First Gaming Build ~£600

SvenUK

SvenUK

SvenUK

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Here she is:

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Would have these for memory but they are currently out of stock.

Also had my eye on this ASUS MoBo. Only reason is, I am looking for this to last me a while before I need to upgrade so was thinking perhaps splash on a more expensive MoBo so that it would be able to handle upgrades better. Thoughts?

This machine is going to be solely a gaming machine. I have a MBP for word processing and browsing etc. Just need this to run games, nothing too flashy. Mainly PC games, RTS etc (High end I'm looking to be able to run SC2 and Diablo3 at a decent frame rate and spec).

Any and all help is appreciated,
Cheers Sven.

EDIT: Forgot to put in. I have a monitor already, Asus VH242. 24" 1920x1080. OS and other peripherals are also sorted.
 
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I am by no means an expert but I think that unless you are able to unlock it the cpu will be bottlenecking your graphics. Bit of a risk to take.
 
If it's gaming only the athlon x4 will be great, but if you want to do some encoding etc best to get the phenom if you can afford
 
Well if you get the 555 then it would be madness to not try to unlock (2 extra cores for free!). But not all of them do unlock successfully.

I would go for the 955 if you can stretch your budget that far (unless you want to take the risk - as you can see in my sig the risk paid off for me). :D

The athlon would be the cheap and safe option. But will be harder to overclock.
 
More tempted by the Athlon X4 version to be honest, only going to be gaming on this machine. In which case this pre-assembled box seems to be pretty much the same as my system and is assembled for me.

Titan Krypt

Any thoughts on calling them before the build and requesting the Asus MOBO linked in my first post instead. For some 'future proofing'?
 
This is a build I can suggest to the OP:

Phenom II X4 955BE ~ £128

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

Asus M4A89GTD PRO ~ £108

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-392-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1782

Can do symmetrical Crossfire unlike the 880G based motherboards. There is also the Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H for around the same price with which you get USB 3.0 too. However this motherboard is poorer for overclocking and has inconsistent I/O performance.

OR

Asus M4A87TD Evo ~ £93

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-408-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1782

This motherboard cannot do symmetrical Crossfire.

4GB low latency 1600MHZ DDR3 ~ £90

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-180-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

HD5770 1GB~ £116

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-216-SP

OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply ~ £64

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-031-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1098

There is also a better 650W Antec PSU for around £13 more.

Made by Seasonic.

Samsung F3 500GB ~ £40

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

Pioneer DVR-S18L 22x DVD±RW SATA Labelflash ReWriter ~ £19

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-069-PO&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=

Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case ~ £27

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-002-XG

OcUK Value 300Mbps Wireless-N PCI Adapter ~ £15

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-002-DN&groupid=46&catid=1597&subcat=1622

The total comes to around £591 to £606 excluding delivery.
 
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