Help with a £350 build

Idleman · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:22

Fire_fly said:
Over budget... so are yours if you include the shipping.

Since this is a hypothetical build is really that important if the motherboard may or may not have SATA cables included, and there is enough in the budget to cover them.

Hypothetical, it wont work without sata cables.

Fire_fly · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:23

honosuseri said:
He said shipping doesn't count. B grade is blatantly cheating too

So why are you saying that mine is over budget

It's not cheating, just being more efficient.

honosuseri · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:24

Fire_fly said:
So why are you saying that mine is over budget

It's not cheating, just being more efficient.

Because "hypothetically" your B grade mobo is missing all the sata cables and the I/O shield. So we have to source them elsewhere

Fire_fly · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:25

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte HD 7770 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ FARCRY3 & 20% MOH WarFighter PC Games £99.95
1 x Intel Pentium G840 2.80GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £55.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) £43.99
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £32.99
1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte H61M-USB3 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) Motherboard £32
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £25.99
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black ** OcUK Exclusive ** £24.98
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
1 x Akasa SATA-II 15cm Data Cable (AK-CB060) £1.99
Total : £354.47 (includes shipping : £10.50).

There then are you happy now

and remember to take the shipping cost off this time.

Oh wait your motherboard is out of stock.

honosuseri · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:27

Nope, I'm never happy. I only see one sata cable and no I/O shield for my "hypothetical dilemma". lol

Remember to sign in next time lol

Look let's get this straight. B grade is a used item returned that can't be sold at full price and has a shorter warranty with OCuk. It's a first come first serve deal, my mobo is out of stock but can be ordered and the parts come once all is in stock

I think us regulars have done pretty well to be fair

thenameDS · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:31

Just posted, this is what he wants so it can run a made up game. Lol

Minimum requirements
• OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
• Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz
• RAM: 2GB DDR3
• Graphic card: DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card,
ATI Radeon 3870 or higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher.
• Graphics card memory: 512 MB
• Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card
• Hard drive: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version
Recommended system requirements
• OS: Windows 7 64-bit
• Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
• RAM: 4GB DDR3
• Graphics card: DirectX 11 Nvidia or AMD ATI card, Nvidia GeForce GTX 640 or ATI Radeon 6950.
• Graphics card memory: 2 GB
• Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card
• Hard drive: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version

I pretty much think all our builds run this "game" comfortably

Fire_fly · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:36

All of the builds above will hit min spec. Recommended spec may be a bit more of a challenge for £350.

You sure that the 6950 is correct?

thenameDS · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:40

Definitely hitting the min spec and a little over. I just double checked and it's right 6950.. on a £350 budget must be crazy they alone cost £160+.

Fire_fly · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:42

This is a 6950 Vs a 640. I think there is something amiss with those requirements.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/510?vs=612

thenameDS · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:50

Yea it's night and day the comparison. He might of meant 6670 it comes a little close to it, but still ahead.

Fire_fly · 29 Oct 2012 at 19:55

Done a bit more tweaking.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte HD 7770 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ FARCRY3 & 20% MOH WarFighter PC Games £99.95
1 x Intel Pentium G870 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £67.99
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £43.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) £43.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £25.99
1 x OcUK Flamingo FM-12A Midi Tower Case - Black/Blue £21.98
1 x OcUK Swift 500W V2 Silent Power Supply £18.98
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
Total : £360.96 (includes shipping : £11.75).

As long as the build is only going to remain on paper this will do, BUT the PSU and case are very poor quality. As long as your lecture is not looking at it too closely, and doesn't know too much about building PCs it should be ok.

TheEliteReaper · 30 Oct 2012 at 02:47

sounds like his got the requirements off 'Can You Run It' lol.

i dont go uni, im 27 and little old lol, but doing something like this for class sounds like fun, yeah be even better if you can build it, but just as fun like you was doing the same for a car like.

Bacon? · 30 Oct 2012 at 07:49

Should have great fun with that PSU fly

It might explode when they power it on!

Mei · 30 Oct 2012 at 07:53

the ocuk swift with free face guard!

Indie · 30 Oct 2012 at 08:35

Case is a bit pants, and i'd refuse to use the included PSU.. but yeah! my attempts!

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £89.99
1 x AMD A6-5400K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Dual Core Processor (AD540KOKHJBOX) £53.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A55M-DS2 AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £47.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £42.98
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £32.99
1 x OcUK Imp MicroATX Tower Case (500w PSU) £29.99
1 x Adata XPG Gaming v1.0 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (AX3U1600GC2G9-2G) £25.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
Total : £347.89 (includes shipping : FREE).

Or an i3 for 90p over budget!

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £89.99
1 x Asus HD 6670 SILENT EDITION 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £65.99
1 x Thermaltake Element Q mini-ITX HTPC Case - 220W Power Supply £56.99
1 x Gigabyte H61N-D2V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £44.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £42.98
1 x Adata XPG Gaming v1.0 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (AX3U1600GC2G9-2G) £25.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
Total : £350.90 (includes shipping : FREE).

thenameDS · 31 Oct 2012 at 19:00

TheEliteReaper said:
sounds like his got the requirements off 'Can You Run It' lol.

i dont go uni, im 27 and little old lol, but doing something like this for class sounds like fun, yeah be even better if you can build it, but just as fun like you was doing the same for a car like.

Yea it's pretty good and would definitely be more fun if we had to build it, wouldn't be a problem in my class either there's 40 of us if we all chipped in a tenner it would be enough.

Bacon? said:
Should have great fun with that PSU fly It might explode when they power it on!

Haha luckily it won't be built but if my lecturer actually goes away and builds it I will lol