£1200 and completely confused.

Fly100

Fly100

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Morning fellas.
Ive been lurking here for a few weeks now and looking and reading with intrest of all the specs and systems about.Ive looked at things I would like and read and read till ive filled my basket and then deleted it.To the end is i have now lost the plot with just about all of it.

So I have £1200 + or - a bit to build me a new pc.
Id like to play some top end games with it.Ive had a look at the bundles but basically for the leyman there is far to much choice.
I read about SLi and larger power supplies 2gb of ram and E4400 and E4600 or alike.
I was going to buy a D**L but after reading here ive gone right of that idea.So its a home build for me with some overclocking in mind.Am i right in thinking that a c2d 2.4 would be a good place to start ?
The only pref I do have is a black case with must look nice and not be cheap tin!!!
On top of the £1200 ive got a bit of spare cash for a nice monitor pref 19 inch or above.
Many thanx for your input

FLY
 
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Hows that look, I'll assume you already have an operating system and if you already have a sound card or anything that's some money saved.
 
E6400 £150
Asus P5NE-SLI £75, or the £150 version
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 PK PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400) £173
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £260
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB ST3500630AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £93
Pioneer DVR-111BK 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter - (Black) OEM £22
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £72

etc, the old Lian Li PC7 cases are good, and only £50-60

seriously anyting like the above spec will whip a DELL's ass. bear in mind the expensse of the gfx card. dell will not have anything remotely as powerful as that card...
 
Tombo said:
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Hows that look, I'll assume you already have an operating system and if you already have a sound card or anything that's some money saved.
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You'll need fans with that spec, the eclipse doesnt come with fans.... If you like the eclipse, personally i stuck Akasa Ambers in with 12v - 10v convertors in mine.
 
As ever my ignorance lets me down
would a 2.4 chip not be better.I dont mind spending extra £££ on a chip and motherboard is its a good base to start from.

FLY
 
With a tiny bit of overclocking (which you said you intended to do) it will perform the same.
 
I would get a £60 Lian Li case over that one, change the HDD to a 320GB Seagate with 16MB cache, drop the soundcard until you are absolutely sure that on-board is not good enough, and go for the 520W Corsair PSU which is more than fine.

With the money you save, upgrade to an e6600.

Edit: Typo fixed
 
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masslac said:
I would get a £60 Lian Li case over that one, change the HDD to a 320GB Seagate with 16MB cache, drop the soundcard until you are absolutely sure that on-board is not good enough, and go for the 520W Seagate PSU which is more than fine.

With the money you save, upgrade to an e6600.
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i presume u mean corsair psu as i havent seen any seagates, but i totally agree with thelian li, and the seagate 7200.10 hdd's they are faster than the western digital ones, they are perpendicular technology! i used to buy wes dig, but i now have the 250gb seagate and im more than happy with sata2 performance levels!

also, id save a £100 and get the £260 8800GTS should be more than capable at a good res for a 19" TFT.
 
How about...

£1.2k Rig

Samsung SpinPoint T HD401LJ 400GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
(£85.76)


Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK)
(£103.39)


Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£82.24)


Western Digital Raptor X 150GB WD1500AHFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM
(£164.49)


Samsung SH-W183 18x18 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM
(£23.49)


Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler
(£35.24)


Akasa Eclipse 62 Aluminium Case - No PSU
(£103.38)


Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) -
(£204.44)


GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C5 800MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400DC)
(£111.61)


BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
(£199.74)

Total : £1,128.99
 
You can do better than that for the price. I will post back when the main ocuk page decides it wants to load properly.
 
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Here you go. Slightly over budget, but totally worth it IMO.

Drop back to the 8800GTS if you want to save around £80.

Edit: Swap the P180 for a black one. :)
 
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Ive just had a quick look..are there any bundles for this mboard/chip and mem set up.
I cant seem to display all the page...
cheers
FLY

PS OEM Vista?? could someone expalin differences

thanx again

FLY
 
IMO yes, but he did say he wanted a black case. :)

@ OP - With an OEM version you just get the disk, and it's limited to being used on the machine you originally install it on. A retail version gives you manuals etc (all of which are online anyway) and more flexibility to use the OS on different machines (EG - after a major hardware upgrade). Personally, I think an OEM version is just fine, as the limitations are not strict.
 
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I assumed you were referring to my recommendations and not the earlier list (whch really you should :p ). My bad.
 
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