Spec £1,500 Gaming PC?

Bizzie · 6 Nov 2010 at 16:48

So after buying a ''Ulima Dreadnought'' from OcUK i had to return due to damages, i decided to build my own PC using a Overclocked Bundle (As the reason i didnt build my own in the first place was due to not know how to overclock)

So my budget is roughly £1,500 pounds, give or take £100 or so.

The PC is mainly for Gaming, World of warcraft, Starcraft, Call of Duty, GTA IV, Fallout 3 / New Vegas, Crysis and other games + Future games. At the same time as Listening to music, watching videos, browsing the net etc.

I Really need atleast 120GB SSD, additional 1TB HDD and i prefer Nvidia cards over ATi (Just a personal thing from many years ago lol)

So what kind of system would i get for my money?
Also buying a bundle is a must for me, i dont want to really try overclocking myself lol.

Thanks for reading.

RJC · 6 Nov 2010 at 16:55

Sorry £20 ~ over

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Krypton Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz @ 4.00GHz USB3/SATA 6Gb/s Overclocked Bundle £384.23
(£327.00) £384.23
(£327.00)
Options applied to the above product:
Akasa AK-CCX-4001HP Nero S Direct Contact Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / LGA775 / LGA1156 / LGA1366 ) £32.99
(£28.08) £32.99
(£28.08)
Options applied to the above product:
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £144.03
(£122.58) £144.03
(£122.58)
HIS ATI Radeon HD 6870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE CODMW2 PC-Game £204.99
(£174.46) £409.98
(£348.92)
OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G) £173.89
(£147.99) £173.89
(£147.99)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Retail (Full Version)(GFC-00025) £123.36
(£104.99) £123.36
(£104.99)
Corsair HX 650W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-650HXUK) £99.99
(£85.10) £99.99
(£85.10)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Advanced Dominator Case - Black £76.99
(£65.52) £76.99
(£65.52)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £42.29
(£35.99) £42.29
(£35.99)
Samsung SH-S223C/RSMS 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black/Silver/Biege) - Retail £13.99
(£11.91) £13.99
(£11.91)
Sub Total : £1,278.08
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £226.25
Total : £1,519.08

Zaim · 6 Nov 2010 at 16:58

How about this mate:

edited build to include win 7 and removed monitor, added two 470's instead of one 480.

MonkeykingZX · 6 Nov 2010 at 16:58

£1434.60

not sure whether you needed windows 7 or a monitor

Bizzie · 6 Nov 2010 at 17:02

wow thanks for the quick replies, i forgot to mention;

Yup i need my windows 7
Dont need monitor or any accessories.

sorry for forgetting that..

*EDIT*

Also is it worth buying it sepperate? Doesnt seem like im saving much compaired to buying a pre-built ''Ultima dreadnought'' but shipping it to me seemd to have been what damaged it. After getting a repaired system (GPU failed) it was shipped to me in bits, CPU cooler pretty much fell off in transit, bending it and damaging other components. Do you think OcUK will pack the inside for me to stop this?

ryan4227 · 6 Nov 2010 at 17:10

Here just a tad over includes sli 460

Let me know what you think

Edit: Change SSD for the bigfoot mentioned above then it is under budget

stulid · 6 Nov 2010 at 17:19

Zaim said:
How about this mate:

edited build to include win 7 and removed monitor, added two 470's instead of one 480.

I give this a +1

but this 1tb drive is faster and a few quid cheaper - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1279

Jony27 · 6 Nov 2010 at 17:20

i would go for monkey's spec ande swap some things like
case to a 690 ii lite/advnced
psu to quality 850w to allow future sli
add windows 7 64bit oem
and maybe swap the dvd drive for a blu ray drive
and viola!

stulid · 6 Nov 2010 at 17:21

Jony27 said:
i would go for monkey's spec ande swap some things like
case to a 690 ii lite/advnced
psu to quality 850w to allow future sli
add windows 7 64bit oem
and maybe swap the dvd drive for a blu ray drive
and viola!

so its not really Monkey's spec anymore. lol

Zaim's is faster, and includes win7

Jony27 · 6 Nov 2010 at 17:23

stulid said:
so its not really Monkey's spec anymore. lol

hahaha uhmmm maybe not lol

RJC · 6 Nov 2010 at 17:23

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Krypton Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz @ 4.00GHz USB3/SATA 6Gb/s Overclocked Bundle £384.23
(£327.00) £384.23
(£327.00)
Options applied to the above product:
Akasa AK-CCX-4001HP Nero S Direct Contact Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / LGA775 / LGA1156 / LGA1366 ) £32.99
(£28.08) £32.99
(£28.08)
Options applied to the above product:
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £144.03
(£122.58) £144.03
(£122.58)
OcUK Value GeForce GTX 470 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with MAFIA 2 £179.99
(£153.18) £359.98
(£306.36)
OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G) £173.89
(£147.99) £173.89
(£147.99)
XFX 850W Black Edition Modular Power Supply £124.98
(£106.37) £124.98
(£106.37)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Retail (Full Version)(GFC-00025) £123.36
(£104.99) £123.36
(£104.99)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Advanced Dominator Case - Black £76.99
(£65.52) £76.99
(£65.52)
Samsung SH-B123L/BSBP 12x BluRay ROM DVDRW DL & RAM Lightscribe SATAII Optical Drive - OEM Black £49.34
(£41.99) £49.34
(£41.99)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £42.29
(£35.99) £42.29
(£35.99)
Sub Total : £1,286.87
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £227.78
Total : £1,529.40

Bizzie · 6 Nov 2010 at 17:29

All specs are looking good but what's best to have?

