Please Suggest me a Spec

Drake · 18 Jul 2006 at 12:31

Hi Im looking to build my own PC for the first time after many years of buying them prebuilt online. I want something that will be purely for gaming which can cope with 1900x1200 resolutions with lots of eye candy.

Ive already purchased all the peripherals so Im just after a spec for the box, also the case aesthetics are quite important to me.

Ive got a budget of just over £3000.

thanks in advance.

Explicit · 18 Jul 2006 at 12:50

Intel Core 2 DUO E6700 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.67GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-129-IN)
£411.19
Asus P5W DH Deluxe WiFi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-152-AS)
£176.19
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ) (MY-013-GS)
£173.84
ATI Radeon X1900 ***Crossfire Edition*** 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-045-CO)
£299.57
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (3056) (GX-047-CO)
£258.44
Western Digital Raptor 150GB WD1500ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-069-WD)
£185.06
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-078-SE)
£73.97
NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-030-NE)
£25.79
Scythe Ninja Plus Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket 478, 754, 939, 940, LGA755) (HS-003-SY)
£31.67
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music - OEM (SC-043-CL)
£56.99
Akasa Eclipse 62 Aluminium Case & Window (BU-000-AK)
£97.17
FSP Sparkle FX700-GLN Epsilon 700W ATX2.0 PSU (CA-001-SK)
£112.21

Total inc VAT: £1,902.09

In my opinion, there's no need to spend £3,000 because the above spec will do everything you want.

squiffy · 18 Jul 2006 at 12:53

Spend the above spec, and put £1000 into a audio system, proper seperates.

Drake · 18 Jul 2006 at 13:12

I was wondering if this spec would work with an Nvidia card and the Conore extream? I know theres no need to spend this extra cash but Ill only waste it on something else if I dont

Explicit · 18 Jul 2006 at 13:56

Drake said:
I was wondering if this spec would work with an Nvidia card and the Conore extream? I know theres no need to spend this extra cash but Ill only waste it on something else if I dont

It will certainly work with the Conroe Extreme Edition.

The nVidia cards do work on this board but you need hacked drivers so I wouldn't recommend it. It's designed for Crossfire.

As for the Asus P5W, you may need to contact Asus for a BIOS chip to enable Conroe support (or you can buy a £35 Celeron to do flash the BIOS yourself and then away you go!) Email this dude: [email protected] The BIOS chip is free.

oceaness · 18 Jul 2006 at 15:51

If I had that kind of cash to spend on a PC then this is what I'd get
I know it's seriously over the top but you say you want to spend lots.

Goodeh · 18 Jul 2006 at 19:47

oceaness said:
If I had that kind of cash to spend on a PC then this is what I'd get
I know it's seriously over the top but you say you want to spend lots.

Not sure why you didn't go conroe there, the only reason to stay amd until they release their next gen is if your upgrading an existing system

oceaness · 18 Jul 2006 at 20:39

Each to their own. I like AMD's.

I was just saying what I'd do with that cash

tsinc80697 · 19 Jul 2006 at 00:54

i'd definitely go for conroe over AMD, but its personal choice really

Stelly · 19 Jul 2006 at 09:36

tsinc80697 said:
i'd definitely go for conroe over AMD, but its personal choice really

I agree

Stelly

hp7909 · 19 Jul 2006 at 10:21

oceaness said:
If I had that kind of cash to spend on a PC then this is what I'd get
I know it's seriously over the top but you say you want to spend lots.{snip}

Even the £154.95 E6400 embarrasses the £599.95 FX62 in some benchmarks, see here

My spec suggestion here