Hello!
Long time browser of the forums and heres my first post, been following the hype on BF3 for a while and love the game, but my old Dell XPS 720 isn't quite up-to it, I realised the mistake I made in getting a Dell, so its time I did it properly and built my own, this will be the second time I've built one, first one being some 7 years ago now.
Basically my budget is around ~£600, this may increase depending on a number of factors, but 600 is what I'd like to stick with.
Reading the various BF3 benchmarks and such I've come to the conclusion of putting as much money as possible into the GPU, CPU's don't seem to have much of an impact on performance, so with this in mind and my budget, I currently have this set up:
MSI GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
MSI Z68A-GD55-G3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail
OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9)
Total : £578.94
Theres some things i have lying around i can reuse, and also bits out of the XPS like CD Drive, a 500gb HDD (was going to buy a new one but the floods in thailand have stopped me short on that one!) and the OS isnt an issue as ill have windows 7.
The Z68 is one of the cash back motherboards and allows me to put a 2500k if needed at a later date and OC it.
Any Tips/Suggestions are very welcome, thanks for your time!
Long time browser of the forums and heres my first post, been following the hype on BF3 for a while and love the game, but my old Dell XPS 720 isn't quite up-to it, I realised the mistake I made in getting a Dell, so its time I did it properly and built my own, this will be the second time I've built one, first one being some 7 years ago now.
Basically my budget is around ~£600, this may increase depending on a number of factors, but 600 is what I'd like to stick with.
Reading the various BF3 benchmarks and such I've come to the conclusion of putting as much money as possible into the GPU, CPU's don't seem to have much of an impact on performance, so with this in mind and my budget, I currently have this set up:
MSI GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
MSI Z68A-GD55-G3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail
OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9)
Total : £578.94
Theres some things i have lying around i can reuse, and also bits out of the XPS like CD Drive, a 500gb HDD (was going to buy a new one but the floods in thailand have stopped me short on that one!) and the OS isnt an issue as ill have windows 7.
The Z68 is one of the cash back motherboards and allows me to put a 2500k if needed at a later date and OC it.
Any Tips/Suggestions are very welcome, thanks for your time!
