New gaming build

gilljoy · 19 Nov 2010 at 22:27

Hey all,

Im looking to buy a new system to build i've got a rough idea of what im going to go for but just looking to get some advice.

I've got a budget of £1000 thats for everything including the case. The only thing which I dont need is a HD as i just bought a 1tb samsung drive.

so guys whats the very very best system for gaming that I can get for around £1000 ( budget can strech a little)

stulid · 19 Nov 2010 at 22:32

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
EVGA GeForce GTX 470 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards with MAFIA 2 £183.29
(£155.99) £183.29
(£155.99)
BenQ G2420HDBL 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £170.36
(£144.99) £170.36
(£144.99)
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £144.98
(£123.39) £144.98
(£123.39)
MSI P55-GD80 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £109.98
(£93.60) £109.98
(£93.60)
OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G) £104.99
(£89.35) £104.99
(£89.35)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £82.24
(£69.99) £82.24
(£69.99)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £65.99
(£56.16) £65.99
(£56.16)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £62.99
(£53.61) £62.99
(£53.61)
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Power Supply £58.74
(£49.99) £58.74
(£49.99)
Microsoft SideWinder X4 Gaming Keyboard - Retail (JQD-00006) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse (910-000616) £24.99
(£21.27) £24.99
(£21.27)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £12.91
(£10.99) £12.91
(£10.99)
Sub Total : £903.36
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £160.49
Total : £1,077.60

SLI option, and included a SSD for your main boot drive.

Included win7, monitor, keyboard and mouse.

RJC · 19 Nov 2010 at 22:33

Hello and welcome to the forums

Do you require a monitor and operating system.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail £219.98
(£187.22) £219.98
(£187.22)
EVGA GeForce GTX 470 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards with MAFIA 2 £183.29
(£155.99) £183.29
(£155.99)
Asus X58 Sabertooth TUF Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £159.99
(£136.16) £159.99
(£136.16)
Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel (CMX6GX3M3A1600C9) £104.99
(£89.35) £104.99
(£89.35)
Antec TruePower New Modular 750W Power Supply £102.99
(£87.65) £102.99
(£87.65)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £82.24
(£69.99) £82.24
(£69.99)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £62.99
(£53.61) £62.99
(£53.61)
Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3) £34.98
(£29.77) £34.98
(£29.77)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £12.91
(£10.99) £12.91
(£10.99)
Sub Total : £820.73
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 : £145.47
Total : £976.70

gilljoy · 19 Nov 2010 at 22:37

oh sorry, I forgot to mention that I dont need a monitor, got a 22" 1680 x 1050 one currently so dont really need a monitor.

also just going to re-use my current copy of windows 7 since the pc it's on is getting scrapped

means more money for parts lol.

as for some of the above specs, would there be much worth in upgrading to a i7 950 and a geforce 480 ?

oh edit : its only a tower im building no keyboard or mouse required either, sorry my bad

RJC · 19 Nov 2010 at 22:39

The 480 possibly, I run one in my system and I am pretty pleased with it, but I would look at a SSD for a boot drive.

950 not really, I would stick with the 930.

stulid · 19 Nov 2010 at 22:39

going with your latest info.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £194.99
(£165.95) £389.98
(£331.90)
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £144.98
(£123.39) £144.98
(£123.39)
MSI P55-GD80 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £109.98
(£93.60) £109.98
(£93.60)
OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G) £104.99
(£89.35) £104.99
(£89.35)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £65.99
(£56.16) £65.99
(£56.16)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £62.99
(£53.61) £62.99
(£53.61)
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Power Supply £58.74
(£49.99) £58.74
(£49.99)
Microsoft SideWinder X4 Gaming Keyboard - Retail (JQD-00006) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse (910-000616) £24.99
(£21.27) £24.99
(£21.27)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £12.91
(£10.99) £12.91
(£10.99)
Sub Total : £864.29
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 : £153.22
Total : £1,028.76

crossfire 6870 for ultimate gaming experience.

and i5 is faster in games than a i7 - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/191?vs=47 this compares a i5 760 vs the i7 920 which is only a little slower than a 930.

gilljoy · 19 Nov 2010 at 22:40

RJC said:
The 480 possibly, I run one in my system and I am pretty pleased with it, but I would look at a SSD for a boot drive.

950 not really, I would stick with the 930.

cheers, yea im thinking of overclocking the system so if i can get good preformance out of the 930 i may stick with that, I'll post up what Im thinking of getting.

RJC · 19 Nov 2010 at 22:40

Room to add another 470 later:

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail £219.98
(£187.22) £219.98
(£187.22)
EVGA GeForce GTX 470 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards with MAFIA 2 £183.29
(£155.99) £183.29
(£155.99)
Asus X58 Sabertooth TUF Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £159.99
(£136.16) £159.99
(£136.16)
OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G) £104.99
(£89.35) £104.99
(£89.35)
Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel (CMX6GX3M3A1600C9) £104.99
(£89.35) £104.99
(£89.35)
Antec TruePower New Modular 750W Power Supply £102.99
(£87.65) £102.99
(£87.65)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £62.99
(£53.61) £62.99
(£53.61)
Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3) £34.98
(£29.77) £34.98
(£29.77)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £12.91
(£10.99) £12.91
(£10.99)
Sub Total : £840.09
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 : £148.85
Total : £999.44

Jango · 19 Nov 2010 at 22:41

Welcome to the forum.

