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Soldato
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Hi everyone.

this is my first attempt at building a computer and while im fine with the actual assembly im having the most trouble with actual part selection:confused:




sorry about that, didnt read the rules :P

i dont have an actual budget as such as ill be purchasing parts on a monthly basis i.e when i get paid.

roughly £600-700? for light gaming and general use
 
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link from OCUK

give us a budget and we can spec a system for you.
 
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Hi there, Please could you remove those links to OCUK competitor sites, as it is against forum rules. Instead, just write the product names or link to them on the OCUK shop.

As for the spec, the CPU won't worth the motherboards. With a LGA 1155 board like H61 or Z68 you need to use a LGA1155 CPU like the i3/i5/i7 2000 series.

If you can tell us your budget and main uses then we can spec you up a system.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x OcUK ATI Radeon HD 6850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **PRE-ORDER ONLY PRICE** £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard REV 1 £84.98
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £61.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £57.98
1 x Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £39.98
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £31.99
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 £14.99
Total : £602.89 (includes shipping : £12.50).




Something like this will allow for a keyboard/mouse to be added on, or a 60GB SSD.
 
sehcure said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x OcUK ATI Radeon HD 6850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **PRE-ORDER ONLY PRICE** £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard REV 1 £84.98
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £61.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £57.98
1 x Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £39.98
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £31.99
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 £14.99
Total : £602.89 (includes shipping : £12.50).




Something like this will allow for a keyboard/mouse to be added on, or a 60GB SSD.
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Your gonna have to be proper quick to get that pre-order price 6850, its out today.
 
sehcure said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x OcUK ATI Radeon HD 6850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **PRE-ORDER ONLY PRICE** £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard REV 1 £84.98
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £61.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £57.98
1 x Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £39.98
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £31.99
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 £14.99
Total : £602.89 (includes shipping : £12.50).




Something like this will allow for a keyboard/mouse to be added on, or a 60GB SSD.
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thank you thats perfect. ive got all the peripherals i.e mouse keyboard tv/monitor and speakers. ive not budgeted for the os but thats the last thing ill buy as i know im going for windows 7. just needed the spec laid out.

light gaming as in minecraft, my current netbook runs it at about 10fps so i decided to just get a decent computer as ive not had one before.
 
i know, ive always wanted a decent pc and it was the fact that my netbook couldnt run minecraft that spurred me on to do somthing about it. this pc when complete will last me a good while and ill upgrade it slowly as i go to keep it up to date.

i picked up the motherboard today from OCuk while out with my mate. fortunatly for him he happened to have a spare £1200 that he had saved up and just specd his system to be built and will be picking it up in a couple of days or so, must be nice :P

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Stinger53 said:
looks gd :)
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its so nice to see a mobo without all the dust.

the guy at the counter was very helpful and didnt laugh when he saw how little i actually knew about checking for damage. he said

"do you want to check the pins for damage?"

my response was "erm yea? pins?" i removed it from the box and the wrapping and then said "oh it smells nice" :confused:

he then showed me what to look for and also what to be wary of when installing the cpu.

top customer service
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 560Ti DirectCU II TOP 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with Battlefield 3 PC Game** £194.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2550K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard REV 1 £84.98
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £61.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £57.98
1 x BitFenix Shinobi Gaming Case - Black £44.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £38.39
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 £14.99
Total : £719.29 (includes shipping : £12.50).


My attempt :P
 
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Jamsames said:
i picked up the motherboard today from OCuk while out with my mate. fortunatly for him he happened to have a spare £1200 that he had saved up and just specd his system to be built and will be picking it up in a couple of days or so, must be nice :P
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At least you'll be able to say you built your computer yourself.. I had to get OcUk to build it for me :(

Ah well, maybe next time!
 
Terk said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 560Ti DirectCU II TOP 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with Battlefield 3 PC Game** £194.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2550K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard REV 1 £84.98
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £61.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £57.98
1 x BitFenix Shinobi Gaming Case - Black £44.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £38.39
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 £14.99
Total : £719.29 (includes shipping : £12.50).


My attempt :P
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The 2550k is kinda pointless - the integrated GPU is so useful as a backup, for example if your card bites the dust for some reason you'll beable to rely on the HD 3000 of the 2500k.

And the 100mhz base clock difference is neither here nor there; you'll be overclocking it to 4.4-4.6Ghz anyway...
 
sehcure said:
The 2550k is kinda pointless - the integrated GPU is so useful as a backup, for example if your card bites the dust for some reason you'll beable to rely on the HD 3000 of the 2500k.

And the 100mhz base clock difference is neither here nor there; you'll be overclocking it to 4.4-4.6Ghz anyway...
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im hopefully going to purchase the cpu this thursday, and i was pretty convinced i was going to get the i5 2550k

are you saying i shouldnt?
 
Get the 2500k.

Integrated graphics as a backup is great.

The 2550k is basically a 2500k with the graphics core disabled (because it was faulty or whatever) and the multiplier set to 34 instead of 33, giving it the 3.4Ghz base clock.

With either you're going to overclock it to 4.4-4.6Ghz anyway, so why would you NOT go for the 2500k?
 
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I'd get the 2500K, integrated graphics and as said, 100Mhz doesn't make a difference when they overclock so well.
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stulid said:
He is and hes right.

You lose Luicd Virtu+Quicksync and the ability to use the onboard GFX if you have a problem with the 3D card.
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so i should get the i5 2500 and over clock it?

the hardest part ive found so far is trying to work out what i should actually buy lol.

what sort of psu should i be going for? would a decent 650w item do the job?
 
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