Building a computer and need help!

lewishead

lewishead

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Hi guys. I'm very out of touch with the latest parts that are on offer these days but I am looking to upgrade my machine. I need to get the best value for money possible as the budget is tightish (not looking to go over £500).

I need a machine that will be able to capture game footage at a decent quality for youtube videos. So it would have to be able to run and record the latest titles in the best settings possible staying over at least 25 fps.

Could anyone possibly recommend me any good components for the key parts of the system that they have had experience with or know to be good. So good motherboard, ram, gfx card and cpu that would do the job.

thanks very much for any possible help!
 
 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £161.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £99.95
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £81.98
1 x OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G) £59.99
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £54.98
1 x OcUK Value 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit £26.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £515.87 (includes shipping : £10.00).




Its going to go over your budget since you need a case as well but you get better stuff for the money.

I believe fraps uses HDD's / SSD's for the recording so having a SSD over an HDD should make it faster, however the space is smaller. So you may have to compromise.
 
no point in an SSD its sequential writes that Fraps will use and as thats not amazingly fast anyway on that SSD it will probably have no gain over a HDD anyway. plus lower space i'd go HDD especialy for fraps
 
Hey guys! Thanks very much for the help. The recommendations are just what I'm looking for. On a sidenote, I will also be looking just to upgrade the Graphics Card on my old pc to just have it running as optimally as possible.

These are the basic specs of this pc.

Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail
MSI H61M-E33 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard **B3 REVISION**
Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus' Power Supply (CMPSU-430CXUKV2)
Kingston Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G)
OcUK GeForce 9800 GT 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card - OEM

I think the card might be bottlenecking this system somewhat but I'm unsure, games don't run that well and I feel like they should run better. Could anyone suggest a good affordable graphics card (£80 - £120) that would supplement this build?
 
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