Have £730 from insurance

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Hi all be gentle with me, been away from PC building for a few years.

My old PC was water damaged and after a few weeks waiting for someone to say yay or nae as to wether I would get a payout or not I finally got a £730 cheque in yesterday, but after looking on the site everything has changed so so much in a few years.

I would like to stay AMD I had a crosshair Motherboard before and liked it so would like the new IV version maybe, as for RAM, GPU, PSU and CPU I have no idea. And after hours of looking things are not getting easier lol.

Basically I have the case Tsunami one, I have a x-fi music edition sound card, I have the spare hard disk with my old stuff on it but not main one and i have the optical drives. So I Need Psu, motherboard, CPU, gfx card, memory and I think that is it.

I use the PC mainly for gaming, Black Ops just now and watching movies etc, so a gaming rig is mainly what I'm looking for and a top line of £730 if possible.

Any help very gratefully received

Thanks

Michelle
 
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Changes to that build:
swap the 6970 for a 6950
-then unlock the shaders and overclock

swap phenom II for a i5-2500k and crosshair for a p8p67

swap cooler for a aska venom (you'll want a better aftermarket cooler if you want to take full advantage of your cpu)
 
Asus ATI Radeon HD 6870 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £169.99

AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1090T Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £159.98

Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1) £99.98

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £81.98

XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply £68.99

Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard £64.98

GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP34GB1600C9DC) £39.98

Sub Total : £571.58
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £116.32
Total : £697.90
 
Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Asus ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £211.99
(£176.66) £211.99
(£176.66)
Asus Crosshair IV Formula AMD 890FX (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £152.98
(£127.48) £152.98
(£127.48)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 970 Black Edition "140W Edition" 3.50GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £139.99
(£116.66) £139.99
(£116.66)
OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G) £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply £68.99
(£57.49) £68.99
(£57.49)
OCZ Special OPS 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3SOE1600LV4GK) £29.99
(£24.99) £29.99
(£24.99)
Sub Total : £586.60
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £119.32
Total : £715.92
Quad core is faster for a gaming pc.

And a SSD with your existing HDD for storage.
 
As above really. HD6950 can be flashed to a HD6970 (they're near identical cards, except one has locked shaders, that can be unlokced via a flash ;))

Brilliant modular PSU, only thing I would do is swap the 970 to a 955BE and use the change to buy an aftermarket cooler.

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £107.99
(£89.99) £107.99
(£89.99)
Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3) £35.99
(£29.99) £35.99
(£29.99)
Sub Total : £119.98
Shipping cost based on delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £24.00
Total : £153.98
 
Wow thanks very much for your time and effort to post all the replies guys. Think I could wittle all that down to a good system from the AMD side of things. I have always used AMD so am even more clueless for intel based systems and everything just seems more complicated and expensive. For a good sandybridge system at the same price how much better performance would I get? And erm an example basket like the above posts would be fantastic. All very hard to do research and shop via an iPhone just :(

Thanks again

Michelle
 
Example basket.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Asus ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £211.99
(£176.66) £211.99
(£176.66)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £189.98
(£158.32) £189.98
(£158.32)
MSI P67A-GD55 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £134.99
(£112.49) £134.99
(£112.49)
OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G) £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply £68.99
(£57.49) £68.99
(£57.49)
OCZ Special OPS 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3SOE1600LV4GK) £29.99
(£24.99) £29.99
(£24.99)
Sub Total : £613.27
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £124.65
Total : £747.92

Performance between the AMD 970be and 2500K - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=186
 
Ok I see the difference now lol, I will break my old habits and give an Intel based system a try then. I'm sure putting it all together will be just as easy, its just getting best value for my money I'm finding hard. I have to send receipt back to insurance company so want to use all the £730 but as I have just lost my job I can't put anything towards it myself. Back to the research, for intel now though lol

Thanks again
 
To get it back to the £730 mark.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Asus ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £211.99
(£176.66) £211.99
(£176.66)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £189.98
(£158.32) £189.98
(£158.32)
MSI P67A-C45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £104.99
(£87.49) £104.99
(£87.49)
OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G) £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply £68.99
(£57.49) £68.99
(£57.49)
OCZ Special OPS 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3SOE1600LV4GK) £29.99
(£24.99) £29.99
(£24.99)
Sub Total : £588.27
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £119.65
Total : £717.92

This motherboard only supports a single graphics card.

And the ram special deal ends at 9 tomorrow morning, so it will creep a little closer to £730 still.
 
Am half way there I think, am going to get both the -

Asus ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card &
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor

As for PSU, RAM, motherboard and Disk Drive I am still undecided. At just over £330 left after getting the GPU and CPU things get tight and there is always a compromise to be made with the remaining items. However I liked the Asus P8P67 LE Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) at £119, and Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 700W Power Supply at £83 leaving me with just £80 ish to get HDD so think just normal sata maybe rather than SS although it is mighty tempting.

Anyway what is your thoughts on the PSU and motherboard I like?
 
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