Spec me a £1k build

Aggymon · 1 Oct 2008 at 13:43

Hi All,

Been a lurker on here for a few years now (since I started playing EvE).

I have been left some pennies and am going to wisely invest it in a rig to replace my old 9300 laptop which has served me faithfully for the past 3 years

I've never built a PC from scratch before but feel comfortable enough having a go at plugging all the bits together but am not entirely sure which bits are compatible with which, hence the post

I've an idea of what I can get for my budget from a prebuilt system and only have a few requirements;

Can run 2 monitors (EvE account on each ofc) and the budget needs to purchase both of these as well.
Needs to include everything apart from keyboard, mouse and speakers (so windows needs to be included).

Once I get back from work I'll post a screenie of what I came up with (basically copying the spec of the prebuilt one as much as i could).

Thanks for helping

Aggy

greywolf · 1 Oct 2008 at 13:55

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Asus P5Q Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Reaper HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2RPR800C44GK)
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST3500320AS)
Corsair TX 650W ATX2.2 SLi Compliant PSU
Antec Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)
Pioneer DVR-216DBK 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Asus VW222S 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black x 2
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66I-01939)

Slightly over budget at £1053.94 + shipping , case might need case fans. Went for two 22" monitors , but you possibly could save abit of cash by going for 19"

LLBDTiberio · 1 Oct 2008 at 14:07

Ignore

Aggymon · 1 Oct 2008 at 14:40

Thanks for the reply, thought I would post the spec of the 'prebuilt' system for comparison and for comments on which is 'better' ? It comes in at £1065ish with delivery and my adjustments

Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q9550 Quad Core Processor(2.83GHz,12MB Cache,1333MHz)
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium with Service Pack 1, 64-bit - English
**** Midi-Tower ATX Case + 550W PSU - 190mm(W) x 420mm(H) x 480mm(D)
ASUS P5K SE Mainboard - Intel P35 - Intel Core™ 2 Duo/ Quad/ Extreme - ATX
8192MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM - (4 x 2GB)
500GB Serial ATA Hard Drive with 16MB Buffer
Samsung 22x Dual Layer DVD Writer Super Format +R/-R/RW/RAM
512MB nVIDIA GeForce 9600GT - Dual DVI, HDTV, TV Out
22" Widescreen LCD TFT Digital Display (DVI, 5ms)
22" Widescreen LCD TFT Digital Display (DVI, 5ms)

greywolf · 1 Oct 2008 at 14:45

The overall system spec of the pre built is generally better although I think the 9600gt lets it down. For running two monitors in games I would be looking for a better card such as the 4870 or 4850. The 9600gt may be ok with eve on 2 monitors, but as ive never done this i cannot say.

flinco · 1 Oct 2008 at 15:09

i agree, don't get a 9600gt with that system, get a lesser cpu and 4 gigs of ram and get a 4870. also get a 640gb or 320gb hard drive as they have denser platters and are therefore faster