£600 Gaming Machine.

[plasmahal]

Hi again,

Well I got my son to choose a case and with some items on offer this week got the below spec on order:

Order Status: In our warehouse queue

Product Name Price Qty Line Total
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560Ti OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99 1 £149.99
Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £77.49 1 £77.49
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £74.99 1 £74.99
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit £54.99 1 £54.99
Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard £50.00 1 £50.00
Cooler Master HAF 912 Plus Case - Black £47.49 1 £47.49
OCZ ModXStream Pro 500w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply £44.99 1 £44.99
TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless-N PCI Adapter (TL-WN851N) £13.25 1 £13.25
Akasa 8-Pin 30cm PSU Extension Cable £3.99 1 £3.99
Dirt 2 Game Voucher £0.00 1 £0.00
FREE SHIPPING (DPD Next Day): £0.00
VAT: £103.44
Order Total: £620.62



We have stretched the budget a little, despite saving a little also.

He's using close to the limit of the 4gb ddr2 he has now, so I opted for the 8gb set of corsair which was on offer. Also read up that some ppl have cable length issues with the 8 pin mobo connector, so ordered an extension. I'm hoping the 500W OCZ will enough power.....

When we come to build, I will post a build thread.

 

[DJ_Martin]

Difficult to read, is that an OC 560ti? Let me know how it performs when you get it built. (I'm guessing you will post something about it in the build thread?) If the 560ti is really good I might stretch my budget for one as I have been slowly getting more and more interested in one.

Good Luck

 

[plasmahal]

£600 machine is now built....

Hi all,

The Gaming machine has been completed and running for a few days now.

Here are some details and pictures.

I got my son to put everything in. The only thing he didn't want to do was fit the CPU and HSF. I probably put him off by emphasising how important it was to get it fitted correctly and not bend any pins. He also struggled with the GFX card.

All in and tested.

It took about 20mins to install Windows 7 x64 from a USB stick.

Once everthing was installed and tested, the cabling was tidied up. The only issue we found was Windows BSOD'd every few minutes. After looking into the error messages that suggested a memory issue, I set a BIOS memory setting from unganged (default) to ganged and problem solved.

All done!!!!!