Case and everything inside for £450-£550

JeffNevington

JeffNevington

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Im after a cheap PC for general home and work use. It will also be used to play games and some video editing work. I have edited before on a PhenomII X4 with 8gb of ram and it was definitely usable, I am happy with usable.

Could anyone reccomend some good all-round components at the same level. I have been looking at components and with my price range im worried about spending too much on one item and creating a bottle-neck.

The overclocked bundles look interesting, though I would be good to overclock myself. There are bundles with i5-2500, X4 840 and X6 1055T all within £150 of each other and I don't know where to start ruling some out.
 
came up with the following, could reduce the cost by swapping the gfx card for the 6850 version or a refurdb'd 460gtx (1 yr warrenty).

OcUK ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Deus Ex PC Game £136.99 (£114.16)

Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £89.99 (£74.99)

MSI H67MA-E35 Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard - (Sandybridge) **B3 REVISION** £61.99 (£51.66)

Lepa W-Series 600W '80 Plus' Power Supply £56.99 (£47.49)

BitFenix Shinobi Gaming Case - Black £49.99 (£41.66)

Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £47.99 (£39.99)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £29.99 (£24.99)

LG GH24NS70 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
(£14.99)

Sub Total : £409.93
Shipping : £12.50
VAT : £84.49
Total : £506.92
 
 
Thanks for the input guys, Think I will go for the i5 over the i3, When rendering footage sometimes its faster to have the 4 cores working on different frames symultaniously, the i3's two extra pseudo cores dont do it as well (or so the internet says).

I notice no one seems to suggest AMD anymore, you used to be able to get better performance for the same price in the mid range with AMD, I take it that is no longer the case?
 
Got to overclockers... Decided I also 'needed' windows, an SSD, a better gfx card, a new monitor and a fancy keyboard. All of a sudden I have spent far too much. ah well, got a big clean table, all my new stuff piled up and enough monster munch to keep me going till this thing boots. It feels like christmas. :D
 
I got what you suggested only I switched to this card:

OcUK GeForce GTX 560 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with FREE Batman: Arkham City PC game**

I got a 1tb drive and a 50gb SSD to try out, also got a bigger fan - just £20, dont remember which (so I can do a small overclock).

I got this monitor too:
Asus ML239H 23" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black [ML239H]

Anyway, plugged it all in and as usual I turned it on and nothing happened. Wasn't so bad though, first I realised that this case doesnt seem to have a speaker (and so there was no beep) and also I was getting nothing out of the DVI port, switched to the VGA and its okay. So i'm in the bios now and everything seems to be working but the DVI port. Either the gfx card is broke, the monitor is broke or the dvi cable is broke. I dont have other components at hand to check these things and figure out where the weak link is. Not sure what to do now, friend recons I should install windows and then install the drivers but im pretty sure if its not working now, it wont work with drivers.
 
which mobo did you get, cos the sb's have onboard graphics so you might be able to use that if it has dvi connector, to rule out the dvi cable and dvi connector on your monitor.


does the graphics card/monitor have another dvi port to test ?
 
Its working fine now, cant get it not to work. I plugged comp into the hdmi socket on parents tv and it came on, so I assumed the monitor was broke, then when i tried it on the monitor again it worked. I tried it about a dozen times before that, plugging and unplugging, it cant have been just me leaving the cable loose.

Must be magic
 
thats computers for ya, one minute you wanna smash em to pieces, next thing ya love em lol.

glad to hear its working :).
 
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