Looking to build a gaming pc for someone else in my house, budget somewhere in the £500-700ish range.
I already have a 650w Corsair Modular PSU that isn't being used and will hopefully be good enough. For now they will be using either a 22" TV (not sure on res) or a 19" monitor at 1440x900. Also have a spare 1tb hard drive so those parts aren't needed.
Would be used mainly for WoW as thats the main game of the person its for and general internet/MS office, but others in the house would probably want it for GW2, Football Manager, BF3 or Planetside 2 use. They do not want to OC.
Basket:
BitFenix Shinobi Midi Tower German Edition Case - Black/Red/Gold - £49.99
Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail - £173.99
Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - £79.99
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9) - £39.95
Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games - £251.99
LG GH24NS95 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM - £15.98
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) - £79.99
Total: £703.88 inc shipping.
Came up with the above, but at the same time as I said the person this is supposedly for mainly plays WoW, the other games which would make more use of this spec's potential would be for secondary users so wondering if I'd be better off saving money and replacing say, the cpu and graphics card with something like:
Intel Core i3-3240 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail - £113.99
Sapphire HD 7850 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ FARCRY3, Nexuiz & Sleeping Dogs PC Games - £155.99
Total (with the rest of the i5 spec): £547.88
Would also need some form of wifi connection, guessing some for of network card so any recommendations, go ahead. Maybe a soundcard too?
How would these two specs perform?
Any suggestions? Anything silly I've missed?
Thanks.
I already have a 650w Corsair Modular PSU that isn't being used and will hopefully be good enough. For now they will be using either a 22" TV (not sure on res) or a 19" monitor at 1440x900. Also have a spare 1tb hard drive so those parts aren't needed.
Would be used mainly for WoW as thats the main game of the person its for and general internet/MS office, but others in the house would probably want it for GW2, Football Manager, BF3 or Planetside 2 use. They do not want to OC.
Basket:
BitFenix Shinobi Midi Tower German Edition Case - Black/Red/Gold - £49.99
Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail - £173.99
Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - £79.99
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9) - £39.95
Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games - £251.99
LG GH24NS95 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM - £15.98
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) - £79.99
Total: £703.88 inc shipping.
Came up with the above, but at the same time as I said the person this is supposedly for mainly plays WoW, the other games which would make more use of this spec's potential would be for secondary users so wondering if I'd be better off saving money and replacing say, the cpu and graphics card with something like:
Intel Core i3-3240 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail - £113.99
Sapphire HD 7850 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ FARCRY3, Nexuiz & Sleeping Dogs PC Games - £155.99
Total (with the rest of the i5 spec): £547.88
Would also need some form of wifi connection, guessing some for of network card so any recommendations, go ahead. Maybe a soundcard too?
How would these two specs perform?
Any suggestions? Anything silly I've missed?
Thanks.
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