Scratch Build - £1500 Budget

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HUNTER.P

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I really dont know where to start, I suppose I could say I have never built a PC before.

I am not looking to buy just yet, probably around mid Jan I will order what I need.

BUDGET: At the minute I am putting it down at the £1500 mark, but could possibly stretch to £2000. But again both figures could drop. But for now can you suggest a system for those budgets.

It will be a scratch build, i.e. I need everything - PC, Keyboard, mouse, Monitor, speakers and headset(turtlebeach)

WHAT I NEED IT FOR: Gaming, in particular BF3, CAD (Solidedge ST4), video editing and all the other things you do.

Also would overclockers be able to assemble it all for me? I reckon I could probably do it myself but its something I have been thinking about

One thing I do want is dual monitors, I currently run this with my laptop and have found it very useful. its a 27" LCD with a PC input. Obviously if playing a game I will play on the new monitor and maybe have the internet up on this.



Phil :)
 
Heres some build guide videos to help you out.



Any spec I give you now, will surely be useless come the time you are ready to buy it.


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But depending on your actual budget come purchase time, things like the case can be improved, the GFX cards will more than likely have competition for new ATI 7*** cards.
 
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Thanks stulid, going to watch those videos now.

Interesting basket, alothugh from reading the forums. Would the i7 not benefit me more as I will bedoing cad/cam and the likes?

Also I know solidstates are they way to go at the moment, but is 64gb not a bit small?
 
Its just some rough spec that I used in another spec thread, as I mentioned it will be useless come January.

Do you want something geared towards your usage now?
 
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Its all speculative at the momennt, The high end ATI card could be £300-350,

All Ive done is take the same spec as before, put in a IPS panel screen (make it two for your usage), the hyperthreading CPU and more RAM, bigger SSD and HDD, removed a GFX card.

Then you need £80 for an OS also.

Bringing the above to £1800.
 
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stulid said:
Its just some rough spec that I used in another spec thread, as I mentioned it will be useless come January.

Do you want something geared towards your usage now?
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Well so far what you've post has been a massive help. I can sorta see what I need and how much its gonna cost for various componets.

I might keep an eye out for various things like cases etc on offer etc but leave the acutal computer parts until jan.
 
stulid said:
Its just some rough spec that I used in another spec thread, as I mentioned it will be useless come January.

Do you want something geared towards your usage now?
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Why do you say it would be useless come January, is some amazing product coming out that would make your choices redundant? Or just the usual steady rate of new hardware releases?
 
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