Looking for good gaming rig.

darkcinder · 3 Feb 2007 at 23:42

Well, the deal is that my current pc is getting a bit out of date so I need to pritty much fully upgrade it. I will be using it from mostly gaming, listening to music and watching movies. I am not sure how much my buget is but if somone could give the the spec for a resonably priced pc that would run most new and up and commin games that would be great. Basicly what I need is:

CPU
Motherboard
RAM
GFX Card
HD
Sound Card(optional)
PSU.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Trigger · 3 Feb 2007 at 23:58

It would be easier if you give us a budget

Some peoples idea of 'reasonably priced' is different to others

beast · 4 Feb 2007 at 00:01

CPU - 6300, 6600 (120 or 205 squids)
Motherboard Gigabyte DS3 or the P5B deluxe (both around the 100 mark)
RAM- 2GB geil 6400 (great price just now, £135 this week only)
GFX Card - 8800GTS (250, gainward)
HD - Hitachi deskstar 320gb sata-II (59, this week only)
Sound Card(optional) audigy 2, x-fi oem, you can pay no more than £30
PSU. Corsair 620w - about 110

Total spend - 800 squids, and you have a gaming monster

OpenToSuggestions · 4 Feb 2007 at 00:28

I agree with beast.
deffo get that ram the price is rediculusly low!

darkcinder · 4 Feb 2007 at 01:48

Trigger said:
It would be easier if you give us a budget Some peoples idea of 'reasonably priced' is different to others

around 800 sounds good, but am not sure how much a good rig sets you back these days

Trigger · 4 Feb 2007 at 09:07

Gainward BLISS GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail - £270.24

NEC AD5170 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM - £19.96

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775) - £11.74

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM - £55.21

Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) - £103.39

Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM - £119.84

Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - £82.24

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) - £135.11

Total = £797.93

Should get a very nice overclock out of that as well

OpenToSuggestions · 4 Feb 2007 at 16:29

yeah that should OC quite well. consider another 2gb of ram though, i know i am at that price

Trigger · 4 Feb 2007 at 17:59

mglover070588 said:
yeah that should OC quite well. consider another 2gb of ram though, i know i am at that price

4GB?? Pointless.

[TR]SweetSpotOz · 4 Feb 2007 at 18:30

Trigger · 4 Feb 2007 at 18:32

A standard home computer just cannot utilise 4GB of RAM, end of

stickroad · 4 Feb 2007 at 18:37

Yes unless your doing like Professional work, Image Manipulation stuff like that, you dont really need 4gb of ram.

beast · 4 Feb 2007 at 19:07

What about if you are running vista? is 4gb pointless then?

stickroad · 4 Feb 2007 at 19:20

I wouldent say 4GB is pointless its Unnecessary more than anything.

Even running VISTA, its just not worth it IMO.

Trigger · 4 Feb 2007 at 19:30

beast said:
What about if you are running vista? is 4gb pointless then?

Yep, Vista doesn't use as much RAM as people seem to think- it runs quite happily on 512MB

melbourne720 · 5 Feb 2007 at 13:13

Trigger's spec is good. I wouldn't bother with 4GB TBH, wait until there is some 2 x 2GB kits to choose from.

I'd got for a tuniq or a ninja for cooling the CPU.