Spec for £800 full system

ali825 · 3 Jul 2009 at 12:19

hiya my friend just came round and want to buy a pc from overclockers to build him self, i was wondering if you guy could spec him a rig for around about £800.
he wants the pc for gameing primaly, his requiremts are:

500gb harddive
4gb of ram
pls can you inculue the os in the budget
he is willing to overclock
would like a 22inc screen

is it worth him getting quad core or just stick to duo core to save some cash since not many games unitlies it

thx so much for your help

Kennysevenfold · 3 Jul 2009 at 12:23

I would use W7 for the OS

Product Name Qty Price Line Total

Asus VH222H 22" Widescreen True HD LCD Monitor £155.99
(£135.64) £155.99
(£135.64)

Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4890 Plus 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.98
(£130.42) £149.98
(£130.42)

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 940 Black Edition 3.0GHz (Socket AM2+) - Retail £132.99
(£115.64) £132.99
(£115.64)

Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P AMD 790X (Socket AM2+) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £94.99
(£82.60) £94.99
(£82.60)

Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD10EADS) £61.99
(£53.90) £61.99
(£53.90)

OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Modular Power Supply £54.99
(£47.82) £54.99
(£47.82)

Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU) £44.99
(£39.12) £44.99
(£39.12)

Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel (KHX8500D2K2/4G) £37.98
(£33.03) £37.98
(£33.03)

Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 3000 - OEM (69N-00015) £25.99
(£22.60) £25.99
(£22.60)

Pioneer DVR-217FBK 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
(£15.64) £17.99
(£15.64) Sub Total : £676.41 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £15.50 VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £103.79 Total : £795.70

icey_haj · 3 Jul 2009 at 12:25

Here is a better system than Kenny's;

(If he still wants to overclock this then get a good CPU cooler, for example Titan Fenrir)

ali825 · 3 Jul 2009 at 12:26

what your reasoning for going for amd over intel

Nocky24 · 3 Jul 2009 at 12:27

Kennysevenfold said:
I would use W7 for the OS

Product Name Qty Price Line Total

Asus VH222H 22" Widescreen True HD LCD Monitor £155.99
(£135.64) £155.99
(£135.64)

Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4890 Plus 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.98
(£130.42) £149.98
(£130.42)

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 940 Black Edition 3.0GHz (Socket AM2+) - Retail £132.99
(£115.64) £132.99
(£115.64)

Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P AMD 790X (Socket AM2+) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £94.99
(£82.60) £94.99
(£82.60)

Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD10EADS) £61.99
(£53.90) £61.99
(£53.90)

OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Modular Power Supply £54.99
(£47.82) £54.99
(£47.82)

Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU) £44.99
(£39.12) £44.99
(£39.12)

Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel (KHX8500D2K2/4G) £37.98
(£33.03) £37.98
(£33.03)

Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 3000 - OEM (69N-00015) £25.99
(£22.60) £25.99
(£22.60)

Pioneer DVR-217FBK 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
(£15.64) £17.99
(£15.64) Sub Total : £676.41 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £15.50 VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £103.79 Total : £795.70

Nice spec but i'd really try and go for an AM3 mobo for future proofing to be honest. You could go AM3 with maybe a dual core 550 or a tri core which will be fine for most of todays games. Then look at a high end AM3 quad in the future when you need one maybe? Just a thought

icey_haj · 3 Jul 2009 at 12:30

ali825 said:
what your reasoning for going for amd over intel

Bang for buck coupled with 'future proofness' (when compared to socket 775).

ali825 · 3 Jul 2009 at 12:32

just wondering why ever one going for amd rather than intel, is intel not better for overclockering, also would you guy be able to factor the os so may be the budget should be £730, he is thinking of use the beta then buy the os when windows seven comes out

mp260767 · 3 Jul 2009 at 14:16

ali825 said:
just wondering why ever one going for amd rather than intel, is intel not better for overclockering, also would you guy be able to factor the os so may be the budget should be £730, he is thinking of use the beta then buy the os when windows seven comes out

the black edition amd processors listed are clocking pretty well, so very in it between amd/intel at the moment.

in that case go for icey_haj's initial spec but drop the processor to the tri core and the 4890 to a 4870 should drop off about £50 towards the o/s