Could you Spec me a powerful Gaming computer Budget £2000

Hyburnate · 11 Sep 2011 at 20:57

Yeah there is no difference between the H80 and H100 in temps.

fowler002 · 11 Sep 2011 at 21:02

Hyburnate said:
Dis my go

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if looking at spending £200+ on a mb think the extreme7 gen3 would be better than the fatality.

1uke · 11 Sep 2011 at 21:11

Reaper 392 your not being patronising at all its your point of view I respect that. Suspect13 is a mate of mine who I pointed to this forum as it helped me tons when building my pc 2 years ago. And yet again ppl have been very helpful!!
With regards to a few of the things we disagreed on I was trying to help his system last as long as possible and run as cool as possible for someone that is a beginner in gaming pc's such as Suspect13, so a full water system I feel would be to dodgy for him so I assumed the H100 was the next best thing and help keep case temps down. But as you said the H80 sounds a good alternative also. Case wise I just thought the Haf X was more case for the same money and plenty of room for whatever he might want to add in the future. I had already suggested to him the sandybridge, asrock 3 genmb, ram etc So I'm glad you all suggested the same! I'm trying to convince him he will save a fortune buying a pc this way and have a lot more for his money. Even though I will probably have to make it for him :-(

Reaper 392 · 11 Sep 2011 at 21:39

i guess you havent seen a corsair 650D - its huge. it may say its a midi tower, but its only a few cm smaller than the HAF X

Suspect13 · 14 Sep 2011 at 10:54

Thanks for all your views. I have uploaded a new thread with what I think i might go for. Any views on that will be appreciated

gari · 24 Sep 2011 at 01:06

1uke said:
Reaper 392 your not being patronising at all its your point of view I respect that. Suspect13 is a mate of mine who I pointed to this forum as it helped me tons when building my pc 2 years ago. And yet again ppl have been very helpful!!
With regards to a few of the things we disagreed on I was trying to help his system last as long as possible and run as cool as possible for someone that is a beginner in gaming pc's such as Suspect13, so a full water system I feel would be to dodgy for him so I assumed the H100 was the next best thing and help keep case temps down. But as you said the H80 sounds a good alternative also. Case wise I just thought the Haf X was more case for the same money and plenty of room for whatever he might want to add in the future. I had already suggested to him the sandybridge, asrock 3 genmb, ram etc So I'm glad you all suggested the same! I'm trying to convince him he will save a fortune buying a pc this way and have a lot more for his money. Even though I will probably have to make it for him

what's with the :-(

making it is one of the best bits.

1uke · 24 Sep 2011 at 09:09

Yeah I loved making my pc and a few others but I haven't made one in over a year now so its abit daunting. And can be a lot of work depending how good the motherboards manual is etc.

edscdk · 24 Sep 2011 at 09:16

As others have said forget up to date I'm 4 years it will be scrap in 4.

Get a good spec now for £1200 and sell in 2 years to get another up to date machine

F4810 · 24 Sep 2011 at 10:25

edscdk said:
As others have said forget up to date I'm 4 years it will be scrap in 4.

Get a good spec now for £1200 and sell in 2 years to get another up to date machine

Not true. With a couple of minor updates it will be fine for more than 4 years. I paid just under £1000 for my Q6600 rig and its fine for all games now with only the 2 upgrades since I built it. A SSD and a new GPU which were about £400.