This months High-end PC gets a new case - in the form of the Lian-Li PC-K56B.
Lian-Li is an uncontested brand in terms of build materials and quality, and its great to see a value case like this being offered.
The Corsair H100 from last month is also unavailable with no ETA, so we have switched to Antec's top offering, the 920.
The SSD has changed too, the old Corsair drive is no longer around, so we're switching to an OCZ Agility 4 256GB. This drive has the new Everest 2 controller, so doesn't suffer when writing incompressible data, and still has great read/writes, and 85k IOPS.
Hardware | Item | Price |
Case | Lian-Li PC-K56B Black | £46.93 |
CPU | i5 3570k OEM | £172.68 |
Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H | £102.92 |
RAM | Corsair Vengance Blue 8GB | £30.96 |
GPU | MSI 2GB 680 | £359.62 |
PSU | Antec True power 750W modular | £70.50 |
Cooler | Antech Kúhler 920 | £73.10 |
Hard Drive | Seagate 2TB 7200RPM | £68.93 |
Optical Drive | LG Blu Ray/ DVD RW | £45.58 |
SSD | OCZ Agility 4 256GB | £140.70 |
Total | £1,111.92 |
As with last month, you still have the option for SLI in the future, and it still isn't worth upgrading to the i7 for gaming to day to day use.