My new £5000 pc build

[rick fowler]

Personally I found the motherboard spacers question an interesting one myself. As I will be doing my first 'from scratch' build myself next week (closer to 2K ). Do those spacers come with the motherboard or case? Or would I need to buy a pack myself?

Also, can someone recommend a good pc toolkit for doing the build? Can't find one on here. Thanks.[/QUOTE]

yes the spacers do come with the mobo as stanard well they did with mine, tool kits never bothered with one really screwdriver will do it sometimes your gfx card like mine 4850 came with a scredriver and had a light as well.

 

[Microwave]

i only paid £107 for the HD720p camcorder!!!!!!! i will as soon as possible right now i am doing reivsion for my last 3 exams also i got like 30 OEM boxes the camcorder is in one of them i cant open everysignle box just wait till i get things sortedd out and anser my challenge that i posted up !

If you have 30 boxes man up and open at least one of them!

If you don't have time to open them why do you have time to talk so much crap on here!

 

[slylittlefox]

If I was a betting man, which I'm not, and I owned a house, which I don't, I would bet it on the fact that every facet of information offered by 'Rich_boi' is complete and utter tripe.

It's really wierd that people make this sort of **** up

 

[Mr.Nick]

How can you not understand what spacers are for, or even not know what they are.

 

[Stuarts]

How can you not understand what spacers are for, or even not know what they are.

Very easily, if you haven't actually ever installed a motherboard before.

In practice, building a PC is not rocket science. Its just like a meccano set. Take it nice and slow. Read the instructions, and put it together.

But some things are not obvious. For example, the tip about doing it on a table, rather then the floor. That's not obvious until someone happens to point it out.

Everything is 'obvious' when you know it. And not obvious when you don't.

 

[Mr.Nick]

Very easily, if you haven't actually ever installed a motherboard before.

Good point, but surely you would know what Motherboard spacers are for and what they prevent even after a weeks researching? (Refering to 'Rich_Boi' of course)

 

[Jonny Wright]

£5000 on a PC you have to be mad.

Spend £1500 (wisely) on it and you'll be able to keep it for 3 or 4 years and buy a car when your 17 with the left over £££££.

 

[Stuarts]

LOL Yeah. Maybe after a week of searching for 'what the hell is a motherboard spacer?" on google you would figure it out

I am going to be surrounded by dozens of boxes myself in a few days, so I imagine that this forum and youtube 'heres my pc build' videos will be getting some airplay.

 

[Gammawolf]

I AM GOING TO MAKE THIS VERY CLEAR, TO ALL OF YOU WHO THINK THIS IS "fake". just because you do not have the money to get a 4k pc then don't hate on me please, i worked 2 years don't you lot understand 2 years and my uncle gave it to me as a gift my uncle knew he could get it for more but i needed a cpu so he just gave me his after i get my Intel core i7 975 i will sell my cpu on ebay to get my money back and if any left over i will give it to my uncle! also i will post the vid on youtube because i bought a HD 720p Toshiba camilio camcorder just for the purpose of unboxing's, the build itself and also if i get stuck i might post a vid on youtube to ask you guys to help me,

also the reason i bought 3 months befor i will build it because i had the moeny to buy it so i did i know it is kinda stupid but please do not hate on if i wasted the money i know i did wrong i amm sory guys i know i could got it cheaper with same performance please i do not want to hear it i just cant give back the stuff can i ?

by the way i am a c grade student in my school my english is fine i tend to make a lot of typing errors soory!

and also what are spacers????? why is it so important to keep case metal separate from mobo and don't those spacers go into the screw holes so how am i going to screw my mobo in?? and about the solid state drives they are 2.5 inch can my case support that the reason i went with velociraptor is because i know they would fit in to my case, and what is the advantages of having a solid state drive and are they better than my velociraptor?

OMFG??@!????

 

[Mr.Nick]

I am going to be surrounded by dozens of boxes myself in a few days, so I imagine that this forum and youtube 'heres my pc build' videos will be getting some airplay.

I have some boxes sat beside me right now. =]

Just waiting to order my Gpu then when that arrives I can start my build. Whoopeeee!

 

[mollymoo]

why do you need speakers? for sound games, videos are pretty crap without them.

even getting cheap keyboard mouse your sill looking 40-50.

No you don't need top of teh line components. But at 1k you wont even get mid range.

coolers, cases, peripherals, psus all cost a fair bit and people forget just how expensive it is to build a system.

For a grand you would get midrange and you dont need speakers for games you just need headphones also who mentioned videos .... its a machine for gaming ......... you can actually get a cheap keyboard and mouse for under a tenner if you want

 

[chuck990]

how do you plan to build a pc when you cant even type coherently??

 

[valdai]

For a grand you would get midrange and you dont need speakers for games you just need headphones also who mentioned videos .... its a machine for gaming ......... you can actually get a cheap keyboard and mouse for under a tenner if you want

Agreed, that was some crazy ass budgeting, £100 for speakers is a little excessive for "mid-range". I did a full system mid-range build a few months ago for about £900

 

[mollymoo]

Agreed, that was some crazy ass budgeting, £100 for speakers is a little excessive for "mid-range". I did a full system mid-range build a few months ago for about £900

Indeed 'tis possible and it will run games perfectly well ........ my pooter is old now yet it will still play crysis warhead at gamer level albeit if its in a good mood

 

[Scania]

For your needs maybe for a gamer I cant see it. keyboard and mouse £70
24" min monitor £200, speakers £100+ for anything half reasonable.

