Spec for a friend

Orcvader

Orcvader

Orcvader

Soldato
Joined
11 Oct 2009
Posts
16,929
Location
Greater London
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 ;).

700build.png
 
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.
 
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.
 
New build now looks like this, I have more confidence in this build now:

new700build.png


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?
 
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.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom