New Build

Pocket Rambo

Pocket Rambo

Pocket Rambo

Associate
Joined
8 Oct 2010
Posts
17
Good afternoon all, I am interested in getting a new PC built.

I have a budget of £800 and would ideally like something that will last - My first worry is that if I buy in 3 weeks, which is payday is there anything new component wise which is worth waiting for say another month?.

Obviously new components are released all the time but I dont want to shoot myself in the foot just by being impatient.

I need the core PC, I dont need any peripherals

Any advice would be welcomed!

Thanks all.

Rambo
 
New graphics cards are out soon. They might be out of your budget, but they will most
certainly drop current graphics cards prices. Might be worth waiting for, will write you
a spec later.


Gainward GeForce GTX 460 GS 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £172.71
AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1055T 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £159.99
Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1) £114.99
Asus M4A87TD Evo AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £86.99
Corsair Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMD4GX3M2A1600C9) £70.49
Coolermaster CM-690 II Lite Dominator Case - Black £62.99
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £42.99
Zalman CNPS10X Extreme CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/775/1156/1366) £41.99
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Arctic Cooling MX-3 Thermal Compound £6.99

Sub Total : £658.83
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £117.13
Total : £786.46

I don't think I missed anything. What're your thoughts?
 
Last edited:
Wow that was quick!, Looks fairly good to me, I'm guessing that I wont save much money on the cards to make a massive impact elsewhere on the machine.

Will continue to check some more after I've left work!.
 
You could make a couple of cuts and possibly buy an i7 (wether 1156 or 1358 doesn't really matter)
You didn't say what the machine was for, so I could only give a rough spec :)

The CPU is a good OC'er, couple that with the 460 + SSD and you've got a machine that's
good for anything tbh. Plus if you make your own side window (I did in the same case), everything
will look nice inside, as it would mostly match a black/blue theme.
 
Do you do encoding, or you just do gaming only? If you are not encoding, the 1055T will not offer any extra performance over a 955BE for gaming. Future games 'might' use the 5th or 6th core, but by the time they do (if ever), the 1055T would already be a slow dinosaur.
 
hey how about something like this
i picked the board with an igp so that in any chance your gpu goes for rma you have a backup but will not be able to do much gaming

35446705.png


you can changed the case to whichever one you preffer

you can dump the SSD and for i5 and gtx470, this should still keep you within budget maybe a couple of £ over like my spec :D
 
Ah how silly of me :p

An i5 760 spec with the XFX PSU and a Asus P7P55D-E Mobo comes to around £850 with the SSD.

Or just swap out the 6core from my spec and put in an amd 955. Around £805 then.

I was just trying to keep everyone looking nice, as well as being functional :P
 
Last edited:
I do apologize,

Its main purpose will be for gaming really, and the University work, But more of the gaming!

I'm no overclocker so there probably isn't much point looking into that area, or is it standard to have overclockable boards these days, even though I wont OC

Thanks all!
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom