Gaming PC - £650

Mr Blonde

Mr Blonde

Mr Blonde

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I'll soon to be in a position to upgrade my old system below :

Intel Core 2 DUO E6400
Asrock 4CoreDual-VSTA (775)
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel DDR2
Nvidia Geforce 8800GT (512Mb)
2 x WD 74Gb WD Raptors
Enermax Liberty 620W ELT620AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
Akasa case (big) 2 x 120mm fans
22" Samsung Syncmaster 226BW widescreen (1680 x 1050 max)

I'll be keeping the case, optical drive, screen and hopefully the PSU if possible. A keyboard, mouse and OS are not needed. Here's what I was thinking of :

"Radon Apatosaurus" bundle :
- CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.50GHz Sandybridge CPU
- Motherboard: MSI P67A-GD53 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION **
- RAM: Kingston HyperX Blue 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel
- Cooler: Cooler Master Hiper 212 Plus
- Artic Silver 5 Thermal Compound

MSI ATI Radeon HD 6870 OC HAWK 1024MB Graphics Card
Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB SSD
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB HD

This comes to £655 inc VAT and is the limit on what I want to spend.

Questions - Will my existing PSU be ok? Would it be worth getting separate components, a different motherboard in light of the SSD or a 2Mb graphics card perhaps?

Thoughts and ideas welcome.
 
I'm surprised at the price for the components. I'm sure you could do much better than that. The PSU looks OK for medium power single card. 36A at 12V is a bit low for nowadays.
 
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My Humble offering:

KFA2 GeForce GTX 560Ti EX OC Edition 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £179.99
(£149.99) £179.99
(£149.99)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £161.99
(£134.99) £161.99
(£134.99)
MSI P67A-GD65 Intel P67 (socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** with FREE Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus CPU Cooler £139.99
(£116.66) £139.99
(£116.66)
Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ) £34.99
(£29.16) £34.99
(£29.16)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £30.98
(£25.82) £30.98
(£25.82)
Sub Total : £539.94
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £109.99
Total : £659.93

Your PSU will probably be ok but if you get a better graphics card than the 560 ti, or want to SLI then I would switch it out first.
 
you can save about £10 by buying the bundle separately

also this mobo is still msi and £15 cheaper plus has 4 usb 3.0 connections but only 2 sata 6gb

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-169-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1906

this agility 3 has a read/ write of 525/475 instead of the 415/95 of the crucial one and £2 cheaper

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-075-OC

To be honest personally I'd go for a 2gb 6950 which should work fine with your PSU.

I'd prob get some extra case fans thought for a bit air flow :)
 
Thought I could get better value, but it's pretty much what Pickman has. The bundle isn't bad, there's usually more price difference between bundles and hand picked components.
 
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The separate component route does look a little better. It's just that I don't know if I can be too bothered about doing the overclocking myself. But regardless of what I do I'll go with the Crucial SSD and single graphics card.

Many thanks guys.
 
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