Budget gaming PC spec

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Hi guys,

Looking to build my first gaming rig, I mainly play World of Tanks so something that can play this on full settings would be nice.

I already have the following to use:

60gb SSD
DVD-RW
Monitor
Windows 7

I've had a quick browse of the site and have added the following to the basket just to ask you guys about them really as I'm not that clued up on gaming needs:

Xigmatek Asgard II Midi Tower Case - Black/Orange £28
OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £50
Asus GeForce GTX 550Ti 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £80
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive £90
Xenon AMD Bulldozer FX-4 4100 3.60GHz Bundle - Quad Core £174

I was thinking of maybe asking for another 4gb of ram in the AMD bundle, needed or not?

I know nothing about gfx cards, so I just picked one at random lol.

What I'd like to know is whether the above is compatible or up to the job, budget isn't set in stone, but above or less would be nice.

Cheers in advance.
 
Whats your budget?
Definately drop the 550ti and get a 6850.
The green hard-drives are allot slower than normal ones so you're better off getting a smaller 7200rpm drive (in my opinion).
You'd be better off with a z77 board and an i3, much better upgrade path and probably better performance in games.
 
Well budget would be around £400.

Thanks for the help, it's why I posted, know nothing about gfx cards.

Like I say I'm not a massive gamer but I'm sick of 10 fps on WoT.

PS I will need a 2TB drive and the green just looked good enough for that, obviously the OS will be on the SSD.
 
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Thx bacon?

That looks pretty reasonable to me, if slightly over. I could always buy stuff in separate orders rather than all at once to spread the cost a bit.
 
Is your SSD Sata 3 or 2?

If your SSD is only SATA 2 then this could be an alternative option:


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £95.99
1 x MSI HD 6850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £54.98
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D2V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £44.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Kingston Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £23.99
Total : £401.02 (includes shipping : £11.75).




Note its a slightly cheaper mobo and processor but there isnt much difference between these and the others i specced.
Also I reduced the HDD down to only 500GB which I know is a lot smaller. However it stays on budget including shipping.


EDIT: Another spec
This time going down from a 6850 to a 6770. However keeping the better board and the 2TB HDD.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £95.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £87.98
1 x Asus HD 6670 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £59.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £47.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Kingston Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £23.99
Total : £413.02 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 
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£500 would be a more realistic budget to work with if you want to keep that 2TB storage HDD. It's taking up a quarter of the budget and compromising the rest of the spec.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £99.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003) £89.99
1 x MSI HD 6850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £44.99
1 x Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PXD38G1600LLK) £39.95
Total : £503.84 (includes shipping : £12.50).



The Z77 mobo has LucidMVP which uses the CPUs IGP to boost the GPU (6850), you can also overclock that GPU to nigh on 6870 (£120 GPU) performance as well. Don;t go lower than the 6850 or you will be disappointed.

8GB of RAM is more than ample for gaming. The mobo has two more RAM slots than the H61 so you could start with 4GB and add more easily later if you wished.

The PSU has ample power for single GPU setups. The case has 4 120mm fans, fan controller, digital temp display and cable management with a P4/8 aux power extension lead included too. a lot of kit for the price :)
 
Cool, thanks again guys.

I suppose I could do without the drive short term and carry on using the external drives I use now, bit untidy though.

Yes the SSD is Sata 3.

I hadn't thought of overclocking, I had in mind that at this level the gains would be minimal but it's interesting to hear.
 
honosuseri said:
£500 would be a more realistic budget to work with if you want to keep that 2TB storage HDD. It's taking up a quarter of the budget and compromising the rest of the spec.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £99.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003) £89.99
1 x MSI HD 6850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £44.99
1 x Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PXD38G1600LLK) £39.95
Total : £503.84 (includes shipping : £12.50).



The Z77 mobo has LucidMVP which uses the CPUs IGP to boost the GPU (6850), you can also overclock that GPU to nigh on 6870 (£120 GPU) performance as well. Don;t go lower than the 6850 or you will be disappointed.

8GB of RAM is more than ample for gaming. The mobo has two more RAM slots than the H61 so you could start with 4GB and add more easily later if you wished.

The PSU has ample power for single GPU setups. The case has 4 120mm fans, fan controller, digital temp display and cable management with a P4/8 aux power extension lead included too. a lot of kit for the price :)
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Ended up with pretty similar spec to above, very pleased with it, thanks a lot.

Just a question about fans- what's the best way to configure for pull/push in which places in the case?

Cheers.
 
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