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trickster34

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Hi there I have chosen these specs for a budget of £800:

Case
PCS MAELSTROM T900 BLACK GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)
AMD PHENOM II X4 965 (3.40GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3) - BLACK EDITION

Motherboard
ASUS® M4A87TD/USB3: DUAL DDR3,SATA 6.0GB/s, USB 3.0

Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)

Graphics Card
1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 470 - 2 DVI,mHDMI - DX® 11, 3D ***SPECIAL OFFER***

Free Item
FREE Need For Speed™ World Starter Pack with any Nvidia® GTS450 or above!

2nd Graphics Card
NONE

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
500GB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7,200rpm)

2nd Hard Disk
NONE

RAID
NONE

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NONE

Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT

Power Supply
600W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)

Processor Cooling
TITAN FENRIR EVO EXTREME HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£39)

Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs

USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Modem
NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND

Floppy Disk Drive
NONE

Firewire & Video Editing
NONE

TV Card
NONE

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE

Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE



I will be mainly doing alot of high end gaming and development for games using various software such as 3ds max, UDK, SDK and photoshop.

Any helpful tips would be appreciated.
 
Nemesis

Nemesis

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Its good taht you already have this HDD
the reason people were recommending it was because your OS will be installed onto the 500GB 8mb cache HDD which wont provide as speedy a startup as the WD caviar green
 
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trickster34

Member
Hmm ok I understand, I was counting on that as I already have Win 7 Pro installed on my 2TB drive and then when my new system comes I can sell my old system with the 500GB Drive with Win 7 HP installed.

Thanks for the help
 
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Nemesis

Nemesis

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Im not sure that you can do that unless the OS is retail (PCS sells OEM)
Its something to do with windows taking a record of the hardware on the PC and not working if the spec is changed too much

Not sure thats competely right. would someone like to elaborate....

EDIT : oh and you dont have to specify a OS for your system
 
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trickster34

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Ahh alrighty then will do some research over the weekend then :D thanks

Edit:

After posting this reply I looked up and saw my old retail copy of XP which used to be on my old system before I upgraded the HDD to the 2tb and Win 7 Pro, so with a bit of messing about I could load XP on to the 500GB drive and do it that way

then I don't have to worry about ordering an OS with this system, but again as mentioned before will do some research and see.
 
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