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- 6 Jul 2012
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Hi,
I haven’t built a computer before but was going to try it as you can get more for your money. I have picked out the components I was looking at buying and was wondering if anyone had some input on the ones I have chosen. I have slightly gone over my budget of £1100 but think I can manage it, however if you see anything that could be replaced with a cheaper alternative I would appreciate it.
I’m planning to use my old computer case to build it in so I haven’t included that in my build. It’s not as fancy as some of the newer ones I have been looking at, but think it will do the job. I also didn’t include a sound card because I haven’t used one before and been happy with onboard sound. I play with headphones on 90% of the time as well so not sure if the sound card would improve performance or not, any advice would be helpful.
I tend to play a wide range of games but mainly getting a new computer to play Planetside 2 once released. I was hoping to play this one high graphics and not struggle with the viewing distance once in game.
Power Supply - OcUK Rage GT 700W PSU 80+ Dual Rail "80 Plus" Efficient Power Supply
CPU - Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail
Mother Board - MSI Z77A-GD80 w/Thunderbolt Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
RAM - Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B)
Graphics Card - Palit GeForce GTX 670 Jetstream 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
SSD - OCZ Agility 3 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-
Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003)
Wireless - Netgear WNA3100 Wireless-N 300Mbps USB Network Netgear WNA3100 Wireless-N 300Mbps USB Network Adapter [WNA3100]
Optical Drive - Asus 24x DVD±RW DRW-24B3ST SATA ReWriter - Black (Retail)
Cooler - Corsair Hydro H60 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA2011/1366/1155/1156/775/AM2/AM3) (CWCH60)
Any help or tips on building would be much appreciated.
Thank you.
Dave
I haven’t built a computer before but was going to try it as you can get more for your money. I have picked out the components I was looking at buying and was wondering if anyone had some input on the ones I have chosen. I have slightly gone over my budget of £1100 but think I can manage it, however if you see anything that could be replaced with a cheaper alternative I would appreciate it.
I’m planning to use my old computer case to build it in so I haven’t included that in my build. It’s not as fancy as some of the newer ones I have been looking at, but think it will do the job. I also didn’t include a sound card because I haven’t used one before and been happy with onboard sound. I play with headphones on 90% of the time as well so not sure if the sound card would improve performance or not, any advice would be helpful.
I tend to play a wide range of games but mainly getting a new computer to play Planetside 2 once released. I was hoping to play this one high graphics and not struggle with the viewing distance once in game.
Power Supply - OcUK Rage GT 700W PSU 80+ Dual Rail "80 Plus" Efficient Power Supply
CPU - Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail
Mother Board - MSI Z77A-GD80 w/Thunderbolt Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
RAM - Corsair Vengeance Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B)
Graphics Card - Palit GeForce GTX 670 Jetstream 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
SSD - OCZ Agility 3 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-
Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003)
Wireless - Netgear WNA3100 Wireless-N 300Mbps USB Network Netgear WNA3100 Wireless-N 300Mbps USB Network Adapter [WNA3100]
Optical Drive - Asus 24x DVD±RW DRW-24B3ST SATA ReWriter - Black (Retail)
Cooler - Corsair Hydro H60 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA2011/1366/1155/1156/775/AM2/AM3) (CWCH60)
Any help or tips on building would be much appreciated.
Thank you.
Dave