If I was in your position, I would go with something like this: (all prices are approximate)

Intel core I7 860 2.8GHz - £217
Socket 1156 DDR3 motherboard (of some kind) - £100
Corsair DDR3 3x2GB RAM - £105
Samsung 1TB SATA HDD - £45
GTX 470 1,280MB GPU - £190
A good enough Corsair PSU (TX 650W perhaps?) - £70?
Antec 300 gaming case - £70
Akasa Venom heatsink - £36
Blu-ray drive (nice little extra

) - £40
120mm side fan - £20
Windows 7 Home Premium x64 (Full) - £123

All prices from overclockers.uk of course, all for around £1,000, everything you would need for a new build.

This is just a basic idea of what I would do, sorry if it is a bit vague, but this is what I came up with in ten minutes.

EDIT: Wow, loads of people posted while I was typing! Also, didn't all of you guys above forget about the OS?

stulid · 19 Nov 2010 at 22:43

^
doesnt need win7 as it turns out.

and 6GB memory kit is no good for that dual channel CPU.

and he has a Harddrive.

RJC · 19 Nov 2010 at 22:43

The i7 860 is probably not worth it, also you have chosen triple channel with a dual channel setup.

stulid · 19 Nov 2010 at 22:47

Have a look at these benchmarks to see how well a crossfire 6870 setup like I posted will blitz your games - http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd6870-hd6850-crossfirex.html

Jango · 19 Nov 2010 at 22:47

stulid said:
^
doesnt need win7 as it turns out.

and 6GB memory kit is no good for that dual channel CPU.

and he has a Harddrive.

Oh, ah well, sorry. I wasn't aware of all that, just did a quick ten minute search.

gilljoy · 19 Nov 2010 at 22:49

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 SUPER OC 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with MAFIA 2 £229.99

Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz (Bloomfield) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail £219.98

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £149.99

Corsair Dominator 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C7 1600MHz Triple Channel Kit (CMP6GX3M3A1600C7) £129.24

OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G) £104.99

Corsair TX 750W ATX SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750TXUK) £82.00
Coolermaster CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black

thats what Im currently looking at getting, comes to 991 including shipping, any way to improve?

Cookeh · 19 Nov 2010 at 22:57

Go with Stulids i5 build! Will out-perform the i7 builds you and RJC have been speccing and is around the same price!

Sycho · 19 Nov 2010 at 23:04

stulid said:
going with your latest info.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £194.99
(£165.95) £389.98
(£331.90)
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £144.98
(£123.39) £144.98
(£123.39)
MSI P55-GD80 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £109.98
(£93.60) £109.98
(£93.60)
OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G) £104.99
(£89.35) £104.99
(£89.35)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £65.99
(£56.16) £65.99
(£56.16)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £62.99
(£53.61) £62.99
(£53.61)
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Power Supply £58.74
(£49.99) £58.74
(£49.99)
Microsoft SideWinder X4 Gaming Keyboard - Retail (JQD-00006) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse (910-000616) £24.99
(£21.27) £24.99
(£21.27)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £12.91
(£10.99) £12.91
(£10.99)
Sub Total : £864.29
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 : £153.22
Total : £1,028.76

crossfire 6870 for ultimate gaming experience.

and i5 is faster in games than a i7 - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/191?vs=47 this compares a i5 760 vs the i7 920 which is only a little slower than a 930.

This with an Akasa Venom or Titan Fenrir Evo and you have an extremely powerful gaming pc which will also do 4ghz on either of these two coolers.(Gelid Tranquillo should be fine too.)

gilljoy · 19 Nov 2010 at 23:52

wow i really didnt expect the i5 to outpreform the i7.

ok definatley going for an i5 now and overclocking it

last 2 questions.

1. better to wait until jan and the possibly release of sandybridge?
2. nvidia or ati? going for a dual gfx card spec

Liampope · 20 Nov 2010 at 00:22

+1 for Stulid's i5 x-fire 6870 spec. A beast! Saying i5 beats i7 is pushing it slightly, especially with dual GPUs. It's like this - with i7/X58 you pay lots more than i5/P55 for three main extra features. Tripple channel RAM, 16x/16x x-fire/sli and Hyperthreading. First two aren't really worth the transistors they're made of in any application. HT can be worth up to 25% in multithreaded encoding type apps, but less gain in most stuff, and pretty much 0 gain in games. So you pay a lot more for pretty much nowt but e-peen bragging rights

- in games i5 performs the same as i7. i5 7xx is the bang-for-buck sweetspot right now.

gilljoy · 20 Nov 2010 at 09:44

Liampope said:
+1 for Stulid's i5 x-fire 6870 spec. A beast! Saying i5 beats i7 is pushing it slightly, especially with dual GPUs. It's like this - with i7/X58 you pay lots more than i5/P55 for three main extra features. Tripple channel RAM, 16x/16x x-fire/sli and Hyperthreading. First two aren't really worth the transistors they're made of in any application. HT can be worth up to 25% in multithreaded encoding type apps, but less gain in most stuff, and pretty much 0 gain in games. So you pay a lot more for pretty much nowt but e-peen bragging rights - in games i5 performs the same as i7. i5 7xx is the bang-for-buck sweetspot right now.

yea, defo going to go for something similar to stulid's build, tho may just hold of for a couple of weeks until jan for sandy bridge

gilljoy · 21 Nov 2010 at 12:13

Krypton Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz @ 4.00GHz USB3 Overclocked Bundle £500.74
Lian Li PC-P50R Armoursuit Midi Tower Case - Black/Red £169.99
HIS ATI Radeon HD 6850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card x2 £149.99
(£127.65) £299.98
Corsair TX 750W ATX SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750TXUK) £82.00

Sub Total : £895.92
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £159.37
Total : £1,070.04

hows that build sound? them bundles seem very good value