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Personally i reckon AM3 may be your best route here, or possibly i5 but i think i7 might leave you a little under equipped on the GPU front due to the extra costs.

Seeing as most games are heavily dependant on graphics cards not CPUs (yes there are exceptions) you would probably want to put more money in this area, especially as you're not doing any CPU intensive tasks anyway.

I'm sure someone else can spec something up for you using AM3 (where's 95thrifles when you need him?)

Oh and Reflux's i5 spec is a pretty good i5 option

edit: i would spec you an am3 rig myself but i'm at work so can't (i'm not being lazy honest)
 
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Im happy with anything to be honest Skippy, and thanks for your replys so far by the way.

I just want a computer i can come onto forums like this with full of computer intelligent folk and say "this is what i have" and for them to reply "pretty decent rig u got there" lol

and to be able to run up to date games smoothly such as Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2. But also be prepared for upcoming games which will require a little bit more power.

I know i only have £800 but i dont get a new computer every year so this will have to do me at least 2 years. so need enough ram,great graphics card etc etc.. to cope with it all.

I wont be doing too many multiple tasks at the same time, maybe have facebook open,media player,msn, couple of other websites. Or playing a game with youtube or media player playing music whilst im playing etc....

My train of thought was. "if i5's are good enough and there roughly £170, why not get an i7 at £222, its a higher number so surely its a better performer for the extra £50"
 
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But wouldnt and AM3 Solution be cheaper and as its a mainstream Socket be more future proof? then a I5 that was brought out for a cheaper option to the i7? I mean I dont know much about intel so I could also be talking a load of **** :D
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If you plan on keeping the core of the system as it is i.e. not replacing cpu, etc untill a whole new pc refresh in say 2-3 years i5 is the better option if its overclocked. An i5 at say 4GHz will be clock for clock superior to an equivalently clocked phenom II cpu. Of course if you like upgrading to newer tech every so often then yes i'd go AM3.
 
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Im happy with anything to be honest Skippy, and thanks for your replys so far by the way.

I just want a computer i can come onto forums like this with full of computer intelligent folk and say "this is what i have" and for them to reply "pretty decent rig u got there" lol

and to be able to run up to date games smoothly such as Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2. But also be prepared for upcoming games which will require a little bit more power.

I know i only have £800 but i dont get a new computer every year so this will have to do me at least 2 years. so need enough ram,great graphics card etc etc.. to cope with it all.

I wont be doing too many multiple tasks at the same time, maybe have facebook open,media player,msn, couple of other websites. Or playing a game with youtube or media player playing music whilst im playing etc....

My train of thought was. "if i5's are good enough and there roughly £170, why not get an i7 at £222, its a higher number so surely its a better performer for the extra £50"
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Prefer for a wall of text :P.

1. Your using this machine for gaming, and because of this you are wasting your money buying an I7. There is only one way in which the I7 truelly outperforms the I5 and that is not in gaming. The I7 has HT technology which basically allows itself to spilt from 4 cores into 8 which makes it a faster processer of certain programs such as photoshop, general designing etc. The HT does not help , and in many cases, hinders the I7's performance in games. On all of the benchmarks i have seen comparing the i5 and i7 there is allmost no difference between the 2 at all. Even in some cases the i5 performs better and vice versa.
With your 800 you want to be looking for a decent DDR3 I5 system. Instead of looking for an I7 you could maybe spend more money buying an OC I5 bundle if your not to confident in that area. Not to mention the money you save could be put towards a better Graphics card, which would make more of a difference to your gaming.
Ill link you a spec which is allmost perfect, all you have to do is add the OS which is another £70. Its the £700 Inntel option on here...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18060182

Even if you toss all the advice given into the wind there is also a £700 AMD option which would allow for the AM3 route.
 
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This being only a quick mockup of what AMD system I would get for that cash, some of the parts can be exchanged for cheaper alternatives like the Graphics etc, and the cooler but I will leave this for the others to rip apart :D you could cut £200 + off for other equally good bits like

Cheaper cooler ££
Smaller HDD 500GB F3
cheaper graphics card and so on. :D

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Hi, this is a question for Reflux :)

I'v spent the last couple of hours educating myself on your choice of system from page 1.

I'm very happy with it :D i now know the i5 is tones better than the q9550, and the ati 5770 is a good card. Im going to get your system part for part.

What cd drive would i need to add to it? because i have no clue. I basically want one which will play dvd's and blue ray, also which lets me write my own cd's (music for the car lol)
 
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Hi, this is a question for Reflux :)

I'v spent the last couple of hours educating myself on your choice of system from page 1.

I'm very happy with it :D i now know the i5 is tones better than the q9550, and the ati 5770 is a good card. Im going to get your system part for part.

What cd drive would i need to add to it? because i have no clue. I basically want one which will play dvd's and blue ray, also which lets me write my own cd's (music for the car lol)
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Finally ! :) lol glad you made the right choice bud, you will love the I5 :) in time you could even think about cross fire and get 2 of the 5770's :)
 
hi guys, well unfortunatly i need everything...

Computer, Monitor, keyboard/mouse, operating system.

But i would rather spend my 800 budget on a pretty decent rig and get a monitor a month later. Better than having to lower my computer spec's just to get a monitor lol

I'v been told Windows 7 Premium is the best bet? not sure if i need 32 or 64bit though
 
you'll want 64 bit and yes get home premium you wont need the features in the other ones.

So with you 800 you will also need the mouse and keyboard aswell or can that wait until next month too? Reason being the operating system itself is going to add a fair chunk to your bill by itself.

Knocked you up a slightly modified version of reflux's spec to see what you reckon.

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Includes the blue ray player an OS and a case. Should be everything you need, seeing as reflux is your trusted advisor on this :p hopefully he wont criticise my spec too much :p

Oh and i haven't included that cooler as i figured you wouldn't be overclocking anyways plus it keeps the costs down.

EDIT: in response to your question that guy aint getting a hard disk, blue ray or OS that would be the difference ;)
 
lol ok ok ill give u that one regarding the other guy :)

And m8 that looks tops. iv taken a screenshot of it just incase this page dissapears so when i get payed i can copy the things into my basket lol

And yeah the perephials can wait until the month after, dont need the pc up and running by a set date. Its basically me future proofing myself for the new generation of gaming
 
I seem to have missed out on some fun :D

skippy's spec looks spot on to me. He's made it maximise value; I would have done pretty much the same to fit the bluray drive, case and OS in. It will make a great PC.
 
just 1 final question, a little un-related.

If i just bought a computer already built with similar specs, but it came with Nvidia 9600 GT x 2 gfx cards, are they easy to change?

Because the 9600 gt looks a little poor, 64 stream processors, 512mb memory. Thats not good i know, but having 2 of them maybe its better?

but again, if there bad even with 2 of them, can i just take both out and stick an ati 5770 in it?
 
Unless they give you them for free then theres no point in buying them now.
Easy to change but you can get so much more like what is suggested above.:)
 
Seriously, the games I play anyway - I love my card, it's an overclocked XFX 9600GT.

Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising
Borderlands
CoDMW2
CoDWaW
Company of Heroes
Farcry 2
Fallout 3
Fifa 10
Pes 2010

Doesn't run Armed Assault 2 very well though and so I may get an ATI 5770 soon. :)
 
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