check my spec or spec me better £650 max

Kellogz · 6 Feb 2011 at 01:50

a year ago built an amazing gaming pc that i loved but 2 months ago some fugs had broken into my place and stolen my pc. Luckly insurance has come through and i now have £650 to spend on my pc once again. I already have my case settled as im getting the new dragon lord case which OC doesnt seem to have available, so im just interested in everything but the case for £650

I built my old pc and rearlised even with the case its a hell of a lot cheaper than what i paid a year ago. Ive been playing with a new spec and also using help from my old spec so heres the old spec:

And heres the new spec.

What do you you guys think? or do you think i could use the money better with different components?

thankyou in advance for any help given

Kellogz

95thrifles · 6 Feb 2011 at 07:17

Assuming this is for gaming, in which case you dont want the x6, either stick to the original 955 and save a bit of money, or for a little more you can get new i5 SB

Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Far Cry 2 £199.98
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £168.98
MSI P67A-C45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £104.99
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply £68.99
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £41.99
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP34GB1600C9DC) £39.98
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1155/ 1156 / 1366) £19.39
Samsung SH-S223L/RSMN 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Beige/Black/Silver) - Retail £15.98
Total : £660.29

pingu666 · 6 Feb 2011 at 08:55

+1 for the 1tb for a couple of quid extra, no brainer

chrisarm · 6 Feb 2011 at 09:22

I'm guessin you are not buying every component as some of the items you are buying are the same as you already have. You only bought your rig a year ago and your already talking about upgrading, but the processor your upgrading to is going to be outdated by amd themselves soon with the bulldozer chip (I'm guessing you want to stop with amd rather than go for an intel chip). I'd say hold on a little while longer for the chip and instead of going for the 480 gpu look at the reviews of the 570, the 560 or the 6950 which all look completely beast compared.

95thrifles · 6 Feb 2011 at 09:31

His PC got stolen, he needs to buy a new one, the first spec was his old PC, the second what he's thinking of buying

chrisarm · 6 Feb 2011 at 09:34

Sorry my fault, didn't read the post properly

Destroyer^ · 6 Feb 2011 at 11:23

Yeah for like 10 quid cheaper you can get Intel's latest CPU (i5 sandybridge)

Kellogz · 7 Feb 2011 at 09:10

95thrifles said:
Assuming this is for gaming, in which case you dont want the x6, either stick to the original 955 and save a bit of money, or for a little more you can get new i5 SB

Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Far Cry 2 £199.98
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £168.98
MSI P67A-C45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £104.99
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply £68.99
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £41.99
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP34GB1600C9DC) £39.98
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1155/ 1156 / 1366) £19.39
Samsung SH-S223L/RSMN 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Beige/Black/Silver) - Retail £15.98
Total : £660.29

orderd thanks riflers, couldnt get the 480 as on finance and cant do prom products so orderd a 5870.