My new £5000 pc build

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you can build a high spec pc with 1.3k or less if you keep the monitor from your old setup, why spend 5k when you probably wont even notice a difference?

seems like a big waste, but that's just my opinion

my i7 setup cost me 900 quid but that was bar the graphics/monitor keyboard, mouse and speakers which were good enough to keep anyway.
 
Jumping in with watercooling on a first build seems a bit unwise to me. At least test everything out before setting up the WC.
 
Steve2000 said:
If you knew what you were doing and if you'd researched properly then you'd probably realise that even after sinking £5000 on a machine now, it will be outdated in a few months time.

Do a feasibility study next time. Not being funny, this is genuine advice.
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THIS!

Total cost of mine in October 2008...£1300 and does all i ask of it.

Firstly scrap the watercooling not a good idea for a beginner. add that in if you have it at a later date.

and take your time...Rome wasnt built in one day...
 
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Thanks for all your comments and i do not appreciate comments on about "oh 3k or 2k would get you a good high end pc please i worked my ass of for nearly 2 years for this i derserve this about my family my dad gave me the go ahead and my mum they said we havee not got you a b day gift for 12 years do what you want i asked them do they want anything they kept on sayiong no and i want a gaming pc that will last me years
 
and yes i have all the purchases in my living room i have got like 50 boxes lol i am going to do an unboxing and put it on youtube so watch it !!
 
Rich_boi said:
Thanks for all your comments and i do not appreciate comments on about "oh 3k or 2k would get you a good high end pc please i worked my ass of for nearly 2 years for this i derserve this about my family my dad gave me the go ahead and my mum they said we havee not got you a b day gift for 12 years do what you want i asked them do they want anything they kept on sayiong no and i want a gaming pc that will last me years
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That's fair enough, but what the guys are saying is that we could save you at least £2000 and you would still have a kick ass gaming PC, a really kick ass one.

The problem, is that not long down the line, your PC will become 'old' in terms of technology, so with that £2000 that you saved, you could upgrade it to the latest and greatest at that time.
 
If you built a pc for 50% of the price it would still have 90% of the performance, and then next year when even a 5k pc from now would be outdated you could upgrade, or you could even put the money towards something else worthwhile, driving lessons perhaps? People that are saying spend less are doing so with the best intentions.
 
Yeh be sure to post a link of the youtube video, and it is believable because I was in a similar situation about 3 yrs ago, evently I did end up buying a 2.3k pc rather than 5k. Still using it today though and plays Cod4/WaW 1080p flawlessly.
 
thank you all for the info i have areadly bought the parts i will post the vids soon however i am in the middile of my GCSE so after my exams i will be going of to army cadet annual camp for 3 weeks during summer holidays you will not see this pc for about 3 -2 monthsi have got loads of stuff to do and do not worry i am the only son in family, so no 1 will go in to my room i will lock it ! AND THE KEYS WILL BE IN MY SAFE LOL anywayz if i do get stuk or have anymoe questions i will ask again lol and please keep the advice coming in
 
Okay well clearly you don't want to be told you are wasting your money so I won't tell you that. If you are yet to put it together, you can honestly find most of what you need if you just read through the manuals (particularly mobo manual). Just set a day aside and have the patience to take it all slowly.

Besides that use an online guide as a rough guide of what order to do things in and

DON'T FORGET THE SPACERS for the mobo. Forgetting those is one of the few guarenteed ways to completely **** your components.

Spend some more time on these forums reading guides and other people's experiences, you will learn loads.
That system should last you a fair amount of time, say 3 years before you have to start turning settings down significantly? If you want the money to last longer, buy a weaker system and upgrade incrementally as new technologies come out. Maybe one upgrade a year.

Plus that way you get to earn interest on all the money you save for now.


EDIT: Nooo!! You don't buy the components 3 months before you build it! Sigh... Good luck
 
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Screenshot or it didn't happen.

I just can't believe you'd spend £5,000 on a PC and end up with a velociraptor instead of a handful of SSDs. Fail.

Next time, buy a car.
 
Rich_boi said:
did i say free bul**** lol i didnt ment to say free i said im getin it of my uncle for £300 for used lol he needs cash for his new son he is quiting the gaming pc and concentrating on his family needs or **** like that lol
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There's so much of this that I could call shenanigans on but to keep things simple I'll focus on just one.


On the basis that that particular CPU has been out a hand full of days I call shens.

I find it extremely unlikely that your uncle would be willing to lose £500 on a CPU if he "needs cash".



You might want to make one addition to that "impressive" list of yours... a spell checker.
Quite cheap (although that doesn't appear to be a factor you take into account) and fairly easy to come across. All the good high street shops stock them. You can also find some bargain second hand ones if you know where to look.
 
By the time you actually build your pc, you prob could have bought the same components for £500 less, personally id waste it by other means but ahwell your money, just don't blow all the components up when you go to build it!(and if you do i wanna see a video on youtube)
 
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