£700 build

lxuser01 · 21 Feb 2013 at 18:29

Hi all,

I've got around £700 for my PC, I've got few parts from my last PC such as hard drive, case and possibly motherboard (Asrock P67 PRO3 SE). PC will be mainly used for gaming surfing on the web, will do some OC but nothing major. I'm currently using 1680x1050 resolution but probably change into 1920x1200 this summer.

Thanks

Bacon? · 21 Feb 2013 at 18:31

Do you need an OS etc? Or just the tower.

Also you say you have a P67 motherboard, what CPU did you have with this?

lxuser01 · 21 Feb 2013 at 18:36

I got everything last time I bought PC so I need just the tower.

I had i5 2500k with this mobo, this is the only thing that wasn't sold from last PC

snips86x · 21 Feb 2013 at 18:41

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1 x **B Grade** HIS HD 7950 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795F3G2M) with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £199.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £189.95
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £99.95
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £54.98
1 x Samsung Green (MV-3V4G3D/US) 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual Channel Kit £35.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 612S CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £32.99
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lxuser01 · 21 Feb 2013 at 18:48

Thank you very much, just got one question. Wouldn't 64GB be enough the system? I'm planning to install all programs and games on hard drives.

So the i5 3570k won't run on P67 motherboard?

lee32uk · 21 Feb 2013 at 18:56

lxuser01 said:
Thank you very much, just got one question. Wouldn't 64GB be enough the system? I'm planning to install all programs and games on hard drives.

So the i5 3570k won't run on P67 motherboard?

An i5-3570k will run on that board, but according to Asrock website you will need bios P2.10.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?cat=CPU&Model=P67Pro3SE

lxuser01 · 21 Feb 2013 at 19:19

lee32uk said:
An i5-3570k will run on that board, but according to Asrock website you will need bios P2.10.

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?cat=CPU&Model=P67Pro3SE

So I guess I'll have to change it but I haven't got clue how to do it without the CPU, any suggestions?

snips86x · 21 Feb 2013 at 19:25

lxuser01 said:
So I guess I'll have to change it but I haven't got clue how to do it without the CPU, any suggestions?

That is a hard one.

Do you have a mate who has one you could borrow, or even pick up a cheap 2nd Gen and then sell it again.