Spec me a gaming pc for £800

iBot · 23 Mar 2006 at 19:47

I need everything BUT

Monitor
Mouse
Keyboard
OS
Mouse Matt

So basicly i just need a case + everything in it.

I pefer AMD cpu's but aint fussed about ati/nvidia.

Thanks for any suggestions you have

(Also dont need any speakers/headphones)

Alexrose1uk · 23 Mar 2006 at 19:51

MMM...I'd think you'd want dual core at that price too?

Have a look at the bits I've got in my sig, throw in a samsung dvdrw and a gskill 2GB ZX kit and it'd cost about 800, and runs very nicely my version too, and thats with 1GB of RAM. Might even be able to fit an xfi into the budget too

iBot · 23 Mar 2006 at 20:01

As long as my games run fine i dont care

How is the xfi? Is it better than onboard?

Raikiri · 23 Mar 2006 at 20:03

iBot said:
As long as my games run fine i dont care

How is the xfi? Is it better than onboard?

For £80 you would hope so

semi-pro waster · 23 Mar 2006 at 20:03

I'm afraid I can't quite throw in an X1900XT, they have gone up in price a little recently but this ought to be suitable, the X1800XT will run everything you want with no problems whatsoever and it is under budget, have a couple of drinks on me

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CA-040-AN Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN)
£59.95 £59.95
MB-088-AS Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS)
£59.95 £59.95
MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)
£94.95 £94.95
HD-046-WD Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-046-WD)
£55.95 £55.95
CD-026-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-026-NE)
£25.95 £25.95
CP-134-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3800BVBOX) (CP-134-AM)
£175.95 £175.95
GX-048-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-PC)
£199.95 £199.95
Subtotal £672.65
VAT £117.72
Total £790.37

Alexrose1uk · 23 Mar 2006 at 20:09

Good spec semi-pro.

Shame about the x1900xt, but you can always email me every few days to hear about how my fps is consistently high

StarShock · 23 Mar 2006 at 20:11

MB-121-AS Asus A8V-E SE VIA K8T890 (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-121-AS) 1
£47.95 £47.95
HD-024-SA Samsung SpinPoint P HD160JJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-024-SA) 1
£45.95 £45.95
CD-030-NE NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-030-NE) 1
£24.95 £24.95
CP-134-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3800BVBOX) (CP-134-AM) 1
£175.95 £175.95
GX-112-SP Sapphire ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-112-SP) 1
£269.95 £269.95
MY-005-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5 (GE1GB3200BHDC) (MY-005-GL) 1
£44.95 £44.95
CA-048-AN Antec SLK3800BUK Black Quiet Midi Tower Case - 400W SmartPower PSU (CA-048-AN) 1
£51.95 £51.95
Subtotal £661.65
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £9.95
VAT £117.53
Total £789.13

MG42Maniac · 23 Mar 2006 at 20:32

Isn't a 400w PSU and a X1900XT pushing it a bit?

StarShock · 23 Mar 2006 at 20:36

only 1 hdd only 1 optical drive only 1 video card should be fine,
also there is enough room in the budget to change to the sonnata 2 case with the 450w smart power if need be

if it were me though I would save up another 50 quid or so and go for 2 gb RAM

MG42Maniac · 23 Mar 2006 at 20:37

Ok sounds good, only reason I brought it up is that i'm getting a X1900XT in 1 week and by looking at some threads my Seasonic 430 is only just going to cope.

StarShock · 23 Mar 2006 at 20:48

as i understand it, the trouble isn't the overall power usage as much as it is how much its using per rail, a good quality power supply with a lower total output would handle it better than a poor quality one with a much higher output

according to this calculator http://www.extreme.outervision.com/index.jsp the above specd machine would only use a little over 300 w

Explicit · 23 Mar 2006 at 21:09

semi-pro waster said:
I'm afraid I can't quite throw in an X1900XT, they have gone up in price a little recently but this ought to be suitable, the X1800XT will run everything you want with no problems whatsoever and it is under budget, have a couple of drinks on me .

CA-040-AN Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN)
£59.95 £59.95
MB-088-AS Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS)
£59.95 £59.95
MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)
£94.95 £94.95
HD-046-WD Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-046-WD)
£55.95 £55.95
CD-026-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-026-NE)
£25.95 £25.95
CP-134-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3800BVBOX) (CP-134-AM)
£175.95 £175.95
GX-048-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-PC)
£199.95 £199.95
Subtotal £672.65
VAT £117.72
Total £790.37

I think thats your best bet as everything is balanced out. Should be really nice rig.

StarShock's spec is also very good, but I'm not keen on VIA chipsets

p) and 1GB ram might hold you back in some games

WatchTower · 23 Mar 2006 at 22:49

I've taken a while to come up with this what do you guys think? I push it right to the line.

Case: Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN) £70.44

Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLi SE nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-101-AS) £76.32

CPU: AMD Opteron UP 165 Dual Core San Diego 1.8GHz 2MB Cache (Socket 939) - Retail (CP-151-AM) £260.79

Graphics card: XFX GeForce 7800GT Extreme Edition 256MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI
(PCI-Express) - Retail (PVT70G-UDF7) (GX-070-XF) £176.19

Memory: Corsair 2GB DDR Value Select PC3200 CAS3.0 Kit (2x1GB) (VS2GBKIT400C3) (MY-080-CS) £111.57

Harddrive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 300GB ST3300831A ATA-100 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-025-SE) £73.97

DVDRW: Samsung SH-W162C 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) (CD-068-SA) £23.44

Floppy: OcUK Value Floppy Drive - Black (HD-001-OK) £6.99

Total = 799.71

I got you an SLI mobo in there for the future and a massive 300Gb harddrive and a Dualcore thats has 2mb cache 1mb per core.

Monstermunch · 23 Mar 2006 at 22:52

CA-040-AN Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN)
£59.95 £59.95
MB-088-AS Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS)
£59.95 £59.95
MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)
£94.95 £94.95
HD-046-WD Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-046-WD)
£55.95 £55.95
CD-026-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-026-NE)
£25.95 £25.95
CP-134-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3800BVBOX) (CP-134-AM)
£175.95 £175.95
GX-048-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-PC)
£199.95 £199.95
Subtotal £672.65
VAT £117.72
Total £790.37[/QUOTE]

Nice spec... Although I might be tempted with the extra cash to go for the OCZ PC3200 Platinum, also the MSI nF4 Ultra Mobo is much better for clocking!

iBot · 24 Mar 2006 at 11:36

how is the psu that comes with the antec? I thought most case+psu combos were crappy?

semi-pro waster · 24 Mar 2006 at 11:51

iBot said:
how is the psu that comes with the antec? I thought most case+psu combos were crappy?

Which one, the Sonata or the SLK3800? It doesn't matter too much, either are good PSUs although the Sonata is a bit more powerful. Antec make good standalone PSUs so although there are some poor combinations once you get to this sort of price range you are normally buying quite a good combination

WatchTower · 24 Mar 2006 at 15:45

It's true Case and PSU combos do normaly suck but we're talking about Antec here. Antec make the best PSUs around.