New Gaming pc under £1000

olivier renault · 1 Jun 2012 at 17:24

Mr_Sbd said:
ok i will

will this system run without the graphics card for about a week or two?
planning on buying everything now expect the graphics card and the hard drive.

PS. I wont run any games and stuff until it arrives

Yes.

Mr_Sbd · 2 Jun 2012 at 10:50

Look at what arrived today

Final specs:

CM Storm Enforcer Case with Coolermaster 650W GX PSU
Kingston 12GB (3x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz HyperX
Intel Core i5 3570K 3.4GHz Socket 1155 6MB Cache Retail Boxed
Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H Socket 1155 VGA DVI HDMI 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro rev 2
Samsung SH-B123L 12x BD-ROM DVD±RW DL & RAM Lightscribe SATA Optical Drive
Xenta All in 1 Internal Card Reader Plus One USB2.0 Port Black - 3.5" Bay
Crucial 128GB M4 SSD - 2.5" SATA-III
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
SteelSeries 4HD Mouse Pad
Logitech G300 Gaming Mouse
Microsoft SideWinder X4 Keyboard

I will get the 7850 later next week and a 2TB Hard drive
Now I need to figure out how to put all these things together

olivier renault · 2 Jun 2012 at 11:07

nice loot.

You made a mistake with the ram, you really needed dual channel. Two sticks will work, but I wouldn't recommend using three sticks.

Mr_Sbd · 2 Jun 2012 at 11:18

olivier renault said:
nice loot.

You made a mistake with the ram, you really needed dual channel. Two sticks will work, but I wouldn't recommend using three sticks.

hmm will i get better performance with two (8GB)? or should i buy another 4gb of ram and make it four sticks?