£600 Gaming Build

OCAspire · 20 Sep 2012 at 18:29

Hey Guys,

Its been a while and I have a new budget and new requirements to work around for my new build and would greatly appreciate any ideas you guys have or suggestions to take on board.

I am looking to build a gaming rig for right around the £600 mark, I will NOT be needing a monitor or any other peripherals apart from a cheap keyboard and mouse.

I will NOT be overclocking the CPU so the stock heatsink/fan will do perfectly fine.

Ok, I do have a few things that I WANT in the build other than that, whatever you suggest I will be VERY happy with!.

1. intel i5 or above

2. 1 TB HDD

3. DVD RW

4. GTX 550ti or above

I appreciate all build ideas and suggestions that you guys have to offer!, thanks a lot!

beejjacobs · 20 Sep 2012 at 18:35

Heres my suggestion, a little over budget but with everything you wanted:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3450 3.10GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £154.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £131.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
1 x OCZ ZT 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £63.98
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) £59.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £49.98
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £28
1 x Logitech MK120 Desktop Set (920-002552) £15.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £618.89 (includes shipping : £12.50).

GTX 550Ti vs 7850

OCAspire · 20 Sep 2012 at 18:38

beejjacobs said:
Heres my suggestion, a little over budget but with everything you wanted:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3450 3.10GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £154.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £131.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
1 x OCZ ZT 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £63.98
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) £59.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £49.98
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £28
1 x Logitech MK120 Desktop Set (920-002552) £15.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £618.89 (includes shipping : £12.50).

GTX 550Ti vs 7850

Thanks a lot for the build!, Just wondering why such an expensive MOBO?

beejjacobs · 20 Sep 2012 at 18:42

OCAspire said:
Thanks a lot for the build!, Just wondering why such an expensive MOBO?

because its good and you can afford it!

OCAspire · 20 Sep 2012 at 18:46

beejjacobs said:
because its good and you can afford it!

What more reason do I need! haha. Would a H61 MOBO do the same job though, not planning on getting one just wondered if the z77 had an advantage over the H61 or is the z11 necessary for this CPU?

beejjacobs · 20 Sep 2012 at 18:49

OCAspire said:
What more reason do I need! haha. Would a H61 MOBO do the same job though, not planning on getting one just wondered if the z77 had an advantage over the H61 or is the z11 necessary for this CPU?

Z77 has native USB3 and SATA3, I'm sure there are other features which I need to catch up with!

Rough comparison here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1155

Idleman · 20 Sep 2012 at 19:02

Seeing as you have no desire to OC, have included a cheaper board. But managed to include a 2GB Gpu.

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7850 Twin Frozr III OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £161.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3450 3.10GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £154.99
1 x OCZ ZT 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £63.98
1 x ASRock H77M Intel H77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £62.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) £59.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Beta Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x OcUK Value 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit £26.99
1 x Logitech MK120 Desktop Set (920-002552) £15.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £607.99 (includes shipping : £11.75).

OCAspire · 20 Sep 2012 at 19:29

Thanks a lot guys!,

Just a quick question, if I decided to get a PCI 2.0 Express GPU would it work in a PCI 3.0 (X16) slot, if yes iwould there be a disadvantage?

Idleman · 20 Sep 2012 at 19:42

OCAspire said:
Thanks a lot guys!,

Just a quick question, if I decided to get a PCI 2.0 Express GPU would it work in a PCI 3.0 (X16) slot, if yes iwould there be a disadvantage?

No.

OCAspire · 20 Sep 2012 at 19:45

No to which question?

stulid · 20 Sep 2012 at 19:50

OCAspire said:
No to which question?

I'm wondering that to, I do hope its the latter part.

beejjacobs said:
Heres my suggestion, a little over budget but with everything you wanted:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3450 3.10GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £154.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £131.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
1 x OCZ ZT 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £63.98
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) £59.99
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £49.98
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £28
1 x Logitech MK120 Desktop Set (920-002552) £15.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £618.89 (includes shipping : £12.50).

GTX 550Ti vs 7850

Thats a good spec.

Idleman · 20 Sep 2012 at 20:01

OCAspire said:
No to which question?

Sorry, Yes to the first. No to the second.

OCAspire · 20 Sep 2012 at 20:02

Haha I shouldve put a question mark after the first question too!

. So just to clarify my PCI-E 2.0 GPU will work fine in a PCI-E 3.0 slot but just run as if it were in a PCI-E 2.0 slot?

stulid · 20 Sep 2012 at 20:05

OCAspire said:
Haha I shouldve put a question mark after the first question too! . So just to clarify my PCI-E 2.0 GPU will work fine in a PCI-E 3.0 slot but just run as if it were in a PCI-E 2.0 slot?

Correct.

Also the slot will only be PCI-E3.0 with a Ivybridge CPU in the board.

If you used a 2500K for example (Sandybridge) then the 3.0 slot will only operate at 2.0 as the actual CPU has the PCI-E controller on its die. (the slots are wired directly to the CPU)

OCAspire · 20 Sep 2012 at 20:07

Ah VERY interesting!, thanks a lot for the information!, much appreciated!