Gaming PC £550
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £161.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £99.95
1 x MSI Z77A-G43 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £73.99
1 x OCZ ZT 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £63.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £59.99
1 x OCZ Agility 3 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-60G) £44.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £31.19
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps High-Gain Wireless-N USB Adapter (TL-WN822N) £17.99
1 x Logitech MK120 Desktop Set (920-002552) £15.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £632.03 (includes shipping : £12.50).
Thoughts anyone..? I would like to say you may want to spend a little more on the keyboard and mouse however... But in my opinion every new build needs to have an SSD for caching with the SSD prices as low as they are currently. It seems silly to have such a massive and semi-permanent bottleneck.
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £161.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £99.95
1 x MSI Z77A-G43 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £73.99
1 x OCZ ZT 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £63.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £59.99
1 x OCZ Agility 3 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-60G) £44.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £31.19
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps High-Gain Wireless-N USB Adapter (TL-WN822N) £17.99
1 x Logitech MK120 Desktop Set (920-002552) £15.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £632.03 (includes shipping : £12.50).
Thoughts anyone..? I would like to say you may want to spend a little more on the keyboard and mouse however... But in my opinion every new build needs to have an SSD for caching with the SSD prices as low as they are currently. It seems silly to have such a massive and semi-permanent bottleneck.
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £161.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £99.95
1 x MSI Z77A-G43 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £73.99
1 x OCZ ZT 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £63.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £59.99
1 x OCZ Agility 3 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-60G) £44.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £31.19
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps High-Gain Wireless-N USB Adapter (TL-WN822N) £17.99
1 x Logitech MK120 Desktop Set (920-002552) £15.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £632.03 (includes shipping : £12.50).
Thoughts anyone..? I would like to say you may want to spend a little more on the keyboard and mouse however... But in my opinion every new build needs to have an SSD for caching with the SSD prices as low as they are currently. It seems silly to have such a massive and semi-permanent bottleneck.
I think you've butchered my spec to work in a SSD that isn't great to be honest. The intel 330 SSD would get my vote but I feel 60GB isn't really big enough for the OS and games for a lot of users. THe CM silent pro 500W has no ETA so that was a pants suggestion, I see you adopted the OCZ ZT too
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £161.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £99.95
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £81.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £69.98
1 x OCZ ZT 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £63.98
1 x Intel 330 Series 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £53.99
1 x BitFenix Outlaw Gaming Case - Black £39.95
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £31.19
1 x Logitech G400 3600DPI Gaming Mouse (910-002279) £21.95
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps High-Gain Wireless-N USB Adapter (TL-WN822N) £17.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
1 x OcUK Black Gaming Keyboard (5105GU) £10.99
Total : £681.43 (includes shipping : £11.25).
I've used the 1TB barracuda instead, it's only a little more than the 500GB you have used, no brainer really lots of room for storage
I've added the 60GB intel SSD as the total price comes in at what he was happy to spend.....of course the OS needs to be added later though.
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I think you've butchered my spec to work in a SSD that isn't great to be honest. The intel 330 SSD would get my vote but I feel 60GB isn't really big enough for the OS and games for a lot of users. THe CM silent pro 500W has no ETA so that was a pants suggestion, I see you adopted the OCZ ZT too
YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showdown PC Games £161.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £99.95
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £81.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £69.98
1 x OCZ ZT 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £63.98
1 x BitFenix Outlaw Gaming Case - Black £39.95
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £31.19
1 x Logitech G400 3600DPI Gaming Mouse (910-002279) £21.95
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps High-Gain Wireless-N USB Adapter (TL-WN822N) £17.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
1 x OcUK Black Gaming Keyboard (5105GU) £10.99
Total : £627.44 (includes shipping : £11.25).
I've used the 1TB barracuda instead, it's only a little more than the 500GB you have used, no brainer really. He can drop in a SSD later as an upgrade along with the OS later perhaps. Then the 1TB HDD becomes ideal for storage
I suggested the SSD to run in smart response enhanced caching mode so the operating system and all of the most frequently used programs are copied to the SSD and change dynamically to suit the applications you are using most frequently. Just like I have my vertex 2. And theres nothing wrong with the Agility 3, the read/writes are just as good as far more expensive SSD's. Too many people get caught up in OCZ's 'high failure rate' which is nonsense. OCZ don't have a high failure rate on SSD's, the failure rate is still incredibly low, it just happens to be one of the highest when compared with other brands. So in the real world, all SSD's stand an almost equally small chance of failing.
I realised that about the Silent Pro afterwards, i believe it was in stock a couple of days ago. And yes, the ZT is a nice PSU, I would very much like one (of a higher wattage) myself, but my ModXstream is fine for the minute. Fair point with the SSD, but re-installing the operating system on another drive, or setting up SRT after you already installed the operating system and configured the drives can be a pain.
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