Spec check for £450 please

Shrapnel · 30 Dec 2010 at 12:02

Hi all,

I'm spec'ing a machine for a mate. He plays WoW and not much else. I've read some of the other threads on here and have got to the spec below. Can you have a look over this spec and offer any advice please? His budget is about £450. He already has a good case. The graphics card will need to run two monitors. The case has the power supply at the bottom so the PSU might need long cables.

Intel Core i5 760 £140.99

Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3 Intel P55 £88.36 inc VAT

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit £39.99 inc VAT

Corsair TX 650W ATX SLi Compliant Power Supply £70.99 inc VAT

HIS ATI Radeon HD 5670 1024MB GDDR5 ICEQ PCI-Express Graphics Card £76.36 inc VAT

£416.69 Inc Vat , Exc Postage.

Thoughts / feedback?

Thanks in advance.

cammy5477 · 30 Dec 2010 at 12:13

build looks good mate

pretty much best bang for buck

RJC · 30 Dec 2010 at 12:19

Spec looks ok, one possible option is to look at the Antec 650w PSU which has the plus point of being modular.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-117-AN

M1k3H · 30 Dec 2010 at 12:20

what I would do is up the gfx a bit unless he is playing in a low resolution. I am playing 1920x1080 and when I had one 5770 with all on full it would struggle in raids and or dungeons with lots of AoE going around.

95thrifles · 30 Dec 2010 at 12:29

Thought 1 would be wait til 9th Jan see what SB has to offer, if you can, if not then thought 2 is the following, which has much better gfx and the PSU is still ok, 600/650W is OTT

Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £140.99
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 OC 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £117.49
Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £88.36
OCZ StealthXStream 2 500W Power Supply £45.99
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £39.99
Total : £432.81

Shrapnel · 30 Dec 2010 at 13:26

Thanks for the input folks.

Lemin · 30 Dec 2010 at 13:35

95thrifles said:
Thought 1 would be wait til 9th Jan see what SB has to offer, if you can, if not then thought 2 is the following, which has much better gfx and the PSU is still ok, 600/650W is OTT

Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £140.99
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 OC 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £117.49
Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £88.36
OCZ StealthXStream 2 500W Power Supply £45.99
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £39.99
Total : £432.81

this, much better.