Help me spend the Goverments money!

 
EVGA GeForce GTX 560Ti "448 Edition" FTW 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (012-P3-2066-KR) £191.99
(£159.99) £191.99
(£159.99)
Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £173.99
(£144.99) £173.99
(£144.99)
MSI Z77A-G45 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £93.59
(£77.99) £93.59
(£77.99)
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £68.99
(£57.49) £68.99
(£57.49)
OCZ ZS Series 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
(£49.99) £59.99
(£49.99)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £41.99
(£34.99) £41.99
(£34.99)
Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £39.98
(£33.32) £39.98
(£33.32)
Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
(£21.66) £25.99
(£21.66)
Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£12.49) £14.99
(£12.49)
Sub Total : £592.91
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £121.08
Total : £726.49


EDIT: yeah you need desktop RAM buddy. The XMS3 I've specced above is a long time favourite of many PC builders.

Ahh sugar, and I've not put W7 in either.... umm swap the 560ti for this and get W7 OEM, comes to £736.45
 
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Hmmm I read somewhere though, I think, that the 560ti 448 edition was something like a bit of 'B grade' 580.

Anyone got any reviews of the 448 edition against a 7850?


EDIT: just had a little look over at anandtech forums and they're all a little divided on it too. Apparently the 448 edition it very similar to a 570, but there's some discrepancy over whether a 570 is better or not than a 7850. 7850 tends to have more vram apparently but but according to some as the 448 edition runs as close to a 570 as anything else and a 570 is supposedly better than a 7850, some say there's logic that the 448 is the card to go for between the two.

Meh, who knows unless they test both cards themselves in the same rig.
 
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Ok quick update. Changed the RAM to a smaller size and added a DVD drive as i forgot last time

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £173.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Retail (GFC-00025) £124.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £104.99
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 550Ti DirectCU 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £99.98
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD10EZRX) **SINGLE PLATTER** £69.98
1 x OCZ ZS Series 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi "Core" USB3.0 Gaming Windowed Case - White £49.98
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1333C9) £39.95
1 x Sony Optiarc AD-7280S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
Total : £757.34 (includes shipping : £11.25).

 
J-FRO said:
Hmmm I read somewhere though, I think, that the 560ti 448 edition was something like a bit of 'B grade' 580.

Anyone got any reviews of the 448 edition against a 7850?


EDIT: just had a little look over at anandtech forums and they're all a little divided on it too. Apparently the 448 edition it very similar to a 570, but there's some discrepancy over whether a 570 is better or not than a 7850. 7850 tends to have more vram apparently but but according to some as the 448 edition runs as close to a 570 as anything else and a 570 is supposedly better than a 7850, some say there's logic that the 448 is the card to go for between the two.

Meh, who knows unless they test both cards themselves in the same rig.
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Oh yeah at stock it's not close but the 7850 overclocks a long way to take it close to stock 7950 performance (which is on par with a 580).
 
I do want to be looking at overclocking in the future. and to be honest once i've paid up for this, i don't plan on spending anything on it for a while, so maybe a card that will overclock easily will be the better idea
 
Cheers for the link, it does look like the AMD 6850 would be better in most case, one test i did find interesting, mainly because i would like to play it in the future, is the FPS results with skyrim. With Ultra High settings the 550ti wins, but take it down to just high quality and the 5850 wins by about 20 FPS
 
The spec I did for you is better. The graphics card overclocks exceptionally well. The Gelid will allow a 2500k to get to 4.5ghz easily as well.

But remember a DVD drive :D

If you can recycle the one from your Dell machine that could save you £20.
 
right another quick update, just got myself a retail version of windows 7 for the price of a OEM disk from a well known auction site. so my budget has once again changed to £700 once again but this time without the need of windows
 
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire HD 7850 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £189.95
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £161.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68A-D3H-GEN3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £102.00
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £68.99
1 x OCZ Agility 3 60GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-60G) £55.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £45.98
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £44.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £41.99
Total : £725.38 (includes shipping : £11.25).




A touch over budget, but there is an SSD in there. You could always put this GC in from clearance to get back inside budget

YOUR BASKET
1 x **B Grade** VTX3D HD 7850 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Dirt3 PC Game £149.99

 
olivier renault said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire HD 7850 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £189.95
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £104.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £72.00
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £56.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Case - Black £53.99
1 x OCZ ZS Series 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £44.99
1 x GeIL Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £37.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £764.87 (includes shipping : £12.50).

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Nice spec. This is what I'd get.
 
right think i am now pretty much settled on what set up im going to get thanks to a new a great offer on GPU's at the moment

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7850 Twin Frozr III OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards £179.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £173.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD10EZRX) **SINGLE PLATTER** £69.98
1 x OCZ ZS Series 650W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi "Core" USB3.0 Gaming Windowed Case - White £49.98
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1333C9) £39.95
Total : £672.36 (includes shipping : £11.25).





Only thing im lost on now is coolers, i want to keep temps down as much as possible and i dont have a clue on what i need
 
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