£1000 spec for everthing

wakayoda · 6 Apr 2011 at 18:53

Friend wants to get a new PC, I'm not too good with spec'ing a pc worth this much as I tend to go for budget - upgrade.

So we're looking at a £1000 PC with hardware, OS, monitor and peripherals.

Cheers!

Reaper 392 · 6 Apr 2011 at 19:26

*edit*
forgot to ask, whats the PC for? the build below is for gaming
also, do you have any preference on the case? i chose a mid range one that does most things

this leaves £110 for mouse, keyboard, and anything else you might want (speakers, headphones, USB, etc)

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £199.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £161.99
1 x BenQ G2222HDL 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £111.98
1 x Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 Intel P67 Chipset (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £104.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £32.99
1 x Coolermaster HAF 912 Plus Case - Black £59.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W Power Supply £42.98
1 x G.Skill RipJawsX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL9D-4GBXL) £39.98
1 x Corsair A50 High-Performance CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £27.98
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.98
Total : £890.36 (includes shipping : £20.10).

wakayoda · 6 Apr 2011 at 19:36

Its for gaming

Reaper 392 · 6 Apr 2011 at 19:38

wakayoda said:
Its for gaming

cool, that means i dont have to change anything. i know very little about keyboards and mice, so i'll leave that for someone else to choose

Trusty · 6 Apr 2011 at 19:52

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Far Cry 2 £199.98
1 x Samsung B2430H 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Glossy Black £184.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £161.99
1 x Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 Intel P67 Chipset (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £104.98
1 x XFX 650W XXX Edition Modular Power Supply £74.99
1 x Coolermaster CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £62.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £43.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000528AS) £42.98
1 x Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse (910-000616) £22.99
1 x Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1155/ 1156 / 1366) £17.99
1 x Logitech UltraX Premium Keyboard - OEM (920-000189) £14.99
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.98
1 x Boogie Bug AimB.Pad XL Gaming Mouse Surface £9.98
Total : £974.32 (includes shipping : £13.75).

Reaper 392 · 6 Apr 2011 at 20:10

Trusty said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Far Cry 2 £199.98
1 x Samsung B2430H 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Glossy Black £184.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £161.99
1 x Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 Intel P67 Chipset (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £104.98
1 x XFX 650W XXX Edition Modular Power Supply £74.99
1 x Coolermaster CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £62.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £43.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000528AS) £42.98
1 x Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse (910-000616) £22.99
1 x Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1155/ 1156 / 1366) £17.99
1 x Logitech UltraX Premium Keyboard - OEM (920-000189) £14.99
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.98
1 x Boogie Bug AimB.Pad XL Gaming Mouse Surface £9.98
Total : £974.32 (includes shipping : £13.75).

you forgot the OS, however, including the mouse, keyboard, and other stuff in my build would give you this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £199.99
1 x BenQ EW2420 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £184.98
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £161.99
1 x Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 Intel P67 Chipset (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £104.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £32.99
1 x Coolermaster HAF 912 Plus Case - Black £59.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W Power Supply £42.98
1 x G.Skill RipJawsX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL9D-4GBXL) £39.98
1 x Corsair A50 High-Performance CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £27.98
1 x Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse (910-000616) £22.99
1 x Logitech UltraX Premium Keyboard - OEM (920-000189) £14.99
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.98
1 x Boogie Bug AimB.Pad XL Gaming Mouse Surface £9.98
Total : £1,004.90 (includes shipping : £14.75).

Trusty · 6 Apr 2011 at 20:14

Ah, thought i had forgotten something.

Baggers · 6 Apr 2011 at 20:42

I'm the guy who he is building it for, now I've already built my own around the same price and I'm [edit] NOT* the best at building pc's so if i could get your opinions on these two;

http://imgur.com/7MAoS
http://imgur.com/jNFde forgot the motherboard on this one ill change it later

[edit] wow just realised how much more expensive the first one is seeing as the second one doesnt have a fan or motherboard

now i know my friend said around £1000 but i meant sort of £700 - £1000 if possible

Rexton · 6 Apr 2011 at 20:58

Baggers said:
I'm the guy who he is building it for, now I've already built my own around the same price and I'm the best at building pc's so if i could get your opinions on these two;

http://imgur.com/7MAoS
http://imgur.com/jNFde forgot the motherboard on this one ill change it later

[edit] wow just realised how much more expensive the first one is seeing as the second one doesnt have a fan or motherboard

now i know my friend said around £1000 but i meant sort of £700 - £1000 if possible

Sandybridge isn't tri-channel compatible, go for the above spec.

Baggers · 6 Apr 2011 at 21:04

I'm now trying to lower the price as much as possible while doing as little damage to the spec as possible any help would be aprreciated here's what i got so far

http://i.imgur.com/J5GoG.png

Rexton · 6 Apr 2011 at 21:07

Reaper 392 said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £199.99
1 x BenQ EW2420 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £184.98
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £161.99
1 x Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 Intel P67 Chipset (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £104.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £32.99
1 x Coolermaster HAF 912 Plus Case - Black £59.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W Power Supply £42.98
1 x G.Skill RipJawsX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL9D-4GBXL) £39.98
1 x Corsair A50 High-Performance CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £27.98
1 x Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse (910-000616) £22.99
1 x Logitech UltraX Premium Keyboard - OEM (920-000189) £14.99
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.98
1 x Boogie Bug AimB.Pad XL Gaming Mouse Surface £9.98
Total : £1,004.90 (includes shipping : £14.75).

Go for this.

gug54321 · 6 Apr 2011 at 21:45

Baggers said:
I'm the guy who he is building it for, now I've already built my own around the same price and I'm the best at building pc's so if i could get your opinions on these two;

http://imgur.com/7MAoS
http://imgur.com/jNFde forgot the motherboard on this one ill change it later

[edit] wow just realised how much more expensive the first one is seeing as the second one doesnt have a fan or motherboard

now i know my friend said around £1000 but i meant sort of £700 - £1000 if possible

surely we should be asking you the questions? jk lol

Scaffa · 6 Apr 2011 at 21:58

If you're studying anything tech related at Reading you could prolly get a free Win7 Professional under the ELMS system.

R088ieS86 · 6 Apr 2011 at 22:20

Baggers said:
I'm now trying to lower the price as much as possible while doing as little damage to the spec as possible any help would be aprreciated here's what i got so far

http://i.imgur.com/J5GoG.png

Save another £10 and get a much better card than the GTX 460:

XFX ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Reaper 392 · 6 Apr 2011 at 22:41

Scaffa said:
If you're studying anything tech related at Reading you could prolly get a free Win7 Professional under the ELMS system.

whered you find that baggers was at Reading Uni? did you just mistake my location for his, or is he really at Reading?

baggers, if you are at Reading uni, what are you studying? anything in the systems engineering side of things will get you access to reading elms, which has windows 7 professional to download for free, along with most of the other programs on the uni computers

Baggers · 6 Apr 2011 at 22:47

no im not, he must have got that from your location, although im in the reading area

Reaper 392 · 6 Apr 2011 at 22:52

Baggers said:
no im not, he must have got that from your location, although im in the reading area

thats a shame, no free windows for you

the good news is, it means your very unlikely to meet me

wakayoda · 7 Apr 2011 at 11:27

Oh I do love to see the wake of confusion that a typo can cause XD