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Need help spending £2000 Gaming Rig

ty77

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Hi all

I have £2000 to spend just on the rig looking to build a top gaming rig that will destroy all games and give top FPS. say for for a least next 2 years.
will also use for a few other things like photos and some office stuff. But 95% will be for games.

Also would like something that is fast as hate waiting around :p

Any help or advice would be great as all new to this, As normally would buy from PC world.

Thanks
 
Hi there a few questions for you.

• Can you build yourself? or would something that works out of the box be better for you?
• If its just the base unit? do you need an Operating system too.
 
Gainward GeForce GTX 580 "GOOD Edition" 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £369.98
(£308.32) £369.98
(£308.32)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £157.99
(£131.66) £157.99
(£131.66)
Gigabyte Z68X-UD3P Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £148.98
(£124.15) £148.98
(£124.15)
Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi-Tower - Black (with Fan Controller Repair Kit) £134.99
(£112.49) £134.99
(£112.49)
OCZ Vertex 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTX120G) £124.99
(£104.16) £124.99
(£104.16)
Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 850W V2 High Performance Power Supply (CMPSU-850TXV2UK) £106.99
(£89.16) £106.99
(£89.16)
G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL ) £69.59
(£57.99) £69.59
(£57.99)
Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3) £38.99
(£32.49) £38.99
(£32.49)
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ) £33.98
(£28.32) £33.98
(£28.32)
Sub Total : £988.74
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £200.50
Total : £1,202.99

Way under budget but should be more than fine for a couple of years. You could invest the rest into a new monitor or something...

Not used to doing a build with a budget of 2k!!
 
stulid said:
Hi there a few questions for you.

• Can you build yourself? or would something that works out of the box be better for you?
• If its just the base unit? do you need an Operating system too.
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I would give it a go. as would't it work out cheaper so i could spend more on it?
yes i would want W7 i have office already
 
Well I cant spend £2000, as its just not needed to spend that much.


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• GTX570 in SLI
• 2TB Hard drive for storage
• Modular SPU for easier cable management.
• Fast SSD to store and run Windows and you favorite games/apps.
• Motherboard current is on a deal with a aftermarket heatsink too.

Included a really high quality case were the motherboard is actually rotated so everything faces up to expel heat.

The MSI motherboard also has a OC Genie button, press it and it instantly overclocks the CPU to 4.2GHZ.
 
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stulid said:
Well I cant spend £2000, as its just not needed to spend that much.


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• GTX570 in SLI
• 2TB Hard drive for storage
• Modular SPU for easier cable management.
• Fast SSD to store and run Windows and you favorite games/apps.
• Motherboard current is on a deal with a aftermarket heatsink too.

Included a really high quality case were the motherboard is actually rotated so everything faces up to expel heat.

The MSI motherboard also has a OC Genie button, press it and it instantly overclocks the CPU to 4.2GHZ.
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ok cheers :)

I see they have Ultima Tyrannosaur" Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz @ 4.60GHz DDR3 Sandybridge System.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-174-OE

for £1649.00 on here

Which isn't much more. but i take it the one you done is a'lot better?
 
i would just go with stulids spec, but get it watercooled for that super quietness

or, of you dont feel confident enough to get it watercooled (which by the sound of things you dont), you could make a couple of adjustments to it:

- get the twin frozr III version of the 570 (better cooling, and quieter, so more overclocking headroom)
- get SLI 580's (way more expensive, but obviously gets you more performance):
570 vs 580: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/306?vs=305
(SLI comparison not available)
- get a custom cooler version of the 580's (better cooling, etc)
- get a shiny new monitor (prehaps 3D?)
- get a Z68 motherboard (not sure if they will help you with what your doing, but im sure someone else could tell me if it would be useful)

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yes, stulids one is a lot better
 
ty77 said:
Which isn't much more. but i take it the one you done is a'lot better?
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Pretty much, found a video review of the Silverstone case to show how unique it is.


2 GTX570 easily beat a single GTX580, by the time you have added the SLI option to that Tyrannosaur it comes to £2000 without Windows7

With your sort of budget, somethings you should skimp on, the case/psu, if you get really good ones, then they will just outlast the other parts.


And you will find SLI GTX570 performance figures here, which includes GTX580 SLI numbers too - http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-570-sli-review/1
 
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how about this and get some one to build it for you ?




main spec 2x water cooled 480's which will kill 570's in sli due to higher ram
60gb vertex 3 and 1.5tb wb for SSD cacheing on the z68 mother board (dont know much about the z68 boards but heard a lot off good things about this one)
1x triple rad and 1x 120 rad to run
pump>120.1>cpu>120.3>gpu's>
900w psu should be enough for this due to low power of the sandy bridge

and all for £1555 so a lot of spare cash to pick what fans you would like and fittings+tybes for the water cooling and which ever copy of windows 7 you would like
 
to be honest, it probably is cheaper if you only break one thing.

at this kind of performance, the labour cost for building it will easily be £200, which is far less than most of the individual parts
 
i may be able to get two of

XFX ATI Radeon 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

for £300 new. thats for both. see there £199 on here each.

how do theses compare to the ones you said? as i may save money on the ones i just told you about. But id rather pay for the extra amount for better performance.
 
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