Spec me £600 gaming system.

Smite · 17 Feb 2010 at 22:29

Maybe more, but I want to keep it at a £600 limit for now.

I suppose my biggest conundrum is i5 750 vs AMD 965 BE

Can anyone help me? BTW, I'm a first time builder so, can someone uh, i dunno, put first-time builds into perspective regarding how difficult they are?

I have a current okay gaming PC, that I can and am willing to salvage for parts, I'm just finding my systems beginning to not run stuff as well as it used to - quad cores catching on more.

Daaaveee · 17 Feb 2010 at 22:31

Which bits can you salvage so we know not to spec them?

RJC · 17 Feb 2010 at 22:33

did one earlier - may help:

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £135.99
(£115.74) £135.99
(£115.74)

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £119.98
(£102.11) £119.98
(£102.11)

Patriot Sector 5 Viper II 4GB (2x2GB) PC3-12800 1600MHz Dual Channel + 3D Mark Vantage (PVV34G1600LLKB) £76.99
(£65.52) £76.99
(£65.52)

Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P AMD 770 (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £73.99
(£62.97) £73.99
(£62.97)

Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £40.98
(£34.88) £40.98
(£34.88)

Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)

Corsair CX 400W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-400CXUK) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)

Sony Optiarc AD-7241S 24x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe Optical Drive (Black) - OEM £18.99
(£16.16) £18.99
(£16.16) Sub Total : £465.44 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75 VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £83.51 Total : £560.70

Smite · 17 Feb 2010 at 22:34

Well, I'm kinda worried about static shocking the parts while transferirng them, but I got 2 4850's that I'm willing to give a go at ripping out. Although, If perhaps there's something thats relatively cheap and works better now, who knows.

Ummm.

I have a Corsair PSU (I believe) that is 650W or something - I can check - that should work relatively nicely?

I dunno, been out of the tech world for a while..

RJC · 17 Feb 2010 at 22:40

The Corsair will be fine.

Don't be to concerned about static, I have yet to kill anything yet by static. I tend to touch a rad which is earthed before I start work on my pc and leave the power plug plugged into the mains socket, power off though.

sjcf1 · 17 Feb 2010 at 22:50

I'd go with RJC's spec.

Although, if we count the fact that your PSU is fine, then you could, get away with a 5850 in there. Its £10 Over Budget though. Would eat anything you threw at it.

Smite · 17 Feb 2010 at 22:52

Oh.

My old case is an antec 900, if that helps, i can rip everything out of it too.

sjcf1 · 17 Feb 2010 at 22:53

If you want to reuse that then you can knock the case off the build list.

What CPU are you running?

Smite · 17 Feb 2010 at 23:50

AMD Athlon IIx2 6400 or something.

3.1ghz dual core.

No likey.

sjcf1 · 17 Feb 2010 at 23:54

If your not going to use your 4850's for anything then you could sell them on a well known auction site and get £45 for them, add that to your budget and you could get a 5870 and a 965 - just whether your Power supply could handle that.