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Count_Zero99uk

Count_Zero99uk

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Hi all,

Its been a while since i built a machine. It was when the E6600 came out :) its been a good machine but I feel the need for an upgrade.

Ive been poking around on the site to try and get an idea of what to build and have come up with the following. If anyone sees a glaring error let me know if someone knows where i can save money let me know.

Im wanting it for gaming but I also have a budget (and this has gone over it so i need to cut back). As long as things like Borderlands run good at 1900x1200 ill be happy :)

So here we go

Antec 902 Nine Hundred-Two Gaming Case & OCZ ModXStream 600W Power Supply £150.19

XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £143.98

Asus Crosshair III Formula AMD 790FX (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £143.98

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £128.99

Corsair Extreme X32 32GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (CMFSSD-32D1) £117.99

OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3G1866LV4GK) £93.99

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £81.99

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD1001FALS) £74.99

Sony Optiarc AD-5240S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.99

This has come to £955 which is about 350 over the budget i had planned :( but i got carried away.

Feel free to pull it to bits.

Thanks Zero
 
Just quicly, I would drop the SSD and save near £120 right off... Can keep the other HDD and partition if you want, upgrading to another HDD/SSD later ??
 
if you don't desperite need the directx 11 effects,why not keep your old Win XP?
Win XP is better at gaming for framerates, there is no need to buy a Win7, so save you 82 pounds.

forgot to ask, haven't you still have some old hardware left?
 
wondering if whether you are spending £280 on CPU and MOBO it would get an i5 instead. I think the AMD budget systems only really compete with value motherboards.
 
get rid of the ssd! -£120

Maybe change the graphics card to the 5770 as its more energy efficient. (therefore lower powered PSU maybe?). 5770 = -£15

Change the Case and PSU to an Antec 300? and a corsair 550w = -£40
(-£30 if you decide to opt for the 650w psu)

change the ram to OCZ Platinum 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C7 1333MHz = -£20

Maybe a Asus M4A79T Deluxe AMD 790FX mobo = -£13

Change the HDD to a small size? Samsung f3 500gb = -£35

Total savings = £243
 
well as others have said drop the ssd.
im not really up on am3 motherboards, but i see they range from £58 to £144 and youve gone with the most expensive, surely there must be room for savings there.

do you intend to overclock, if you do maybe one fo the slightly cheaper cpu's to shave a few more pounds off the total.
 


tht comes to £530 including postage.
But you'll get free postage so it comes to £520

So you can improve on things if you want to go up to your £600 budget
If your not bothered about furture proofing much get the 4970 as thts more powerful.

EDIT: this doesnt include an OS!!!! so add on £80 odd pounds
 
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What do you mean about future proofing (i know what that means) but with the 4970 instead of the 5770, does that one have more potential capability or something?

Thanks for the list, am saving now :)

Laters
Zero
 
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