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My last thread was a bit crap as I sort of didn't know or help anyone with what I wanted.

After looking over a few threads I see it's best to sort of put what you want to do and have a bit of an idea with what I want.

Ok, so some little bits about what I want it for:

- £900 max amount! Got a monitor, OS, Keyboard/Mouse/Speakers
- To be used for BF3, WoW, CoD:MW3, various old games.
- Will be doing video editing of games

What I want from the computer:

- Preferably not a LED beast of a case, also don't want it to be TOO big
- SSD, with a 320/500GB HDD. Hopefully I can get WoW/MW3/W7 on the SSD
- Not really fussed about colours within the case as no one will see them!
- i5-2500K seems to be what all the gaming machines are specced with? I would also like to overclock this to probably about 4.00GHZ. Is this easy enough also, if anything else if needed to run this well, then just add it in and I'll look
- Future proofing for at least a couple of years! I understand this is usually quite hard with components being released all the time... :)

I think that's probably about it for now. If I've missed anything then just give me a shout and I'll do my best to get you an answer asap.

Also, when do the weekly deals come out, should I wait until then to ask for a spec?

Thanks for looking :)
 
Not really too fussed with Crossfire/SLI for the minute. I think I'd quite like a nVidia card, as my brother had a ATI card and had nothing but problems with it.

How much would it cost for the SSD to be a 128GB?
 
What would be best I think is to break my current build down (got 2x 500GB HDD's, which I guess I should use for now and just buy something much better when the prices come down)? I also have a Q6600, which I've never overclocked - is it definitely worth upgrading to the i5-2500K?

I think they're pretty much the only good bits I've got in my current computer!
 
mp260767 said:
do you know which stepping the q6600 is ?

if its a g0 version (d/l and check with cpu-z), get a 3rd party cooler and see how well it overclocks first.
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It's a G0, but I have no idea about what I'd need to OC it to, and what I'd need for it. I'm just wondering whether it's worth selling all this stuff off to go towards a new computer? :) If so, then I may have a bit more - which would be nice!
 
mp260767 said:
your decision, if you have an offer to get rid, and you have the funds then feel free :).
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I think I'd rather have something brand new to play with! Thanks for all the help so far. Should hopefully have a definite amount I can spend on the computer at the end of today/tomorrow, hopefully a bit more than what was originally planned so it can be tweaked.

I'm definitely loving that Graphics card you linked. I've be getting BF3 for the computer straight away anyway. Is it massively different to the ocUK Value one which stulid linked?
 
Final one now guys... Hopefully going to order this today.

Final little bits if someone could help.

- Don't need a HDD, going to recycle mine from my current computer, do want a 128GB SSD though
- Don't need the DVD-REWRITER, again, recycling my SATA one
- Would like that Cooler Master from the original spec which stulid provided
- Also want this GPU *unless anyone can get me a better card in this range! I am selling MW3 already so I don't actually need it free as I'll just go pick it up :p
- £850 max!
:) again, thanks for all the help so far
 
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May as well the one with BF3 actually it's £28 in shops, so may as well save myself a couple of quid. Pretty sure I'll be able to find someone to sell Batman to :)
 
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