Good Gaming Comp For £1000

decmatt · 8 Sep 2007 at 21:44

Hi

What is a good gaming comp for £1000, excluding screen, speakers etc... Just the bits inside the case.

Thanks

Teaf · 8 Sep 2007 at 22:07

Kalpsn2000 · 8 Sep 2007 at 22:11

What size monitor do you have?

SGWills · 8 Sep 2007 at 22:11

my spec would be close to flibby's but eclipse or mirage case and a cheaper soundcard

truebluecfc · 8 Sep 2007 at 22:19

Kalpsn2000 said:
What size monitor do you have?

Doesn't really matter, with a £1000 you gotta get a 8800 GTX really, even if the OP plays on a low res, just means it all last longer

SGWills said:
my spec would be close to flibby's but eclipse or mirage case and a cheaper soundcard

Yeah same expect I'd choose a Antec P182 and a XtremeMusic.

Teaf · 8 Sep 2007 at 22:24

truebluecfc said:
Yeah same expect I'd choose a Antec P182 and a XtremeMusic.

Probably a better call on the case and card. I originall put the P182 in, but it came to over budget too much. Forgot about the Xtreme Music, which is pretty much the same as a Gamer. Eclipse is also a very nice case, but I can't justify paying it's cost when something like the P182 is cheaper.

SGWills · 8 Sep 2007 at 22:28

i prefer a bigger case, air flow is good inside mirage/eclipse plus enough space incase the OP wants to include watercooling later on

C64 · 9 Sep 2007 at 02:01

You don't need a quad for gaming especially at £176 just get a duo that will do 3-3.4ghz you can simply upgrade it when you actually need to in order to max a game out,By the time you need that quad to max a game out it will be superseded by even better cheaper quads.This would be a far better choice.
This would ooze class add some ram when you can actually use more than 2 gig in a game and something forces us all to switch to vista as it no doubt will one day.

Teaf · 9 Sep 2007 at 08:45

Not getting a quad when you are spending £1,000 on a PC is sheer madness, you can easily fit one into a spec for that price that you may as well just get one whether or not you can use all 4 threads or not.

Raikiri · 9 Sep 2007 at 09:31

Looks nice (that's all opinion but it's certainly built well), 4Gb ram, Quad core, good clocking motherboard, great cooler, 8800GTX and a decent sound card.

I'd buy that if I had £1000

triggerthat · 9 Sep 2007 at 13:07

Arctic Cooling Arctic Fan 12025L 120mm Fan - 3 Pin Arctic Cooling Arctic Fan 12025L 120mm Fan - 3 Pin £4.99
(£5.86) £4.99
(£5.86)
Pioneer DVR-112DBK 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter - (Black) OEM Pioneer DVR-112DBK 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter - (Black) OEM £16.99
(£19.96) £16.99
(£19.96)
Samsung SpinPoint T HD501LJ 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM Samsung SpinPoint T HD501LJ 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £58.99
(£69.31) £58.99
(£69.31)
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £79.99
(£93.99) £79.99
(£93.99)
Leadtek GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail Leadtek GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £284.99
(£334.86) £284.99
(£334.86)
Thermalright Ultra-120A CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) Thermalright Ultra-120A CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99
(£7.04) £5.99
(£7.04)
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA663) Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA663) £56.99
(£66.96) £56.99
(£66.96)
Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard £71.99
(£84.59) £71.99
(£84.59)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £151.99
(£178.59) £151.99
(£178.59)
Sub Total : £762.90
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £135.25
Total : £908.10

Just pick a case that you fancy and you're away.

C64 · 9 Sep 2007 at 14:22

Why is it madness not to get a quad ? what benefit does a quad have for gaming in the foreseeable future just get a dual core and sell it on when better quads come out and are actually required.
People do seem to all jump on bandwagons very quickly at least wait for crysis and see the difference between a quad and a duel at same clock speed.Why spend £176 on something which will be no better or not much better than a £50 cpu for gaming.

truebluecfc · 9 Sep 2007 at 14:35

Because your have a £1000

and £176 for a Quad Core is an excellent price, and new and upcoming games are aparantly gonna benefit from a Quad Core, although getting a E2160 and OC'ing it to ~3-3.2GHz still be fine.

Teaf · 9 Sep 2007 at 14:38

C64 said:
Why is it madness not to get a quad ? what benefit does a quad have for gaming in the foreseeable future just get a duel core and sell it on when better quads come out and are actually required.
People do seem to all jump on bandwagons very quickly at least wait for crysis and see the difference between a quad and a duel at same clock speed.Why spend £176 on something which will be no better or not much better than a £50 cpu for gaming.

You can easily fit a Q6600 into a £1,000 spec. There's no bandwagoning going on here, it's just if you are spending £1,000 on a full gaming system, you shouldn't really be spending a measly 50 quid (5% of budget) on the processor. If you spending morelike £500 on a gaming system, then yeah you don't have that luxury of choosing between a quad core and a dual core, it's dual core or the rest of the system suffers to get a quad.

A quad will also eat a E2160 in current 2 core max games, it's a ton faster and the only way you get it to a quad's level is overclocking and some people just can't be bothered with that.