It's not that 1k is not a lot of money. it's that 1k does not get you a whole system.

I have to disagree there mate.

£1k would build me a great games system.

24in Monitor? Nice but hardly essential for a games rig - I recently got myself a 17in TFT from a 2nd hand shop for under £30! and it works great!

Mice? - You may laugh but I've started to use Tesco / Asda cheapo optical mice, they don't stop me enjoying my games (BF2 etc) and if / when I lose my rag and slam the thing on my desk & smash it its no big deal!

Keyboard? - I have a Microsoft "Internet keyboard" its no longer on my main machine and the again cheap & cheerful one I'm currently using works just fine (I'm using it as I type this)

Sure, if I had money to burn I'd happily spend more on peripherals such as mice etc The point being I don't and what I have does the job just fine.

£1k should, with a bit of shopping about, be more than enough for a decent useable games rig.

Infact, I doubt I've spent more than £1k total on all 3 of my current games rigs put together!, all of which run Battlefield 2 just fine (my game of choice)

£5k just makes me laugh - To my mind that buys a kick ass Games PC, used BMW 328i and a damn good holiday with money left over for beer!

Wheres my flameproof coat?

Current #1 rig as an example.....

B-Grade IP35 Pro - Under £40
e2180 CPU (@ 3.0ghz) - under £45
Oc/UK Shop special 8800GTS 320 Approx £38
4GB DDR2 Approx £30
Case found on Car boot - £5
TFT Monitor found in chavvy "Cash converters" style store - £25
Keyboard - £1 - Car boot
Mouse - Under £3!

Literally, no expense spared!

Finally got rid of the CRT monitor!

And my cat likes my mouse!

 

[soundb0y]

these threads are great!

 

[mollymoo]

If I had £5000 to spend on a pc i'd spend a grand and then take my family on o top holiday

I have to disagree there mate.

£1k would build me a great games system.

24in Monitor? Nice but hardly essential for a games rig - I recently got myself a 17in TFT from a 2nd hand shop for under £30! and it works great!

Mice? - You may laugh but I've started to use Tesco / Asda cheapo optical mice, they don't stop me enjoying my games (BF2 etc) and if / when I lose my rag and slam the thing on my desk & smash it its no big deal!

Keyboard? - I have a Microsoft "Internet keyboard" its no longer on my main machine and the again cheap & cheerful one I'm currently using works just fine (I'm using it as I type this)

Sure, if I had money to burn I'd happily spend more on peripherals such as mice etc The point being I don't and what I have does the job just fine.

£1k should, with a bit of shopping about, be more than enough for a decent useable games rig.

Infact, I doubt I've spent more than £1k total on all 3 of my current games rigs put together!, all of which run Battlefield 2 just fine (my game of choice)

£5k just makes me laugh - To my mind that buys a kick ass Games PC, used BMW 328i and a damn good holiday with money left over for beer!

Wheres my flameproof coat?

It's a no brainer really ........ A five grand pc wouldn't give me five grands worth of pleasure ............. the smile on my daughters face when she sees disneyland/world whatever is priceless and well worth the other 4 grand

 

[RizlaKing]

Stuarts i hear what your saying and normally i would agree but on this thread no chance in hell. Sorry i am also doubting all of this because i cannot believe someone works for two years saves all that money up and has absolutely no idea of the smallest basics that are involved. If it were me it might have taken me two years to save the cash but i would have spent that time researching every single little thing i would have watched so many build vids that i could do it in my sleep.

Also have you ever known anyone with that amount of cash to spend that hasn't gone into great detail on what they want, how to do it what is best for the money and that spec list is horrendous for the amount of money there is no sign of any coherent research or thought. So again that makes it hard to take this seriously and if something is hard to take seriously it won't be by the vast majority and thats whats happening here.

No i am not offering advice on this thread because i honestly don't see there being any benefit at all and i believe if this guy has that spec he is not the right person to put it together. Also as for the "you don't have the money so your jealous " part of his comments along with his name thats a completely wrong attitude to have if you really expect people to offer help.

I have read this thread and there are so many holes in the whole thing it is near impossible to take it seriously in anyway shape or form or believe that someone can spend all that time chasing a dream and then make such a complete total and utter mess of it.

So saying all that if this does turn out to be real and i hope for the sake of the op it isn't real, i would say it makes damn good sense for him to pay someone that knows what they are doing to put it together for him, otherwise i see a lot of crying in the future when he makes a really basic **** up thats the only advice i see is relevent here.

 

[Glaucus]

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Brilliant but you can't call it a gamers system capable of playing games at high levels.

I'm not against cheap computers. I buy and use 2nd hand stuff myself.

but a couple of K on a computer is not a total waste and you can not play games comfortably on a 17" monitor.

 

[chuck990]

Brilliant but you can't call it a gamers system capable of playing games at high levels.

I'm not against cheap computers. I buy and use 2nd hand stuff myself.

but a couple of K on a computer is not a total waste and you can not play games comfortably on a 17" monitor.

clearly yoour choice to buy second hand means you dont know about "gaming" pcs, i have a 32" Full 1080p HDTV and an HD 4850, my entire setup cost only just over a grand and i can play crysis warhead on full settings at a constant 30 fps