New PC Spec Thoughts...

Hey Guys / Girls...

I have come to a stage now where I am looking to change my hard working PC after 7 years of mods and so on... I am going to list a spec and I wanted to know if anyone would change it or whatever... I am not keen on spending MORE if its much more I don't mind adding a few pounds here and there to parts but if anything I am looking more for ... " you might as well spend less on this as its not that much difference for the money" sort of thing. I know I can spend stupid money but I am more interested in keeping it to where I am now or less.

CPU: Intel i7 2700K 1155 3.50GHz

RAM: G-Skill 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 1866MHz RipjawsX X79

Graphics Card: Gainward GTX 570 Phantom 1280MB GDDR5

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD4-B3 Socket 1155 onboard 7.1 Channel

Main HDD 1: OCZ 120GB RevoDrive SSD PCI Express x4 Read = 540MB/s, Write = 490MB/s 65,000 IOPS

2nd HDD 2: 1TB SATA III HDD

Case: Coolermaster Storm Scout

PSU: Coolermaster 700W PSU


Pretty much it clearly with some drives and so on.... anyone think its worth spending the money on them parts or any input be great! Thanks guys / girls.

 

My first thought is that motherboard doesn't seem to support PCI-E x4. Its not on the recommended list for the OCZ RevoDrive.

To be on the safe side, i'd check out OCZ's list. For example the black PCI-E slot on the ASUS P8P67 EVO is compatible all the way down to x4.

If you were somehow able to install the card in a x1 slot you'd severely limit the drive's capabilities.

If you wanted to save some cash for later upgrades it might not be a bad idea to buy 2x4gb ram sticks and upgrade more later. I think 16gb might be overkill, ymmv.

 

Ah thanks I shall have a look at this, as I work in this trade you tend to get a bit bored of looking at Hardware Spec and so on all the time so this is why i put it on here to see if anyone would pick anything uP! lol

 

16GB RAM seems excessive but DDR111 are cheap enough these days. Why use up a PCI 4X slot for the RevoDRIVE, just use a drive bay. Nice machine if I do say so myself.

Oh, the GTX 560ti has a better bang for the buck

 

I would say just go with SATA for the SSD, other than that looks like a pretty supreme set up.

 

I'd chose the 2600k over the 2700 unless you plan on squeezing EVERY last ounce out of the overclock, otherwise it's a waste of the price difference.

Unless you are making the next Avatar movie for Imax then i suggest lowering the ram amount aswell, even 8GB is overkill, but as Auggie said it's so cheap now that you may aswell.

The rest looks good bar the SSD, just get an OCZ 3 drive, they have the same read/write times, in fact are slightly faster, cheaper and a more useable form factor.