New Build Advice

L1ght · 30 Dec 2009 at 17:44

Hi guys my brother is in need of upgrading, and needs to build a full new system.
His budget is £800-£1000. He will be using the system for gaming/ watching blu-ray and general use. We'll be buying a new monitor which will probably be the Dell UltraSharp U2410 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor [860-10089]: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-036-DE

Any help would be really appreciated as we want to order before the 1st of Jan, Cheers guys.

Kennysevenfold · 30 Dec 2009 at 20:04

Soo he has like £500 left for the base system after buying that monitor?

L1ght · 30 Dec 2009 at 20:15

No, sorry I wasn't clear on that, it's £800-1000 for the system. The parts he needs are:
Case, PSU, Motherboard, CPU, Ram blu-ray drive and a 1Tb Hard Drive.

Kennysevenfold · 30 Dec 2009 at 20:18

Ah okay, No graphics card?

antipacker · 30 Dec 2009 at 20:30

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Kennysevenfold · 30 Dec 2009 at 20:37

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That hard drive - Fail.

antipacker · 30 Dec 2009 at 20:38

Kennysevenfold · 30 Dec 2009 at 20:39

All that power with an eco hard drive?
It will just home the system back.

SMAndy · 30 Dec 2009 at 20:40

Because its a "green". Slower transfer rates to save power.

What you want for a system drive is a Caviar Blue, or Black.

Green is good for a storage drive that isn't accessed often, as it spins slowly when its only being accessed a bit.

RAM fail too. From what i've heard (and experienced), Gigabyte motherboards don't seem to like OCZ RAM for some reason. I'd go for the Corsair XMS3

antipacker · 30 Dec 2009 at 20:42

SMAndy said:
Because its a "green". Slower transfer rates to save power.

What you want for a system drive is a Caviar Blue, or Black.

Green is good for a storage drive that isn't accessed often, as it spins slowly when its only being accessed a bit.

RAM fail too. From what i've heard (and experienced), Gigabyte motherboards don't seem to like OCZ RAM for some reason. I'd go for the Corsair XMS3

yeh just read up on it

Kennysevenfold · 30 Dec 2009 at 20:45

Product Name Qty Price Line Total

Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 5850 "Dirt2 Edition" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £229.99
(£199.99) £229.99
(£199.99)

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £125.98
(£109.55) £125.98
(£109.55)

Corsair TX 850W ATX SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-850TXUK) £98.99
(£86.08) £98.99
(£86.08)

Pioneer BDC-S03XLB 8x BD-Reader / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £89.99
(£78.25) £89.99
(£78.25)

OCZ Obsidian 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 Dual Channel (OCZ3OB1600LV4GK) £83.98
(£73.03) £83.98
(£73.03)

Asus M4A785TD-M Evo AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £67.99
(£59.12) £67.99
(£59.12)

Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD6401AALS) £49.99
(£43.47) £49.99
(£43.47)

Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £39.99
(£34.77) £39.99
(£34.77)

Alpenföhn Brocken CPU Cooler (Socket 775/1156/1366/754/939/940/AM2/AM2+) £36.98
(£32.16) £36.98
(£32.16) Sub Total : £716.42 Shipping cost based on delivery to Credit/debit card billing address, G69 6AP with:
FREE SHIPPING (DPD Next Day)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : FREE VAT is being charged at 15.00% VAT : £107.46 Total : £823.88

antipacker · 30 Dec 2009 at 20:46

Kennysevenfold said:
Product Name Qty Price Line Total

Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 5850 "Dirt2 Edition" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £229.99
(£199.99) £229.99
(£199.99)

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £125.98
(£109.55) £125.98
(£109.55)

Corsair TX 850W ATX SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-850TXUK) £98.99
(£86.08) £98.99
(£86.08)

Pioneer BDC-S03XLB 8x BD-Reader / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £89.99
(£78.25) £89.99
(£78.25)

OCZ Obsidian 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 Dual Channel (OCZ3OB1600LV4GK) £83.98
(£73.03) £83.98
(£73.03)

Asus M4A785TD-M Evo AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £67.99
(£59.12) £67.99
(£59.12)

Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD6401AALS) £49.99
(£43.47) £49.99
(£43.47)

Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £39.99
(£34.77) £39.99
(£34.77)

Alpenföhn Brocken CPU Cooler (Socket 775/1156/1366/754/939/940/AM2/AM2+) £36.98
(£32.16) £36.98
(£32.16) Sub Total : £716.42 Shipping cost based on delivery to Credit/debit card billing address, G69 6AP with:
FREE SHIPPING (DPD Next Day)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : FREE VAT is being charged at 15.00% VAT : £107.46 Total : £823.88

might aswell add the 5870 instead

TheSwede · 30 Dec 2009 at 20:47

SMAndy said:
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RAM fail too. From what i've heard (and experienced), Gigabyte motherboards don't seem to like OCZ RAM for some reason. I'd go for the Corsair XMS3

That's a first for me, I have had a Gigabyte P35C-DS3R since August 07, started off with 2x1GB OCZ memory for about 2 years and now I have 2x2GB OCZ memory and never had any problem with them working together. Although, I have to admit I have not done any overclocking, so if you are referring to that I do apologize for butting in!

Kennysevenfold · 30 Dec 2009 at 20:49

antipacker said:
might aswell add the 5870 instead

You could do.

Just trying to keep it as close to 800 as possible.

Is upto the OP, depends on how much/hard he games.

setter · 30 Dec 2009 at 20:53

SMAndy said:
RAM fail too. From what i've heard (and experienced), Gigabyte motherboards don't seem to like OCZ RAM for some reason. I'd go for the Corsair XMS3

Ive never heard of any issues with gigabyte boards and ocz, though asus and ocz used to be a very bad combination, thankfully this seems to have changed though.

L1ght · 31 Dec 2009 at 01:33

Hey guys thanks for the replies. My brother was intending to lean more towards the £1000 mark.

This is the spec that he was looking at:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-003-OB £699.99 inc VAT
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-209-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1403 £157.99[/url] inc VAT
Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £39.99
Corsair TX 850W ATX SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-850TXUK) £98.99
Pioneer BDC-S03XLB 8x BD-Reader / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (Retail) £89.99
Total: £1,136.94

Its a bit over budget but if you could give me any advice, would be cool.

Thanks again for all the responses. :cool:

L1ght · 31 Dec 2009 at 13:40

Does anyone have any advice? Need to order today.

bJN · 31 Dec 2009 at 13:47

then £50 for a case? Just a quick build as I'm in a hurry haha

bJN · 31 Dec 2009 at 13:53

Alternative AMD build

L1ght · 31 Dec 2009 at 14:12

Thanks for the quick responses guys. As I don't have much experience in overclocking or fitting seperate cpu coolers, I was wondering whether getting the overclocked bundle that I listed earlier would be the right way to go?