Hovering over the buy button (£1200 budget)

Cupra · 25 Jan 2011 at 20:35

if that was my build id drop the corsair cooler for now to get a 580 then get a cooler later

for £1210 u could get a 2600k

redfist · 25 Jan 2011 at 20:50

hybrid572 said:
Bear in mind that you're only really going to need something in the 30-40 FPS area (on super high settings) to make your game smoothly playable. A Phenom II X4 with a 5850 could reasonably be expected to do that for 2 years at 1920x1080, with maybe a drop to "just" high settings for the third year before your next upgrade. Talk of 6950/70s and GTX 570s is mad overspend, even at that resolution, and as the OP's screen is only 21 inches, I'm guessing it may only be 1680x1050.

thats good news, this is my setup that i've upgraded to and it needs to last a while. Plays everything at the moment all high settings!

AceTK · 25 Jan 2011 at 20:54

id go i5 over i7 atm

shadow_boxer · 25 Jan 2011 at 23:42

AceTK said:
id go i5 over i7 atm

Not at its current price here on OcUK when an i7 2600K OEM can be had for £246!

shrek2 · 26 Jan 2011 at 03:29

Your specs are fine op. Maybe a 6950 for the 570. The way i see things, you might as well get the best you can afford. None of this phenom or 5850 nonsense especially as you will be playing crysis 2.

sas30uk · 26 Jan 2011 at 03:38

Cookeh said:
+1.

Phenom II X4 system will do all you want easily, add a HD5850 into the equation and problem solved - if you spent £240 on graphics you could get a HD6950 and flash it to a HD6970 - 3rd fastest card on the planet and much faster than the over-priced Fermi GTX570.

H70 is not particularly good for this price either, its a bit naff

A decent air cooler just as an Akasa Venom will do the same job for £30 less.

Agreed i have both a Venom and H70 and there is about a 2oC difference.

olivier renault · 26 Jan 2011 at 11:33

shrek2 said:
Your specs are fine op. Maybe a 6950 for the 570. The way i see things, you might as well get the best you can afford. None of this phenom or 5850 nonsense especially as you will be playing crysis 2.

I'd agree. Get the i5 bit and the best of the rest that you can afford, but...

- GTX560 / HD6950 is the current sweet-spot. I would never spend top money for a GPU. But then I don't play Crysis.
- H70 is OTT. Get a good air cooler.
- Some recommend C300 over Vertex 2E.
- 8 GB is OTT, but it's not a massive expense.
- 850W is OTT.

Mr-White · 26 Jan 2011 at 11:55

Get the HX corsair for modular goodness ?

MW

hybrid572 · 26 Jan 2011 at 11:57

So I put together a build with Cookeh's suggestions, and:

MSI ATI Radeon HD 5850 Twin FrozR II 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £134.99
(£112.49) £134.99
(£112.49)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £115.19
(£95.99) £115.19
(£95.99)
Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1) £89.99
(£74.99) £89.99
(£74.99)
Lian Li PC-A05NB Aluminium Mini-Tower Case - Black £72.98
(£60.82) £72.98
(£60.82)
Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard £71.99
(£59.99) £71.99
(£59.99)
Corsair TX 650W ATX SLi Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-650TXUK) £64.99
(£54.16) £64.99
(£54.16)
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP34GB1600C9DC) £43.19
(£35.99) £43.19
(£35.99)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £40.99
(£34.16) £40.99
(£34.16)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1155/ 1156 / 1366) £19.39
(£16.16) £19.39
(£16.16)
LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£11.66) £13.99
(£11.66)
Sub Total : £556.41
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £113.78
Total : £682.69

£500. That's the amount you're paying extra to run Crysis 2 on super-high instead of high. You can get a system for £700 instead of £1200 that will perform *near identical*.

pmk24 · 26 Jan 2011 at 12:02

Mr-White said:
Get the HX corsair for modular goodness ?

MW

I was looking at that but noticed the modular version was 20mm longer so unsure about it fitting in the case all ok with room to plug in the power into the mobo

pmk24 · 26 Jan 2011 at 12:04

hybrid572 said:
That's the amount you're paying extra to run Crysis 2 on super-high instead of high. You can get a system for £700 instead of £1200 that will perform *near identical*.

Interesting and thanks for pointing it out but will that PC last for 3 years with no hassle upgrading to play whatevers out?

hybrid572 · 26 Jan 2011 at 12:37

Sure will. The phenom II X4 will overclock like a demon and won't struggle for the next 3 years, and the 5850 is badass by modern standards and will run everything either on high or very high for 3 years.