Spec for a friend

Orcvader

Orcvader

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My friend is planning on building his first PC. He plans to play a few PC games and lots of HD video editing for his youtube channel. He needs the whole setup apart from a mouse and speakers. Max budget is £700, can't go over unfortunately. Specced this for him, but not too sure on it. Any ways to improve it/lower the price for him? He will be buying it all this weekend so hopefully the weekly deals will still be on ;).

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Thanks stulid, is that Asus board fine? Still quite wary on them after the horrid problems I've seen from them after SB's release.

He's not sure on overclocking, but he said he's willing to try if it helps him on FPS/video rendering times.
 
ASUS problems are long gone, the threads I and you have seen are months ago.

If he didnt want to overclock,

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £144.98
(£120.82) £144.98
(£120.82)
OcUK GeForce GTX 560 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £134.99
(£112.49) £134.99
(£112.49)
OcUK V-Line 221V2SB 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £83.99
(£69.99) £83.99
(£69.99)
Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
(£57.00) £68.40
(£57.00)
Options applied to the above product:
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £30.98
(£25.82) £30.98
(£25.82)
MSI H67MA-E35 Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard - (Sandybridge) **B3 REVISION** £64.99
(£54.16) £64.99
(£54.16)
BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W '80 Plus' Power Supply £45.98
(£38.32) £45.98
(£38.32)
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT51264BA160A) £43.19
(£35.99) £43.19
(£35.99)
Cooler Master Elite 370 Case - Black £32.99
(£27.49) £32.99
(£27.49)
Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£14.16) £16.99
(£14.16)
Gigabyte GK-K6800 Multimedia Keyboard £10.99
(£9.16) £10.99
(£9.16)
Sub Total : £565.40
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £115.78
Total : £694.68

Take note of the monitor too, its a Philips item and is a bargain.

Also picked a case where the PSU is in the bottom.
http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=6656

And the GTX560 is a much faster card.
 
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minor change to your original build. keeps the overclockable processor, chaneg the motherboard to stulids recommendation and managed to squeeze a better graphics card in there:


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £169.99
1 x OcUK GeForce GTX 460 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £109.99
1 x OcUK V-Line 221V2SB 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £83.99
1 x Asus P8P67 LE Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION ** £70.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £30.98
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W '80 Plus' Power Supply £45.98
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT51264BA160A) £43.19
1 x Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £37.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
1 x OcUK USB Keyboard - Black £4.99
Total : £699.98 (includes shipping : £13.75).

*edit*
graphics card isnt quite as good as stulids build, but the overclockability will be a real advantage to his video encoding (which, from the looks of what you have said, is more important than gaming)
 
Thanks, I'll consider both your tips :). Yes, at the moment video editing is more important to him as he usually records his PS3 gameplay and edits them for youtube, although a mate of mine is trying to lure him to the PC gaming side :p. He doesn't really mind playing games on low detail either, so might go for the 460 OC to save him a bit of cash, although the 560 does look tempting.
 
Orcvader said:
Thanks, I'll consider both your tips :). Yes, at the moment video editing is more important to him as he usually records his PS3 gameplay and edits them for youtube, although a mate of mine is trying to lure him to the PC gaming side :p. He doesn't really mind playing games on low detail either, so might go for the 460 OC to save him a bit of cash, although the 560 does look tempting.
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if they were both at standard speeds you would be looking at a 15% difference in gaming performance, however im not sure how well each one overclocks. the 460 is already overclocked a bit out of the box which is a good sign that it will overclock more.

im not sure what the difference between 720p and 1080p is like framerate wise but i can get ~40FPS on crysis with my 460 (the 768MB one) in 720p, so it should be more than enough for him.

i havent included a custom cooler in my buildbut you could still get 4-4.4Ghz out of the chip on the standard cooler
 
1080p = 2073600 pixels

720p = 921600 pixels

So at 1080p theres over double the pixels needing to be pushed around;)
 
stulid said:
1080p = 2073600 pixels

720p = 921600 pixels

So at 1080p theres over double the pixels needing to be pushed around;)
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i know that much, but working out the colours for each pixel isnt the only thing the graphics card does. it needs to create a 3D map of all the polygons, determine lighting effects and add textures before it even cares about how many pixels your screen has. thats why i was asking
 
New build now looks like this, I have more confidence in this build now:

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This fine for him? Decided on keeping the standard cooler as he only wants to aim for 4ghz, he's scared of frying the CPU so doesn't want to mess with any voltage settings :p.

EDIT: I have a 6850 that plays 1080p fine for most games, how does the 460/560 compare to that?
 
Reaper 392 said:
no idea what the OcUK value keyboard is like though
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Never used one or looked at one.

But I imagine its as bad as could you think it is.

Horrible "feel" to the key press.
Cheap bendy plastics.
Gets confused when you press more than 1 key.
Sneeze and you might blow it off the desk.
 
Well after showing him this thread, he's decided to go for the GB keyboard :p. Build now costs £700.68 inc delivery. He's very happy with it now and is excited to build it when it all arrives. Thanks everyone for your help :), this is one of the many reasons why I love this forum :D.
 
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