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MrMoonX

MrMoonX

MrMoonX

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Looking for a £1200 gaming rig, I have spec'd the bits below, but want to know if I am on the right track as I haven't built a PC in years, spent a long time researching on the forums:


YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7950 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £349.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £161.99
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £144.98
1 x BenQ G2420HDBL 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £139.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £94.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £85.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT064M4SSD2) £76.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £49.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £43.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
1 x Logitech G400 3600DPI Gaming Mouse (910-002279) £24.98
1 x LiteOn IHAS324-32 24x DVD±RW ReWriter SATA (Version B - with new Firmware) - Retail £20.99
1 x OcUK Black Gaming Keyboard (5105GU) £10.99
1 x OcUK Value DVI-D Dual Link M - M Monitor Cable (Black) - 2 Meter £5.99
Total : £1,254.36 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
Cheers have changed the memory and HDD, not bothered about retail CPU as not gonna use the stock cooler, glad my research pouring over threads here paid off lol
 
MrMoonX said:
Cheers have changed the memory and HDD, not bothered about retail CPU as not gonna use the stock cooler, glad my research pouring over threads here paid off lol
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Have you looked at the zalman z9 case? Granted you lose the usb3 ports on the case but you do get 4 fans, a fan controller with digital temp display and cable management oh and an extension for the 8pin power cable......not too shabby for a £50ish case. (I'd double check it can take that 7000series GPU though)

I mention this only as you clearly want to OC the i5K so good airflow should win over USB 3

p.s Your optical drive is out of stock. I have the iHAS 124 and it can be FW flashed to a iHAS 524 (the only feature you can't add is lightscribe) it also has custom firmware available for overburn.
 
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Cheers have changed the memory and HDD, not bothered about retail CPU as not gonna use the stock cooler, glad my research pouring over threads here paid off lol
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Bit of of a late reply - The retail CPU also comes with 3 year warranty, OEM comes with one year :)
 
I'd suggest trying to go for a slightly larger ssd. 128gig would be perfect.

I'm still using a 80gig ssd, and honestly its too small :) Windows + 2 games then i have to deal with low diskspace on this drive.

Used the 128 in another couple of computers recently, it does help!

If moneys a problem the 64 is still great, just you'll have a lot more room to play with on the 128!
 
Hi there,

Looks like a good spec, though if you are going to spend so much on a gaming rig I would strongly suggest opting for a 120Hz monitor like this one (here is a review).

To help afford it you could save some money on the motherboard like this one.
 
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