Gaming Desktop - £750.

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Hi all, my first post on these forums, but i hae been looking around here for a few months, and defonately want to buy from Overclockers.

Well, for christmas i wanted to buy a PC, but a freind told me that i should Build, i was optimistic at first, but i have seen lots of tuturials, ect.

What i need is a Gaming Rig for £750, inc Mouse, Keyboard, Monitor....

I am not sure if ill need a OS, but can someone include the price with one.

I only need about 250GB HDD, because it wont be used for anything other than gaming.

I dont need a good monitor, becuase itsmy birthday soon, and im going to get a huge one.

Heres what my freind specced me out:

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/1903/jwllypb8.png

Do you think this will do, or can someone improve on this?

Sort of games i play :

All steam games
CoD4
Farcry 2
Basically im a hardcore gamer....
 
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Not a bad spec, if it was me i'd swap the quad for an e8400 - duals are better for gaming. Put the saved money towards a better graphics card, (4850/70) or if your feeling rich a GTX 260 (216 version).

Are you planning to overclock? If so you'd need a cpu cooler, which one depends on how much you want to spend really. Something like a freezer 7 pro, very good and cheap. Or maybe a noctua if you want to spend more.

HDD, again, if you spend another £10 you can get a 640GB Western Digital which are supposed to be very fast and would help in gaming..

If your running vista 4GB of ram is a must.

Oh and if your getting a monitor for your birthday you could save a bit and get a 19" or something.

Thanks my 2 pence worth anyway
 
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This comes to £739.00, all I've missed off is a keyboard and mouse.

It includes the OS, vista 64bit and 4gb of ram, which is a minimum these days.

The E7300 is a good chip, should give you a nice easy overclock, I've included an artic freezer 7, which should see you overclock past 3.0ghz with ease.

The 4850 is a great graphics card, at the moment it's best you can buy for the money, much better than the 9800gt, which is just a rebranded 8800gt.

Your friend spec'd a 750W PSU, definitely overkill, the 450 one I've shown is more than enough.

I've included a 640gb hard drive, it's only £12 more than the 250gb you were after, so it makes sense to pay the extra to get a bigger hard drive, which should also be a bit faster aswell.

You can always drop the monitor down a size, to a 19" and save a bit of money, but the LG is a good price and not far off the prices of smaller monitors. If you really are planning on getting a bigger monitor than a 22", then you really would have to think about getting a better graphics card, something like a 4870 is more suited to 1920*1200 resolution. Since your on a tight budget for an entire gaming system, I'd stick with a 22". The 4850 will play the games you mentioned at the highest detail on this size of screen.
 
Posted at the same time, that is excellent mate, just what i needed.

See that Graphics Card, how about i change it for this bad boy?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-102-HT

Also, ive heard that everyone says that Vista is a bunch of Sh.... i mean Crap.

What do you guys think on this?

If i had a little extra cash i could easy get 3.00 GHz Wolfdale.

And thats graphics card.

One thats question, if i changed the case to one i like, would everything still fit?
 
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This comes to £739.00, all I've missed off is a keyboard and mouse.

It includes the OS, vista 64bit and 4gb of ram, which is a minimum these days.

The E7300 is a good chip, should give you a nice easy overclock, I've included an artic freezer 7, which should see you overclock past 3.0ghz with ease.

The 4850 is a great graphics card, at the moment it's best you can buy for the money, much better than the 9800gt, which is just a rebranded 8800gt.

Your friend spec'd a 750W PSU, definitely overkill, the 450 one I've shown is more than enough.

I've included a 640gb hard drive, it's only £12 more than the 250gb you were after, so it makes sense to pay the extra to get a bigger hard drive, which should also be a bit faster aswell.

You can always drop the monitor down a size, to a 19" and save a bit of money, but the LG is a good price and not far off the prices of smaller monitors. If you really are planning on getting a bigger monitor than a 22", then you really would have to think about getting a better graphics card, something like a 4870 is more suited to 1920*1200 resolution. Since your on a tight budget for an entire gaming system, I'd stick with a 22". The 4850 will play the games you mentioned at the highest detail on this size of screen.
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Yeah, I tried speccing something better than this but failed. This = win
 
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Posted at the same time, that is excellent mate, just what i needed.

See that Graphics Card, how about i change it for this bad boy?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-102-HT

Also, ive heard that everyone says that Vista is a bunch of Sh.... i mean Crap.

What do you guys think on this?

If i had a little extra cash i could easy get 3.00 GHz Wolfdale.

And thats graphics card.

One thats question, if i changed the case to one i like, would everything still fit?
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That 4850 you've shown is a good card, will run quieter and cooler than the standard 4850, so long as you can increase the budget then go for it.

The same goes for the CPU, I spec'd the 7300 as it was in your budget, but again if you increase this, the E8400 is the chip to go for. The 7300 is also a new wolfdale chip and would easily overclock past 3ghz, so it's up to ypu if you can increase the budget.

Vista 64bit is the operating system to go for, most issues are gone with this. It allows you to make full use of the 4gb of ram, 32bit systems cant show all of this. You can also play games in directx10.

What case do you want to go for? The 300 is a brilliant case for the money, I'm running one and also the 900, both excelent cases, but for the money you can't beat a 300. It's a personal choice a case, your the one that has to look at it day in day out.
 
When my mum gets home, ill show here everything thats happening, ill show here what r0550 specced me out, and ill show her wha i could get for an extra £50.
And then ill just make sure, everything will fit ect, and then ill buy.
 
Have you not got a monitor you could borrow for a while? It seems an awful waste to get something for £90+ if you just plan to ditch it when your birthday arrives. It would also mean you could do more with your planned budget of £750.

Otherwise, if you tweak ro55o's spec by making the following changes:

LG 22" Monitor -> OcUK Value 19"
Remove the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Samsung 640gb hdd -> Samsung 250gb hdd
Antec 300 case -> your chosen NZXT one

You can then get the HIS Radeon 4870 instead of the 4850 and it comes in at £763.45, again without mouse or keyboard.
 
But the Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro, will keep everything cool, plus, im not going to ditch my moniter, i just seen a video on it on youtube and its much bigger than i thought, so ill keep it.
Plus if i didnt have the cooler, would it still be cool?
 
Plus one more question, ive just seen a video about building a desktop, and heres what one of the comments said
"Are you serious? Where is your anti-static wrist band, and your anti-static mat? Do you not know that ESD (eletric static discharge) is one of the biggest common factors to hardware failure when messing with componets? Please do not provide information with out doing it properly, this saddens me.. "
Where can i get these from? And/or what else could i use to dischardge myself.
 
I'm a big gamer myself.And altough ro55o has done a nice spec for you there,I also recommend this:



This is the computer i'm building for my son for crimbo :)

And that's running Vista Ultimate 64Bit

***Edit***I will also be adding a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler***Edit***
 
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