New build, £1000

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Hi,

I've not built a PC in years and am looking for a rig capable of playing Startcraft 2 with ease, along with some of the latest games, £1000 for everything is my budget, so far I have been looking at:

Intel Core i5 750 2.66Ghz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - OEM £159.99

LG Flatron W2261V 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor £155.99

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5770 Vapor-X 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £139.99

Asus P7P55D-E Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £129.99

Corsair Dominator XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 16000C9D Twin3X (TW3X4G1600C9D) £118.99

Seasonic X-650 Modular '80 Plus Gold Certified' 650W Power Supply £114.99

Antec 600 Six Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £57.99

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £42.99

Akasa AK-968 X4 CPU Cooler (Socket 939/AM2/AM3/775/1156/1366) £21.98

Sony Optiarc AD-5240S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99

Total : £973.11

Any comments are appreciated.
 
That psu seems very expensive for just 650w, but quality does cost money!

That antec new truepower 650w is on special offer at £78.

Samsung F3 harddrives are the ones to get at the moment.
 
The Seasonic X650 is a good choice and can run passively at low loads and has very high efficiency.

I assume the Asus motherboard can do symmetrical Crossfire as I cannot find much info on it!

I would probably go for cheaper RAM such as the G.Skill Ripjaw 1600MHZ 4GB set for around £90.

Also a CPU cooler like the Titan Fenrir would be a better choice.
 
Thanks for the replies, I had not considered going for crossfire, although it is very tempting... I'll have to research the motherboard a bit more (as well as the memory and CPU cooler).

As for the power supply, I'd decided on that one as it's fully modular but will have a look at the two suggested.

Thanks again!
 
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-177-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1516

get this ram - the corsair dominator is good but a waste of money imo, get this cheaper ram and overclock it abit!

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

Again - that powersupply is over priced! Get this and save about 50 quid - this range got top marks in custom pc recently! It beat all the others hands down!

Youve just saved about £60 there, now update the graphics card to a 5850 and you're good to go! Will be much better in games and last longer!
 
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