Help needed please

Madlarry

Madlarry

Madlarry

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Hi Well its finally died on me after months of trying this and that to keep it going.Well 10 years old (i think) it has served me well .
Spec:- Amd 3500
Radeon X800
dfi lanparty
500 gb HD
Hitachi cml174s
Got a budget of £1000 for a

CPU
Motherboard
Ram
Graphics card
hard drive
monitor approx 24" (My old monitor is ok but wrong colour and small):D
Black case
Sound card ( need to be able to route electric guitar thru it )
Power supply
cooler

Need the best for the money as I do a bit of every thing on it and need it to last another 10 years :D

Thanks in advance for your time in helping me

Madlarry
P.S Hope i've remembered everything
 
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-311-OE&groupid=43&catid=2385&subcat=1444

System Specification
- Case: BitFenix Merc Alpha - Black
- Power Supply: Corsair TX 650w PSU
- CPU: AMD Piledriver FX-4 4300 3.80GHz @ 4.20GHz Eight Core CPU
- Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard
- Cooler: Zero Infinity Phantom CPU Cooler
- RAM: Patriot Viper 3 "Red Venom" 8GB (2x4GB) 1600MHz C9 DDR3 Dual Channel Kit
- Hard Drive: 1B HDD
- Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 7850 1024MB Graphics Card
- Sound: Onboard 7.1 Audio
- Optical Drive: OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter - Black

windows 7 64 bit

£680.21 inc VAT

then a monitor,

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-057-BQ&groupid=17&catid=510&subcat=

£119.99 inc VAT

under a grand

might want to add a sound card but tbh will work with guitar as long as your programs support win 7 that is

ps, what else do you do on it? games? or something else which might need some better or different parts, or do you prefer intel?
 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Asus VN247H 24"Widescreen Super Narrow Bezel LED Monitor - Black £161.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 Twin Frozr III OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards w/ FARCRY3 & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) £83.99
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £69.98
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) £51.98
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £49.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £35.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £26.99
Total : £917.38 (includes shipping : £13.75).



I'm guessing your building it yourself and not buying prebuilt. Anyway, this is what I have come up with. Not too sure about Sound Cards, hence why I have left it out so perhaps someone else could help you with that.
 
LukieBoy007 said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Asus VN247H 24"Widescreen Super Narrow Bezel LED Monitor - Black £161.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 Twin Frozr III OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards w/ FARCRY3 & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £149.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) £83.99
1 x Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £69.98
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) £51.98
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £49.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £35.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £26.99
Total : £917.38 (includes shipping : £13.75).



I'm guessing your building it yourself and not buying prebuilt. Anyway, this is what I have come up with. Not too sure about Sound Cards, hence why I have left it out so perhaps someone else could help you with that.
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^ Gets my vote. If you're not planning to xfire, then you can get away with a smaller PSU (450-500W).
 
we have both spec'ed mid range gaming cards, if you don't game you could spend this on more ram, faster hdd or solid state ones or a kick ass sound card tbh with some good speakers
 
Similar to 007's build but with some small changes.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Asus VN247H 24"Widescreen Super Narrow Bezel LED Monitor - Black £161.99
1 x MSI HD 7850 Twin Frozr III OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Cards w/ FARCRY3 & Sleeping Dogs PC Games £149.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) £83.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £74.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £60
1 x PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III Series 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - White £56.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £49.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £35.99
1 x Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £15.98
Total : £886.39 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
Decision ,Decisions :D Would the on board sound be ok for routing my guitar thru my PC or should i get an seperate card .
Gonna do a bit of gaming so a middle of the road card should be ok and should be adequate for a couple years ,I hope :)
Thanks for your help guys

Madlarry
 
I'd see how you get on. You can squeeze in a 7950:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE FARCRY3, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs & 20% off MOH Warfighter PC Games £259.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Asus VN247H 24"Widescreen Super Narrow Bezel LED Monitor - Black £161.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) £83.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £74.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £60
1 x PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III Series 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - White £56.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £49.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £35.99
1 x Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £15.98
Total : £996.40 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
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