Computer for my brother

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Tying to get a good computer together for my brother. Offered to build for him, but he would perfer a pre-build system.

Budget around £600 (£700+ with a 22''monitor)

At the moment he would like to be able to upgrade to a 20/22 inch monitor in the future and the games he would be playing would be mostly RTS's and abit of fps/rpg action (the mech warrior mod for crysis) at 1680x1050, nothing massivly intesnse(dx11) or anything . And wanting to last for a long while.


Just not sure what pre-build oc system would suit this the best. Baring in mind that the GPU will probably be the only thing to stop his gaming in the future, the amd and intel tower systems both have good and bad points. DDR2/DDR3/Quad or Dual with HT/possibility for crossfire/quality of MB in reguards to future upgrades. Too many good options :confused:
 
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Tying to get a good computer together for my brother. Offered to build for him, but he would perfer a pre-build system.

Budget around £600 (£700+ with a 22''monitor)

At the moment he would like to be able to upgrade to a 20/22 inch monitor in the future and the games he would be playing would be mostly RTS's and abit of fps/rpg action (the mech warrior mod for crysis) at 1680x1050, nothing massivly intesnse(dx11) or anything . And wanting to last for a long while.


Just not sure what pre-build oc system would suit this the best. Baring in mind that the GPU will probably be the only thing to stop his gaming in the future, the amd and intel tower systems both have good and bad points. DDR2/DDR3/Quad or Dual with HT/possibility for crossfire/quality of MB in reguards to future upgrades. Too many good options :confused:
I assume he wants a pre-built system because he wants it to be made by professionals and have them liable?

Problem is you can get better value for money if each component is hand picked so what I'd do is just send overclockers a webnote and try and get them to make the best system you think possible for the price.

CHEAPER BUILD

Case - £89 Coolermaster HAF 922 Case with Window - Black
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-188-CM&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=

Processor - £89 Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz (Clarkdale) (Socket LGA1156)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-317-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=

Graphics Card - £126 Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5770 Vapor-X 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-222-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1515

Hard Drive - £41 Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-081-SA

Memory - £83 Patrtiot G Series Sector 5 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-028-PA&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1516

Motherboard - £85 Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 microATX Motherboard
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-233-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=

Optical Drive - £17 Sony Optiarc AD-5240S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-041-OT&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=

Power Supply - £60 OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent Power Supply [OCZ700SXS-UN]
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-023-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=


£590 total

It's designed with some upgradability having a slightly higher power supply than needed and the haf case which is well big enough for any card.
 
RTS games tend to run better on quad cores than dual cores.

This is what I would get:

Phenom II X4 955BE ~ £122

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-244-AM

Asus M4A785TD-V Evo ~ £73

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-355-AS

8+2 phase VRM with VRM cooling,all solid capacitors and has the HD4200 IGP.

4GB 1600MHZ DDR3 RAM ~ £83

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-026-PA&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

HD5770 1GB ~ £113

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-131-OK

OR

HD4870 1GB ~ £100

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-002-OE&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=939

Coolermaster Elite 334 ~ £28

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-184-CM

Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB ~ £41

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-081-SA

SATA optical drive ~ £17

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-038-OT&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=

OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply ~ £61

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-031-OC

Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit ~ £76

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SW-127-MS

The total comes to around £601 to £614 excluding postage.
 
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