Quick spec check

burtie · 27 May 2009 at 08:33

Building this for my nephew he 16 and wants a gaming rig, max budget £500.

His mum has £500 and no more, He has keyboard,mouse. I've got him his OS.

hawker1986 · 27 May 2009 at 08:48

Looks mostly OK, I would get an E5200 and maybe a Gigabyte P31-ES3G and an Akasa 965 cooler, then spend the saved money on a bigger HDD, your really wanting something in the 500GB territority if hes planning on gaming Seagate 500GB 7200.12 is only £42 and would be fully worth the extra money). Also unless you have some spare 120mm fans its prob worth grabbing two cheap quite ones for the case to get optimal cooling.

Hawker

95thrifles · 27 May 2009 at 08:58

Agree re HDD, you'd see a good improvement with a decent HDD with 32mb cache, that sytem would look something like this, slightly cheaper case and PSU but still good

Venares · 27 May 2009 at 09:00

+1 to 95thrifles
Thats almost exacaly what I was going to post :eek:

phytal · 27 May 2009 at 09:01

95thrifles ***!!!!!!

95thrifles · 27 May 2009 at 09:05

thanks guys but to be fair its just putting together hawkers suggestions really, Hawker 4tw

wupwup · 27 May 2009 at 09:07

how well would that rig preform on games such as farcry and crysis?

phytal · 27 May 2009 at 09:08

High res mid settings good performance

95thrifles · 27 May 2009 at 09:09

at that res, quite well, though quoting crysis isnt really best comparison as it demands lots from even a 2k spec machine, but this spec would certainly run the games quite well, just dont forget to OC the CPU a bit

burtie · 27 May 2009 at 09:11

Thanks a million 95thrifles Looks good he'll love it, thanks for the suggestion hawker. Going to ring her now and get it ordered for him.

Thanks chaps

burtie · 27 May 2009 at 09:12

95thrifles said:
at that res, quite well, though quoting crysis isnt really best comparison as it demands lots from even a 2k spec machine, but this spec would certainly run the games quite well, just dont forget to OC the CPU a bit

Oh I'll give the chip a little push

Thanks buddy

hawker1986 · 27 May 2009 at 10:35

Your most welcome glad to help, thanks 95thrifles for actually taking the effort to sort out a proper spec from my suggestion

. I would say with the CPU clocked (Aim for 3.6

) you should play crysis on that at high in DX10 with 2x AA and it should be fine. My 8800GT manages that (though its pretty heavily OCd). Farcry 2 should play a bit better.