Building a new pc-need help!

r34ver

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This machine is finally dying after many years, so I've decided to build myself a new gaming rig. Well, I say gaming, but my budget will probably be around £700-£750, as well as stuff like disk drives and whatnot. I'm not going for a ridiculously powerful rig, just one that'll be able to handle the new games at good settings. This is my first time making a computer and I could really do with some help. Here's what I've pieced together so far, but I've been told it's not that good. Any advice would be great, cheers. :)

-Intel Core i5 660 3.33GHz Socket 1156 4MB L3 Cache Retail Box Processor
-Casecom 6788 Black Mid Tower Case with Full Black Interior/Exterior 120mm Blue LED Front Fan - No PSU
-Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATAII 7200RPM 16MB Cache - OEM Caviar Blue
-ASUS P7H55-M H55 Socket 1156 VGA HDMI Out 8 Channel Audio MATX Motherboard
-Kingston 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz HyperX Memory Kit CL9(9-9-9-27) 1.7 - 1.9V
-Corsair 650W TX Series PSU - 120mm Fan, 80+% Efficiency, Single +12V Rail
-XFX ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphic

(not a complete rig obviously, just the key parts)
 
Won't be needing an OS, and well, I have an old monitor I could use, but I really should get a new one. I wouldn't wanna spend anything more than my budget, but I could go up to £800 if a monitor was included I guess.
 
Forget the i5 660, get an i5 750/760 (the 760 is only £3 more at the moment as it's on offer). The extra two cores will give you a much better performance :)
 
How does this look?

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Wow..an that'd be able to handle all of the latest games? I notice the PSU is only 550, is that sufficient enough for the rig?
 
Mason- said:
This + spend an extra tenner and get antec 300?
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I was just about to suggest this. It's a really smart looking case, and for just £10 more, it's almost a no brainer. And yeah 550W should be fine :)

The GTX 460 will handle most games at good settings and give you a good frame rate, with the exception of Crysis and Metro 2033 etc, where it'll struggle. But at that budget it'd be hard to squeeze in a better card.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/geforce-gtx-460-gf104-fermi,review-31944.html
 
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Keep the coolermaster case (everyone has a 300) and spend the extra and get either the corsair or patriot ram as ocz are not that reliable anymore.
 
Never even considered getting something this powerful, thought it'd raise the budget considerably. Cheers for the help guys, I think I'll go with this. Just one question, will the 460 be alright with the 1920x1080 resolution on the more demanding games? As in, would crysis still be playable at high settings on that monitor? I ask because I really don't know much about monitor resolutions in relation to GPUs.
 
It's not the question of being original and having a case not many have (saying everyone has one is stupid as you have a Thermaltake case) it's about your case providing good airflow. The Antec 300 does that, it's a good case for it's price.
 
r34ver said:
Wow..an that'd be able to handle all of the latest games? I notice the PSU is only 550, is that sufficient enough for the rig?
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PSU will be fine :) Was trying to keep the budget under £800 hence the use of the coolermaster case in my spec,

I guess if you wanted to go a bit over budget the Antec 300 would be a better bet.

beefybarn said:
get either the corsair or patriot ram as ocz are not that reliable anymore.
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You got a source for that? I've never had an issue with OCZ tbh and didn't realise they were considered unreliable?
 
Basically the more Graphic card RAM you have the better it runs if the resolutions are higher, that's why the 1GB 460 was recommended and not the 768MB one, I tihnk it will be fine.

Crysis is always a bitch no matter how good you're graphics cards are. Some guy had Quad SLI GTX 480's on youtube on a UD9 with a 980X Overclocked to 4.4GHz and he still dropped below 60 fps sometimes...

 
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Only my own usage, last 2 sets i have used of ocz had to be rma, never ever had problems with corsair. There was also a thread a week or so ago about this and lots of people were saying recently that ocz ram was giving them problems.
 
Mason- said:
It's not the question of being original and having a case not many have (saying everyone has one is stupid as you have a Thermaltake case) it's about your case providing good airflow. The Antec 300 does that, it's a good case for it's price.
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So are you saying the 335 does not give good airflow because the 40 or 50 times i have used it on builds its been fine. Im not saying the 300 is a bad case or anything but lets try and have a bit of variety :D.
 
beefybarn said:
So are you saying the 335 does not give good airflow because the 40 or 50 times i have used it on builds its been fine. Im not saying the 300 is a bad case or anything but lets try and have a bit of variety :D.
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Please show me where exactly I said that :P.
 
beefybarn said:
Only my own usage, last 2 sets i have used of ocz had to be rma, never ever had problems with corsair. There was also a thread a week or so ago about this and lots of people were saying recently that ocz ram was giving them problems.
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I see, may have been a bad batch perhaps? I'd personally spend a bit more and get 1600MHz RAM anyway but I was merely trying to keep within budget :)

To the OP you could always swap out the RAM for this stuff, which could be beneficial in the future, especially if you were considering overclocking the cpu ;)
 
it's about your case providing good airflow. The Antec 300 does that, it's a good case for it's price. <!-- / message -->

I did'nt say you said that, i asked wether thats what you are implying.
 
Mason- said:
Basically the more Graphic card RAM you have the better it runs if the resolutions are higher, that's why the 1GB 460 was recommended and not the 768MB one, I tihnk it will be fine.

Crysis is always a bitch no matter how good you're graphics cards are. Some guy had Quad SLI GTX 480's on youtube on a UD9 with a 980X Overclocked to 4.4GHz and he still dropped below 60 fps sometimes...

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Crysis is just unholy..

Cheers for all the help guys, I've set up my basket, and will probably get round to ordering this in a week or so. Thanks again guys.
 
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