1st gaming pc, thoughts

pzpilgrim

pzpilgrim

pzpilgrim

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hi,
I have a budget of £1400 to buy a gaming pc and having trawled the net for a good machine i have decided on this custom config offered by PC Specialist -

AMD PHENOM™ II X4 955 (3.2GHz) BLACK EDITION
8GB CORSAIR XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz
ASUS® M4A79-T DELUXE Motherboard
500GB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
2 seperate 1GB ATI RADEON™ HD 4890 PCI EXPRESS (crossfire)
COOLERMASTER COSMOS 1000 SILVER SILENT CASE
1010W Quiet Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan
COOLIT DOMINO A.L.C. CPU LIQUID COOLER
22x DUAL LAYER LIGHTSCRIBE DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Windows Vista™ Home Premium 64 bit Edition

altogether £13 shy of £1400.

Before i part with what is a lot of money, i'd appreciate thoughts or alternatives; i am tempted by the yoyotech water dragon 3.6 but futureproofing that, and upgrades were limited, as well as the price becoming higher than the above if you go for upgrades.

thankyou.
 
If you're willing to build it yourself you can build a better computer for less money

Just requires a little time and effort

That build looks quite reasonable but again I'd just build the think out of components
 
unfortunately i'm great with broken bodies (physiotherapy) but, although i've been learning a fair bit about pc components from the net, i still lack the real knowledge, and more importantly the confidence to build it myself. I'm not quite ready to take that leap of faith!
I have considered i7 but even the low end of the i7 cpu market is flipping expensive and the frequency is a fair bit lower than the 3.2ghz offered by the amd. thanks though!
 
Have you checked oc's pre built think you gonna get more for your money.

Have more of a think about building your own tbh it's not that hard, just take your time you will get there. If i can build one then i'm sure you can.
 
Seriously, Building a PC is as easy as changing the fuse in a plug or changeing a light bulb. It takes a little longer but it is not hard. Everything really only fits one way and its mostly just plugging things into other things. There are plenty of guides how to do it. If you are anywhere near Hinckley in the midlands I would be happy to help you if you get stuck.

The above system build it yourself from OC would be 1,260.41 shipped though to be honest if I had 1400 to spend I would definately be buying an i7 system regardless of clock speed which we all know by now means little to the actual speed of the computer.
 
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Mayhem said:
I'm interested, what could he change to get a better rig for less?
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That is silly expensive compared to build yourself.
He get get raid 0 ssd iin that budget or upgrade other components.

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For example slightly over but £1440.

Or you could get an apex 60gb ssd and a 500gb drive and be pretty much bang on 1400
 
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pilgrim, although at first it is daunting, building a PC is not very hard.

If you do some research and take your time, you should be fine.

Even if you get stuck there's plenty of people on this forum to help you out.

I recommend you read through this thread, it follows a members first time building a PC and has some good tips and advice in there.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18001852&highlight=build
 
If you are willing to heve a go at building it yourself, below is an i7 buld for a fe q less with better parts and a w hdds for a raid0 array to boost hdd read/write
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otherwise see this you can only configure it with 1 4890 but I'm sure you could ask them to put another one in
 
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thanks for all your help, it's much appreciated. I'm checking out one of the OCs' systems - goliath, but unsure about the best graphics upgrade, i'm not familiar with nvidia cards so i'd naturally plump for the ati4870 x2. Are the GTX cards better?
 
hmmm, tempted by the tornado with gtx 295 card.
Its probably a daft question asking for reviews on Overclockers on this forum, reviews for PC specialist are patchy to say the least and it's damn hard making up my mind to commit a lot of dosh to the right retailer/builder.
Still, i gotta make up my mind, and this system with the i7 seems like it's relatively future proof and capable of the odd upgrade.
It's just as well i'm not this indecisive at work (although i like to think of it as being cautious).
 
There isn't a massive amount of difference between the GTS 295 and the 4870 X2, probably not to justify the price, unless you have specific reasons like folding@home ati sucks at that.
 
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