Build Me A PC (with Overclockers System Builder)

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Hi guys,

I'll be ordeing a custom build PC from Overclockers next week using their great system builder options. Ive been thinking a lot about what to go for and am hoping you lot can help.

I must say that since buying a Dell 24" 2 years ago Ive lost the love for PC gaming as the cost to upgrade to play the latest games at such resolutions is sickening, as Im sure all of you know yourselves. Im more than happy to game on Xbox 360 and PS3 nowadays anyway, as much as I hate to say it. My how family life changes you!

Therefore the criteria/priorities are as follows;

Case: Something really quiet, good build quality, no hinged doors, small-medium
CPU: E6600 or faster? Whats best, quad or core 2 duo?
RAM: 4GB (I realise 3GB only registers with XP, future proof though ;) )
STORAGE: 2 identical drives,500GB+ each, quiet and reliable, plus fast? lol
OPTICAL: (Already fancy the LG Bluray lightscribe one)
GRAPHICS: This is the interesting one, good enough to play Blurays but quiet?
SOUND: (Ive got one already I can install)

So basically I want a very quiet, multimedia PC that has some raw power behind it for;

* Watching / Ripping Blurays and DVD
* Image editing
* Audio production and mixing (I have my own soundcard I can use)

I cant see me getting back into PC gaming to be honest. I never thought I'd say that :(

I was considering going for one of the home theatre style cases like the black Antec, what do you guys think?

FINALLY: If any of the OC staff read this, is it possible to pick options that arent listed by default on the system builder? If so, how do I order, via phone?
 
How's this look?
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My spec'ing skills are more than a bit rusty, but it looks OK to me.

You could get away with nothing but this mobo's onboard graphics. It does hardware accelerated video decoding. The quad core processor will make video encoding almost twice as fast as an E6600.
 
Too expensive? You have been buying the wrong parts! Now with graphics cards that are really powerful, you should find pretty soon htat you can buy a card for £100 (well, you can now actually, the 4850) that is more than powerful enough to play at a resolution like that.

You haven't given us a budget, but I will take it as £700 or so as that is what Billy did above me. I would also recommend building yourself, it isn't that hard, and comes out cheaper. Otherwise, talk to OcUK and see if you can get this build:

Q6600
4GB of GeIL Black Dragon PC6400
4850 (for gaming, otherwise, integrated on the motherboard will do)
2x WD6400AAKS (faster larger hard drives, only costing £10 more)
Antec Fusion case
Asus P5E-VM (again, don't buy a graphics card if you don't need the power).
 
Thanks guys, sorry I forgot the budget. Im hoping for approx £700-800 so you werent far off.

Two very good specs there.

So when it comes to watching high resolution videos like Bluray, onboard graphics is enough? Is it more CPU / RAM that matters? Or is onboard graphics simply good enough nowadays?

You mention about 1920x1200 resolution, are the current cards now sufficient enough to cover games like Crysis? Last year when I looked you were needing like 4x cards in SLI config lol
 
We are currently upgrading all of our full systems on the website. :D

Hold the spec and you will be able to get more for your money, if any options are missing feel free to add me to MSN as I am open to requests.
 
Yewen said:
We are currently upgrading all of our full systems on the website. :D

Hold the spec and you will be able to get more for your money, if any options are missing feel free to add me to MSN as I am open to requests.
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Thats brilliant Yewen, thanks for the heads up. I'll be ordering at some point next week. cant wait :D

Will the updates be finsihed by then do you think? Looking forward to see what new options are available!
 
The onboard graphics on "media center"-type motherboards are specially designed to perform hardware acceleration of common video formats. They're not good for gaming, but they're great for media playback.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
The onboard graphics on "media center"-type motherboards are specially designed to perform hardware acceleration of common video formats. They're not good for gaming, but they're great for media playback.
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Spot on and why they are usually a option on these systems. :)

The systems will all be done by the end of tommorrow at the very latest.

The bulk are already made and we are just fine tuning the range now.
 
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