Spec me £700

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Kellogz

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Ok before christmas i spent a lot of time trying to get a rig with a max £700 sorted and i had the perfect setup ready.. orderd... but had some trouble with the finance company with paperwork. Finally i got it all sorted but guess what! they stopped selling some the bits i wanted And this order is 3 months old now! so with the great help of the overclockers sale staff im able to redo my order with the agreed finiance total and if i want spend a few pennys extra. Heres my old order:

XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £121.73
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £109.55
Asus M4A79XTD Evo (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £73.03
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £72.16
Lancool Dragon-Lord PC-K62 Mid Tower Case with Window - Black £69.56
OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply £56.51
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £33.90
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1156 / 1366) £17.3
Samsung SH-S222L/BEBE 22x DVD±RW IDE Lightscribe Drive (Black) - OEM £16.51
Belkin Pro Series Digital Video Single Link DVI Cable - 1.8M (CC5000AED06) £8.69
Akasa 8-Pin 30cm PSU Extension Cable £2.99
DPD Next Day Parcel: £12.50
VAT: £89.18
Order Total: £683.69


So ive got a Max budget of! £700

Too refresh what the job of this pc was for was a pure gaming pc that will hande mainly dx10 games to the best potential within the budget. I play mmos and fps but mmos seem to be more demanding when it comes to rendering 200+ people in the same area at one time :cool: but since the dx10 cards are not being sold and being focused on the dx11 as i was told, than im just gonna have to get a dx11 card. So ive got £700 to spend, im sure theres new offers and new hardware out there so £700 max is the limit do what you guys do so well and spec me :D

thanks in advanced for all the help and previous help, ill also be listing some specs myself within the post also with feedbacks :) thanks again! :D
 
I'd still stick with AMD which will be great for games (your post suggest that is all you'll be using it for). 5850 will handle anything you throw at it, and you can buy a CPU cooler later.

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hmm looks intresting the 5850s heard a lot of good things about it. Only slight problem with the spec you showed was theres no cpu fan, and the extra cables i wanted, unless the stock fan is ok on the cpu as i dont plan to OC untill ive used it a bit than ill look into it more so that not a problem and can buy one than. And also if a dvi cable is included with the card than theres no need for one of those also to be on my list and will save me some pennys. Also i will have to pay for the delivery woo xP £12.50

forgot to add, my current screen below:

Samsung 932GW 19-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor; LCD monitor delivers a 300 CD/M2 brightness and 1440 x 900 resolution; Digital In 1 x DVI-D and VGA
 
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other slight problem is the gfx card isnt in stock, look at the £700 builds in my thread (sig or top of page) slightly lower cpu but shouldnt really effect gaming, better spec mobo which supports xfire, for non OCd CPU the retail HSF will be fine
 
95thrifles said:
other slight problem is the gfx card isnt in stock, look at the £700 builds in my thread (sig or top of page) slightly lower cpu but shouldnt really effect gaming, better spec mobo which supports xfire, for non OCd CPU the retail HSF will be fine
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is there a huge difference i would notice in gaming with these two? im use to running most my games in Max all.

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

or

AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 Black Edition 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail
 
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