Building A Gaming Rig!

max76249

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Ok, I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty new to this so I wanted to ask some experts for some help. As you can probably tell from the title, I want to build myself a gaming rig, aswell as something that will work nicely for college. I've got a budget of about £700 but I could stretch a bit further if 100% necessary. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

P.S. Rig would need to include monitor, keyboard, mouse and case. Basically everything!
 
I might not need a monitor if the graphics card will run games on a 32" screen. Please, I really need some help.
 
This guy's doing pretty well on the same budget: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18010303

What resolution is the screen? I believe 32" HD TV's run the same resolution as 24" monitors. What frame rates are you hoping for, and do you want to run games at native resolution? I believe high frame rates in difficult games on a 24" screen is hard to do.

How new, and how willing to learn? You can go from complete novice to the proud owner of a highly overclocked watercooled wallet-hole fairly quickly if you spend time on it :)
 
I'm fairly new, not the biggest novice in the world, but I know very little detail. I am however very willing to learn, I love computers and the idea of building one is so exciting to me. I don't know about resolutions or frame rates, so whatever is good i'll be happy with. I'm not expecting max graphics (obviously), but decent settings would be appreicated.
 
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You will be just fine mate :)

If it's possible to fit an e8*** cpu in for 700 I think that's well worth doing, I'll go have a look

ahh, it's very difficult. Playing games on the 32" screen would help the cause immensely if you happen to have one on your desk

P5Q-E and e8500 (e8400 out of stock) come in at 300 quid dead, which is rather higher than the nasty gigabyte board and quite good e5200
B-grade P5Q-E currently available at 80, so would be a 45 quid saving.
 
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Nope. But still same budget. Wow. That's a massive relief. I've been doing some reading and I've noticed a lot of people recommend an Intel Core 2 Quad for using Vista (my operating system). Is this right? Any help is massively appreciated as I said. =)
 
Aye :) Happy days

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People recommending quad cores to use vista are silly people. 3ghz dual core and 3ghz quad core run vista precisely as well as each other

The e8500 is lovely. The e8400, e8500, and e8600 are all essentially the same chip, but with different multipliers. Higher multipliers are easier to overclock, as at higher fsb motherboards become limiting. The e8400 needs 4000/9 = 444fsb to reach 4ghz, the e8600 needs 4000/10 = 400 fsb for the same clock. However each of the three all tend to end up in the 3.9 to 4.3 ghz range, the e8500 is specified only because the e8400 is out of stock

Similarly a normal 320gb F1 would do you fine, but those are also out of stock. So you get to have a better one. Sunbeam cpu cooler I have never used, but it's been praised for overclocking nearly as well as the Thermalright TRUE, which is excellent. The P5Q range of boards is excellent, I'm using one with a e8400 now. A 40 quid PSU is normally too cheap to be wise, the special offer is fortunate there

Case is preference. I think that one looks nice.
 
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Ah I think I've been beaten. Yeah, my one would reach 4ghz or so. But I fear the tri core amd route to be the better one, even if it doesn't clock as high.
 
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