LN28456
4GB (2x2GB) Corsair XMS3 DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-24, XMP, 1.65V £100.02

LN28596
Intel Core i5 750, s1156, Lynnfield, Quad Core, 2.66GHz, DMI 2.5 GT/s, 8MB Cache, 95W, Retail £152.93

LN29161
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit, Single, - OEM £81.16

LN31448
Asus P7H57D-V EVO, Intel H57, 1156, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR3 1333/1600/2133, SATA 6Gb/s RAID, ATX, VGA £147.54

LN32170
1TB Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black, SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 64MB Cache, 8 ms £86.87

LN32382
1GB Power Color HD 5770, PCI-E 2.1(x16), 4800MHz GDDR5, GPU 850MHz, 800 Cores, DL DVI-I/ HDMI/ D-Sub £116.29

LN32259
650W Powercool PC650UM, Modular, 80%+ Eff', SLI/CrossFire, EPS 12V, 20+4 Pin, Low noise cooling fan £46.98

LN19259
Edimax EW-7728In 802.11n v2.0 300Mbps wireless PCI card £25.72

LN29445
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±R, 12x DVD±R, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, SATA, Black, OEM £14.71

3 questions:

Is this a good system thats decently upgradable? The motherboard should allow me to fit a second graphics card in the future and atleast another 4 GB of RAM.

Is there anything I'm forgetting?

Can I do better for £850?

I'm planning on hooking it up to my 40" samsung LCD tv via hdmi to begin with, but will get a proper monitor and desk at some point in the future when i've got more room.

Thanks in advance

James
 
Price seems slight expensive...
I recommend you check the price at ebuyer.com or google product search

PSU - Don't know the quality of that brand, I recommend you go for some reliable well-known brand.
If you want second video card, 650W is just enough,
I do suggest you get 750W, which leave you a bit margin for overclocking.
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/161664

Case - style not my cup of tea... I personally prefer case like CM HAF 922/ Antec 902
BTW CM Storm Scout + Coolermaster Silent Pro 700W Modular PSU combo from ebuyer provide good value
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/177749
 
Thanks for the advice. Funnily enough I'd looked at that case aswell. I'll check out the rest of prices on ebuyer aswell. Cheers
 
That motherboard has an H57 chipset, which meant for Clarkdale CPU's. You'll want a P55.

Your CPU will work with that board, but the H57 is expensive for what you get and you'll have those useless video connectors on it...

Other than that, maybe spring for a Sapphire or XFX 5770 instead? Their build quality is much better than Powercolor's.
 
I wouldn't recommend powercooling as a PSU brand. OCz,Thermaltake, Corsair, Sliverstone, Antec, those are brands I would recommend :)
 
This was the review comment:

"I've bought the Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3R, knowing beforehand that I wouldn't be able to run Crossfire and USB3/SATA3 at the same time, as the extra lanes for the second PCI Express slot, are used for them instead. So they are mutually exclusive. The thing is, as the second slot only works as a 4x slot, Crossfire is hobbled on all Gigabyte's P55A boards, below a UD4. So if you want to use Crossfire, irrespective of whether you want to use USB3/SATA3, you still need to buy at least a GA-P55A-UD4. Whether you can use USB3/SATA3, at the same time as Crossfire, on a UD4 or higher, that I can't say."
 
If you look at the specs, you'll see that the UD3 one has one PCIe at 16x, which is where the GPU goes, and one PCIe at 4x. You CAN technically crossfire with that, but it'll be bottlenecked pretty bad. You want at least 8x/8x, which is what the UD4 you posted has.
 
Thanks very much for that Drenlin.

Okay. I've now got a shopping list costing £900. It's a combination of ebuyer and scan.co.uk.

As follows:

CM Storm Scout + Coolermaster Silent Pro 700W Modular PSU *Special Offer Bundle*

Intel Core i5 750 2.66GHz Socket LGA1156 8MB L3 Cache Retail Boxed Processor

Sapphire HD 5770 Vapor-X 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card

4GB (2x2GB) Corsair XMS3 DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-24, XMP, 1.65V

Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4, Intel P55 Express, S1156, DDR3 2200, SATA II & III, USB 3.0, RAID, ATX

1TB Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black, SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 64MB Cache, 8 ms

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Licence and media - 1 PC - OEM - DVD - 64-bit - English

Edimax EW-7728In 802.11n v2.0 300Mbps wireless PCI card

Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±R, 12x DVD±R, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, SATA, Black, OEM

Any final thoughts?
 
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