£500 - 600 gaming rig

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I don't need a copy of windows I'm going to use an old copy of vista / linux until windows 8 comes out.

This is what I've came up with so far:
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Would I be better saving money on the cpu and spend it on a better graphics card?
Also have I forgotten any parts or could I have better ones?

Thanks

Al

Ps. Although I said upto £600 I'd really only want to spend above £550 if its going to get me something amazingly better.
 
 
Bacon? said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £161.99
1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 560Ti 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £155.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-DS3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £74.99
1 x Sharkoon T28 Midi Tower Case - Black/Blue £49.99
1 x **B Grade** Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM £40
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38192M1600HC11DC) £35.99
1 x Cooler Master GX Lite 500W '80 Plus' Power Supply £33.98
1 x Xigmatek Gaia CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/1155/1156/1366/AM2/AM3/FM1) £19.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £601.50 (includes shipping : £10.50).

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looks ok but you could get a AMD HD6850 gpu and get a bit better psu and maybe slip in a 60/64gig SSD
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £179.99
1 x MSI HD 6850 "Dual Fan Edition" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £83.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £60
1 x Samsung 64GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC064D/EU) £59.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-252-SE) £40
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38192M1600HC11DC) £35.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black £29.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £24.12
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £595.03 (includes shipping : £12.50).



A few B grade parts. Nothing wrong with them just missing a few accessories. A good chance to save some money.

You will fall in love with the SSD.
 
Thanks for the replies,

I was just wondering about a few points, would I be able to get a better system, ie better gpu or something, if I went with an AMD cpu instead and used some of the money I saved to get a better gpu?

Also what is the difference between the OEM cpu and retail, just the lack of the branded packaging?
 
If you can I personally would stick with Intel, OEM comes with 1 year warranty and no cooler or fancy box, retail comes with these and has a 3 year warranty.
 
 
Would be nice to have the ivybridge CPU as it uses less power and has a better IGP. The Z77 mobos make clever use of the IGP. It can switch between the IGP and GPU depending on whats needed, during games the IGP can boost the GPU. Quicksync also uses the IGP to boost video encoding tasks

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire HD 7850 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £179.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-DS3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £74.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-252-SE) £40.00
1 x BitFenix Outlaw Gaming Case - Black £36.98
1 x TeamGroup Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38192M1600HC11DC) £35.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £621.41 (includes shipping : £11.25).



You really want to have 2GB of VRAM as games are becoming more demanding on VRAM. I've added the 7850 as it overclocks well and uses less juice than the 6950 whilst still having 2GB of VRAM.
 
looks ok would change psu to the ocz one listed in specs above. and would get low profile RAM if you plan to get a cpu cooler at some point
 
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