a little Gaming PC help...

phoeniksII

phoeniksII

phoeniksII

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Afternoon All,

Looking to buy a new PC by the end of the week (battlefield alpha testing has made me realise my current computer is no good for gaming :mad:)

my budget was up to the £1,000 mark...

Personally i'm not completely comfortable buildng my own PC so i've been googling custom built pc companies so I receive a warranty too

the best I seem to have found/created is this...

CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K @ 4.7Ghz
CPU Cooler: Xigmatek HDT-S963
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68X-UD3P
Memory: 8.0GB Corsair DDR3 1600mhz Vengeance (2x 4GB)
Hard Drives: Crucial 64GB SSD S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s
Second hard drive: 1TB S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s
Optical Drive: 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1,280MB
Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio
Internet: Wireless 802.11N 300Mbps MIMO PCI card
Accessories: 30-in-1 USB Media Card Reader
Case: Zalman Z9 Plus
PSU: 700W Xigmatek
Warranty: 3 Year Platinum Warranty (2 years parts, 3 year labour)

I found this on another site (removed name as requested!)


This comes out at £1,010 (which i'm thinking is pretty good)

Can anyone provide anythnig better for a better price? [deleted! sorry!]

Many thanks all.

PS.. whats the deal on solid state drives....? in very few words why are they better?
 
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firstly, you removed the first mention of the website but not the sceond - get that sorted! :P

second, i would be wary about that particular website. two of my friends have ordered from it and had not trouble, however there are many horror stories floating around online about it.

one thing i can say is that you wont find any cheaper prices than that site. even building the pc yourself would barely save you any money (may actually be a little more expensive). however i would highly recommend just ordering parts off ocuk and building the pc yourself. it takes a bit of research making sure everything fits and is compatible but it's worth it. you end up with exactly the parts you want, and you can rely on ocuk to give you good prices, service and customer support (no they do not pay me to write this lol). you also have fun and learn a lot from dong a custom build, and will probably never want to buy a pre-built pc again.

however if you are completely decided against doing a custom build, then the website you mentioned is probably not a bad choice. there are stories of unhappy customers but this is only a small portion - you are most likely to get the pc just as you ordered it with no problems. also, there is risk inherent in buying from any online retailer so it's up to you. OCUK prebuilt systems may good choices too, i havent checked.

as for solid state drives, they are better for a few reasons. firstly they're much faster than HDDs, especially for random read/write times. secondly they are silent, run cool, and use less power. most people buy a 60 or 120 gig SSD and stick their operating system and most played games on it, and use an HDD for music, videos etc. this gives them a much faster startup and shutdown, as well as more responsive windows operation and faster loading times for games.

it's worht noting that SSDs do not improve frame rate in games - just loading times. but also - think about the last few times you sat waiting for your pc to finish doing something. pretty much every time will have been because of the HDD.
 
thanks for the reply's guys, one of the main reasons i'm not particularly fuzzed on building it is messing it up and costing myself a few quid more than i want to!

Glad to hear it seems worth the cash i have scoured everywhere and all prices seem reasonably similar with the exception of Alienware... obscene prices for the same stuff...

I was figuring that most people tend to write about their gripes on the net as opposed to good experiences...

I may price it up on here just to see the price it comes to, you guys seem to come recommended as a forum, hence me signing up for info, so i'm sure the parts etc must be worth sticking around for!

is the SSD a noticeable difference or is it a case of after a few months etc when your computer starts to slow up a little it won't have to?
 
A SSD is blisteringly fast, and with Trim support being native to Win7, it will always remain fast
 
Trust me mate, build yourself and save a few quid, ask stulid to give you a spec, hes the man for that, building a pc is like playing with lego, all just slots together, you'll learn a lot, and have a bit of fun plus youll save yourself some dollar.

There is a really good guide on here to help you, i wanted to build one badly i stripped mine apart completely and put it together. If you need any help, ask on here, the chaps are good like that
 
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