Gaming rig - some help please!

[Froggeh]

Hi everyone,

My brother's pc has finally died after years of use he is looking to build a new gaming rig. He has around £600 to spend (£650 tops) and doesn't need a sound card, PSU, or any peripherals. I built my own a year ago but I'm a bit out of touch with current CPUs/gfx cards etc so any help would be great.

Cheers!

 

[Migroo]

I'm a little out of touch myself...

The current must-have graphics card is the HIS X1950 256mb ATI card. OCUK are doing it for £109 + VAT at the moment (this week only).

Intel Core 2 Duos are the hot chips of the moment.

Hope this is useful.

 

[stinka]

Hi everyone,

My brother's pc has finally died after years of use he is looking to build a new gaming rig. He has around £600 to spend (£650 tops) and doesn't need a sound card, PSU, or any peripherals. I built my own a year ago but I'm a bit out of touch with current CPUs/gfx cards etc so any help would be great.

Cheers!

whats his psu out of interest

 

[Froggeh]

Its an akasa paxpower 460 watt

 

[stinka]

i suggest this:

HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ 3 TURBO SILENT Heatpipe 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (H195PRQT256DD-R) £109.99
(£129.24) £109.99
(£129.24) Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £105.99
(£124.54) £105.99
(£124.54) Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £84.99
(£99.86) £84.99
(£99.86) GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £147.99
(£173.89) £147.99
(£173.89) Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 200GB ST3200820AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM £43.99
(£51.69) £43.99
(£51.69) X-Blade Gaming Midi Tower Case - Silver (No PSU) £28.95
(£34.02) £28.95
(£34.02) Sub Total : £521.90 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.95 Vat : £93.07 Total : £624.92

 

[Froggeh]

I don't think he will really need 2GB of RAM, the games that plays are mostly WoW, CSS etc. Would substituting 1GB of RAM for a faster CPU be an option? Maybe I'm just used to the last gen of processors running at 3.5Ghz so 1.8 seems slow I take it they are good clockers?

 

[stinka]

e6300 will clock to 2.8 ghz 24/7, and i can strongly sugest 2gb of memory for gaming

edit C2D 1.8ghz will destroy the old 3.0ghz pentiums