£1300 - What to get.

truebluecfc · 29 Apr 2007 at 14:46

Hi, well yeh ive got £1300 to spend on a new computer, will be used for mostly gaming but some college work aswell. I was planning on buying a full system straight off, the Ultima OC 8800GTS" Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 infact, i was all set on buying when i found out my cheque hadnt cleared so i obviuosly couldnt order it.
I then was just checking around looking at the forums etc, and relised i could just buy all the parts and build one myself, probably cheaper and gives me something to do choosing all the parts etc. Below is what ive chosen so far, i only need the tower and a monitor.

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
£129.99
£152.74 inc VAT

Gainward BLISS GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
£199.99
£234.99 inc VAT

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)
£74.99
£88.11 inc VAT

Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black
£49.99
£58.74 inc VAT

Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
£69.99
£82.24 inc VAT

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
£49.99
£58.74 inc VAT

NEC AD7170S Serial ATA 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM
£17.99
£21.14 inc VAT

Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK)
£84.99
£99.86 inc VAT

Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler
£27.99
£32.89 inc VAT

Belinea 2225S1W 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black
£169.99
£199.74 inc VAT

Subtotal £951.89
£1,118.47 inc VAT

Thats not all my budget gone, but i dont want to spend it all unless i have too. So anyway what do you guys think? is their anything ive missed out or something incompatible or anything which i could upgrade too, i was thinking about getting 4GB of RAM for example but was told 2GB was fine for gaming. Thanks in advance.

Indy500 · 29 Apr 2007 at 14:47

May as well buy an 8800GTX if you have £1300 to spend.

hp7909 · 29 Apr 2007 at 14:55

truebluecfc said:
{snip} is their anything ive missed out or something incompatible or anything which i could upgrade too{snip}

OS?

& better get the BFG GTS (here). Comes with lifetime warranty :eek:

Rest looks good

truebluecfc · 29 Apr 2007 at 15:04

hp7909 said:
OS?

& better get the BFG GTS (here). Comes with lifetime warranty

Rest looks good

ah nice, i will do. And i totally forgot about the OS, i'll just buy Vista Ultimate 64

truebluecfc · 29 Apr 2007 at 16:08

well i want my new PC to last as long as it can so ive decided to get 4GB of RAM and for a future upgrade go SLI and get another 8800 GTS 640MB

OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK)
£179.99
£211.49 inc VAT

Indy500 · 29 Apr 2007 at 16:10

truebluecfc said:
Well ive decided to get 4GB of RAM now.

OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK)
£179.99
£211.49 inc VAT

Why spend £120 extra on 4GB RAM which has dubious benefit when you could get an 8800GTX?

stickroad · 29 Apr 2007 at 16:12

By the time you take advantage of 4GB of Ram, DRR3 will be out lol.

truebluecfc · 29 Apr 2007 at 16:30

lol god sake :mad:

Its like a lot of things, if i wait for the new gfx cards coming i could save a bit of on my 8800. Well i think im just gonna get what i oringinally said and when theres new things out or time for an upgrade i will. I mean instead of getting 4GB of RAM i could just go SLI or get an 768.

stickroad · 29 Apr 2007 at 16:36

I would personally get a GTX if i was spending that amount of money.
I would change that memory to Crucial 5300 C3 and overclock it. Then to finish it of get the E6420. My point of view anyway. lol

truebluecfc · 29 Apr 2007 at 16:38

stickroad said:
I would personally get a GTX if i was spending that amount of money.
I would change that memory to Crucial 5300 C3 and overclock it. Then to finish it of get the E6420. My point of view anyway. lol

and i appreciate it lot as you guys know what your talking about i kinda dont

im looking at the stuff you just mentioned now

stickroad · 29 Apr 2007 at 16:40

But please if your happy with your spec go for it, all the power to you.
I would always go for something that im happy with than get stuff that im not to quite sure about and regret it afterward, if you see what i mean? lol

Anyway hope you enjoy your new spec. Your love it.

Richdog · 29 Apr 2007 at 16:44

truebluecfc said:
well i want my new PC to last as long as it can so ive decided to get 4GB of RAM and for a future upgrade go SLI and get another 8800 GTS 640MB

OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK)
£179.99
£211.49 inc VAT

Really not woth it mate... don't go SLI just get an 8800GTX otherwise you're throwing money down the toilet.

As for the RAM... for now just get 2GB of Crucial Ballistix PC5300... cheap and overclocks like a demon.

Oh, and if you buy Vista x64 prepare for a lot of gaming problems... i'd just stick with XP Pro for now.

Oh yeah, and get two hard-drives not just one, protect your data.

truebluecfc · 29 Apr 2007 at 16:46

Yeh im gonna get the BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB, and sticking with 2GB of RAM, about the OS, atm ive only got windows XP Home Edition 2002 but then if theirs gonna be any problems i guess i can always buy it later.

truebluecfc · 29 Apr 2007 at 16:54

Updated Version of the spec im now getting:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.13GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
£109.99
£129.24 inc VAT

BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
£299.99
£352.49 inc VAT

Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA663)
This Week Only Offer
was £74.99 ex vat
£68.99
£81.06 inc VAT

Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black
£49.99
£58.74 inc VAT

Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
£69.99
£82.24 inc VAT

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
£49.99
£58.74 inc VAT

NEC AD7170S Serial ATA 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM
£17.99
£21.14 inc VAT

Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK)
£84.99
£99.86 inc VAT

Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler
£27.99
£32.89 inc VAT

Belinea 2225S1W 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black
£169.99
£199.74 inc VAT

Subtotal £949.90
£1,116.13 inc VAT

stickroad · 29 Apr 2007 at 16:56

Very nice spec truebluecfc.

truebluecfc · 29 Apr 2007 at 16:59

Thanks for your help stickroad and others

now im just waiting for my cheque to clear and im ready to order, cant wait

CREATIVE!11 · 29 Apr 2007 at 16:59

i just bought all my components. I bought the GTS considering it runs all the games at the moment easily....and ill upgrade to ATI XTX when it comes out or Nvidia 90 series.

I chose it instead of GTX. cause wlel its 150 quid cheaper and ill update it later on this year.

Richdog · 29 Apr 2007 at 17:00

Add another HD on there and it'll be fatastic. You should always have one smaller drive for your OS, and one larger drive for data.

truebluecfc · 29 Apr 2007 at 17:10

Richdog said:
Add another HD on there and it'll be fatastic. You should always have one smaller drive for your OS, and one larger drive for data.

ok thanks for that. can u provide any suggestions as you know way more than me, hehe.

stickroad · 29 Apr 2007 at 17:11

Sorry ignore.