£1300 gaming PC budget, thoughts?

[Addicted]

I'd skip that SSD, get a Crucial M4/Samsung 830/840 or don't bother!

 

[Pride07]

I'd skip that SSD, get a Crucial M4/Samsung 830/840 or don't bother!

I can highly recommend the Crucial M4 range, they haven't slowed down like the sandforce based ones

 

[Cookie]

I'd skip that SSD, get a Crucial M4/Samsung 830/840 or don't bother!

Another vote for a Samsung 830

 

[Wilkeh]

All sorted. Picked all the bits up on Saturday and put it all together yesterday, sweet as a nut. We ended up swapping the SSD to an Intel 330 series and the CPU cooler to a larger one due to them not having the 212 in stock. We had a few slight issues but soon got around them and all up and running. The only issue we have now is that it's not detecting the 2nd HDD. I know I have to format and enable it in the system management tools but even BIOS isn't picking it up. Dud drive you reckon or am I missing something? I'll get some pics up soon of all the build.

 

[Cookie]

Either a power issue, dud drive or AHCI not set. Something along those lines anyway. Could also be in the wrong SATA slot? Might be that you've put it into a slot that's not enabled.

 

[Silent_Scone]

I've had a dud force 3 before so wouldn't be surprising really


Edit: just noticed you changed ssd. It's not detected at bios level it's probably DOA

 

[Wilkeh]

I'm talking about the HDD mate, not the SSD.

 

[Addicted]

Should show in BIOS even if you're not in AHCI mode (but would be slow), sounds DOA or dodgy connectors!

 

[Wilkeh]

Swapped the drive for a Western Digital one and now all up and running.