New Build (£700-800)

[Marzo]

Hey,

Im looking to build my own pc, budget is £700 - £800.

Looking for a Nvidia / Intel Combo as theyve worked best for me in the past.
Looking for about 750GB Storage so was thinking a 500GB and 250GB one for games and music one for OS and stuff like that.

Pc will be mainly used for Games/Films/Music, would like it to be able to play the most recent games quite well. Also needs to be able to be left on over day/night so needs decent cooling.

Its also going to have to be able to connect to my wireless internet and im not sure if i have to get a router of its own or to use somthing on the motherboard, if anyone could clear that up would be greatly apreaciated!

Thanks Mark

 

[JonJ678]

This is following intel/nvidia. There are quite strong arguments for the alternatives these days which I have cheerfully ignored.

I haven't worked out how to do the nicely formatted pictures other people maange yet, but this is what I suggest.

Zotac GeForce GTX 260 AMP! £175.94
Asus P5Q Deluxe £160.99
Core 2 Duo E8400 £151.79
Corsair TX 650W ATX £83.94
Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB £68.99
Antec 300 £43.99
Corsair XMS2 4GB PC2-8500C5 £39.99
Tuniq Tower £31.04

£780ish delivered, 20 quid is more than enough for your choice of wireless. Motherboards don't often have this built in.

Can go cheaper on the motherboard and drop the cooler + change to PC6400 ram if you won't overclock. However overclocking an intel dual core on a p5q is so easy it takes the **** and performance really does improve a lot. one hard drive is not as good as two, but is far cheaper, and if you split it into a 250 and a 500gb partition itll look identical under Windows anyway.


I personally use OCZ with blind loyalty (head over to their forums and it's fairly apparent why), but most people here seem to prefer Corsair for memory and PSUs so I suggest going with the crowd. The P5Q deluxe is excellent.

Finally assembling your own is really rather straightforward. It is difficult to plug things together wrong since they dont fit. If you forget one of the two power cables running to the motherboard it probably won't boot, and if you forget to plug in the graphics card it wont boot and will make a really horrible screaming noise at you.

 

[dtokez]

i think i would be enclined to try and stretch to a i7 rig for that price range? maybe go for a 9800gtx to save some money there

 

[JonJ678]

Solid C2D rig or cheapest practical i7. Either is an option.

460 + 130 = 590 for i7 with 9800gtx
350 + 175 = 525 for c2d with 260gtx

So yes, i7 is within reach. Nonetheless for games/films/music I stand by the 775 route, the i7 shines at multitasking and at producing mad amounts of heat. And its new and pretty. This doesn't make it more appropriate

 

[dtokez]

Solid C2D rig or cheapest practical i7. Either is an option.

460 + 130 = 590 for i7 with 9800gtx
350 + 175 = 525 for c2d with 260gtx

So yes, i7 is within reach. Nonetheless for games/films/music I stand by the 775 route, the i7 shines at multitasking and at producing mad amounts of heat. And its new and pretty. This doesn't make it more appropriate

true mate, my p5q pro and e5200 duo cost me about £170 in total and its running at 3.7 ghz nicely, its my 9800 gt card thats bottlenecking now lol - so good enough performance for most things can still be done with a nice 775 pro + p35 onwards chipsets

 

[hp7909]

Its also going to have to be able to connect to my wireless internet and im not sure if i have to get a router of its own or to use something on the motherboard, if anyone could clear that up would be greatly appreciated

PCI wireless card is what I'd recommend & works best unless PC will be in some obscure corner of the house.

Why not AMD? For that budget you can get something good...