1 x GTX 480 or
2 x GTX 460 / 470

Also what's the benefit of blu-ray writer ATM? I don't use blu-ray apart from a player and ps3 so could probs scrap that for awesome quality DVD one?

Still unsure if I'd be better to build or buy pre-built with the amount I'd save, any advice?

Thanks!

stulid · 6 Nov 2010 at 17:32

its better to have 2 GTX470/460 than one GTX480.

you also got more for your money if you build it yourself.

RJC · 6 Nov 2010 at 17:33

You can drop the Blu-ray player and for a standard dvd rw.

Build one, you never go back

Plenty of people will help here if needed

stulid · 6 Nov 2010 at 17:34

But still strongly recommend what Zaim has posted, he nailed this spec first and with money left over for a game to play on this new beast.

RJC · 6 Nov 2010 at 17:35

Change to std dvd rw.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Krypton Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz @ 4.00GHz USB3/SATA 6Gb/s Overclocked Bundle £384.23
(£327.00) £384.23
(£327.00)
Options applied to the above product:
Akasa AK-CCX-4001HP Nero S Direct Contact Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / LGA775 / LGA1156 / LGA1366 ) £32.99
(£28.08) £32.99
(£28.08)
Options applied to the above product:
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £144.03
(£122.58) £144.03
(£122.58)
OcUK Value GeForce GTX 470 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with MAFIA 2 £179.99
(£153.18) £359.98
(£306.36)
OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G) £173.89
(£147.99) £173.89
(£147.99)
XFX 850W Black Edition Modular Power Supply £124.98
(£106.37) £124.98
(£106.37)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Retail (Full Version)(GFC-00025) £123.36
(£104.99) £123.36
(£104.99)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Advanced Dominator Case - Black £76.99
(£65.52) £76.99
(£65.52)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £42.29
(£35.99) £42.29
(£35.99)
Samsung SH-S223C/RSMS 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black/Silver/Biege) - Retail £13.99
(£11.91) £13.99
(£11.91)
Sub Total : £1,256.79
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £222.52
Total : £1,494.06

Bizzie · 6 Nov 2010 at 17:49

I'm on my phone ATM so checking all specs in detail is going to have to wait till later or my eyes will be done lol.
But ok, 2x 470 is what I'll aim for.
120gb bigfoot SSD
Also why full version of win 7 insted of OEM?
Also any idea where I can find outer dimensions of this cm690 case?

And I Have to say, I'm impressed with the amount of help and replies I have gotten!

Oh btw, these processor bundles, they overclocked as soon as you put them together?

Thank you all very much!!!

RJC · 6 Nov 2010 at 17:51

Retail allows you to transfer the operating system to another machine, oem is tied to the board it was installed.

The bundles are overcloked with saved Profiles.

http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=6649&category_id=19

stulid · 6 Nov 2010 at 17:53

with the retail version of win7 you can use it in another build, OEM is locked to the motherboard.

I wouldnt buy the retail version of win7 as by the time you need to seriously upgrade the pc, win10 or something will be out and make win7 look archaic.

the overclocked bundles have the bios settings neeed for the overclock stored in a user profile within the bios, just load this setting and your at the claimed speed.

Bizzie · 6 Nov 2010 at 21:22

So what do you think of this;

sorry for image being a bit small!

Thanks for all your help again guys..

Photo resized so heres writing if anyone else wants to give an opinion;

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Krypton Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz @ 4.00GHz USB3/SATA 6Gb/s Overclocked Bundle Krypton Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz @ 4.00GHz USB3/SATA 6Gb/s Overclocked Bundle £384.23
(£327.00) £384.23
(£327.00)
Options applied to the above product:
Corsair Hydro H70 High-Performance CPU WaterCooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3) £83.99
(£71.48) £83.99
(£71.48)
Options applied to the above product:
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard £144.03
(£122.58) £144.03
(£122.58)
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 OC 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with MAFIA 2 Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 OC 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with MAFIA 2 £184.99
(£157.44) £369.98
(£314.88)
OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G) OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G) £173.89
(£147.99) £173.89
(£147.99)
XFX 850W Black Edition Modular Power Supply XFX 850W Black Edition Modular Power Supply £124.98
(£106.37) £124.98
(£106.37)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £82.99
(£70.63) £82.99
(£70.63)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Advanced Dominator Case - Black Coolermaster CM-690 II Advanced Dominator Case - Black £76.99
(£65.52) £76.99
(£65.52)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £42.29
(£35.99) £42.29
(£35.99)
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£12.76) £14.99
(£12.76)
Sub Total : £1,275.20
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £225.74
Total : £1,515.69