Christmas Build

nJoyo · 16 Oct 2010 at 16:15

I'm thinking to build a gaming PC to play some good graphics games I have already got graphics card and a PSU, but just need opinions on what i should get, shall i go with AMD CPUs, or Intels. I'm really interested in intels CPU. But I'm willing to spend £400 on the new build. Which will include CPU, MB,RAM,Hard drive. So give me some suggestions on which of the side i should go on.

Thanks in advance

stulid · 16 Oct 2010 at 16:18

Intel i5 760 is best.

95thrifles · 16 Oct 2010 at 16:19

Youre best waiting til xmas, its couple of months away so things could very well change, but if you were buying now then intel i3 is prob just in your budget, though with AMD you could get an athlon quad, again things may change between now n then though
gfx wise youd be looking at a 460 now, but this is guaranteed to change as ATI are bringing out their new range of cards between now n then so therell be new offerings n price drops prob
RAM wise you just want to get 4 gig of PC12800 DDR3, whatevers cheap, mobo is dependent on cpu obv, HDD the old Samsung F3 is hard to beat, 500gig for bout £30
Edit just seen you already have gpu, should read properly first, in that case yeah i5 as above or for AMD a 955, but again things can change

stulid · 16 Oct 2010 at 16:21

95thrifles said:
Youre best waiting til xmas, its couple of months away so things could very well change, but if you were buying now then intel i3 is prob just in your budget, though with AMD you could get an athlon quad, again things may change between now n then though
gfx wise youd be looking at a 460 now, but this is guaranteed to change as ATI are bringing out their new range of cards between now n then so therell be new offerings n price drops prob
RAM wise you just want to get 4 gig of PC12800 DDR3, whatevers cheap, mobo is dependent on cpu obv, HDD the old Samsung F3 is hard to beat, 500gig for bout £30
Edit just seen you already have gpu, should read properly first, in that case yeah i5 as above or for AMD a 955, but again things can change

your joking right? a i5 is easily obtainable with £400, he already has a graphics card and psu.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £149.99
(£127.65) £149.99
(£127.65)
Asus P7P55D-E Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £99.99
(£85.10) £99.99
(£85.10)
Corsair Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMD4GX3M2A1600C9) £64.61
(£54.99) £64.61
(£54.99)
Silverstone SST-PS03B Precision Midi Tower Case - Black £42.99
(£36.59) £42.99
(£36.59)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £30.98
(£26.37) £30.98
(£26.37)
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£11.91) £13.99
(£11.91)
Sub Total : £342.61
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 : £61.93
Total : £415.79

EDIT- sneaky little editing skill there "Edit just seen you already have gpu, should read properly first, in that case yeah i5 as above or for AMD a 955, but again things can change"

stulid · 16 Oct 2010 at 16:26

nJoyo said:
I'm thinking to build a gaming PC to play some good graphics games I have already got graphics card and a PSU, but just need opinions on what i should get, shall i go with AMD CPUs, or Intels. I'm really interested in intels CPU. But I'm willing to spend £400 on the new build. Which will include CPU, MB,RAM,Hard drive. So give me some suggestions on which of the side i should go on.

Thanks in advance

what is the make and model of the psu? ditto the graphics card?

95thrifles · 16 Oct 2010 at 16:30

as the edit said, i missed he already had gfx

nJoyo · 17 Oct 2010 at 17:48

Well, I've got OCZ PowerXSlealth PSU, and 2 GTX 460.

nJoyo · 17 Oct 2010 at 17:49

@stulid I'm considering your build, but i'm not a Fan of Asus motherboards as i've had a issues i was thinking about getting a MSI P55-GD65 iP55 Socket 1156 Gigabit Lan 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard.

stulid · 17 Oct 2010 at 18:06

nJoyo said:
and 2 GTX 460.

you need to make sure the motherboard runs both pci-e slots at the same speed, a lot of them, including that Asus above may very well have two pci-e slots, but each slot is run at differing speeds.

unfortunately i cant get my head around the MSI website and thier specifications of the board you mention to be able to work out if it does run both slots at 8X/8X speeds when two cards are inserted.

this Gigabyte does it right if you like them - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-226-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1495