£1500 - What can you do me for?

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Hey, my flatmate is wanting a new system and I have up to £1500 to play with. This is what I need:

- Gaming pc
- 2500k
- Decent monitor, not really looking for a TN panel.
- Keyboard but not mouse.

I've been out the loop a while now so I'm unsure as to which mobo to choose and if the z68's are worth bothering with. CF/SLI is an option.

Cheers guys.
 
to give you a starting point:

went with a mechanical keyboard, could always be swapped to a saitek or microsoft x4.

mobo has allowance for PCI-E 3.0.

if no o/s is needed change the 64gb ssd to the 128gb version.

went with a dvd drive, maybe change it to a blue ray drive if he'd find it useful.

Asus GeForce GTX 580 DirectCU II 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with FREE Batman: Arkham City PC game** £389.99 (£324.99)

Asus ML249H 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £191.99 (£159.99)

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game £179.99 (£149.99)

Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £159.98 (£133.32)

Corsair Enthusiast Series TX750M High Performance 750W Modular Power Supply (CP-9020003-UK) £99.98 (£83.32)

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.99 (£66.66)

Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £77.99
(£64.99)

SteelSeries 6G v2 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard (64226) £69.98 (£58.32)

Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD204UI) £60.98 (£50.82)

BitFenix Shinobi Gaming Case - Black £49.99 (£41.66)

Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £49.99 (£41.66)

Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99 (£21.66)

LG GH22NS70 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99 (£14.99)

Sub Total : £1,212.37
Shipping : £20.10
VAT : £246.49
Total : £1,478.96
 
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• Dell screen, you must know the reputation they have;)
• 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD
• Gold rated, modular PSU
• Latest Corsair case - http://www.guru3d.com/article/corsair-carbide-400r-review/
 
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I think OS would be needed too yes.

Good specs here guys. I had indeed been looking at the dell monitors, though I was looking at the 24" version. Pretty good shout there. Hadn't even considered OCZ psu's. Was looking at the XFX ones. Though their rma system is almost non-existent.

I'm thinking that spending £80 on a cpu cooler might be a bit excessive when the 2500k is so easy to just get straight up to 4.5GHZ anyways so I'm thinking Gelid Tranquillo would be a good shout.

Cheers guys. Got me on the right track now.

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Any particular reasons for the mobo choices? Apart from just PCie 3.0

I was going to go MSI.
 
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nope, unless they have specifics your after go with which ever brand you fancy, just check the mobo forum to make sure there are no raised issues :).
 
Any particular reasons for the mobo choices? Apart from just PCie 3.0
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Just horse's for course's really, to be fair this whole PCI-E gen3 thing may still be a load of crap, as ECS and Gigabyte have said that their boards support PCI-E Gen3 with just a UEFI update. And the fact there aren't any Gen3 cards out etc. And you still need Ivybridge chips for Gen3 etc.
 
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I'm gonna wack in the xfx 850w black edition to save £30 as well.

That seems very good for the price. However, will it require an update? Dislike doing that.
 
8igdave said:
I'm gonna wack in the xfx 850w black edition to save £30 as well.
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Compared to? its more than both the PSU in this thread.

That seems very good for the price. However, will it require an update? Dislike doing that.
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The Gigabyte board above? if you mean for Ivybridge? then all boards will need a UEFI update.
 
I meant just to get UEFI for the 2500k. Did gigabyte finally catch up then?
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There is no graphical style interface for the BIOS for these boards, it still remains the old faithful style, there is a "Touch BIOS" which you launch from the desktop and this gives the same control as the regular BIOS but with a fancy style interface.

Check out the review I did of the GA-Z68XP-UD4, I got some pics up of what it looks like.

BIOS F5 for the board I linked above has the new Intel 22nm (Ivybridge) support
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3896#bios
 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 580 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with FREE Batman: Arkham City PC game** £367.99
1 x Dell UltraSharp U2312HM 23" Widescreen LED Monitor - Midnight Grey £209.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE TrackMania 2 Canyon PC Game £179.99
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £159.98
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £139.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance K60 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard £99.98
1 x OCZ Z-Series 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £94.99
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 BitFenix Shinobi Gaming Windowed Case - Black £52.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £41.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £1,524.48 (includes shipping : £16.85).




Best of both worlds?

£1508 with the free shipping you can get him :)

kd
 
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i'd take stulids build, but with the Asrock gen3 motherboard and silverstone raven case. i was going to suggest the thermalright silver arrow, but your going to be waiting quite a while for that.

stulid, am i right in thinking that the asrock gen3 board has a very useful thing that the cheaper MSI gen3 one doesnt (possibly the NF200 chip)
 
Hey guys, annoyingly missed the deals which ended today on a fair few of these items but how does this look then? Anything worth changing?

Case was chosen by him and the keyboard was bought elsewhere, as was OS. I didn't get the gigabyte board because of the lack of UEFI as my flat mate would like that. Seems like the days where choosing your mobo very carefully to get the most stable one are over now that it's just multiply er overclocking.

Oh also, I forgot my DVD drive, will add that in. Also noticed how no one included thermal paste in their build. Heat sinks now coming with decent stuff?

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not sure how that corsair ssd stacks up to the crucial m4, might be worth checking the hard disk forum if you havent already for any issues.

might be tempted to go for a wireless adapter card over a usb one, but guess thats personal preference.

for a little more i'd maybe swap the 1tb seagate for the 2tb samsung f4.

rest looks fine
 
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