Advice Needed

[Hardeep294]

Looking for advice/help on the build, I'm sure you guys out there can help me get better bang for buck, aimed at gaming but only 1600x900 (not looking to upgrade monitor, 22 inch is fine), have spare 500gb hard drives and blu-ray drive:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7850 Power Edition Twin Frozr IV OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £167.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £99.95
1 x Fractal Design Arc Mini Tower Case - Black £69.98
1 x ASRock H77 Pro4-M Intel H77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £67.99
1 x XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
1 x Intel 330 Series 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £53.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9) £37.99
Total : £571.98 (includes shipping : £11.75).



Looking to add Corsair K&M 60's at a later date as well as possibly the Vengeance 1500's. Thanks for looking

 

[Bacon?]

Whats your budget?

 

[Hardeep294]

Gunna be hovering around 600 (before peripherals) but the lower the better

 

[Bacon?]

Do you mind ATX cases or is it M-ATX all the way?

 

[Hardeep294]

I would prefer M-Atx but the if I go atx the only case I would like is the arc midi

 

[Bacon?]

In that case:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £184.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 Twin Frozr III OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards w/ Nexuiz & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £155.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77M-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £86.99
1 x PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III Series 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - White £53.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 612S CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/1156/1155/775/AM3/AM2+/AM2) £32.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £23.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £564.92 (includes shipping : £10.00).




Plus any M-ATX case you want

 

[Hardeep294]

Is it me or are prices not showing up the same on the website and on here :/ Wouldn't the PSU be slightly overkill for the 7850? No need for the drive so that would come to £600 without an ssd, is there a huge difference between the 3570k and the 3220 gaming wise (aside from extra performance overclock-wise from the 3570k)

 

[Bacon?]

Just you I think

PSU is on offer so while you only really need 400 - 500W its very good for the price so cant fault it!

Not a massive difference at the mo, BF3 and some MMO's are the only games I know which can CPU bottleneck the i3. However the i5 will last a nice few more years than the i3 seeing as its overclockable and quad core.

 

[Hardeep294]

Silly error - prices show up without vat on individual items but with on here, I'm sure it wasn't like that before :/ Not the MMO kind of guy, currently just play CoD (all my current one can handle) I take it the i3 would be sufficient enough for CoD until haswell?

 

[Bacon?]

Yep easily.