£800 Budget

[glum]

Samsung 930bf is what i have , os is awaiting new pc,

 

[Angst]

im ignoring the original request but this is my attempt at the best performance within the budget. the soundcard is there because if your watching blu-rays and gaming you really cant go without one even on headphones.

 

[Mr Krugga]

Dual Core Phenom II beats this Athlon II X4 in gaming - fail.

You'd need a really decent headphones to hear the difference. Most "mainstream" ones will do fine with an on-board audio.

 

[Angst]

Dual Core Phenom II beats this Athlon II X4 in gaming - fail.

You'd need a really decent headphones to hear the difference. Most "mainstream" ones will do fine with an on-board audio.

only in games that support 2 cores and more and more games are now starting to support quads, at £80 you cant say no to a quad over a dual anymore and with the soundcard the fidellity of it is quite noticeable and and the extra effects of eax are very noticeable in games and useful especially in multiplayer fps.
edit: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/athlon-l3-cache,2416-6.html
both quads and only a small difference considering the price difference

 

[Freddie1980]

He has a 19" 1280x1024 monitor, frankly £800 is overkill for building a gaming PC when it only has to run games at that resolution. I3/PII X2, 4Gb DDR3 and a HD5770 is all he needs and even that could be argued to be to much.

 

[glum]

Lol so know the monitor needs replacing ? To benefit from this upgrade ?

 

[stulid]

Lol so know the monitor needs replacing ? To benefit from this upgrade ?

not really, it just means the graphics card doesnt have to work so hard.

meaning you can crank the quality settings right up!!

 

[glum]

So would 2x 5770 be a waste ?

 

[stulid]

So would 2x 5770 be a waste ?

all of the graphics card are a bit of a waste, a 5830 for £160 would be sensible.

but this is overclockers.co.uk and so you can never have to much power, MWHAHAHAHAHA

 

[glum]

lol amd or pentium is next to figure out have settled on a 5770 or 2

 

[infernox]

at that res you should just be happy with a 4850

 

[Mr Krugga]

lol amd or pentium is next to figure out have settled on a 5770 or 2

It's Intel not Pentium. The latter is just a brand name for the EOL line of CPUs.

 

[glum]

Yeah but you know what i mean though old habits die hard

 

[Angst]

ok then i think this would best suit your budget considering your resolution.
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5830 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £163.99
(£139.57) £163.99
(£139.57)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £135.99
(£115.74) £135.99
(£115.74)
Patriot Viper 4GB (2x2GB) PC3-10666 1333MHz Dual Channel (PVS34G1333ELK) £88.99
(£75.74) £88.99
(£75.74)
Lian Li PC-A05NB Aluminium Mini-Tower Case - Black £72.99
(£62.12) £72.99
(£62.12)
Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard £68.98
(£58.71) £68.98
(£58.71)
Samsung SH-B083L/RSBP 8x BluRay ROM / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £66.99
(£57.01) £66.99
(£57.01)
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply £63.99
(£54.46) £63.99
(£54.46)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer 7.1 Sound Card (70SB073A02007) £63.99
(£54.46) £63.99
(£54.46)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1156 / 1366) £18.99
(£16.16) £18.99
(£16.16)
Akasa AK-191-SM Smoke Ultra Quiet 120mm Fan - 3 pin £5.86
(£4.99) £5.86
(£4.99)
Sub Total : £672.99
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £119.61
Total : £803.10

 

[glum]

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition 3.40GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail
Asus Crosshair III Formula AMD 790FX (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
Asus ATI Radeon HD 5770 CuCore 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Patriot G Series 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel (PGS34G1333ELK)
OcUK 850W Dual Rail High Efficiency Modular Power Supply
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ)
Akasa AK-CC017 Freedom Tower CPU Cooler (Socket AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1156 / 1366)
Sony Optiarc AD-7241S 24x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe Optical Drive (Black) - OEM


i went with this set up and have now ordered

thanks for all your help and time used up in posting ideas and info

 

[Gary*]

should have really ordered a branded PSU such as Corsair or OCZ.