My rig £700 max

James07 · 19 May 2009 at 17:00

wrayvon said:
Haha do you want to feel like a geek?

I love playing my old games and racking up my 800+ hours of CSS!!!!!

I miss how i used to feel with my old comp with all my music n files and the speed of using a well looked after comp instead of the sisters vista laptop..

Beggers cant be choosers but soon ill be happy again

Hense the build and cost.

wrayvon · 19 May 2009 at 17:02

I can understand that completely! My pc is not running at the moment so I'm stuck with my laptop-Dell latitude D610 = slow as anything! Has 1gig of ram though which helps a little. Cant wait to get my pc up and running again!

uk_unbeliever · 19 May 2009 at 17:43

JonJ678 said:
Big flaw in the vanilla P5Q is the power cable in the middle of the board.

Is there any reason why it is designed this way? Looks like the power cable has to go up and over the graphics card

JonJ678 · 19 May 2009 at 18:48

I've no idea why Asus thought this was a good idea, I can't see it being beneficial. Has to go up and over the processor socket for my case, which isn't exactly better. Very strange of them

user1453 · 19 May 2009 at 19:20

If you can strech to it I'd suggest getting two of these instead of the 250gb ones
WD 640GB black

James07 · 19 May 2009 at 20:55

JonJ678 said:
I've no idea why Asus thought this was a good idea, I can't see it being beneficial. Has to go up and over the processor socket for my case, which isn't exactly better. Very strange of them

Ive just relised, the PSU is mounted on the bottom of my case..

user1453 said:
If you can strech to it I'd suggest getting two of these instead of the 250gb ones
WD 640GB black

For what reason? 1x250 is for storage, the other is for the os..

James07 · 19 May 2009 at 20:57

wrayvon said:
Do you really need the G15 keyboard? Up to you entirely, but I can happily game with my LX710

lynchy6789 · 19 May 2009 at 21:37

You should really consider the Biostar board its a dream to overclock with got my e7400 @ 3.8 at i think 1.3V 16 hours stable in prime only spent about night on it and was my first time ever overclocking also the board is really easy to work with!

E8400 would be my choice and its a good clockers i just didn't have the spare £55 wanted to get a more all round computer and i only play games so spent the extra on a 4870 £180 now £140

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Audigex · 19 May 2009 at 22:03

+1 for biostar

I think asus go for mid-mounted power cable as a compromise. In my antec 300, I can only just stretch the power cable to its home.

James07 · 19 May 2009 at 22:12

I aint gonna overclock so if thats what they board would be good for then theres no point..

I think what i have chosen should suffice..

wbc1 · 20 May 2009 at 10:36

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BG-123-AB&groupid=595&catid=689&subcat=

How does that mobo look, it's B grade but at £50, surely a bargain!

JTrickle · 20 May 2009 at 11:08

Its not forced to work with new graphics cards out later in the year. There will never be any new bios updates for it. And there is only one in stock = order derail risk.

I like my Abit IX38, but were I buying again, it would be the £100 Gigabyte X48 already linked too above. No point in spending loads on P45 if you arent overclocking. If you are not intending to ever cross fire, or use HD:s in raid, I suppose there is no point in spending >£65 on a P43.

James07 · 20 May 2009 at 13:22

JTrickle said:
Its not forced to work with new graphics cards out later in the year. There will never be any new bios updates for it. And there is only one in stock = order derail risk.

I like my Abit IX38, but were I buying again, it would be the £100 Gigabyte X48 already linked too above. No point in spending loads on P45 if you arent overclocking. If you are not intending to ever cross fire, or use HD:s in raid, I suppose there is no point in spending >£65 on a P43.

P45 > P43 for the future though?

Im not going for a crap B grade mobo when i can get a Asus board which I know are good from past experience.

Only reason im going for P45 is because its newer and a better investment then a P43?

JTrickle · 20 May 2009 at 18:08

To me, p45 offers limited bandwidth crossfire, better overclocking, and usually raid vs no raid options.

Kryten2k35 · 23 May 2009 at 23:11

James, you realise by the time you get your money together everything will have got cheaper and you'll be making another thread =D

icey_haj · 23 May 2009 at 23:48

I would actually echo wbc's advice and go for the AMD 720.

Would be more 'future proof'.

gamesaregood · 24 May 2009 at 00:00

I would advise going for the Phenom II 720 & Socket AM2+ / AM3

775 is as good as dead and has no future..... its already been replaced with i7 for high end and i5 will soon be released to finish it off for the rest, no new chips are going to be released for 775.... high end ones at least.

awsomeness · 24 May 2009 at 02:02

Is it really worth spending over £100 on keyboard mouse and a headset? surley you could get some cheaper and spend the rest on performance?

Kryten2k35 · 24 May 2009 at 22:26

gamesaregood said:
I would advise going for the Phenom II 720 & Socket AM2+ / AM3

775 is as good as dead and has no future..... its already been replaced with i7 for high end and i5 will soon be released to finish it off for the rest, no new chips are going to be released for 775.... high end ones at least.

Yeah, but he's not exactly after spending more than £150 on a processor and i7 doesn't give that much of an improvement in games over Core 2 Quad. i7, at the moment, is more for servers and multithreaded programs, encoding and CAD sort of things.

If he clocks that Core 2 Duo E8400 to 4GHZ and grabs a really nice graphics card (or a pair) to play on his 1680x1050 monitor, he's laughing.

Graphics cards matter the most for games FPS than the CPU and a 4ghz Duo isn't going to be a hinderence.

James07 · 25 May 2009 at 22:27

awsomeness said:
Is it really worth spending over £100 on keyboard mouse and a headset? surley you could get some cheaper and spend the rest on performance?

yes it is worth it dude, because i need the extra buttons, ive wanted this keyboard for a very long time, i want a good mouse with lots of buttons for gaming, and yes the headset is needed for gaming, as for performance, what im spending on it will suffice for what i need, IT WILL.. im not too bothered about better performance then what im aiming for..

Kryten2k35 said:
Yeah, but he's not exactly after spending more than £150 on a processor and i7 doesn't give that much of an improvement in games over Core 2 Quad.

Aye which sounds about right for new top line items which are way way way over priced.. Like you said, £150 is about as much as id like to spend on a cpu

That will do me reet to be honest..

(or a pair)

Subtle haha.

We talk about this comp at work too much Kryten (dint know if u wanted me to use yoru real name haha) GEEK! lol