1K Spec Check

MFrost · 8 May 2011 at 12:43

Hi folks,

Could anyone with a few minutes spare please tell me what you think of this £1,000.

I’ve put this basket together for a colleague who is an avid gamer, very much into his flight simulators although he also has a huge selection of others games. Ultimately he wants something that will run everything he installs to run of full graphic settings for the next couple of years.

He will be running it on 24” Benq XL2410T 24inch. I’ve yet to convince him that he should overclock it, so have left it with stock cooling for the moment. Shouldn’t cost much to get some decent 3rd party cooling when I do convince him!

I know I have already gone over budget; it’s so easy when it’s not your money! I have shown him this spec and he hasn’t complained about the extra £100.

So OcUK, what do you think? I’m very interesting in any advice/amendments you think should be made to this.

Thanks a lot!

MFrost

Surveyor · 8 May 2011 at 12:46

Stulid will be along shortly to change most things on that list.

stulid · 8 May 2011 at 12:49

Surveyor said:
Stulid will be along shortly to change most things on that list.

HAHAHA

Predicament · 8 May 2011 at 12:50

Bonjour mon ami, je m'appelle Stulid

1) Get the K edition CPU as it supports overclocking
2) MSI P67 B3 Revision boards appear to have less problems
3) Switch out the Vengeance for lower profile heatsink RAM. Honestly, any £30-40 DDR3 will do.
4) I would personally go for a cheaper SSD as you are nearly capable of getting a larger capacity at that price point

RJC · 8 May 2011 at 12:51

Come up with this:

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FarCry 2 & Operation Flashpoint Games £191.99
(£159.99) £191.99
(£159.99)
Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £179.99
(£149.99) £179.99
(£149.99)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £161.99
(£134.99) £161.99
(£134.99)
MSI P67A-GD65 Intel P67 (socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £139.98
(£116.65) £139.98
(£116.65)
XFX 850W Black Edition Modular Power Supply £118.99
(£99.16) £118.99
(£99.16)
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £71.99
(£59.99) £71.99
(£59.99)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £43.99
(£36.66) £43.99
(£36.66)
Antec 100 One Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £39.98
(£33.32) £39.98
(£33.32)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
(£13.32) £15.98
(£13.32)
Sub Total : £804.07
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £163.31
Total : £979.88

stulid · 8 May 2011 at 12:52

RJC said:
Come up with this:

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FarCry 2 & Operation Flashpoint Games £191.99
(£159.99) £191.99
(£159.99)
Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £179.99
(£149.99) £179.99
(£149.99)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £161.99
(£134.99) £161.99
(£134.99)
MSI P67A-GD65 Intel P67 (socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £139.98
(£116.65) £139.98
(£116.65)
XFX 850W Black Edition Modular Power Supply £118.99
(£99.16) £118.99
(£99.16)
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £71.99
(£59.99) £71.99
(£59.99)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £43.99
(£36.66) £43.99
(£36.66)
Antec 100 One Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £39.98
(£33.32) £39.98
(£33.32)
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £37.19
(£30.99) £37.19
(£30.99)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
(£13.32) £15.98
(£13.32)
Sub Total : £835.06
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £169.51
Total : £1,017.07

That will do, just remove the other ram kit.

RJC · 8 May 2011 at 12:55

stulid said:
That will do, just remove the other ram kit.

Cheers, forgot about the ram kit!! :eek:

Updated

MFrost · 8 May 2011 at 13:01

Wow! That was an incredibly quick response from you guys. Thanks very much for your advice. I will definately be promoting RJC's spec to my colleague tomorrow, looks like a very good alternative, and well within budget!

Thanks again!

CrixxzeH · 8 May 2011 at 15:51

i would get a better case with the £12.50 spare, (if you have free del)