£1000 Gaming Spec help

Indefatigable · 28 Oct 2006 at 16:33

I would like some help with a spec for a new desktop with a budget of a maximum £1000. I need everything including a monitor, operating system etc.

I will use the PC for gaming, mainly World of Warcraft but I would also like to be able to play the new games very well. I don't plan on upgrading again in the near future and will be buying it in the next couple of days.

I also have no experience with overclocking and probably won't try it. My current build would be something like.

MY-034-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB5300DC) (MY-034-GL)
£139.99 £139.99
CD-031-NE NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Silver) - OEM (CD-031-NE)
£19.99 £19.99
KB-054-MS Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 Keyboard (KB-054-MS)
£11.99 £11.99
KB-060-LG Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse - Retail (KB-060-LG)
£29.99 £29.99
SW-008-MS Microsoft Windows XP Media Centre 2005 Edition - OEM - 1Pk (M93-00200) (SW-008-MS)
£65.99 £65.99
MO-043-SA Samsung SM-920N 19" LCD Monitor - Silver/Black (MO-043-SA)
£134.99 £134.99
MB-061-GI Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-061-GI)
£89.99 £89.99
HD-087-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620A ATA-100 16MB Cache (HD-087-SE)
£46.99 £46.99
GX-124-SP Sapphire ATI Radeon X1900 GT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-124-SP)
£111.99 £111.99
CP-135-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM (CP-135-IN)
£99.99 £99.99
HS-017-AR Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775) (HS-017-AR)
£14.99 £14.99
CA-035-AN Antec Performance TX1088AMG Metallic Grey Tower Case - 480w Truepower PSU (CA-035-AN)
£38.99 £38.99

Subtotal £805.88
VAT £141.03
Total £946.91

Any help would be appreciated.

semi-pro waster · 28 Oct 2006 at 16:48

Welcome to the forums, that all looks pretty good. I might suggest going for an X1900XT 256mb as you should be able to squeeze it into the budget.

It also would be a bit of a shame not to overclock when the parts you have selected are so good for it but you can always try later.

dante6491 · 28 Oct 2006 at 16:50

as you said that £1000 was max, and you have £50 left to spare on that spec, you could upgrade the graphics card and/or add a soundcard

Indefatigable · 28 Oct 2006 at 16:57

I may try overclocking but I'm not confident with it so I basically wanted a spec that isn't dependant on it. I also thought that a slight improvement in graphics/sound would be worthwhile but unsure what to chose.

Oh and thank you for the replies

semi-pro waster · 28 Oct 2006 at 17:11

The specification will be fast without overclocking but you do have the potential there at least which is good.

The onboard sound is pretty decent by all accounts so unless you have a great speaker system then I'd probably spend the money on upgrading the graphics card as I think it will make more of a difference.

Indefatigable · 28 Oct 2006 at 19:52

OcUK GeForce 7950 GT 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-046-OK)

Would this be a good upgrade to the graphics card? I would then be at the max of my budget. Is the core 2 duo the way to go for my system or the AMD X2's? Also does the PSU seem ok?

RadoX · 28 Oct 2006 at 19:58

currently core2duo till amd bring a bigger and better cpu out

also for a extra £20 you culd get a lot better psu

edit:// i see the psu comes with case ?

Indefatigable · 28 Oct 2006 at 23:33

Yes the PSU is included.

snowdog · 28 Oct 2006 at 23:54

If you dont plan to overclock i'd suggest you get a cheaper mainboard like the asrock conroexfiresata2, and get a 1900xt instead of the gt.

LanceCrossfire · 29 Oct 2006 at 00:12

or if overclocking is a future option, pay abit extra and go for some PC6400 as opposed to PC5300 and spend the money on a X1950pro instead of the X1900GT...

Indefatigable · 29 Oct 2006 at 11:58

MY-034-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB5300DC) (MY-034-GL)
£139.99 £139.99
CD-031-NE NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Silver) - OEM (CD-031-NE)
£19.99 £19.99
KB-054-MS Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 Keyboard (KB-054-MS)
£11.99 £11.99
KB-060-LG Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse - Retail (KB-060-LG)
£29.99 £29.99
SW-008-MS Microsoft Windows XP Media Centre 2005 Edition - OEM - 1Pk (M93-00200) (SW-008-MS)
£65.99 £65.99
MO-043-SA Samsung SM-920N 19" LCD Monitor - Silver/Black (MO-043-SA)
£134.99 £134.99
MB-061-GI Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-061-GI)
£89.99 £89.99
HD-087-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620A ATA-100 16MB Cache (HD-087-SE)
£46.99 £46.99
CP-135-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM (CP-135-IN)
£99.99 £99.99
HS-017-AR Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775) (HS-017-AR)
£14.99 £14.99
CA-035-AN Antec Performance TX1088AMG Metallic Grey Tower Case - 480w Truepower PSU (CA-035-AN)
£38.99 £38.99
GX-053-CO Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-053-CO)
£144.99 £144.99

Subtotal £838.88
VAT £146.81
Total £985.69

Does this look ok as a final spec?

semi-pro waster · 29 Oct 2006 at 12:04

It all looks good now, I can't see anything that is obviously out of place so good luck with the build.

Hamoodii · 29 Oct 2006 at 12:25

Yeah defintely add that X1900XT, a lot better than a X1900GT