Spec me a system please

Conrad90909 · 4 Mar 2008 at 12:07

I have £600 budget will be using the system for mostly gaming and other general computer things, I have monitor/keyboard and mouse just need base unit.

Thanks in advance!

Kearney_1988 · 4 Mar 2008 at 12:48

will you be overclocking at all?

Lee

Conrad90909 · 4 Mar 2008 at 12:58

Certainly not initially, but after I've had it a few months I might decide to play around so I'd probably wanna plan ahead!

Cheers

Kearney_1988 · 4 Mar 2008 at 13:06

If you want to overclock this should be good for the money. if you arent up for it you could buy a better CPU as its still under budget

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melbourne720 · 4 Mar 2008 at 13:26

That GTS is old tech, get either a 8800 GT (cheaper and faster) or a 8800 GTS 512MB (muore expensive and faster).

Otherwise looks good.

Conrad90909 · 4 Mar 2008 at 15:11

OK....thought about it and decided to spend a bit more money, took bits of what you have suggested and came up with the below, slightly beefed up the CPU/Motherboard, extra 2gb and a GT card, is the gigabyte OC one any good?

Hows the below look and do you think it would all fit into a Lian-Li PC-7, that Tuniq looks like a big mother of a heatsink!

Below comes out at £744.76 including shipping, just £144 over my original budget

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