£600 rig, 1920x1080

Moogzie

Moogzie

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After my last thread, you guys came up with awesome stuff for £400 but i've decided to up my budget to £600 to hit a "sweet spot" for future proofing on the recommendation of a few guys in said thread - i prefer AMD, and im aiming at gaming at 1920x1080 as well as possible, however i dont intend to overclock (at least not immediatly) and im aiming to make a rig thats going to have some good upgrade paths for the future (be it sli/crossfire, new cpus etc); so..1920x1080, future proofing, £600 :D

oh i also already have my mouse, keyboard, monitor, speakers/headset and os.

Little more interesting than those sup i have £3000 threads if you ask me :p thanks!
 
look at my one mate, I like amd too but the i5 really out performs any other amd on the Market until amd3 comes out so I've read via being linked here. Mines 640!

hope this helps, even if it's just thoughts for you
 
Asus ATI Radeon HD 6870 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £165.59
(£137.99) £165.59
(£137.99)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £109.99
(£91.66) £109.99
(£91.66)
Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H AMD 890GX (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £106.99
(£89.16) £106.99
(£89.16)
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply £68.99
(£57.49) £68.99
(£57.49)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £61.26
(£51.05) £61.26
(£51.05)
OCZ Special OPS 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3SOE1600LV4GK) £31.19
(£25.99) £31.19
(£25.99)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £28.99
(£24.16) £28.99
(£24.16)
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.99
(£9.99) £11.99
(£9.99)

Sub Total : £487.49
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £99.60
Total : £597.59

Motherboard supports crossfire if you wish to add another graphics card later. It also supports SATA 6gb/s in case you want to add an SSD drive at some point. It also supports all of the Phenom X6 chips.

The power supply will also be powerful enough if you add a 2nd graphics card and the case has decent cooling (also useful for dual graphics cards).
 
This might intrest you :


Product Name
XFX ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE AVP, Stalker, CODMW2 Games & 3D Mark 2011 £179.99
(£149.99) £179.99
(£149.99)
Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £86.99
(£72.49) £86.99
(£72.49)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 840 "95W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £81.98
(£68.32) £81.98
(£68.32)
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply £68.99
(£57.49) £68.99
(£57.49)
Coolermaster HAF 912 Plus Case - Black £64.99
(£54.16) £64.99
(£54.16)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD105SI) £38.98
(£32.48) £38.98
(£32.48)
OCZ Special OPS 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3SOE1600LV4GK) £31.19
(£25.99) £31.19
(£25.99)
Corsair A50 High-Performance CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £30.98
(£25.82) £30.98
(£25.82)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.98
(£12.48) £14.98
(£12.48)
Sub Total : £499.22
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 : £102.34
Total : £614.06
 
RedMint = Spot on. Only change is maybe the HDD out for a Samsung F3, but otherwise all good.

I have same graphics card and it runs everything at that 1920x1080.

Shibbzy Is right and a similar i5 spec would out perform it but you have your allegiance and its your choice.
 
Amazing builds for the money, thanks for hitting me up with those!

Think im gonna dip for the first, just gotta give it a once over - also, i heard the new bulldozer chips were compatible with current AM3 cpus, so if i wanted i could swap over to an AM3+ mobo first to stagger my spending a bit? That is, if i feel the need to upgrade by then

That said i dont think you can do any better for £600 atm; doubt i'll be changing much. Thanks for the help
 
No worries, yes I've also heard that bulldozer chipsets should be backwards compatible with AM3 chips, however that motherboard already has pretty much all the features you'll need for the next few years.
 
Plus add a cooler down the line and overclock it that bit further if you need to or if it gets a bit slow for general usage get an SSD. Of course I'm speaking right down the line.
 
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