N00b seeking advice

Stoner81 · 7 May 2011 at 21:12

To be honest m8 I have no idea he never said lol!

Stoner81.

Rusko187 · 8 May 2011 at 11:31

Well it was around the £700 mark after those bits were fitted, was that a good price?

stulid · 8 May 2011 at 11:34

Rusko187 said:
Well it was around the £700 mark after those bits were fitted, was that a good price?

thats pretty good, but having a PSU from a rubbish manufacturer is a big no no around here, never skimp on the PSU, its the heart of the PC and you dont want to be trusting a £700 setup with a £20 jobbie.

Rusko187 · 8 May 2011 at 11:39

What manufacturers do you suggest, alternatively what about that pc but getting in my own updated PSU? or is that just silly?

sk82jack · 8 May 2011 at 11:40

for £700 you could get something like this maybe?

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £161.99

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 Extreme 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK Exclusive** £107.99

MSI P67A-C45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £99.98

XFX 650W XXX Edition Modular Power Supply £76.99

Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40

Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache WD10EALX - OEM £48.98

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £39.98

Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £33.98

Corsair A50 High-Performance CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £24.98

Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98

Total : £692.77 (includes shipping : £11.25).

stulid · 8 May 2011 at 11:41

Rusko187 said:
What manufacturers do you suggest, alternatively what about that pc but getting in my own updated PSU? or is that just silly?

the only PSU makers worth looking at are,

Antec
bequiet
Coolermaster
Corsair
Enermax
OCZ
Seasonic
XFX

Buying the PC and fitting your own PSU is an option.

Rusko187 · 8 May 2011 at 11:47

Hmm just says X power, think I'll give it a miss than, came to £734 in total. Or is there the possibility of changing PSU with that deal? In a sense it's all built up with everything I need!

stulid · 8 May 2011 at 11:49

Rusko187 said:
Hmm just says X power, think I'll give it a miss than, came to £734 in total. Or is there the possibility of changing PSU with that deal? In a sense it's all built up with everything I need!

I dont know, and we are not allowed to discuss competitors.

either buy it with the right graphics card picked.

or buy the overclocked OCUK system I linked above.

Rusko187 · 8 May 2011 at 11:58

Ok think I will give it a miss on that so looks like my targets the OCUK setup, did look pretty awesome too! Thanks again for your help guys.