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Hi,

Im looking at a new PC, tired of playing CS on a laptop in my living room on my sofa.

So desktop pc it is.

Since i only play CS:S and no other games at all the spec doesnt need to be anything huge, however i do want it to last me a while so a semi decent graphics card would be good.

From reading around i dont think theres any point in me going for the i7 and spending more money when im not going to use it. So im looking at the P2. However, the rest im not sure about. I would like usb3? not read much about it other than its out, also atleast 6gb ram because . . . .well just cause i can now. I have windows 7 64 bit enterprise aswell.

Im sure i wont need a hard drive unless something has changed in the last few years with them? I have a pretty much standard 500gb sata hard drive kicking about.

I just need the box, no monitors, keyboards, mice, speakers.

So could someone help me please? i need speccing for

Case
PSU
CPU
RAM
Motherboard
GPU
Sound Card - Basic 5.1 audigy would do i guess
Hard Drive - If my other one is outdated?

Budget £6-700 - flexible-ish
Cheers,
Danny
 
Went with 4gb of memory rather than 6, which is more used with the i7's and tri channel, could up it to 8gb if you really want too.

Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £129.99 (£110.63)

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £129.24 (£109.99)

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £89.29 (£75.99)

Asus M4A88TD-M EVO/USB3 AMD 880G (Socket AM3) DDR3 microATX Motherboard £82.99 (£70.63)

Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 500W Power Supply £66.99 (£57.01)

Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £43.99 (£37.44)

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1 Sound Card - OEM (PCI-Express) (30SB104200000) £38.99 (£33.18)

Titan TTC-NK85TZ/V2 Fenrir CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366) £32.99 (£28.08)

Sub Total : £522.95
Shipping : £11.75
VAT : £93.57
Total : £628.27
 
personally i prefer my £700 like this
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spec'ed enough?

more serious note. if you've been playing it on a laptop for ages is there a real need to blow £700 on a gaming pc? £400 would play it at the same specs i would say no?

what that ^ guy said was very good, though i would use on-board sound
 
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Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5830 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card + Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 £164.49

AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1055T 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £157.44

OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3G1600LV4GK) £88.11

Asus M4A87TD Evo AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £84.99

Cooler Master Silent Pro Modular 500W Power Supply £66.99

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1 Sound Card - OEM (PCI) (30SB079200000) £34.99

Coolermaster Elite 335 Case - Black £29.99

£640.21


Would be overkill for what you described.


If you wanted to save some money.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-210-OK&groupid=43&catid=1444&subcat=

^ more than capable of what you require i would imagine. and at £511.48 minus shipping.
 
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Cheers for the replies, although i dont need a high end gaming system i didnt want a snail. I do quite abit of web design etc so using photoshop etc every now and then.

Whats the pro's/cons of the 1055T 6 core processor vs the 955?

Thanks again for your help
 
+ 2 cores
over clocks stressed cores (good if you don't already over clock)
more catch?

but a quad can (in extreme over clock) go over 4ghz, the hex core tends to stay at 4ghz max
 
Thank you.

I want to be able to play CS:S on full graphics etc without an FPS config. Will both of the above systems be able to do that? I dont play the game that much, but when i do i dont want to be using configs for a new pc ive just built.
 
What about the nvidia 460 card? Worth spending the little extra and maybe doing away with the sound card and just use onboard for now? Also, would a cheaper psu work? And the CPU cooler? Im not planning to overclock just now so would stock be okay? Id also be looking at a new monitor and want to spend no more than £150 pref 24" but happy to hear suggestions.
 
yup, going with the 460 over the sound card would be a decent change, and if your after graphics it would make more sense.

long as the spec's suit the needs for the 460 you might be able to get away with a cheaper psu, but it will only save you about £10 ish.

you can stick with the stock cooler on the processor, then see how it goes, no reason why not if your not overclocking initially.

screen wise have a look at the benq 24" led, seems to be pretty well liked.
 
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