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MrDann
28-10-2009, 10:05 AM
Hello all,

My friend has decided that instead to buy a pc from alienware costing ALOT of money he is going to build his own pc. I am making this post on his behalf just to get a few answears on the build and if any problems are noticeable and if so how they may be resolved.

His price range is a current approximate of around £1450-£1550. Here are the chosen components;

Motherboard: Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard

Processor: Intel Core i7 920 D0 2.66GHz Socket 1366 8MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor

RAM: Corsair 12GB (6x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz XMS3 Memory For i7 Motherboards

Graphics: Asus HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDTV Out PCI-E Graphics Card

Sound: Integrated

PSU: OCZ GameXStream 850W PSU - SLI Ready, Silent 120mm Blue LED Fan

Case: Thermaltake Spedo Full Tower Case - Black & Silver

HDD: Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache

CD Drive: LG CH08LS10 Super Multi Blu-Ray Reader & DVD±RW with LightScribe SATA Black - Full Retail Box With Software

Moniter: Asus VW246H 24" TFT Monitor 1920x1080 300xd/m2 20000:1 (dynamic) 2ms Multimedia 16:9 HDMI/DVI-D/VGA Black

Total Price: £1363.58

All feedback, comments and ideas are welcome and i shall be talking them over with him.

Thanks,
MrDann
sunilgill
28-10-2009, 10:12 AM
Probably best not to post competitor websites first of all!!

And I'd probably spend a bit more on the graphics card go for a 275gtx or something
mr. Strawberry
28-10-2009, 10:49 AM
what id he using the pc for becuase 12gb of RAM seems a bit pointloss
MrDann
28-10-2009, 10:53 AM
what id he using the pc for becuase 12gb of RAM seems a bit pointloss

Yeah i said that too him aswell. He is using this one for his own personal use, mostly high graphic gaming. 12gb does seem a bit overkill afterall im running 6GB and never lag one bit.
mr. Strawberry
28-10-2009, 10:56 AM
tbh he would be better off just get 6GBs and then the money he saves put towards a more powerful PSU or a dx11 gpu
MrDann
28-10-2009, 11:22 AM
The 850W PSU he has already chosen, i thought that would be powerfull enough? or would a 1000W PSU be better?
mr. Strawberry
28-10-2009, 11:24 AM
yeah it is just powerful enough but doesn't leave that much room for a crossfirex upgrade
Martini1991
28-10-2009, 06:22 PM
yeah it is just powerful enough but doesn't leave that much room for a crossfirex upgrade
:rolleye:.
850W's fine.
5850 crossfire easy.
mr. Strawberry
28-10-2009, 06:24 PM
i was thinking more along the lines of 5870
bare
31-10-2009, 12:42 PM
alienware is not worth the money !
Edward Longe
09-02-2010, 09:44 PM
I have an i7 and I curruntly have a 650w PSU. No need for overkill!
I3R0K3N7FEET
10-02-2010, 01:47 AM
yeah it is just powerful enough but doesn't leave that much room for a crossfirex upgrade

i read a review and 2x 5970's were fine on a decent 850w psu.
smifis
13-02-2010, 01:18 PM
That looks like a nice build to me.

If he wants top notch performance, get 2 SSD drives, in RAID 0, and 4 500gb drives in RAID 10.

For me, 12gb of ram isn't over the top at all, not for what i do, i'm a freelancer videographer and when editing large projects (20+ mins) you need this much memory.

but if it is for just gaming and nothing else then i suppose 6gb will be okay....