Experts please spec me a gaming PC £1000

Reaper 392 said:
just curious, but is there any reason why people arent recommending the cheaper MSI GD-65 G3 Z68 motherboard now that OcUK have hiked the Asrock's price up?
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PCI 3.0.
IB compatible.
Powered USB.
SLI / XFire.
Overclocks well.
Marginally faster in benches.
Looks proper bo'.

I suppose there's nothing wrong with the GD53, GD65, the Asus P8Z68-V, or the original Z68 Extreme 4. That's just the mobo I'd choose for me, and it fits in budget.
 
olivier renault said:
PCI 3.0.
IB compatible.
Powered USB.
SLI / XFire.
Overclocks well.
Marginally faster in benches.
Looks proper bo'.

I suppose there's nothing wrong with the GD53, GD65, the Asus P8Z68-V, or the original Z68 Extreme 4. That's just the mobo I'd choose for me, and it fits in budget.
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were you listing stuff the Z68A-GD65-G3 has, or stuff you thought it didnt have, because the only thing missing from that list is the looks (and possibly the benchmarks, not sure)
 
I read wrong, thought you were talking about the P67.

Dunno about the MSI, haven't researched into it yet.

EDIT : hey, there's only a tenner. The MSI might be worth it though.
 
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chrisarm said:
Here is a gaming system with a SSD drive and added Blu ray, the 580 I added is on pre order but is due in 4 days so not exactly a long wait. Added a single slot p67 board cause, I could be wrong about this, I think SLI 580's would be overkill for a 1080p monitor as 1 can max out pretty much anything out there


YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 580 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - Bare OEM £289.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x OCZ Agility 3 60GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-60G) £79.99
1 x Asus P8P67 LE Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION ** £74.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £44.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 600W V2 '80 Plus' Certified Power Supply (CMPSU-600CXV2) £59.99
1 x G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL ) £55.99
1 x Xigmatek Midgard Midi Tower Case - Black £54.98
1 x LG CH10LS20 10x BluRay-ROM / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £52.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler (Socket Intel LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AMD AM2 / AM3 / AM2+ / AM3+) £49.99
Total : £1,018.80 (includes shipping : £13.75).



You could save yourself a tenner by buying cheaper memory, but I have the rip jaws and love em so I put them in :D

Oh and remember if you have an SSD drive which you are gonna use as a primary drive for windows don't add any other hard drives to the system until windows is installed. Poeple have had problems with windows being spread over their drives which slows down boot up.
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You have to admit, this is pretty poor for £1K.
 
KFA2 GeForce GTX 580 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £349.99

Benq XL2410T 24" TRUE 120Hz 3D Widescreen LED Monitor - Black **ZOWIE SPECIAL EDITION** £299.99

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99

Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £169.98

OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-120G) £152.99

OCZ Z-Series 850W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply £99.98

Lancool Dragon-Lord PC-K62 Mid Tower Case with Window - Black £84.98

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99

Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) x2 £107.98

Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler (Socket Intel LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AMD AM2 / AM3 / AM2+ / AM3+) £49.99

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £44.99

Compro VideoMate DVB-T220 Digital TV Internal PCI - Retail £30.62

Asus Xonar DG 5.1 PCI Sound Card with built in Headphone Amp - OEM £20.99

Pioneer 24x Internal S19LBK DVD Rewriter including Labelflash - Retail £19.99

Sub Total :

£1,402.05

shipping £22.00


VAT :

£284.85





Total :

£1,709.10

going to go for 16gb ram just so i can say "i've got 16gb ram" lol... unless it reduces performance?..

It's just about everything stulid recommended, should i proceed?, why add blu ray player? any reason why i should have one?..

thanks..

Also sorry about no links/images is there a quick way to do this?..
 
Thats briiliant.

But you wont need the sound card, the motherboard has realtek HD 7.1 audio.

If you add a Blu-ray, then get a Retail box version so it has software included.
 
Dont need a Bluray player if you don't watch Blurays. Keep the DVD-RW. :)

You really don't need 16GB. That's a waste of £50 imo. Use that for a mouse or keyboard, or speakers / surround sound headset.

Rest looks sensible.
 
BLOCKER said:
Also sorry about no links/images is there a quick way to do this?..
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Either highlight the text in the basket and copy+paste it into the post.

Or press print screen, crop the image in paint and upload it to say Phot0bucket, then you get given a link to copy and paste the image then is shown.

The link given looks like this,

[img*]something here text etc[/img*] but without the two stars in the brackets.
 
chrisarm said:
Eh how's it poor, fair enough the PSU which I've already mentioned, but the rest would work pretty well for a grand.
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£300 on a card with 1 year warranty.

More expensive ram with the same speed and CAS9 as the Kingstons.

A motherboard that doesnt do SLI, hasn't got PCI-E3.0 support (if Ivybridge will work with the board? no one knows yet to be certain, with a Gen3 its a certainty) for future upgrades.

A rough case.

And the PSU will need swapping if say the next gen nvidia Kepler cards use more power than a GTX580 "fermi", or the gen after "Kepler" etc.
 
But the kingston ram runs at 1333 at 1.5v (says so in the description), the 580 is a fantastic card for the price, and who is seriously gonna pay £170 for a CPU, then spend another £200 or so next year on another CPU which might slightly improve performance of your games.
 
chrisarm said:
But the kingston ram runs at 1333 at 1.5v (says so in the description), and who is seriously gonna pay £170 for a CPU,
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The Kingston is fine at 1600mhz at 1,65v (which is fine for Sandybridge, as my Dominator GT is currently at that)

Says so in the official PDF - http://www.valueram.com/datasheets/KHX1600C9D3X2K2_8GX.pdf

the 580 is a fantastic card for the price,
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The GTX580 isnt good with a single years warranty for £290, its ok for people who will put a water block on it and so dont mind voiding the warranty.

then spend another £200 or so next year on another CPU which might slightly improve performance of your games.
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Someone who wants to upgrade their CPU without needing a new motherboard.
 
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chrisarm said:
Just that Intel recommend 1.5 +/- 5%, still think the ripjaws look better :D
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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18227651
Memory - Intel recommend 1.50v plus/minus 5% which means 1.60v is the ideal safe maximum, but we have found in our testing all 1.65v memory is fine. We have also found most new 1.65v like Corsair XMS3 will run at its rated timings with just 1.50-1.55v which is well within Intel specifications. So people upgrading to Sandybridge you can still use your old DDR3, but we do recommend you run it at 1.60v or less. We are shipping most of our bundles which feature Corsair XMS at 1.50v-1.55v at rated timings. We've also discussed with Asus and MSI regarding voltages for memory and they also confirm in their testing 1.65v caused no issues with reliability.
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http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/01/07/how-to-overclock-the-intel-core-i5-2500k/2
Memory Voltage: As with LGA1366 and LGA1156 CPUs, keep this value to within 0.5V of the VCCIO voltage to prevent long term damage to the CPU. By default, this is 1.1V, which means the 1.65V used by previous Intel DDR3 memory is still acceptable. However, more recent memory will be rated at 1.5V (or even 1.35V if you choose a low-voltage kit). Increasing the VCCIO voltage obviously gives you more overhead on your memory voltage (remember, add +0.5V at most or risk damaging your CPU)
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