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uksoldierboy

uksoldierboy

uksoldierboy

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Hi guys,
recently got a new job which is right on my doorstep, making having my car pretty pointless so i've decided to sell it, using the cash to get myself a gaming rig in time for bf3.
I'm looking at getting the car sold for about £1000, of which £700 will be my budget for the build.
Its been awhile since i built my last rig, so i thought i'd ask you lot as you've always been great before.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

david
 
Look at my sig its a recent build, you can swap the Card out for a ATI card if you prefer AMD or go with a Nvidia 560 as the 480's are getting a bit hard to get hold of at decent prices but you cant go far wrong with the build i have and should play BF3 no problems
 
If you've currently got the system in your sig, a processor upgrade would be about as useful as your car is right now, maybe less :P

I would buy yourself a nice graphics upgrade, maybe dual flashed 6950 2GBs, and likely a new beefy PSU to power all that.
 
You have a good i7, good screen (holy jeebus), looks like you could use a graphics card, and maybe a PSU to go along (or maybe not).

I'd wait for the game to come out to commit, but I would think a 580 / 6970, especially at the monitor resolution :)

Possibly a 3D gaming setup as well, and a posh case depending on what you have.
 
That sucks :(

With that in mind, get the following, plus a case and any peripherals/OS you might need:


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £157.99
1 x Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 Extreme 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK Exclusive** £99.98
1 x MSI P67A-C45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £89.98
1 x OCZ Vertex 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTX60G) £79.99
1 x Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 650W V2 High Performance Power Supply (CMPSU-650TXV2UK) £76.99
1 x Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £39.98
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £32.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/775/1155/1156/1366) £19.99
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £625.88 (includes shipping : £10.00).

 
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti OC Twin FrozR II 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £194.99
(£162.49) £194.99
(£162.49)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £161.99
(£134.99) £161.99
(£134.99)
MSI P67A-G45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
Antec High Current Gamer 620W Power Supply £59.99
(£49.99) £59.99
(£49.99)
Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £49.99
(£41.66) £49.99
(£41.66)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £39.98
(£33.32) £39.98
(£33.32)
Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3) £38.99
(£32.49) £38.99
(£32.49)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £32.99
(£27.49) £32.99
(£27.49)
Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£14.16) £16.99
(£14.16)
Sub Total : £579.91
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 : £118.48
Total : £710.89
 
hybrid572 said:
That sucks :(

With that in mind, get the following, plus a case and any peripherals/OS you might need:


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £157.99
1 x Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 Extreme 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK Exclusive** £99.98
1 x MSI P67A-C45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £89.98
1 x OCZ Vertex 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTX60G) £79.99
1 x Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 650W V2 High Performance Power Supply (CMPSU-650TXV2UK) £76.99
1 x Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £39.98
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £32.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/775/1155/1156/1366) £19.99
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £625.88 (includes shipping : £10.00).

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where is the link to the thing that lets you do the linking ?
 
Only upgrade you'll need for BF3 with your current rig.

3 Gb of VRAM will allow you to turn up those textures on your 30" Dell [A beautiful monitor by the way]

MSI GTX 580 Lightning Xtreme Edition 3072MB > £479.99

GX-133-MS_400.jpg
 
thanks for all the help guys, yeah the 30" dell is awesome, that's the only thing i kept really.
Randall that looks like a good spec :) my only concern is the 5850, i've always been an ATI fan, most of my cards have been ati, but how do nivida fare? a friend has just upgraded also, but bought an msi 560 ti, he swears by it.
 
The 560Ti is an absolutely fantastic card, no doubt, but it's just not great value for money. It's £200, the 5850 is £100, and a 6950 2GB (which may be flashed to a 6970) is £200.

That means you can either get one 560Ti, one "6970" 2GB, or two 5850s, all for roughly the same money (the 5850 is slightly more after allowing for a motherboard for CF and a better PSU).

Taking Anandtech's benchmarks for Crysis: Warhead - 1920 x 1200 - Frost Bench - Gamer Quality + Enthusiast Shaders + 4xAA, we get:

5850CF 64.9FPS
6970 2GB 51.5FPS
GTX 560Ti 43.6FPS

Obviously the 560Ti is still kicking ass, as those settings at 43.6fps is very impressive, but with the figures there, all for the same price- you can't deny that the 560Ti is pretty poor value.
 
For reference, at 2560x1600, which I believe is your monitor's res, Anandtech shows for the same settings:

5870CF (slightly better than 5850 which isn't included): 47.2
6970: 36.6
560Ti: 23.6
 
well I personally have only had one ATI card and i had some issues with it granted it was a few years back now but once burnt and all that and ever since my first G-Force i have sworn by nvidia and never been let down. But on the other hand im always game for best bang for buck hence the 480 ;) and i also flay FSX and nvidia cards are much better at handling FSX for some reason so for that i have to have nvidia really. but you could swap the card out for any choice really and have a awesome spec, i would be inclined to go for the best single card you can get and not go for a less powerful sli/xfire set-up. that way you can go sli/xfire later on with the better single card you already have. but thats just my personal opinion and of course every ones differs.
TBH what ever card you go for be it 6950 / 560 it will handle pretty much everything you throw at it, + Nvidia driver updates can increase the cards power massively, the 400 series is a lot more powerful now than when it first came out so expect the same with the 500 series.
 
 
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