Looking into acquiring a new rig

Paul_Canning · 23 Sep 2007 at 15:32

Howdy chaps (and chapess')

I'm currently looking into purchasing a new gaming rig, in light of Hellgate London coming out very soon!

My budget is set at £350 at the moment, but I am willing to go upto £400 if the specs are worth it.

So, can you kind forum folk spec me a nice rig within my price range, bearing in mind that i do not need any optical drives and sound card (onboard sound is good enough for me)

Let the spec'ing begin!

clv101 · 23 Sep 2007 at 15:34

Do you need mouse, keyboard, monitor?

Paul_Canning · 23 Sep 2007 at 15:37

Oooh, sorry, totally forgot about such things!

No, i will be using the keyboard, mouse, speakers, monitor etc i currently have.

I'm just looking for the main box i.e. motherboard, CPU, graphics, PSU etc

A case can also be spec'd , although its not a major issue

Hope that helps!

Emlyn_Dewar · 23 Sep 2007 at 15:58

Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM
(£39.94)

Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU
(£70.49)

EVGA nForce 650i Ultra (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (122-CK-NF66-T1)
(£58.74)

OcUK ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
(£72.84)

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)
(£46.99)

Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail £44.99
(£52.86)

Shipping : £9.95
Total : £353.55

That was a quick mess around... Just stock cooler with CPU, imagine it'd be fine for mild oc though.

Paul_Canning · 23 Sep 2007 at 16:02

Emlyn - Looking good, but i am just wondering, would it be worth paying the £10~ extra for the 512mb graphics card? I want Hellgate London to run smoother then a baby's bottom!

Minstadave · 23 Sep 2007 at 16:27

Paul_Canning said:
Emlyn - Looking good, but i am just wondering, would it be worth paying the £10~ extra for the 512mb graphics card? I want Hellgate London to run smoother then a baby's bottom!

Yup, the 512MBs were the Triplex cards with the better cooler (Zalman jobbie) and well worth it.

Paul_Canning · 23 Sep 2007 at 17:21

Minstadave said:
Yup, the 512MBs were the Triplex cards with the better cooler (Zalman jobbie) and well worth it.

Just to clarify, you are on about the OcUK cards?

I've noticed that most cases on OcUK are quite pricey, so could people kindly do a spec minus case?

Minstadave · 23 Sep 2007 at 17:25

Paul_Canning said:
Just to clarify, you are on about the OcUK cards?

I've noticed that most cases on OcUK are quite pricey, so could people kindly do a spec minus case?

Yup the OcUK 512MB card

meridimus · 23 Sep 2007 at 17:49

I don't think that the cases are expensive on OCUK, they just tend to stock better cases. Who wants to cut their fingers whilst building? We've all done it on cheap cases.

Also, the Sonata case is actually very cheap for what you get, a PSU and a near silent case that doesn't look half bad.

If you want a £10 case from ****** then you may need some gardening gloves and hope that your decent hardware doesn't die inside that plastic mess with probably the most fluctuating of all PSUs. My advice, stick to what OCuk has or ask in the forums