Spec looks good. I would suggest looking around for the same components (it will save you) rather than buying it all from the same supplier. If you can't put it together yourself, don't worry its not too difficult, most of it is plug-n-play.

Oh, buy an ATI card. Nvidia suck :p

Oxy wrote:


i disagree imo ATI suck, go Nvidia

Ami! Tell him to add Dodger662 on skype so I can chat with him again it's been too long!

I've always used Nvidia, not even heard of ATI before lol and no worries about building it my step-brother used to buy and remake computers for a living I'm also going to ask him about getting the things, see what he thinks of it lol

Well ATI vs nVidia is a personal preference really
And about the monitors, you can plug a console into them, via HDMI, as I'm doing that now myself (1 screen is PC, and the other is my Xbox), and because they have quite a few connectors, you can plug more than 1 thing in (2 HDMI, 1 DVI, and 1 VGA) and easily switch between the two. They also come witha DVI and a VGA cable, and they have built in speakers too, so the Xbox sound comes out the monitor itself, instead of having to hook up a seperate set of speakers. And if you have a sound system, you can use the on-board sound of the motherboard, or get a dedicated sound card, but the quality of on-board sound these days is amazing

tcrumpen wrote:


last time I checked, ATI's flagship > nvidia's. Miss the old ATI Radeon 9800 PRO times
Anyway, like chifilly said, nowadays its mostly preference unless you're buying the flagship cards.

what are flagship cards

Talked to my step brother and he's said I should get a 120GB SSD minimum. So far it's become:
Case
PCS MAELSTROM T900 BLACK GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2500 Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z68-V/GEN3: PCI-E 3.0 READY, SLI, CROSSFIREX***SPECIAL***
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti - 2 DVI,HDMI,VGA - 3D Vision Ready
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply
CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX750 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£87)
Processor Cooling
SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE INTEL CPU COOLER (£19)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI-E CARD (£16)
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)
Monitor
IIYAMA E2273HDS 22" LED WIDESCREEN, HDMI/DVI-D 1920x1080 (£139)
2nd Monitor
IIYAMA E2273HDS 22" LED WIDESCREEN, HDMI/DVI-D 1920x1080 (£139)
DVI-D & HDMI Monitor Cables
2 x 2 METRE GOLD PLATED V1.4 HDMI CABLE (£15)

£1297 inc VAT and Delivery.

EDITS: Going to get two 24 or 27" monitors instead.
HDMI not gold plated as it's one of those "double the price, 2% better quality"
120GB SSD minimum

Budget to be kept under £1800

So add about £1-200 for the bigger monitors that still leaves £400 for an SSD
If anyone can suggest a good SSD then please do. Again no idea what I'm looking at, and the site I used for these specs only does a 20GB SSD

If that's PCS, they do up to 240GB SSD's

He did say 120 minimum
Not sure what make/whatever would be good tho so any help in that would be apreciated. All I know from him is "as long as its sata-2 minimum you should be ok. maybe ones from ocz or kingston any brand names really"

but with my knowledge that doesn't help me too much since a quick google and I find about 20 different OCZ's!

Huh? I was saying PCSpecialist do up to 240GB SSD's, and by the looks of it the above specs were from them, but you said they only do 20GB SSD's.
But I would recommend Kingston, because they're good with memory, but the only problem is they're expensive. Intel is a good choice (and are also available from PCS), but Western Digital are good too (not available from PCS, they only do Western Digital mechanical hard drives)