Rig for £1300

josh3190 · 30 Aug 2011 at 18:59

Hi everyone,

I just thought I'd put out a general question, if you had to build a COMPLETE GAMING rig from scratch for £1300, OS and all peripherals included (mouse, keyboard, monitor, speakers), what would YOU choose?

Bad ass screen or perhaps an awesome case or maybe instead you'd put in a big SSD or the elusive mega GFX card? What would you compromise on to save for a slightly better something else?

I would love to see what individual people would do when put to a price limit, what you would sacrifice for that uber component?

I look forward to reading everyone's build if they choose to post it, the only thing stopping me from making my order right now is transporting it to uni when I go back and would love to see what different people would do with the money,

Thanks if you take the time to post what you would do and thanks for reading this too,

Josh

Hyburnate · 30 Aug 2011 at 19:07

I'd probably spend a good 250£ on the graphics card maybe more not sure about everything else as on my phone

stulid · 30 Aug 2011 at 19:13

Dell IPS panel screen has to go in.

The sensible thing to do is,

Jammin1984 · 30 Aug 2011 at 19:22

This is pretty close to what I have in my basket to hopefully order next week, bar the keyboard and mouse, OK, its a little over £1300 ...

Changed the I7 / 570 which im going to go for, to an I5 / 580 for gaming goodness. Headphones over speakers as the Mrs gives me daggers otherwise

Jammin1984 · 30 Aug 2011 at 19:26

stulid said:
IPS panel screen has to go in.

Interesting, are those screens that good? Ive never seen one in action.

stulid · 30 Aug 2011 at 19:29

Jammin1984 said:
Interesting, are those screens that good? Ive never seen one in action.

I have only ever seen one in shops next to more normal TN panels etc.

The colour reproduction, contrast and general image quality of IPS is night and day ahead. Theres a zillion reviews for these Dell screens around all saying the same thing.

josh3190 · 30 Aug 2011 at 20:30

Hmmmm why would you want to do the sensible thing though? maybe change out the secondary hard-drive in your orginal build and a cheaper mouse stulid and try to squeeze in the GTX570 frozR edition?

stulid · 30 Aug 2011 at 20:56

Theres so many silly things you can do, this for instance,

josh3190 · 30 Aug 2011 at 21:21

Haha Stulid that is simply awesome but come one then being serious for a minute, if you were spending this amount of money, best bang for buck overall gaming system which is going to last what would you go for?

stulid · 30 Aug 2011 at 21:35

If it was my money,

• GTX570
• Gen3 board will support PCI-E3.0 with a Ivybridge CPU
• Will do SLI etc and the PSU has the power for this.
• This is the case,

olivier renault · 30 Aug 2011 at 21:37

What about that LG IPS. I love IPS screens, but iirc, that LG aint bad at all. Except for the connectivity and stand, especially compared to the Dell.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-099-LG&groupid=17&catid=1425&subcat=

Either that or the 120Hz LG as well

Went up in price by quite a lot though. Looks in high demand.

josh3190 · 30 Aug 2011 at 21:45

Would you choose the RV03 over the Corsair 600t White Edition?

stulid · 30 Aug 2011 at 21:53

josh3190 said:
Would you choose the RV03 over the Corsair 600t White Edition?

Theres so many good cases out there (RV02, RV03, 600T, 650D) its hard to pick a particular one.

You need to pick the one that you like, not me.

josh3190 · 30 Aug 2011 at 21:55

I wasn't putting in that context, I was wondering if you had made that choice on performance not aesthetics

stulid · 30 Aug 2011 at 21:57

Performance the Silverstones win it, the rotated boards with the big fans in the bottom blowing all hot air straight up and out.