New Build £600 - £700

[chrismscotland]

Looking to spec a new build, was going to buy a laptop but I think a desktop might be a better idea.

Looking for base unit, keyboard and mouse but don't need Windows 7 or a Monitor although I may buy one separately later on.

Looking to play some decent games and not too bothered about AMD or Intel as it doesn't seem theres as big a difference on desktops as there is with laptops.

 

[stulid]

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line
Total
OcUK Value GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5
PCI-Express Graphics Card £144.98
(£123.39)
£144.98
(£123.39)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black
Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket
AM3) - Retail £111.61
(£94.99)
£111.61
(£94.99)
Asus M4A87TD/USB3 AMD 870 (Socket AM3)
DDR3 Motherboard £86.99
(£74.03)
£86.99
(£74.03)
Corsair Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3
PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
(CMD4GX3M2A1600C9) £79.89
(£67.99)
£79.89
(£67.99)
Sapphire Pure 625W Modular Power Supply £64.61
(£54.99)
£64.61
(£54.99)
Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming
Case - Black £44.64
(£37.99)
£44.64
(£37.99)
Logitech G11 Gaming Keyboard
(967929-0120) £36.99
(£31.48)
£36.99
(£31.48)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB
Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £32.99
(£28.08)
£32.99
(£28.08)
Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical
Mouse (910-000616) £22.99
(£19.57)
£22.99
(£19.57)
Sony Optiarc AD-7260S 24x DVD±RW SATA
ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.99
(£13.61)
£15.99
(£13.61)
Sub
Total : £546.12
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 : £97.63
Total : £655.50

 

[chrismscotland]

Just wondering which is likely to provide more longevity and futureproofing an Intel or AMD setup?

 

[stulid]

neither.

AMD new cpus will be AM3+ only, not backwards compatible, but you can take the AM3 cpu and DDR3 ram to the new motherboard, then just change the CPU later.

Intel 1156 is being replaced by 1155 Sandy bridge.

Intel 1336 is also being dumped next year, but it does have a good range of cpus avalible at the moment, with the i7 980X being six cores with hyperthreading(so effectively 12)

 

[95thrifles]

The above looks good starting place, personally as you have a little budget spare I'd go for the 1gig 460 and get the western digital black 6gb/s hdd