SFF gaming rig, flexible £800 budget

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So I'm seling my Macbook pro, netting me around £1000.
Of that, ideally I'd want to use £800 for a SFF gaming rig, but I can stretch if needed.

I quite fancy the Silverstone SG07, but would consider a Lian-Li of similar fashion. I don't need much storage space as I have a home server. Ive been out of the loop for a while, but I believe that I'd like a ATI 6950 and the best processor I can afford, as I will not be overclocking... I repeat, no overclocking what so ever, I do not need that option.

I do not need an OS, but I do need a Monitor (got KBM)

Thanks!
 
The system in my sig costs £1000 (including a slot-loaded Blu-Ray drive not listed) when it's built in the next week.

The Corsair H60 is there for a wee bit of silliness for me cramming a closed watercooler into the tiny box, just because other people have done it, but it's not really needed. Taking that out saves £60.

I could save £30 by changing the RAM too - I've paid a premium for pretty looking RAM at a speed I could never use:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-094-KS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517

is more than sufficient, and even then too fast (H67 is limited to 1333MHz)

Hell, I'm going 8GB because I need the RAM, but you'd be fine gaming on 4GB:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-220-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1516

so that's £130 saved.

The SSD is great for gaming, but there are cheaper SSDs than the Vertex 2 I used that will perform well - could shave about £20 off there.

Similarly £50 can come off by going DVD drive instead of Blu-Ray.


So, I could knock down the cost of my system to about £800 without even touching the graphics card.

That's a very specific model I've used to fit into the case without cutting it up, but paid about a £10 premium to do it - it's pretty much the most powerful card you can realistically run on a 450W PSU.

Now, my monitors are an additional cost, so I'm talking £800 just for the system here. If I were to chop anything else out of that spec it' be dropping the CPU down to a Sandy Bridge i3, but I want a quad, not a dual.

£45 saved if you drop the HDD too - you could just run the SSD if you have everything on a server.

Also bear in mind that I got most of these components from competitors as Overclockers don't stock most of this (unfortunately), so I couldn't price-match this with a purely Overclockers shopping list.
 
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