Need to a buy a new computer

Anksy

Anksy

Anksy

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I have about 1200-1300 to spend any less would be great, thats including a OS, ive been looking at the systems and its been a while since ive known whats good and whats not, i need one that will last well in terms of gaming, and will be easy if i ever need to upgrade, i preferably want a Nvidea card (as ive allways been with nvidea).

ive been interested in http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-147-OE&groupid=43&catid=1444&subcat=

but im not over excited on using the stock heatsink, because mine overheated and decided to blow up a few days ago in this weather so im just a little cautious, and the bluray player, and im going for a prebuilt one this time as i dont want to mess with it myself this time around :p

cheers

EDIT: I WANT A PREBUILT ONE :p
 
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a couple of years ago i was told intel was the way to go, is it still intel ?, as ive only been looking at intel
 
Intel with the i7 are the more powerfull and cant be beaten atm and the price's are droping on them and the 1366 platform is going to have a longer life(only by 9 months) as the i5/i3/1156 is being phased out end of this year so i've heard then the i7 so if your not in desprate need of a new machine it might be a good idea to wait as also amd are planing a new platform call the bulldozer (correct me if iam wrong people)

But.... If you have to buy now for your money i would get

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 5870 "Dirt 2 Edition" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £309.99

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66GHz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - OEM £167.99

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £156.98

OCZ Gold 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel (OCZ3G1600LV6GK) £132.99

Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 850W Power Supply £118.99

Coolermaster HAF 922 Case with Window - Black £79.99

CoolIT Eco A.L.C. High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366) £55.99

Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD6402AAEX) £54.99

LG GH22NS50 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99

Sub Total : £930.13
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £164.61
Total : £1,105.24

The motherboard has got all the latest fetures sata 6gb usb 3 and will do crossfire/sli

The best cpu on the market in many peoples eyes and once overcloked is only beaten by the £850 980X

It have got 2nd fast single gpu card on the market (but you can always swap this for the 470gtx as its £30 cheaper but you'll get more power and eyeinfinity with the ati)

Case and hard drive space is prefreance but your £100 under budget thats if you dont want monitor keyboard and mouse

hope this helps

Mr. May
 
HIS iCooler V ATI Radeon HD 5850 Turbo 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card *Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Edition* £259.99
(£221.27) £259.99
(£221.27)
OCZ Vertex Limited Edition 50GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTXLE50G) £169.99
(£144.67) £169.99
(£144.67)
Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - OEM £167.99
(£142.97) £167.99
(£142.97)
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £156.98
(£133.60) £156.98
(£133.60)
Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 (1600MHz) Low Latency Tri-Channel (PVT36G1600LLK) £152.99
(£130.20) £152.99
(£130.20)
Corsair HX 750W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750HXUK) £129.99
(£110.63) £129.99
(£110.63)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Retail (Full Version) £92.99
(£79.14) £92.99
(£79.14)
Fractal Design Define R2 Midi Tower Case - Black Pearl £84.99
(£72.33) £84.99
(£72.33)
Prolimatech Megahalems Rev B CPU Cooler (Socket 775/1156/1366) £42.98
(£36.58) £42.98
(£36.58)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£12.76) £14.99
(£12.76)
Sharkoon Silent Eagle 1000 120mm Fan - 3/4 Pin £10.21
(£8.69) £51.05
(£43.45)
Sub Total : £1,161.63
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £205.34
Total : £1,378.72
 
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Forgot the OS though...
 
Agree with Stulid, that 5850 is really good and the Titan Viper has very good components.(my friend got the system recently, he's getting only 55-60c temps whilst gaming with that system and zero crashes.)
 
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Anksy said:
a couple of years ago i was told intel was the way to go, is it still intel ?
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Not unless you have a pile of cash that must be spent or you want to grow an e-peen! :p

AMD are currently offering some tremendous value for money! :)

Anksy said:
I have about 1200-1300 to spend any less would be great, thats including a OS
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That really is an extreme amount of cash to throw at a system these days, we can "slash" that budget in half and still get you a modern system with scope for upgrade down the line! . . . It comes with a Radeon though as I can't find an nVidia option

"Titan Krypt" AMD Athlon II X4 630
2.80GHz Quad Core DDR3 System

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Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OEM
HIS ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5

£644.97 inc
 
the only thing wrong with the ultimate viper for me is the graphics card, if it had OcUK Value GeForce GTX 470 1280MB GDDR5 then id be buying it for sure, but the nvidea one it has makes it a little too expensive
 
Anksy, I can't help but feel something is wrong here! :confused:

My gut feeling is that once long ago you perhaps tried to build your own PC and it went horribly wrong! . . . . now many years later you find yourself wanting a modern PC but are haunted by your previous experience and therefore are considering a "PREBUILT ONE" ;)

Regardless of if thats right or wrong . . it still seems weird to me that you are here on OcUK forums with a *Godly* £1200 budget and cannot get the 100% exact build that you wish?

Look around you man, can't you see you are surrounded by Self-Build Geeks, OverClockers, Benchmarkers and generally anally retentive Nerdlings! :p

What's wrong with you? . . . get yourself a machine specced up and get it built you lightweight! . . .for that money you could build the ******* StarShip Enterprise! :eek:

This is one of those rare posts where I'm pretty sure 99% of the forums agree's with me! :cool:
 
Edited all that balls i first put,

basicaly i need it quick because i need to carry on with my graphics designing course, the conditions of buying this new computer is as its no longe 'My' pc, its a fammily pc, not to my liking but there ya go, so im just making sure the 'Fammily' computer we buy allows leeway for future upgrades, and allows me to play most games top spec for the next year or so, and they want a warranty.

and another thing, i built my old computer about 3 years ago which was good untill 3 days ago, so throw your mad suspicions out the window, this aint cluedo :p this is me asking for a little insight into whats good and whats not, because my whole computer hardware days are well passed me as i lost interest.
 
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