Hi all - I wonder if anyone could offer me some advice please.
I am about to buy the components for a new build (or possibly a pre built system) and my budget/requirements are as follows :
1. I am in the UK and have a budget between £1500-£1700
2. I don't need monitors, keyboard or mouse (I already have them)
3. I am a software developer and also do some graphics work in Photoshop and Fireworks. I do the occasional video conversion/render (but not often). I tend to have, in a normal work day, several browsers open (with maybe 10 tabs open on each), text editors, Microsoft Outlook, Skype, FTP etc etc...
4. I am also a gamer and want to play a wide spectrum from WOW to Call Of Duty and anything inbetween.
5. I use 2 monitors (both 1920x1200 res) so need to be able to connect and drive them both simultaneously - I must stress, I don't want to game on 2 (I only want to be able to game on the main screen) but I need to run my desktop apps across both.
6. I am extremely happy building the system myself from components but it might be easier and quicker to just buy something prebuilt.
7. I was looking at Aria, Scan and CCL but am happy to listen to any suggestions.
8. CPU wise I am confused and was hovering between a Scan 3XS Z97 Vengeance 980 with a 4790k overclocked by them to 4.7Ghz and an Aria Gladiator Infinite i7 5820K OC'd to 4.2Ghz - BUT again I am open to ANY suggestions.
9. My ideal storage config would be a 256gb (or 500gb) SSD as a boot drive with a 2Tb spinner storage drive.
10. Haven't got a clue on GFX card lol.
11. On board sound would probably suffice - I use some Logitech G35 headphones that connect via USB so sound card is immaterial anyway.
12. I need to budget for Win 7 pro in this price as well.
Thank you in advance for any help
UPDATE:
I'm still trying to decide between 5820k and 4970k - I know that it won't make any difference to gaming BUT would it make a difference to work? For example My machine is currently running V.slowly (with CPU useage spiking to 80%) with the following running :
3 Firefox browsers with a total of 33 tabs open. Chrome with 2 tabs open. Firebug running on one of the FF browsers. An FTP client with 8 FTP connections (to different sites). Outlook 2010 (with 15 seperate email accs on it). Excel with 2 quite large spreadsheets. Notepad++ text editor with around 15 docs open (most small but some with thousands of lines of code). Skype with 5 sep conversation windows open. 4 Wdinwos folders.... erm that's it.
Would 4970k handle all that in it's stride ? (Mind you, my 8gb of ram could be the bottleneck here as RAM is showing as 85% useage)
I am about to buy the components for a new build (or possibly a pre built system) and my budget/requirements are as follows :
1. I am in the UK and have a budget between £1500-£1700
2. I don't need monitors, keyboard or mouse (I already have them)
3. I am a software developer and also do some graphics work in Photoshop and Fireworks. I do the occasional video conversion/render (but not often). I tend to have, in a normal work day, several browsers open (with maybe 10 tabs open on each), text editors, Microsoft Outlook, Skype, FTP etc etc...
4. I am also a gamer and want to play a wide spectrum from WOW to Call Of Duty and anything inbetween.
5. I use 2 monitors (both 1920x1200 res) so need to be able to connect and drive them both simultaneously - I must stress, I don't want to game on 2 (I only want to be able to game on the main screen) but I need to run my desktop apps across both.
6. I am extremely happy building the system myself from components but it might be easier and quicker to just buy something prebuilt.
7. I was looking at Aria, Scan and CCL but am happy to listen to any suggestions.
8. CPU wise I am confused and was hovering between a Scan 3XS Z97 Vengeance 980 with a 4790k overclocked by them to 4.7Ghz and an Aria Gladiator Infinite i7 5820K OC'd to 4.2Ghz - BUT again I am open to ANY suggestions.
9. My ideal storage config would be a 256gb (or 500gb) SSD as a boot drive with a 2Tb spinner storage drive.
10. Haven't got a clue on GFX card lol.
11. On board sound would probably suffice - I use some Logitech G35 headphones that connect via USB so sound card is immaterial anyway.
12. I need to budget for Win 7 pro in this price as well.
Thank you in advance for any help
UPDATE:
I'm still trying to decide between 5820k and 4970k - I know that it won't make any difference to gaming BUT would it make a difference to work? For example My machine is currently running V.slowly (with CPU useage spiking to 80%) with the following running :
3 Firefox browsers with a total of 33 tabs open. Chrome with 2 tabs open. Firebug running on one of the FF browsers. An FTP client with 8 FTP connections (to different sites). Outlook 2010 (with 15 seperate email accs on it). Excel with 2 quite large spreadsheets. Notepad++ text editor with around 15 docs open (most small but some with thousands of lines of code). Skype with 5 sep conversation windows open. 4 Wdinwos folders.... erm that's it.
Would 4970k handle all that in it's stride ? (Mind you, my 8gb of ram could be the bottleneck here as RAM is showing as 85% useage)
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