New computer under 650£

[fonzaye]

with the cmdouble code it comes to £700, over budget but then its due to the hard disk prices. do you happen to have any old sata hard disks you could reuse?

Sadly, I do not have one. It's a little bit over my budget, I can take it into consideration, if I get my hands on some more cash.

 

[fowler002]

you've got 2 main options to bring my spec into your budget:

1) knock the CPU down to i2120 and keep the graphics card
2) knock the graphics down to the 6870 lemmin suggested and keep the i2500k

the main problem with mickyfinns spec is the hard disk will be back upto £90 or so as the £65 was a special deal as already mentioned.

 

[[WU-TANG]GZA]

you've got 2 main options to bring my spec into your budget:

1) knock the CPU down to i2120 and keep the graphics card
2) knock the graphics down to the 6870 lemmin suggested and keep the i2500k

the main problem with mickyfinns spec is the hard disk will be back upto £90 or so as the £65 was a special deal as already mentioned.

I'd take Option 1 as you can get a 2500k in a year or so as games like BF3 are more GPU dependent.

 

[fonzaye]

you've got 2 main options to bring my spec into your budget:

1) knock the CPU down to i2120 and keep the graphics card
2) knock the graphics down to the 6870 lemmin suggested and keep the i2500k

the main problem with mickyfinns spec is the hard disk will be back upto £90 or so as the £65 was a special deal as already mentioned.

Right, so I just found out I can have a few lend from my friend. I can stretch it out further more to 700ish. Did you pick out the parts individually or is the system that you mentioned in the main website, if so would you please link me to it?

 

[mickyflinn]

You will have to pick out the parts yourself, which way are you going ? hopefully 2500k route.
If you purchase any CoolerMaster Case with either the CoolerMaster Silent Pro Modular 500w or 600w Power Supply and you can obtain £20 off.

Simply enter CMdouble into the checkout voucher box when ordering to receive the discount.

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £179.99
(£149.99) £179.99
(£149.99)
Dell ST2220M 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black Dell ST2220M 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £113.99
(£94.99) £113.99
(£94.99)
OcUK ATI Radeon HD 6850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card OcUK ATI Radeon HD 6850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £91.99
(£76.66) £91.99
(£76.66)
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
(£70.82) £84.98
(£70.82)
Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
(£41.66) £49.99
(£41.66)
Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £39.98
(£33.32) £39.98
(£33.32)
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £19.98
(£16.65) £19.98
(£16.65)
Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.98
(£14.15) £16.98
(£14.15)
Sub Total : £581.56
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £19.10
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £120.13
Total : £720.79

 

[bobbyspangles]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 560Ti DirectCU II TOP 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £173.99
1 x Dell ST2220M 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £113.99
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £101.99
1 x Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £39.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £35.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £741.80 (includes shipping : £19.10).



You can get £20 off the total with the Cooler Master case and PSU offer linked in previous replies.

If you can stretch £20 you could get the GTX 560TI 2048MB but except for some scenarios in BF3 I'm not convinced of the advantage it has over the normal 1GB version at 1080p resolution.

The Z68 motherboard will allow you to drop in a i5-2500K or one of the new Ivybridge CPUs out sometime Q2 2012 and overclock it with the addition of aftermarket cooling. But the i3-2120 specced is no slouch and will easily run the games you want.

 

[Surveyor]

(ignore that total above, that includes postage which you can get for free)

How does the OP qualify for free postage?

 

[bobbyspangles]

How does the OP qualify for free postage?

My bad, I was looking at Mickyflinn's post count