£1000 Gaming Rig

amrux1234 · 15 May 2011 at 15:05

Hello There,
You see I am planning on building a pc in August, and I am wondering if you guys here at overclockers could help me with choosing the best parts for the money. I will be including a monitor and a keyboard in the price. So if anyone here can get me a nice list of parts that would be wonderful.
Thanks
Amrux1234

RJC · 15 May 2011 at 15:21

Done a build below, not sure if you require a operating system and the keyboard can be changed to something more suited, not sure on monitor.

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £191.99
(£159.99) £191.99
(£159.99)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £155.99
(£129.99) £155.99
(£129.99)
Iiyama ProLite E2409HDS 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £149.99
(£124.99) £149.99
(£124.99)
MSI P67A-G45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £104.98
(£87.48) £104.98
(£87.48)
OCZ Agility 3 60GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive ** PRE ORDER PRICE ** (AGT3-25SAT3-60G) £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply £65.99
(£54.99) £65.99
(£54.99)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £59.99
(£49.99) £59.99
(£49.99)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £43.99
(£36.66) £43.99
(£36.66)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £35.99
(£29.99) £35.99
(£29.99)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/775/1155/1156/1366) £19.99
(£16.66) £19.99
(£16.66)
Logitech K300 Compact Keyboard (920-001488) £17.99
(£14.99) £17.99
(£14.99)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
(£13.32) £15.98
(£13.32)
Sub Total : £802.37
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £20.10
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £164.49
Total : £986.96

Orcvader · 15 May 2011 at 15:23

Since it'll be in August, I would advice you to wait until July, since Bulldozer will be out. How they will perform against Sandybridge, no one knows. But it could cause a little price drop.

RJC · 15 May 2011 at 15:23

Orcvader said:
Since it'll be in August, I would advice you to wait until July, since Bulldozer will be out. How they will perfarm against Sandybridge, no one knows. But it could cause a little price drop. What's your budget by the way?

Mentions it in the title, £1000

Orcvader · 15 May 2011 at 15:24

RJC said:
Mentions it in the title, £1000

Damn, caught me

Noticed it as soon as I posted it lol, didn't edit it out fast enough

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amrux1234 · 15 May 2011 at 15:29

Ok I will wait until July before I get a build sorted why the SSD might I ask?

RJC · 15 May 2011 at 15:38

amrux1234 said:
Ok I will wait until July before I get a build sorted why the SSD might I ask?

Install the operating system on and most used programs, the SSD'S are very fast and since upgrading my machine windows loads very fast and running programs which are used every day. The rest of the stuff is installed on a mechanical drive.

I def would not be going back to mechanical drive for windows install.

amrux1234 · 15 May 2011 at 15:59

How do you install windows and stuff on the SSD might I ask?

RJC · 15 May 2011 at 16:11

amrux1234 said:
How do you install windows and stuff on the SSD might I ask?

Pretty much same way as you would do with a normal HDD, I enabled ACHI mode in the BIOS and that was it