Building a pc

sageislam · 2 May 2011 at 15:09

Hi am building a new pc (this all new to me), after much research i have chosen to go for Intel i5 2500k as my cpu and now i need a motherboard and graphic card.

I mainly wanna run Photoshop CS5, Adobe After Effect, Adobe Illustrator and play games like Command and Conquer, Starcraft 2.

What motherboard, graphic card would you recommend?

Thanks in advance...

P.S I have bought CM Storm Enforcer case to fit all the components!

stulid · 2 May 2011 at 15:10

Budget? for these two items

sageislam · 2 May 2011 at 15:16

My total budget is for the whole system is around £600! minus the £165 for cpu and £65 for case! And to be honest I just need something thatll be good enough for what I do! So i dont really know my budget for them two?

olivier renault · 2 May 2011 at 15:17

I like the MSI's. GD53, GD65, GD45. I'd go with the GD53, or the gigabyte equivalent, or if you have overclocking in mind, the GD65, or again, the gugabyte.

for the graphics card, sub £120, the HD 5850. Sub £160, the HD 5870. Sub £230, the 480 GTX, sub £260 the GTX 570.

stulid · 2 May 2011 at 15:22

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £161.99
(£134.99) £161.99
(£134.99)
MSI P67A-C45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5830 Extreme 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK Exclusive** £76.79
(£63.99) £76.79
(£63.99)
OCZ StealthXStream 2 600W Power Supply £50.99
(£42.49) £50.99
(£42.49)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500413AS) £27.98
(£23.32) £27.98
(£23.32)
Sony Optiarc AD-7260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.59
(£12.99) £15.59
(£12.99)
Sub Total : £427.76
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £87.55
Total : £525.31

The price of the Enforcer case takes it too £600, but you said you already bought this.

So thats all the other parts needed excluding a operating system.

sageislam · 2 May 2011 at 16:10

Brilliant! Thanks for the help dude! One more thing can you help me out with please! I always wanted water cooling (even though i might not need it)! especially the ones have tubes lit up, if you know what i mean?

could you help me with all the components i need?

Thanks once again.

stulid · 2 May 2011 at 16:13

I cant im affraid, you could try the asking in this sub-forum for that - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=7

sageislam · 2 May 2011 at 16:19

Thanks Dude!

Reaper 392 · 2 May 2011 at 17:38

water cooling is going to be very expensive. i dont know a huge amount about watercooling, but even for your basic kit your looking at £100-£150 if you want to watercool the graphics card and processor

BriT · 2 May 2011 at 18:18

There are quite a few good water cooling kits like the EK H30 or the XSPC range..from £115 upwards to get started.