Hey all, ive never built a PC before and i decided to give it a go and for past couple of weeks have been agonizing over various pieces and reading reviews of components ect to put together a new gaming rig for myself. My old PC is basically an antique on its last legs, im pretty poor but have been saving little bits here and there and hope to have £900-1000 for around Christmas/January. It has to include a decent monitor, mouse, keyboard and headset as all my old peripherals are as crappy as the PC there plugged into. The only salvage i can get from my old rig is the DVD drive as it died recently so the current one is kinda new however i like the idea of a blu ray player/dvd burner its hard getting that into budget. Anyways heres a pic of what im looking at for just a snip over £900 id appreciate any comments or suggestions and would be willing to stretch to £1000 max if people can recommend things that would give a genuine and noticeable boost in performance (games being the key here). Will this rig be able to tear up all the latest games on decent gfx settings? Is the power pack enough? an whats folks opinion of the monitor? Is it worth paying extra for a nicer case? Will this run cool or do i need any more cooling items such as CPU cooler?
