Needing new pc, help!

feelintherage

feelintherage

feelintherage

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Hi guys,

its been a nearly 4 years since i got this pc (e6400,2gb,1950xtx) and its time for an upgrade as im going back to uni. Im not really sure whats good anymore as i stopped really looking at gaming on a pc in favour of my xbox, however i started playing wow and its brought all the pc gaming feelings back.

So i need a system ideally less than £800(can go a bit over) that will play games (BFBC2 when i get the pc, Wow although that doesnt take much and some other games such as tf2 and a bunch of other stuff i have on steam)

Id like a Intel system with a Ati graphics card, i need everything but monitor, keyboard and mouse oh and windows 7.

Your help would be very much appreciated. Thanks :D
 
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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Samsung B2230H 21.5" Widescreen LCD Monitor £149.99
(£127.65) £149.99
(£127.65)
HIS IceQ 5 ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £146.99
(£125.10) £146.99
(£125.10)
Patriot G Series 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel (PGS34G1333ELK) £88.99
(£75.74) £88.99
(£75.74)
AMD Phenom II X2 Dual Core 555 3.20GHz Black Edition (Socket AM3) - Retail £84.99
(£72.33) £84.99
(£72.33)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £82.99
(£70.63) £82.99
(£70.63)
OCZ StealthXStream 2 600W Power Supply £66.99
(£57.01) £66.99
(£57.01)
Gigabyte GA-MA770T-ES3 MA770 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £64.99
(£55.31) £64.99
(£55.31)
Coolermaster RC-600 Gladiator Case - Black £50.98
(£43.39) £50.98
(£43.39)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £34.99
(£29.78) £34.99
(£29.78)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1156 / 1366) £18.99
(£16.16) £18.99
(£16.16)
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£12.76) £14.99
(£12.76)
Sub Total : £685.86
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £122.56
Total : £822.92
 
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why the monitor and windows7? try reading the brief, he said intel!

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what size is your existing monitor/resolution? so we can get the correct card for the job
 
Cheers for the replies, ive got a couple of questions.

Is the 5830 an underclocked 5850 or is there a big step up in terms of performance?

Speaking of performance, as im not going to play some games and mess about on the net, will i need quadcore or will i get away with dual core?

Next up are intel the way forward?, when i last bought my pc intel were miles ahead with c2d, how is it now?

thanks
 
feelintherage said:
Cheers for the replies, ive got a couple of questions.

Is the 5830 an underclocked 5850 or is there a big step up in terms of performance?

Speaking of performance, as im not going to play some games and mess about on the net, will i need quadcore or will i get away with dual core?

Next up are intel the way forward?, when i last bought my pc intel were miles ahead with c2d, how is it now?

thanks
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the 5830 is a cutdown chip, less stream processors, this will hopefully explain more.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2010/02/25/ati-radeon-hd-5830-1gb-review/1

AMD is the way forward at the moment, as Intel are going to be changing the socket designs soon, making any upgrade-ability doubtful.
 
Here is an AMD based build the OP might want to consider:

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition ~ £136

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-244-AM

Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H ~ £105

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-251-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1782

Does symmetrical Crossfire at PCI-E 2.0 8X/8X and has USB 3.0 and SATA 3.0 too.

OR

Asus M4A89GTD PRO ~ £106

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-392-AS

Does symmetrical Crossfire at PCI-E 2.0 8X/8X and has SATA 3.0 too. It is meant to be better for overclocking than the Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H.

4GB 1600MHZ DDR3 ~ £100

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-203-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Power Supply ~ £85

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-117-AN

This is made by Seasonic and has 4 PCI-E power connectors.

HIS iCooler V ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 ~ £233

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-004-HS

OR

2XHD5770 1GB ~ £254

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-011-HS

Antec 300 ~ £41

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-101-AN

Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA-II 32MB Cache ~ £50

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-244-WD

SATA DVD rewriter ~ £15

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-099-SA&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=951

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-090-LG&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=951

The total comes to around £765 to £787 excluding delivery.

A pair of HD5770 1GB cards can challenge an HD5870:

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1105/1/

The OP can get a Core i5 750 and a Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5 if they want an Intel processor:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-299-IN

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-203-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1495

The Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5 does symmetrical Crossfire or SLI at PCI-E 2.0 8X/8X but lacks USB 3.0 and SATA 3.0 and socket 1156 is EOL in Q1 2011 too.

If the OP goes with a single HD5850 1GB graphics card the build will cost them around £796 excluding delivery.
 
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