Budget BF3 Build - Almost Ready to Order

~lynks

~lynks

~lynks

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Currently at £541, can anyone shave a few more pennies off this build without a big performance drop? I also kinda want to keep the case.

Many thanks

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take a look at the cases section before you buy a fractal ;)

YOUR BASKET
1 x "Primo 6200i" Intel Core i5 2300 2.80GHz DDR3 Sandybridge System £379.98
1 x No Graphics Card Upgrade £0.00
1 x No Hard Drive Upgrade £0.00
1 x No Operating System £0.00
1 x System 12 Months Standard Warranty £0.00
1 x Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £131.99
Total : £530.57 (includes shipping : £15.50).

if you ask in the customer service section really nicely they might be able to change the case for you. the case in that build is £31.99

if you are going for a budget gaming build then i cant find anything faster than this for the money. however, its not the greatest for upgrading as it cant overclock, cant have USB3 or sata 6GB/s and cant do crossfire/SLI.

i'd wait for a couple of extra specs to come along that offer better upgradability (which will probably be sorted by getting a smaller hard drive and the i3 2100)
 
Reaper 392 said:
take a look at the cases section before you buy a fractal ;)

YOUR BASKET
1 x "Primo 6200i" Intel Core i5 2300 2.80GHz DDR3 Sandybridge System £379.98
1 x No Graphics Card Upgrade £0.00
1 x No Hard Drive Upgrade £0.00
1 x No Operating System £0.00
1 x System 12 Months Standard Warranty £0.00
1 x Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £131.99
Total : £530.57 (includes shipping : £15.50).

if you ask in the customer service section really nicely they might be able to change the case for you. the case in that build is £31.99

if you are going for a budget gaming build then i cant find anything faster than this for the money. however, its not the greatest for upgrading as it cant overclock, cant have USB3 or sata 6GB/s and cant do crossfire/SLI.

i'd wait for a couple of extra specs to come along that offer better upgradability (which will probably be sorted by getting a smaller hard drive and the i3 2100)
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Thanks for the reply,

Yeah I've been flipping between a SB i5 and the 955BE for a while now, I settled on the 955 eventually as I felt an AM3 board would give better upgrade-ability, I also do a lot of multi-threaded work, which makes me want to lean towards AMD's well-known policy of MOAR COARS.

What did you mean about the case? Was that a hint that they're not so great for the money? I've always had coolermaster praetorians and I've often worried that any modern case would be a disappointment after living with brushed aluminium perfection for so long :P
 
~lynks said:
Thanks for the reply,

Yeah I've been flipping between a SB i5 and the 955BE for a while now, I settled on the 955 eventually as I felt an AM3 board would give better upgrade-ability, I also do a lot of multi-threaded work, which makes me want to lean towards AMD's well-known policy of MOAR COARS.

What did you mean about the case? Was that a hint that they're not so great for the money? I've always had coolermaster praetorians and I've often worried that any modern case would be a disappointment after living with brushed aluminium perfection for so long :P
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SB i5 is far better than anything AMD can give you, especially if your gaming:

i5 2400 vs phenom II X4 980BE: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/362?vs=363

i5 2400 vs phenom II X6 1100T: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/203?vs=363

i5 2400 vs bulldozer FX 8150: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/434?vs=363

i7 2600k vs bulldozer FX 8150 (included because its not really fai to compare a £140 processor to a £200 processor)

what i was hinting at about the case is that there are a lot of complaints about fractal design's build quality

for the case dont go for the antec 300 as has been suggested above, the antec 100 is cheaper and better (the 100 is actually the replacement model for the 300)
 
could save yourself some pennies on the psu with this OCZ

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-031-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

review here:

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/OCZ-ModXStream-Pro-600-W-Power-Supply-Review/936/9

if you want to go AMD then i would spend the savings on this MSI board, it's £5 more than the gigabyte but gives you the option of SATA-6 and room for a second video card as a upgrade path in the future

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-134-MS&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=1782

its a AM3 socket but as i understand it it can support AM3+ with a BIOS update

see here:

http://emm.msi.com/display.php?List=43&N=1029
 
wow have i just found a bargain, its well over budget, but i'm gonna spread this one around as much as i can:


YOUR BASKET
1 x Home Server GTi Intel Core i5 2300 2.80GHz DDR3 - Server £439.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £23.99
1 x No Hard Drive Upgrade £0.00
1 x System 12 Months Standard Warranty £0.00
1 x No Operating System £0.00
1 x Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £131.99
Total : £608.57 (includes shipping : £10.50).

massively over budget, but one thing caught my eye:

home server specs said:
- Hard Drive: x2 2TB SATA 6GB/s (additional storage options available)
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so, thats £250 worth of hard drives you've got there minimum :)
(its so cheap because OcUK have enough stock of these type of systems to avoid the HDD supply problem, so arent raising the price of prebuilds)
 
bobbyspangles said:
could save yourself some pennies on the psu with this OCZ

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-031-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

review here:

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/OCZ-ModXStream-Pro-600-W-Power-Supply-Review/936/9

if you want to go AMD then i would spend the savings on this MSI board, it's £5 more than the gigabyte but gives you the option of SATA-6 and room for a second video card as a upgrade path in the future

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-134-MS&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=1782

its a AM3 socket but as i understand it it can support AM3+ with a BIOS update

see here:

http://emm.msi.com/display.php?List=43&N=1029
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actually if you look at the psu in my link its 1p cheaper than the one you've linked to ;)
 
Jesus Christ £60 for a 320gb Samsung F4. I paid less than that for the same model but 2TB just 6 weeks ago :o. I knew hard drive prices had rocketed but **** me (I appreciate this is nothing to do with OCUK though).
 
bobbyspangles said:
i can't imagine shops are selling many at these hugely inflated prices though?

i'm using a old 80GB IDE drive in my new build until the prices come down. :(
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pretty much all shops are selling hard drives at the inflated prices because of the flooding in bangkok wiping out most hard drive stocks and hard drive making facilities. if you can find some that are selling at pre bangkok flood prices then grab them asap, if not then that prebuild is your next best bet
 
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