[WildeKarde]

Originally Posted by Doctor Hades

Your PC is very similar to the one I've ordered, also from Cyberpower, although I limited myself to a £1,500 budget. Paying any more than that for a PC, knowing that it'll be outdated by next Easter is not something I feel comfortable with. I'd rather upgrade as I need to so if I want to add a BD drive at some point in the future then I will but right now I don't need one as I have a PS3.

For that I'm getting:

CAS: Coolermaster Elite 330 Mid Tower 420W Black
CASUPGRADE: NONE
CS_FAN: Maximum Case Cooling Fans for your selected case [+10]
CPU: (Quad-Core)Intel® Core™ i7 920 @ 2.66GHz 8 MB cache LGA1366 ***Overclockable XXX*** [+686]
CD: SONY DUAL FORMAT 20X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR [-5])
CD2: NONE
CABLE: None
FLASHMEDIA: None
FA_HDD: None
FAN: CoolerMaster V8 Gaming CPU Cooling Fan (Extreme Silent Operation at only 22dBA + Overclock Proof) ***Overclockable S&S*** [+26]
FLOPPY: NONE
FREEBIE_CU1: FREE! (FarCry2) Game
FREEBIE_CU2: FREE! CyberPower Multi-Purpose Carrying Case
FREEBIE_CU3: FREE! Cyberpower Unleash The Power T-Shirt
HDD: Single Hard Drive (500GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD [+9])
HDD2: NONE
IEEE_CARD: NONE
KEYBOARD: NONE
MOUSE: NONE
MODEM: NONE
MOTHERBOARD: Asus P6T Deluxe Intel X58 Chipset SLI/CrossFireX Mainboard SAS Triple-Channel DDR3/1600 SATA RAID w/ eSATA,Dual GbLAN,USB2.0,IEEE1394a,&7.1Audio ***Overclockable XXX***
MEMORY: (Req.DDR3 MainBoard)(3x2GB) PC10666 DDR3/1333mhz Triple Channel Memory [+103] (G.SKILL NQ Series w/Heat Spreader ***Overclockable XXX***)
MONITOR: NONE
MONITOR2: NONE
NETWORK: ONBOARD 10/100 NETWORK CARD
OVERCLOCK: S&S (Safe and stable overclock 10% to 20%) [+49]
OS: Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium w/ Service Pack 1 (64-bit Edition)
PS_VGA: NONE
POWERSUPPLY: 700 Watts Power Supplies [+90] (CoolerMaster Real Power PRO 700W Modular PSU SLI Ready)
PRO_WIRING: None
RUSH: NONE
SOUND: Creative Labs SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio 24-BIT PCI Sound Card [+32]
SPEAKERS: NONE
TEMP: NONE (AS SHOWN)
TVRC: NONE
UPS: None
USB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
USBHD: NONE
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX280 1GB 16X PCI Express [+295] (Major Brand Power by NVIDIA)
VIDEO2: NONE
VIDEO3: NONE
WEBCAM: NONE
WNC: NONE
WAP: NONE
WARRANTY: STANDARD WARRANTY: 3-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY PLUS LIFE-TIME TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Total cost is £1,498.25.

I already have a 22" widescreen Dell monitor, a Microsoft keyboard, an IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 and Logitech 2.1 speakers, all in black, so that reduced the cost further.

I opted for parts that allowed for the safe and stable overclock of 10-20% at £49 extra so hopefully it'll be running at the same speed at the i7-965, i.e. 3.2 GHz. The Core i7 is very overclockable apparently according to CustomPC magazine, they managed to get an i7-920 to 4 GHz with air cooling so there's room for more overclocking if I need it in the future, although I'm happy to let Cyberpower do it for me for now.

The only thing I'm a bit miffed at is finding out that the Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio sound card isn't actually an X-Fi card at all but a rebadged Audigy SE. I've asked Cyberpower if I can change it for the Xtreme Gamer which is a proper X-Fi card.

Hopefully it will arrive in the next ten days as I'm taking a two week break from work so it would really make my Christmas if it did.

Pretty much the same spec
I'd added a few extra bits as I needed a new keyboard and wanted to get a couple of HDD, also blu ray drive as I don't own any console.

Also got myself a 24" HP LP2475 for it and a set of Logitech Z2300 outwith the order

My last update is it's been built on 09/12 and currently at quality checking - hoping to get sent today for Monday