£700 base unit build for gaming

Whoop · 22 Oct 2011 at 15:54

Hey all,

I'm not really feeling this spec at all but I've been tweaking one a mate did on a competitor site to get the bits from a decent shop for him

His aim is to get another HD 6870 for chrimbo and crossfire it so the graphics are quite weak. Can anyone tweak this around so it stays in the £700 budget and has a bit more oomph for Bf3?

He doesn't fancy overclocking just yet either so I left the retail cooler in there.

Ta muchly.

Hyburnate · 22 Oct 2011 at 15:56

Get the combo with a seagate and win7 as its cheaper.

stulid · 22 Oct 2011 at 16:03

You wont be crossfiring with that weak PSU.

Hyburnate · 22 Oct 2011 at 16:04

stulid said:
You wont be crossfiring with that weak PSU.

Didn't pick up on that LOL. Yeah your gunna need a Seasonic 650W or a 750-800W other.

stulid · 22 Oct 2011 at 16:06

Here you go, re-done the spec

Did you need an optical drive?

Whoop · 22 Oct 2011 at 16:17

stulid said:
Here you go, re-done the spec

Did you need an optical drive?

Hmmm I'll go with nope for the meantime, I built his last system about 3 years ago and optical drives didn't move along too much since then (totally forgot the psu though, I'm used to thrashing mine).

I hoped you'd appear, a spec thread isn't done till you've posted in it.

Looks like a good choice to me, I'll go with that when he shows up with the cash tonight.

Thanks all.

numatic.nathan · 22 Oct 2011 at 16:17

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £173.99
OcUK GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - OEM £85.99 £171.98

Asus P8Z68-V LX Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
£81.59

Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit
£68.40
Options applied to the above product:
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £47.99
(£39.99) £47.99
(£39.99)

OCZ ZS Series 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £56.99
(£47.49) £56.99

300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £45.98
(£38.32) £45.98

Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B) £42.95
(£35.79) £42.95

Cooler Master Hyper TX3 CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM3/775/1155/1156)

£705.85

stulid · 22 Oct 2011 at 16:20

numatic.nathan said:
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £173.99
OcUK GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - OEM £85.99 £171.98

Asus P8Z68-V LX Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
£81.59

Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit
£68.40
Options applied to the above product:
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £47.99
(£39.99) £47.99
(£39.99)

OCZ ZS Series 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £56.99
(£47.49) £56.99

300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £45.98
(£38.32) £45.98

Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B) £42.95
(£35.79) £42.95

Cooler Master Hyper TX3 CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM3/775/1155/1156)

£705.85

Two GTX460's? wont work

no SLI support.

stulid · 22 Oct 2011 at 16:20

Whoop said:
Hmmm I'll go with nope for the meantime, I built his last system about 3 years ago and optical drives didn't move along too much since then (totally forgot the psu though, I'm used to thrashing mine).

I hoped you'd appear, a spec thread isn't done till you've posted in it.

Looks like a good choice to me, I'll go with that when he shows up with the cash tonight.

Thanks all.

If he has a DVD drive and its SATA and not IDE? then your ok.

Whoop · 22 Oct 2011 at 16:25

stulid said:
If he has a DVD drive and its SATA and not IDE? then your ok.

Its a lot of effort to go round and check

There is £20 delivery charge on your spec I can knock out anyway to add a sata dvd-writer.

Well reminded though, I wouldn't have.

numatic.nathan · 22 Oct 2011 at 16:26

stulid said:
Two GTX460's? wont work no SLI support.

My bad, need a different mobocracy, so it'll cost £10-£20 more, still worth it though

fowler002 · 22 Oct 2011 at 16:34

Whoop said:
Hmmm I'll go with nope for the meantime, I built his last system about 3 years ago and optical drives didn't move along too much since then (totally forgot the psu though, I'm used to thrashing mine).

I hoped you'd appear, a spec thread isn't done till you've posted in it.

Looks like a good choice to me, I'll go with that when he shows up with the cash tonight.

Thanks all.

would have said knock the cpu to oem(unless you need the 3yr warranty) to save another £10(was £17 saving just the other day) and get http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-005-AN&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395
but its pre-order so not sure if your friend can wait like a week/week and a half and it puts it ~£10 over budget.