Spec me a gaming rig for £800

Murray · 7 May 2011 at 18:40

Another battery stopped working so luckily I got 2 in the packet and that worked again....

stulid · 7 May 2011 at 18:45

Murray said:
Another battery stopped working so luckily I got 2 in the packet and that worked again....

If it happens again, then the MOBO is suspect

Murray · 7 May 2011 at 18:46

stulid said:
If it happens again, then the MOBO is suspect

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3765#bios

stulid · 7 May 2011 at 18:59

Murray said:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3765#bios

try it.

dhruva55 · 7 May 2011 at 19:06

stulid said:
Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Palit GeForce GTX 580 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £379.99
(£316.66) £379.99
(£316.66)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £161.99
(£134.99) £161.99
(£134.99)
Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 Intel P67 Chipset (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £104.98
(£87.48) £104.98
(£87.48)
OCZ StealthXStream 2 600W Power Supply £50.99
(£42.49) £50.99
(£42.49)
OCZ Platinum 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Ultra Low Voltage Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3P1600C9ELV4GK) £36.98
(£30.82) £36.98
(£30.82)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500413AS) £30.98
(£25.82) £30.98
(£25.82)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1155/ 1156 / 1366) £17.99
(£14.99) £17.99
(£14.99)
Sub Total : £653.25
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £132.65
Total : £795.90

NO sli/crossfire with that board really.

Great setup, unfortunately no crossfire

stulid · 7 May 2011 at 19:08

dhruva55 said:
Great setup, unfortunately no crossfire

Thanks for the comment, a little late though, two weeks too late.

Murray · 7 May 2011 at 19:32

I downloaded it but it says its not compatibly?

stulid · 7 May 2011 at 19:36

You doing this? - http://www.gigabyte.com/MicroSite/121/tech_a_bios.htm

found it under the utilities section of your board.

Murray · 14 May 2011 at 21:45

Managed to do it.

Is it safe to overclock with my PSU or will it go Bang?

stulid · 14 May 2011 at 21:45

PSU is fine, its not **** at all.

Murray · 14 May 2011 at 21:50

ok thats good to know, bit of a waste my i5 sitting at 3.3GHz might up it to 3.7 see how that goes.

Murray · 14 May 2011 at 22:46

only thing to find out now is why my rig is underperforming

stulid · 14 May 2011 at 22:50

All drivers installed?

have you run the windows experience index? this doesnt seem to do much, but the OS learns the tech.

Murray · 14 May 2011 at 23:11

stulid said:
All drivers installed?

have you run the windows experience index? this doesnt seem to do much, but the OS learns the tech.

Yeah I have. Got 5.9 Amazing huh

Murray · 14 May 2011 at 23:42

Drivers are the updated as well, I am 300 behind on heaven from someone with same setup at stock.

stulid · 15 May 2011 at 00:07

Murray said:
Drivers are the updated as well, I am 300 behind on heaven from someone with same setup at stock.

But he could have fiddle in the drivers, moved some sliders from quality to performance etc.

Murray · 15 May 2011 at 00:17

is 1000 good for my setup because I am quite far behind rest of 580s and can't run crysis on high

stulid · 15 May 2011 at 00:19

You should be eating crysis.

Murray · 15 May 2011 at 11:54

yeah I thought that as well.

Leeroy123 · 15 May 2011 at 11:57

my cards max the 3 crysis games out with ease so i would think a 580 shouldnt have a problem