New £1000 gaming build

[masscrazy]

Looking to buy a new gaming rig for about £900, the less I can spend the better. Most of it will be for gaming and desktop publising. No overclocking.

Looking at getting the following:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.8GHz

Asus P5E Pro.

Corsair TX 750W ATX SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750TXUK) (future proofing, cos its got 4PCIE connections)

OCZ Obsidian 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 Dual Channel

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

2 500GB AAKS WD HDD's

1 Optical Drive from Sony

Storm Scout Coolermaster case.

Or

i5/7?

 

[stulid]

For a thousand pounds you should be getting intel i5. Intel socket775 has been replaced.

 

[stulid]

Just change the CPU to a i5 750.
and pick a new motherboard. The rest of your components are sweet..!

A corsair 650HX psu is modular version, will be easier to wire the case with only what you need to use.

AMD is a option, cheaper, but a good intel i5 system will always be faster.

 

[macca672]

something like this?

go for the 5850 and just flash it to hit 5870 speeds

comes out at £850 leavingyou enough for a nice Benq 24 inch monitor

EDIT get the retail version of the i5 chip so you get a heatsink,


alternatively theres an i7 prebuilt on this week only, well within your budget. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-030-OE&groupid=43&catid=1444&subcat=

 

[stulid]

Very nice macca, one thing is maybe a modular psu? 650HX?

 

[joey2cool]

Trouble with that modular is it is only 650w, and I believe corsair 650w is only 2 PCI-E? My TX is. The 750w has a bit more room for growth and xFire.