£550 budget semi-complete build

Nevram

Nevram

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Hello everyone, so its been a while since my last custom build and i'm currently stuck with a dual core dell that ive stuck an antec psu and hd4850 in to get me by :p

As the bad weather is already on its way in (did it ever leave!?) i'm thinking of getting myself a new set-up.. for playing games of course!

I've got a budget of £550ish and plan on keeping my psu (550w antec), work have set me up with a new 320gb hdd so i'll keep that and strip the dvd-rw from my old machine too... in light of this is do you think this is good for my money?

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Any help would be great as im a little rusty and haven't really left the LGA775 era mentally :rolleyes:

oh also i've got OS/screen/speakers/peripherals sorted

Thanks in advance for any advice! :)
 
I have re-done the spec,

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £159.98
(£133.32) £159.98
(£133.32)
OcUK ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Deus Ex PC Game **PRE-ORDER ONLY PRICE** £119.99
(£99.99) £119.99
(£99.99)
Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive ** Pre-Order price ** £77.99
(£64.99) £77.99
(£64.99)
Asus P8P67 LE Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION ** £74.99
(£62.49) £74.99
(£62.49)
Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £40.79
(£33.99) £40.79
(£33.99)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £29.99
(£24.99) £29.99
(£24.99)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/775/1155/1156/1366) £22.99
(£19.16) £22.99
(£19.16)
Sub Total : £438.93
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £90.14
Total : £540.82

The only question is are you HDD and DVD drives SATA or IDE?
 
Stulid has just basically flattened yours and laughed, stulid, how do you do it every time?
He'd get free delivery so if you wanted you could upgrade to 8GB.
 
He needs 100 posts for free delivery.

Its 12months+100 posts or 3months and 250 posts.
 
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That board will do overclocking, you will get 4.5GHz out of the chip easily.

many people have this board and have done so, overclocking these chips is easy and sometimes you barely have to touch the Vcore at 4.5GHz
 
thankyou again stulid :) im not interested in super overclocks, if i got anywhere near a 1.2GHz overclock i'd be more than happy if i am honest
 
Nevram said:
Hmm well im going to want to be doing some overclocking, what board would you reccomend? i need to stick to my budget though :/ (thanks for the heads up btw)

EDIT--

Maybe if i reduced CPU to 2400k (-0.2GHz) then bought this board:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-169-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1906

+ thoughts on this?
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This was the reason i didn't get the LE version. I ended getting the more expensive Asus P8P67 and haven't looked back. Overclocking was easy and haven't had any stability issues.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-447-AS

However they may be too expensive

Or you could get the pro version which is cheaper but without overclocking options limited.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-446-AS
 
Thanks for the advice mattbuck, but like i said a 1GHz OC is more than enough for me and its in my price range, i've been doing some reading up on the board and its not far fetched to manage 4.5-5.0GHz out of this board with the I5-2500K :)
 
Nevram said:
Thanks for the advice mattbuck, but like i said a 1GHz OC is more than enough for me and its in my price range, i've been doing some reading up on the board and its not far fetched to manage 4.5-5.0GHz out of this board with the I5-2500K :)
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Well thats good to hear then. ;)
 
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