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A mate is looking for a pc for gaming at 1600x1080 res.

He has a Antec P180 case, DVD/RW and Cosair HX 520W Modular power supply already from his 5yr old pc. He also has a 20" monitor.

His budget is around £650.

thanks!
 
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He presumably means 1680x1050 or similar, you get the idea though.

That's a nice rig though, there's not a lot to argue with there. Perhaps up it to the 1TB F3 if it's not already at the budget.
 
I was about to start doing a basket myself, but I can't improve on that for the price. The only thing would be, if he wants to overclock it, that RAM may be a bit of a limiter. Around £10-15 more will get some faster (1600MHz) RAM, with the same latencies, so that may be worth a look at.
 
Sorry I meant 1600x1050!

I spoke to him and he said he can bring his budget up to £700. He is thinking of overclocking as well.

One question - would i5 750 be a better choice than 955 BE for pure gaming at that res?
 
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5 750 2.66GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - OEM + Assassin's Creed II Game £159.99

Asus P7P55D Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £118.99

2x Club 3D ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £116.99

Geil Value 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GV34GB1600C9DC) £84.99

CoolIT Eco A.L.C. High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366) £54.99

Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD5001AALS) £48.99

Sub Total : £597.39
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £106.29
Total : £713.68
 
leunghk said:
Sorry I meant 1600x1050!

One question - would i5 750 be a better choice than 955 BE for pure gaming at that res?
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Yes, but the 965 is about the same as 750, at around the same price. Been
doing similar research myself and it seems as long as you have a true quad there is not much in it at all. I'm waiting for decent Bc2 benchmarks tbh- and perhaps another next gen game before I commit to a new system.
 
swap the mother board for the EVGA P55V Intel P55 that supports crossfire and sli but it micro atx if that is a problem but it does also bring it slightly under budget
 
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the ASUS P7P55D does run crossfire my original choice and also has 6gb sata

- CPU: Intel Core i7/Core i5 Processors (Socket LGA1156)
- Chipset: Intel P55 Express
- Memory: 4x DDR3 DIMM 2200(OC) / 1600 / 1333 / 1066 MHz (Max. 16GB) / Dual Channel / Intel Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)
- Expasion slots: 2x PCIe 2.0 x16 Slots, 3x PCIe x1 Slots & 2x PCI Slots (Supports ATI CrossFireX Technology)
- Storage: 1x Ultra DMA 133/100/66, 7x SATA 3Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10), 2x SATA 6Gb/s & 1x eSATA 3Gb/s
- LAN: RTL8112L Gigabit LAN
- Audio: VT1828S 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC
- 2x IEEE 1394a
- 12x USB 2.0
- 2x USB 3.0/2.0
- 1x PS/2 Keyboard
- 1x PS/2 Mouse
- 1x S/PDIF Out (Optical)
- TurboV EVO
- T.Probe Technology for Active Cooling
- ASUS 12+2 Phase Power Design
- Quad-GPU CrossFireX Support!
- MemOK!
- EPU
 
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the ASUS P7P55D does run crossfire my original choice and also has 6gb sata

- CPU: Intel Core i7/Core i5 Processors (Socket LGA1156)
- Chipset: Intel P55 Express
- Memory: 4x DDR3 DIMM 2200(OC) / 1600 / 1333 / 1066 MHz (Max. 16GB) / Dual Channel / Intel Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)
- Expasion slots: 2x PCIe 2.0 x16 Slots, 3x PCIe x1 Slots & 2x PCI Slots (Supports ATI CrossFireX Technology)
- Storage: 1x Ultra DMA 133/100/66, 7x SATA 3Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10), 2x SATA 6Gb/s & 1x eSATA 3Gb/s
- LAN: RTL8112L Gigabit LAN
- Audio: VT1828S 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC
- 2x IEEE 1394a
- 12x USB 2.0
- 2x USB 3.0/2.0
- 1x PS/2 Keyboard
- 1x PS/2 Mouse
- 1x S/PDIF Out (Optical)
- TurboV EVO
- T.Probe Technology for Active Cooling
- ASUS 12+2 Phase Power Design
- Quad-GPU CrossFireX Support!
- MemOK!
- EPU
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The motherboard does not support symmetrical Crossfire.

Here is the web-page for the motherboard on the Asus website:

http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=RBA8CzWoopUlYRFZ&templete=2

This is what it says:

" 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (single at x16)
1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (@x4 mode, 2.5GT/s)
2 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 (2.5GT/s)
3 x PCI "

The second slot is PCI-E 2.0 4X electrical and PCI-E 2.0 16X physical.

The Asus P7P55D-E has the same limitation as the ASUS P7P55D:

http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=9i872VNaAILRp8bS&templete=2

This article is very useful to read:

http://www.hardware-revolution.com/p55-motherboards-crossfire-sli-performance-problem/
 
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