Build me a £800 gaming system

Scrubs · 21 Feb 2011 at 12:23

Hello all. I have a budget of £800 - which has to include a monitor and OS. Main use is for gaming, eg black ops, skyrim latest RTS games. Want to crank up the settings to high/ultra on a 21" inch monitor.

Not really an AMD fan, so it has to be Intel. Also, I dont really see my self overclocking, so if that could be factored into the build, that would be great.

I don't mind a top end i7 (old gen) build as they could easily run games for the next 2-3 years, but sandy bridge would be nice.

Much appreciated!!!

anuraj · 21 Feb 2011 at 12:29

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £191.99
(£159.99) £191.99
(£159.99)
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 OC 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £124.99
(£104.16) £124.99
(£104.16)
LG W2246S-BF 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Glossy Black £105.59
(£87.99) £105.59
(£87.99)
MSI P67A-C45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £104.99
(£87.49) £104.99
(£87.49)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply £68.99
(£57.49) £68.99
(£57.49)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £42.98
(£35.82) £42.98
(£35.82)
Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £38.80
(£32.33) £38.80
(£32.33)
OCZ Special OPS 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3SOE1600LV4GK) £31.19
(£25.99) £31.19
(£25.99)
Sub Total : £657.92
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.25
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £133.83
Total : £803.00

You could overclock later on and buy an aftermarket cpu cooler
And also overclocked bundle would mean no monitor

Redmint · 21 Feb 2011 at 12:53

Intel Core i7-2600 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £235.99
(£196.66) £235.99
(£196.66)
Asus ATI Radeon HD 6870 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £165.59
(£137.99) £165.59
(£137.99)
BenQ G2222HDL 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £114.98
(£95.82) £114.98
(£95.82)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Foxconn H67A-S Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £79.98
(£66.65) £79.98
(£66.65)
Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £64.33
(£53.61) £64.33
(£53.61)
OCZ Special OPS 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3SOE1600LV4GK) £31.19
(£25.99) £31.19
(£25.99)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £28.99
(£24.16) £28.99
(£24.16)
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.99
(£9.99) £11.99
(£9.99)

£813 + shipping

Scrubs · 21 Feb 2011 at 13:43

Thanks guys. I've got a mixture of the two:-

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - £191.99

Asus ATI Radeon HD 6870 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £165.59

BenQ G2222HDL 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black
£114.98

Foxconn H67A-S Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard - £79.98

XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply
£68.99

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000528AS)£43.99

Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black
£38.80

OCZ Special OPS 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit £31.19

Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/775/1155/1156/1366)
20.99

Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
£11.99

Xigmatek Black 120mm Fan - 3 in total
£20.94

Sub Total : £657.86
Shipping : £13.75
VAT : £134.32
Total : £805.93

Anything I'm forgetting - besides the OS? Cheers

6644kp · 21 Feb 2011 at 13:45

monitor and OS do take quite bite out of your budget but £600 should be enough for the tower, you could go for a AMD Quad system then you could squeeze this gpu in there:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-248-AS

only 9 left though

Scrubs · 21 Feb 2011 at 19:34

Ah no I'm not going for an AMD. I've had rubbish experiences with them in the past. Every time I got an Intel, there wasn't much of an issue. Sounds like fanboy talk but I guess its like marmite, you love it or hate it!

Any comments about the spec I posted? Much appreciated for the help. I know I said I wasn't going to overclock, but If I buy a CPU Cooler now and an unlocked CPU, avoids hassle in the future!

But that i7 build posted by Redmint looks awfully strong

No idea what I should do...