Hey, Spec me a rig for less than £650

stulid · 24 Jun 2010 at 15:19

ati4670 is to slow for that res.

TheGedi · 24 Jun 2010 at 16:10

stulid said:
ati4670 is to slow for that res.

its very occasional, I was playing COD4 at a local Internet Cafe type thing at 1440x900 on a 7900GT. And it was playable, and it never bothered me, as long as its consistent and >45-60 frames even with a few settings off.

Big.Wayne · 24 Jun 2010 at 16:17

TheGedi said:
on my quest for the perfect parts list xD

mainly be used for college, Photoshop, Fireworks, dreamweaver, flash and after effects.

I would like to play occasional cod4 pc maybe even mw2

will be playing at 1920x1080 (monitor/Tv)

don't need a blu ray drive.

budget will be around £650 might be able to stretch to £750

I love the look and reviews of the antec 300

this is to last me a good few years

not exactly earning mega money

upgradeability would be a huge plus

TheGedi · 24 Jun 2010 at 16:34

I like the look of the top i3 one

Marvin · 24 Jun 2010 at 16:41

Second and fourth are best value for money. Also, please stop quoting pictures!

Big.Wayne · 24 Jun 2010 at 17:00

TheGedi said:
I like the look of the top i3 one

TheGedi said:
this is to last me a good few years not exactly earning mega money so upgradeability would be a huge plus.

£20 difference and just oozing "upgradeability" . . . . Allows Crossfire in the future . . it allows an easy CPU upgrade in the future (if you needed a Hex core in a 12-18months say) . . . It's the same build as #2 above but just with a HD 5770 instead of the HD 5830!

Oh forgot to say USB 3.0 and SATA III as standard if thats important to your future needs?

Do you do any really data intensive stuff aside from gaming? maybe in the next 6 months to 12 months maybe? . . . . Four Actual cores outperforms two HyperThreaded Cores in really CPU intensive applications . . .

Off Topic:

Can you try and avoid quoting a post containing huge images please Ross . . . It's not such a biggy for this spec-me-thread but if you do that in other peoples threads it won't go down well . . . can you click [Edit] on post #24 and delete the 3000 pixel high image pretty please!

Big.Wayne · 24 Jun 2010 at 17:35

TheGedi said:
Hey, Spec me a rig for less than £650

Last one from me Ross . . . I can tell your not sure about your GPU yet so here are the three base builds from above (minus Core i5) with just onboard graphics!

. . . They are all good but the two AM3 build offer a better long term investment I feel . . . It's quite a decent budget you have so take a little while sussing out the pro's and con's of each system and spend with confidence! :cool:

ASUS P7H55-M

Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H

TheGedi · 24 Jun 2010 at 19:19

thanks, how do i remove pictures from posts? not familiar with vbulletin all that much, since i only use one other forum thats been swapped to ipboard for a while and now back to vbulletin lol and the official xbox forums.

Marvin · 24 Jun 2010 at 19:21

Use the backspace?

Remove the IMG tags, or part of them. If it just shows the picture, backspace is your friend.

TheGedi · 24 Jun 2010 at 19:27

Marvin said:
Use the backspace?

Remove the IMG tags, or part of them. If it just shows the picture, backspace is your friend.

Thats them sorted

All these HTML Tags confuse me :L im used to Simpler forums lol

Cookeh · 24 Jun 2010 at 20:20

Erm, would a nVidia card not be better for photoshop etc?

Thinking in terms of CUDA and PhysX

TheGedi · 24 Jun 2010 at 20:25

Cookeh said:
Erm, would a nVidia card not be better for photoshop etc?

Thinking in terms of CUDA and PhysX

I think some Adobe Applications Support CUDA although apparently it dosnt make a lot of difference?, but i thought PhysX was just for games?

Big.Wayne · 24 Jun 2010 at 20:31

Hey Cookeh!

I didn't include a GPU in the specs from post #27 . . . thought that would be best worked out in the GPU Subforum

Just for the record I use Photoshop daily and the acceleration feature works fine with either ATI or nVidia cards! :cool:

Intel® Core™ i3 530 - £543.80
AMD® Athlon™ II X4 635 - £563.00
AMD® Phenom™ II X4 955 - £618.80

stulid · 24 Jun 2010 at 20:35

TheGedi said:
I think some Adobe Applications Support CUDA although apparently it dosnt make a lot of difference?, but i thought PhysX was just for games?

Physx is a game thing, but the nvidia gpu cores are made up of individual CUDA processors, programs can use the massive power of these to speed up rendering and processing, the difference between a cpu and a gpu is massive!!!!!!!

the above videos are using the workstation/professional Quadro gpus, but the results are similar

TheGedi · 24 Jun 2010 at 20:52

stulid said:
Physx is a game thing, but the nvidia gpu cores are made up of individual CUDA processors, programs can use the massive power of these to speed up rendering and processing, the difference between a cpu and a gpu is massive!!!!!!!

the above videos are using the workstation/professional Quadro gpus, but the results are similar

So then would a GTS240 or may GTS250 depending on offer, be better for my needs than a ATI card? with an i3 530?

stulid · 24 Jun 2010 at 20:58

TheGedi said:
So then would a GTS240 or may GTS250 depending on offer, be better for my needs than a ATI card? with an i3 530?

you want to play some games, so ignore the 240, the 250 is good(but really its just a re-named 9800gtx) depends on the price of the 250?

If you can find a 260/275GTX then they are brilliant and bare no resemblance to the 250, they are a completely different gpu architecture

TheGedi · 24 Jun 2010 at 21:02

stulid said:
you want to play some games, so ignore the 240, the 250 is good(but really its just a re-named 9800gtx) depends on the price of the 250?

If you can find a 260/275GTX then they are brilliant and bare no resemblance to the 250, they are a completely different gpu architecture

Dosnt the GTS240 come in some Alienwares and Dell "Games PC's" Even though im thinking, since i have PS3 and 360, whether Games on PC would really be worth the extra money atm?

stulid · 24 Jun 2010 at 21:05

TheGedi said:
Dosnt the GTS240 come in some Alienwares and Dell "Games PC's" Even though im thinking, since i have PS3 and 360, whether Games on PC would really be worth the extra money atm?

Dell=dull

completely your choice of if you want to use your console or buy a graphics card that can cope with some decent gaming

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-025-PV&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1009

not bad for the cash, for CUDA support it has to be a Nvidia 9*** series or newer

TheGedi · 24 Jun 2010 at 21:09

stulid said:
Dell=dull

completely your choice of graphics card,

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-025-PV&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1009

not bad for the cash, for CUDA support it has to be a Nvidia 9*** series or newer

Since a GTS250 is a rebranded 9800GT, does that mean i could expect similar frame rates? Or at least relatively acceptable frame rates if i changed my mind? I have a friend who has a 9800GT in his machine, and he can play games perfectly fine, but mainly uses his machine for Dreamweaver and Photoshop.

Just dont want to spend too much since Being 17, and jobs that are available all offer minimum wage lol

Big.Wayne · 24 Jun 2010 at 21:28

Hey Ross,

can I get a bit of user feedback from you please? . . . I'm curious to know what you find appealing about the Intel® Core™ i3? . . . particularly since you stated "upgradeability would be a huge plus"?

Are you just more comfy with Intel® products and are not sure about AMD® or?

Thanks in advance for your insights!