When my Pension lump sum comes in at the end of January....

[kernow657]

Case COOLERMASTER CM STORM TROOPER - GAMING ENTHUSIAST CASE
Overclocked CPU Overclocked Intel® Six Core i7-3930K (3.2GHz @ max 4.6GHz)
Motherboard ASUS® SABERTOOTH X79: SOCKET 2011, R.O.G
Memory (RAM) 32GB KINGSTON HYPERX BEAST QUAD-DDR3 1866MHz X.M.P (4 x 8GB KIT)
Graphics Card 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 680 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
2nd Graphics Card 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 680 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 240GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk 2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 64MB CACHE
3rd Hard Disk 2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 64MB CACHE
4th Hard Disk 240GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 12x BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW
Power Supply CORSAIR 1050W PRO SERIES™ HX1050-80 PLUS® GOLD MODULAR (£159)
Processor Cooling Corsair H80 Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler (£69)
Sound Card Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Xtreme Audio (£28) *SPECIAL*
Monitor Samsung SyncMaster S27A850D 27" - 2560 x 1440, 5MS, DVI-D, HDMI (£579)

Built to last!

 

[Wolvo7]

If this is just for gaming there are a lot of things that are overkill.

- You don't need more than 16GB RAM even if you are video editing
- Overclocking is not necessary for gaming
- I'd recommend SLI GTX 670 instead. The 680s are only marginally more powerful and a lot more expensive. You'd only get a 4-5 fps improvement. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-670-review,3200-5.html
- You could use the money saved to get caviar black drives instead of the std ones.

 

[kernow657]

Makes sense. My own use will be gaming and image processing, however my boy is a DJ who does a LOT of mixing, and keeps going on about more this, more that. So thought I'd get something he could get his teeth into! LOL

 

[simonmoore1986]

What is with Cornish lads wanting to be Djs? (assumption from the name) Tell the little nipper that you can run the majority of software on really old laptops/ computers. Audio editing is not that demanding. After my brother complained his laptop was to slow (he had it in power saving mode the idiot) i took some old laptops and a umpc (samsung q1 ultra) They all ran the mixing deck (a £600 jobbey) and the mixing software fine also a editing suite was demonstrated working beautifully. My one concession is that ssd will improve any editing, even sata III drives are rubbish compared to ssd! So no need for a fancy machine just a £200 laptop and a new hard drive! (and if anyone one was wondering the Q1 ran everything lovely because it already has a ssd.