£1000 gaming build help

James J

James J

James J

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Got around about £1000 to spend on a gaming PC but need everything apart from a mouse and keyboard + monitor.

Gonna buy a 22/24inch monitor after 2 weeks from now so I'm using my 40 inch TV in the mean time via HDMI, so a graphics card with HDMI would be useful lol.

Not bothered about fancy cases etc and I need windows 7 + dvd drive etc also.

Any ideas?
 
OcUK GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £259.99

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £161.99

MSI P67A-GD65 Intel P67 (socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £132.00

NZXT Phantom Enthusiast Full Tower Case - Black £109.99

Corsair HX 750W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750HXUK) £109.98

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99

Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £46.99

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £39.98

Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3) £38.99

Sony Optiarc AD-7260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.59
(£12.99) £15.59
(£12.99)
Shipping : £13.75

Total : £1,012.00


Minus the shipping and it's under £1000. Look ok to you?

Wu
 
 
My attempt at something a little different (thumbnails are links):

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You might want to grab a fan for the HR-02, but it should be able to run a 2600K in that case passively.

With this you've got 8GB RAM, a 128GB SSD (which should be big enough for Windows + Steam if you're careful. I have a similar set-up), plus the 2600K you wanted, and if you sell Red River, which is meant to be rubbish, you should be able to get it to £1200.
 
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Having just seen the bank holiday deals, it might be worth getting one of these - excellent cooler and flashable to a 6970. Should be out next Wednesday too.
 
is 560gt SLI actually decent? Sorry for my rather daft question but those are one of a tiny fraction of graphics cards I know sod all about :S
 
Nvidiot said:
Hi there.

Its non-refernce, dont think it can be flashed:)
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Nicely living up to your name, yet again: Clicky

And if you couldn't be arsed to click the link, I'll give a run down:

-it has a dual BIOS switch
-the core is the thing that's different between the 6950 and 6970
-so therefore you use RBE to modify the stock BIOS to allow unlocked shaders, then flash this modified BIOS

As it says in the conclusion:

Techpowerup said:
•Can be modded to HD 6970
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GTX560 SLI is impressive at that budget, though probably unnecessary at that resolution.
 
Marvin said:
Nicely living up to your name, yet again: Clicky

And if you couldn't be arsed to click the link, I'll give a run down:

-it has a dual BIOS switch
-the core is the thing that's different between the 6950 and 6970
-so therefore you use RBE to modify the stock BIOS to allow unlocked shaders, then flash this modified BIOS

As it says in the conclusion:



GTX560 SLI is impressive at that budget, though probably unnecessary at that resolution.
Click to expand...

Hence the "dont think" bit in the sentance, instead of "i am 100% sure"

and you can never have to much power.
 
seriously tempted by the 560gti SLI build but is there anything major I need to know regarding how to setup SLI? Also they are preorder (both makes at a decent price) so I might have to wait a while :(

Are they much quicker than say a 580gtx? Will be gaming at 1920x1080p for the for-seable future due to the prices of 2560x1440+ monitors still being quite costly.
 
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