Gaming System.

[Karism]

Hi, it's my first time posting here, i'm looking to get the parts to build a computer for gaming to replace my "aging" PC (E8400, 3gb ram, ati 5770 graphics, which i will be selling cheap to a relative that does not have a desktop.)

Just posting to see if anyone had any suggestion in regards to this to offer.

Budget will probably be around the £1500 mark for everything.

- Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6950 "Dual Fan Edition" 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE DIRT3 Game £199.99

- Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £172.99

- Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £169.98

- Corsair Graphite 600T Midi Tower Case - Limited Edition White £129.98

- Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM £119.99

- Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £82.99

- Logitech G510 Gaming Keyboard (920-002762) £74.99

- Corsair Gaming Audio Series HS1 USB Gaming Headset £53.99

- Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £47.99

- OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99

- Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £7.99

Prices not shown for these below as i will probably get them elsewhere:

- Corsair CMPSU-750HX Professional Series 750W Power Supply

- Logitech G500 Gaming Mouse (out of stock at overclockers)

- Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 CPU Cooler

- Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium with Service Pack 1, 64-bit OEM

 

[R088ieS86]

Get yourself one of these 2 HDDs and save a lot of ££.
Put that money towards a better cooler!

Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD204UI)
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003)

I know case is down to personal preference but, same price : Silverstone Raven 2 RV02B Full Tower Case - Black

 

[RJC]

The spec looks good, I agree with the hard drive, running several of the Samsungs in my server without issues

On the CPU cooler, I do like the AC7 but I feel it's got to expensive and the Gelid linked below would be a better cooler in my opinion.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-001-GD&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2010/01/20/gelid-tranquillo-cpu-cooler-review/4