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Marsden

Marsden

Marsden

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Hi guys and girls.

I'm on here hoping that someone can give me some much needed advice as I'm really out of my depth with PC's these days. There soo many different components iv got a headache trying to look into them over the past week:confused:

Basically I'm after a new PC which will be used for designing on Signlab 8, illustrator, Photoshop etc and whilst I'm here I'm going to go down the PC gaming root and step away from the ps3. May as well kill 2 birds with one stone. Like I say I'm really out of my depth with PCs these Budget started at £500 but I keep adding to it :rolleyes: as you do. Ideally £800 but could push it a bit more if its really worth it.

Sorry for the long post, hope some of you geniuses pit there can help :D

Cheers,
Ben
 
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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £167.99
(£139.99) £167.99
(£139.99)
Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X WindForce 3X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X WindForce 3X OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with BattleField 4 PC Game Included £164.99
(£137.49) £164.99
(£137.49)
Asus Z87-K Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard Asus Z87-K Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £95.99
(£79.99) £95.99
(£79.99)
BeQuiet Pure Power L8 630W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in BeQuiet Pure Power L8 630W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Patriot Viper 3 "Venom Red" 8GB DDR3 PC3-17200C11 2133MHz Single Module (P38G211UR) Patriot Viper 3 "Venom Red" 8GB DDR3 PC3-17200C11 2133MHz Single Module (P38G211UR) £71.99
(£59.99) £71.99
(£59.99)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
(£56.66) £67.99
(£56.66)
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1003FZEX) HDD Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1003FZEX) HDD £67.99
(£56.66) £67.99
(£56.66)
Zalman Z12 Plus Midi Tower Windowed Case - Black Zalman Z12 Plus Midi Tower Windowed Case - Black £54.98
(£45.82) £54.98
(£45.82)
Akasa AK-CC4009EP01 Venom Pico Compact CPU Cooler Akasa AK-CC4009EP01 Venom Pico Compact CPU Cooler £16.99
(£14.16) £16.99
(£14.16)
Submit Sub Total : £657.42
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel (Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £133.83
Total : £803.00

How does this spec look....tablet doesn't copy and past my shopping basket too well unfortunatly

Edit...preferably pre built but I will have a go at building one my self. It would be my first build though
 
Thanks....Is this the sort of spec you would consider to be good? Is this classed as a 'capable' machine? Basically would it struggle with new games on decent settings?
 
Cheers guys...so basically if I can build it from scratch I'm going to end up with a better spec PC for slightly less money...win win, if I don't screw up the build :eek::cool:

Best get checking out YouTube for tutorials and see what I think about building one
 
this is the spec i tried posting before...hopefully this will work

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 760 OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £189.95
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £149.99
1 x Patriot Venom Red 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Quad Channel Memory Kit (PV316G160C9QKRD) £139.99
1 x CM Storm Scout II Advanced Gaming Case - Gun Metal £79.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
1 x Akasa Cobra Power 750W Modular Power Supply PSU £71.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £67.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £63.95
1 x Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 AMD 760G (Socket AM3+) DDR3 MicroATX Motherboard £52.99
Total : £924.67 (includes shipping : £23.20).



thoughts? or would you stick with the i5?
 
Well finally decided on a spec and ordered last night. It's coming built so there's no worry about me destroying anything.

I think it should be pretty good. Opinions please :-D

ZALMAN Z11 PLUS Black Case

Intel Core i5 4670K

ASUS Z87-K

8GB DDR3 1600Mhz - PATRIOT VIPER V3

SSD - 128GB

HARD DRIVE - 1TB

SONY 24X DVD+/-RW Dual Layer & Dual

AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB

WINDOWS 7 Premium

24'' ASUS VS247H-P HDMI, HD 1920x1080, 2MS - LED

Max Out All Case Fans For 12CM BLUE LED silent

Thought I would get my self a nice new monitor too whilst I was at it as mine is old and small

Thanks for the advice, really appreciate it
 
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Well she came yesterday.....5 days earlier than what i was told and all seems good. Managed to get everything set up which wasnt easy iv had to re arrange 3 bedrooms.

Should be all worth it :D

Computer is sooo quiet too which im really pleased about
 
Cheers guys I'm very pleased with the PC so far. Had a few issues getting the wireless connection sorted (no chance of hard wiring it) but changing the channel on my router has sorted it and all is good, very good in fact.

Overclocking....hmm well I have never done anything like that at all to a PC but there was some software with my motherboard, erm 'IA Suite 3' which says it overclocks it. I tested the CPU under a stress test and it was 4ghz so its had a very mild tune by the sounds of it. And it was only at 37deg

Ben
 
Yeah ill have to do some reading up into overclocking. Im so out of the loop though with computers now haha, it took me hours upon hours of research to basically come up with my PC spec before I ordered!

Iv looked at those powerline adapters briefly before and was wondering wether they are any good?

Better than WiFi card?
 
Well WiFi problems became annoying. One minute it would be fine, the next shockingly bad.

So I bought one of them powerline adapters (TP Link AP 200), only a cheap one really but it got good reviews so I thought why not. It looks pretty smart, for a plug :) Set it up effortlessly and its working like a dream. Should have just bought this from the start as it was cheaper than my WiFi card....grrr.
 
Yeah deffo worth the £17. Before with the WiFi card I was getting max 3mps (300mps WiFi card too) and this was when it was good and usually was way below 1mps, say around half that :eek:. Now with the powerline adapter its a constant 5mps at least. Not bad really to say im only on Sky broadband that's not exactly lightning fast. Seems fine on COD Ghosts online too so im happy.

As for taking it back im not sure as I specified the comp to be built up and the part does work fine on other routers, just seems to be problematic with my Sky one
 
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