Sub £500 Build for Gaming/Editing

Masterdeadly

Masterdeadly

Masterdeadly

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Hello guys,

A friend of mine wants to build a computer with video editing and gaming in mind. I've given him a Zalman Z9+ case so don't worry about casing.

Would you mind speccing me a computer for under £500 with this in mind?

Much appreciated, Masterdeadly
 
The Z9 is a great starters case.....I have one too :)

YOUR BASKET
1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 660 EX OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £179.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £99.95
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £81.98
1 x OCZ ZT 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £63.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £45.98
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £23.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £510.86 (includes shipping : FREE).



660 is better than a 7850 and the 7950 in some games. It has CUDA support which his editing software should support. The i3 also supports quicksync which speeds up video encoding providing the software supports it.

Modular PSU to help keep the insides tidy and improve the look/airflow inside the case.

Hope this helps any questions feel free to ask
 
Thank you Honosuseri your suggestion of the 660 is definitely a good shout and I hadn't considered it. I had the I3 2120 in mind at first but I guess the extra £10 for the 3220 will be worthwhile. Thank you for the help :)
 
The Ivybridge i3 uses less power, it does more clock for clock i.e it's faster. It also has a better IGP (integrated graphics). The IGP is used by quicksync and lucid MVP sotware on the Z77 mobos to either boost the dedicated GPU or just use the IGP to save power when not gaming.

Happy to help :D
 
dunn2010 said:
Hono's build looks great!

i would tell your friend to fork an extra £15 and get a 1tb HDD. with video editing hes probably going to need a large amount of space for his raw video files etc

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1279
Click to expand...

or THIS which is a sataIII drive with a larger cache.

The F3 is sataII but still a good drive helped by having a 3 year warranty the Barracuda has only 1 year warranty although is arguably the better HDD.
 
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