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Gurudefence

Gurudefence

Gurudefence

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Hello everyone,

As a new member of the forum, I would just like to start off by saying "Hi! Hope you are all well."

I've been out of the gaming loop for 6 years or so now but having recently purchased Starcraft 2 I have realised how sucky my current PC is... I am having to run everything on low just to play the game =\ Radeon X600 series, hah!

Basically, I need a new build. I have a 19" monitor, keyboard etc, although they will be changed in due course; I am just focusing on hardware at the moment.

Budget £700 or so... No experience of building. Initial opinion was to go for the Titan Xenomorph + W7 = £700.

The usual uses; Office, web, music, gaming.. However, will need to hold out for my girlfriend's animation packages similar to the CS5 on the Mac.

Kind regards,

Andy.
 
Thanks for the reply, Stuild.

Except for the price, what would be the reasoning to go for this instead of the XenoMorph? I assume that the Krypt is more than capable of my needs? It's just so easy to spend more money :)

Thanks.
 
Hi, welcome to the forums :)

I'd go for the Titan Predator myself, with Windows 7 HP and the XFX 5830. Should perform better than the Xenomorph.

But if your GF is going to want to use CUDA enabled software then the Xenomorph may be the way to go, should serve you nicely anyway :)
 
well the krypt is quad core, so hopefully your girlfreinds packages will work well.

it will still make a great gaming machine.

and being on a AM3 motherboard, will take future AMD cpu releases in the future, while the socket 1156 of the i3 package is being replaced by socket 1155 next year.

and a GTX460 is the best performing grapchics card avalible for this budget, easily beating a 5770 and 5830.
 
Thanks Alex, and again Stulid.

I was unsure whether to post on the forums as I knew that I would an even difficult decision to make; I wasn't wrong!

At the end of the day, all of the suggested machines will wipe clean my current PC. My only concern is my lack of understanding with terminology ;)
 
My concern with anything technology based is how quickly it will be out of date. I understand that everything has a sell-by date but as someone who will not upgrade any time soon, will these PC's hold up for a few years to come?

If so, the Krypt looks like a good decision. I am just easily lead by 'the more you spend, the better it will be' philosophy.
 
anything AMD based will have more "future" available too it.

intel are changing there sockets next year, the AMD bulldozer cpus are strongly rumoured to still be socket AM3 fitment, so hopefully with just a bios update the motherboard will accept it, thats usually what happens with AMD chips, plenty of older boards are running the latest chips.
 
I see. Looking at other threads, the new intel sockets are coming in January? Is it worth sticking around until then?

I guess not; I should just shut up and buy :)
 
Gurudefence said:
I see. Looking at other threads, the new intel sockets are coming in January? Is it worth sticking around until then?

I guess not; I should just shut up and buy :)
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might as well buy now. :) think of all the games you could run on maximum settings? and the special offer ends Wednesday morning.

either of the systems in this thread will only be able to have one decent fast graphics card, crossfire or sli are not possible with the motherboards in these systems, so get the fastest single card you can, which is a GTX460 768mb.
 
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It certainly can get confusing. It's best to set a budget which you have done, then look at different systems and as a rule of thumb you want all the numbers you see in the spec to be as high as poss whilst in the budget.

i.e cpu speed, hdd space, gfx card model number, amount of RAM installed etc etc. Google is your friend if you search for a review of a gfx card lets say, they often compare them to a rival card and show graphs to help you compare performance.

As stulid said "just ask" there are some very helpful people on this forum. Remember there are no stupid questions....just stupid people who wont ask questions ;p
 
:)

I could just build... Stulid is only a small car drive away if I have any problems ;) Hah!

Here's a question then; If all I need is a predator or a krypt to do what I/GF is doing, then why do people spend more? Is it because this is a hobby to them? They want better performance? Using more demanding software?
 
bigger monitors require more power to push the larger amount of pixels, and some people just want to run everything at silly speeds/ got the money.

I don't mind putting a pc together for you, only take an hour or two.
 
I personally like to build them, if you bought one in a shop they tend to advertise the best part usually the cpu then the rest of the parts are generic rubbish to keep the price low.

When you build yourself you hand pick each component and tailor make it to your needs. Let's say your a gamer, then you don't really need more than a quad core as games rarely use more than two cores. So you save £s on the CPU and redirect the money to the GPU.

If however your using the rig for a lot of video encoding then an intel i7 would make sense.
 
for example this lot is bang on budget.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
OcUK Value GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £147.99
(£125.95) £147.99
(£125.95)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £123.36
(£104.99) £123.36
(£104.99)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Retail (Full Version)(GFC-00025) £92.99
(£79.14) £92.99
(£79.14)
Asus M4A87TD/USB3 AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £86.99
(£74.03) £86.99
(£74.03)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £82.24
(£69.99) £82.24
(£69.99)
Sapphire Pure 625W Modular Power Supply £64.61
(£54.99) £64.61
(£54.99)
Silverstone SST-PS03B Precision Midi Tower Case - Black £42.99
(£36.59) £42.99
(£36.59)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £35.24
(£29.99) £35.24
(£29.99)
Samsung SH-S223L/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£11.91) £13.99
(£11.91)
Sub Total : £587.58
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.25
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £104.80
Total : £703.63

wouldn't take long to put together
 
So essentially, by building it myself, I would be able to have better parts as I am not paying for the labour?

Without sounding mean, you guys love putting specs together, huh? :)
 
Yip stulids right and that's a very good all round system. That guy has a great knack for bringing components together to meet peoples needs.
 
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