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should i just buy a whole bunch of stuff tomorrow, that's close enough to what i want, just so i can get an invoice for 31st Dec, 09, to satisfy the tax break, and then maybe nut it out a bit more after that when i have the luxury of time and just not open/install anything?

Get a 5870 Gfx card, coz if you dont want it i will buy it second hand off you :-) ehehehehehe!

Honestly Gohan, there is soooooo many combinations of different good things out there. Give a reputable store a call or use some of the advice we have given you so far.

some good info from the following 3 in recent threads from Mayuri crab, 31 Nismoid and DivX hunter, they seem to be our most prominent posters in here (that or they are post whores :-) ) and most of the stuff they have said seems pretty much spot on from the reviews so take on some of the info they have given.

If the tax break ends 31st Dec then yeah go for it. I would just hate it though if you ordered something that isnt compatible BUT that is easily overcome when you speak to the store before ordering :-)

someone told me about centrecom, and their pricing is very similar to msy but they seem to have a lot bigger range. They said they can back date invoices up until around Jan 15th.

going to email one of the sales guys there with what's in this thread plus some of my other thoughts about items, and he'll see if he can price match msy as well. Ash and others have given great advice but i've been asking other people as well, and i think i have definitely overloaded myself with info (tom's hardware, etc) - and there are still some things i want to check out like the 80 Plus PSU's, which are meant to be a little 'greener', which sounded interesting.

msy won't back date invoices... not much of a surprise really

someone told me about centrecom, and their pricing is very similar to msy but they seem to have a lot bigger range. They said they can back date invoices up until around Jan 15th.

going to email one of the sales guys there with what's in this thread plus some of my other thoughts about items, and he'll see if he can price match msy as well. Ash and others have given great advice but i've been asking other people as well, and i think i have definitely overloaded myself with info (tom's hardware, etc) - and there are still some things i want to check out like the 80 Plus PSU's, which are meant to be a little 'greener', which sounded interesting.

msy won't back date invoices... not much of a surprise really

The PSU i said was solid for the price range - one of the best for 650 range. The HX650 is 80/Bronze Certified.

If you want to go Corsair HX750, then the Corsair HX750 is again, one of the best.

The Corsair HX850 review is here & the 750 is the same calibre.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=241232

Trust me when i reccomend parts - i've done all the reasearch :D

There are sometimes better products out there - however i always work on a price vs performance basis.

They are not bad as such - i just often see BIOS's etc are slow to update... and generally intel bring out the first boards, and some of them really aren't as good as the other makers using the intel chipset who spend more R&D time on them and hence launches sometimes are a month or two behind retail

^ What he said.

The budget intel boards are dry on features &/or OC abilities while the "exterme" intel branded boards are fine, but there are cheaper (& better) alternatives avaliable from others like Asus & Gigabyte.

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Reading this thread with interest as I'm also looking to buy a gaming, multimedia development system. I don't do much gaming but I used to do 3D mapping for the older games like Quake 3, so would like to do a bit of mapping on Far Cry2 and Crysis 2. I'm also into the driving games like Grid. I was very disappointed with the 8600GTS in my Dell XPS that promised "reasonable" Crysis gaming, I want 50+fps this time not 10.

Why would you recommend the i7++ over the i5? Would the motherboards supporting i3/i5 also support the rest including the i9? My intention is to get a middle of the range CPU and later upgrade it to a higher one when I need the extra performance. I'm tailoring mine towards the economy side as I'll probably have the PC running all day hence the need for LED screens.

Here's my proposed setup :

CPU - i5

m/b - Gigabyte GA-X58-UD3R

Ram - 4GB

PSU - Corsair HX620 or 550w (don't need 750 or 800 power generators)

Video - GTX275 or 5770 (5770 uses quite a bit less power but if the 275 is ahead by a mile then I'll go with that)

Monitor - dual LED 23/24" monitors (Samsung or Dell)

Storage - 1TB, Blueray writer

On top of all this, I'll be dual booting/VPNing between Windows and Ubuntu.

i3/i5 = P55

i7/i9 = X58

The X58 is a faster, more expensive piece of hardware. It's up to you to decide what you need.

The X58 will also be running the 6core chips when they come out, so reports indicate.

It's like saying, why can't I just drop an LS3 into a skyline? Why do I have to do so many mods? It all does the same stuff! This is bullshit!

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