£550 Budget EVE machine?

hedloc · 22 Jun 2011 at 20:06

Hello,
My current laptop a has built in graphic media accelerator

The only game i play online is EVE, which has just had a new expansion yesterday.
I kinda got used to having graphic settings low and certain features turned off as the laptop couldn't handle them. I'd like to, for the first time, be able to play the game half decently. Is there a £550 build inc win7 and a monitor that'd let me explore this new content?

p.s i dont need keyboard/mouse or speakers.

cheers

RJC · 22 Jun 2011 at 20:10

Slightly over:

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Iiyama ProLite E2208HDD 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £107.99
(£89.99) £107.99
(£89.99)
Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £89.99
(£74.99) £89.99
(£74.99)
XFX ATI Radeon HD 5830 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £89.99
(£74.99) £89.99
(£74.99)
Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
(£57.00) £68.40
(£57.00)
Options applied to the above product:
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £32.99
(£27.49) £32.99
(£27.49)
Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £64.99
(£54.16) £64.99
(£54.16)
MSI H67MA-E35 Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard - (Sandybridge) **B3 REVISION** £59.99
(£49.99) £59.99
(£49.99)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £30.98
(£25.82) £30.98
(£25.82)
OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£14.16) £16.99
(£14.16)
Sub Total : £468.59
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £96.47
Total : £578.81

stulid · 22 Jun 2011 at 20:10

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Iiyama ProLite E2208HDD 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £107.99
(£89.99) £107.99
(£89.99)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £89.99
(£74.99) £89.99
(£74.99)
XFX ATI Radeon HD 5830 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £89.99
(£74.99) £89.99
(£74.99)
Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
(£57.00) £68.40
(£57.00)
Options applied to the above product:
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £32.99
(£27.49) £32.99
(£27.49)
Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £64.99
(£54.16) £64.99
(£54.16)
Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 AMD 760G (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £54.98
(£45.82) £54.98
(£45.82)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £30.98
(£25.82) £30.98
(£25.82)
LG GH22NS70 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£14.16) £16.99
(£14.16)
Sub Total : £464.42
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £95.63
Total : £573.80

Too much money?

And YES I have done a AMD spec, RJC has the Sandybridge option covered.

Rroff · 22 Jun 2011 at 20:15

You'd be better off going for an nVidia card - Incarna uses ApeX cloth simulation on several things which I believe will be possible to offload to an nVidia GPU at some point if its not already and there are other PhysX features planned - tho not sure if they are going to be CPU only.

Also several rendering features in the game such as SSAO work better on nVidia cards at the moment.

hedloc · 22 Jun 2011 at 20:37

Wow,
Thats exactly what i'm looking for, thanks very much!!
Wont i need a power supply though?

cheers

stulid · 22 Jun 2011 at 20:38

Comes with the case in both builds.

hedloc · 22 Jun 2011 at 21:06

Great thanks again, will definately go for one of them, thanks for your time !