£550 budget

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Hey guys i posted i little while ago with a £1000 budget but due to car tax/mot etc etc i now have a £550 budget excl shipping, mainly used for gaming maybe some bf3/new cod/Skyrim

i dont need mouse/kb/monitor

I do need win 7

heres what i came up with, i would prefer a bundle.

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Xenon AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.80GHz Bundle - Six Core £215.98
(£179.98) £215.98
(£179.98)
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 Extreme 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK Exclusive** £114.95
(£95.79) £114.95
(£95.79)
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) £29.99
(£24.99) £29.99
(£24.99)
Cooler Master HAF 912 Plus Case - Black £56.99
(£47.49) £56.99
(£47.49)
Antec High Current Gamer 620W Power Supply £49.99
(£41.66) £49.99
(£41.66)
Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£14.16) £16.99
(£14.16)
Sub Total : £461.07
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £95.16
Total : £570.98

Any amendments?

Cheers!
 
Sandybridge is so much faster.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £145.99
(£121.66) £145.99
(£121.66)
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 Extreme 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK Exclusive** £114.95
(£95.79) £114.95
(£95.79)
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) £29.99
(£24.99) £29.99
(£24.99)
Asus P8H61 Intel H61 Chipset (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard **B3 REVISION** £66.98
(£55.82) £66.98
(£55.82)
Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £64.99
(£54.16) £64.99
(£54.16)
Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £35.99
(£29.99) £35.99
(£29.99)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
(£13.32) £15.98
(£13.32)
Sub Total : £452.73
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.25
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £92.80
Total : £556.78

See how the Intel i5 2400 is just really really fast in games - http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i5-2500-2400-2300_7.html#sect0

You cant overclock the CPU because its not a "K" varient, and you need a P67/Z68 motherboard for overclocking too. But the CPU is so fast at stock speeds compared to AMD you dont need to overclock:D
 
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for games you dont need anything more than a quad core.

this spec gets you a better motherboard, RAM and graphics. the standard cooler on the phenoms is incredibly noisy, so i'd recommend you get a new cooler as well, but i couldnt fit that in the budget

[YOUR BASKET
1 x XFX ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Stalker Call of Pripyat PC Game Voucher £149.99
1 x AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £89.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £29.99
1 x Cooler Master HAF 912 Plus Case - Black £56.99
1 x Gigabyte GA-MA78LMT-US2H 760G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £49.99
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 620W Power Supply £49.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £33.59
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £544.91 (includes shipping : free).

*edit*
cant see the difference between the 700 and 800 series motherboard, so i changed it to the 700 series (still better than the bundle motherboard though)

*2nd edit*
oops, completely forgot about the H series mobo's for intel. go with stulids spec
 
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2500k - £155.99
**B Grade** Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3 - £99.99
**B Grade** Asus ATI Radeon HD 5850 DirectCU 1024MB - £99.99
Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit - £98.39
(win 7 bundle includes 500GB drive)
OCZ StealthXStream 2 600W - £46.98
Cooler Master Elite 430 - £33.98
2x2GB OCZ Gold 1333MHz - £29.99
Hyper TX3 - £13.99

Comes to about £580.
Thing with this build is it has a great mobo and overclocking ability and you can add an SSD later on and also change the case if you wanted! :D
 
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Cheers guys, 1 thing i forgot to mention would prefer mb to be xfire or hxfire if possible like would this be ok

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-451-AS
Click to expand...

You will be wanting a board that does symmetrical Crossfire/SLI which rules out all the cheap H** boards

The cheapest decent P67 motherboard that has SLI/CF and is feature rich is the MSI GD53

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-170-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1906

But you will ideally want a "K" cpu to make use of the overclocking, also the PSU in the build I did wouldn't be good enough for the job.

You sure you cant stretch the budget?
 
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Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £173.99
(£144.99) £173.99
(£144.99)
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 Extreme 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK Exclusive** £114.95
(£95.79) £114.95
(£95.79)
MSI P67A-GD53 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £109.99
(£91.66) £109.99
(£91.66)
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) £29.99
(£24.99) £29.99
(£24.99)
Antec High Current Gamer 620W Power Supply £49.99
(£41.66) £49.99
(£41.66)
Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £35.99
(£29.99) £35.99
(£29.99)
Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £33.98
(£28.32) £33.98
(£28.32)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
(£13.32) £15.98
(£13.32)
Sub Total : £527.72
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.25
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £107.79
Total : £646.76

Thats the best I can do, the case is currently out of stock though.



Or by selecting the OEM CPU which has a 1 year warranty and a aftermarket heatsink you can save £2,

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £155.99
(£129.99) £155.99
(£129.99)
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 Extreme 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK Exclusive** £114.95
(£95.79) £114.95
(£95.79)
MSI P67A-GD53 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £109.99
(£91.66) £109.99
(£91.66)
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) £29.99
(£24.99) £29.99
(£24.99)
Antec High Current Gamer 620W Power Supply £49.99
(£41.66) £49.99
(£41.66)
Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £35.99
(£29.99) £35.99
(£29.99)
Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £33.98
(£28.32) £33.98
(£28.32)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
(£13.32) £15.98
(£13.32)
Cooler Master Hyper TX3 CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM3/775/1155/1156) £13.99
(£11.66) £13.99
(£11.66)
Sub Total : £524.38
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 : £107.38
Total : £644.26

This is good RAM but not in stock - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-203-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

Or you can also save some pounds with the OCZ gold ram - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-183-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1516 - but it has a bad reputation around these forums
 
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