Spec me please - gaming rig

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Yojimbo22

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Hey guys, hope you all had a nice christmas.

Looking to build my first pc, but when it comes to picking the pieces and such i'm fairly clueless :confused:.

Will be mainly for games like Bf3 and Sw:tor, if anyone could give any help it'd be greatly appreciated, and I realise it's quite short notice for the xmas voucher code so sorry.

Don't need any keyboard, monitor, mouse etc, however I will NEED a copy of win7.

Budget is £800, may be able to go slightly over but not by that much (don't get paid again now till end of January :() will most likely placing the order before 11:59 pm today, Thanks in advance ^_^.

Any questions, feel free to ask and i'll try to answer them the best I can.
 
A little over budget but here is what I have come up with;

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £184.99
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti OC Twin FrozR II 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £99.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £89.99
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 750W Quad Rail '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £84.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £69.98
1 x Cooler Master HAF 912 Case - Black £52.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £29.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £821.48 (includes shipping : £10.50).

Only a stock cooler for the CPU but you can buy a much better one for £25 ish from OCUK at a later time if you need to. However, if you want one included then I can re-do the spec for you :) also you didn't mention if you needed a HDD or not so I have included one for you.

Stoner81.
 
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Merry Xmas :)

I'm trying to do my best with the budget, and I will post it here in a sec, just my internet is very slow atm :(
 
Hey, thanks for the quick reply. Does the price above include the 5% voucher, assuming not because it says "Includes shipping".

I could squeeze up to about £850 (total including the xmas voucher) so if you would like tosuggest a decent cooler that would be great, thanks.

EDIT: another post before mine, was referring to Stoner's. Also Yes I do need a HDD.
 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 560Ti DirectCU II TOP 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with Battlefield 3 PC Game** £191.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £184.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £84.98
1 x XFX Pro 750W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £76.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £69.98
1 x Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £49.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £29.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Evo CPU Cooler (Socket Intel Socket LGA1366/1156/1155/775 / AMD Socket FM1/AM3+/AM3/AM2) £19.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £831.88 (includes shipping : £12.50).

 
No it does include the voucher code since that is done during checkout :)

Anyway I have re-done the spec for you to include a better cooler than the stock Intel one, this will give you loads of headroom for over clocking :D

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £184.99
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti OC Twin FrozR II 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £99.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £89.99
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 750W Quad Rail '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £84.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £69.98
1 x Cooler Master HAF 912 Case - Black £52.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £29.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
Total : £847.48 (includes shipping : £10.50).

Again this total does not include the voucher code so bear that in mind ;)

Stoner81.
 
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Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
MSI ATI Radeon HD 6970 2048MB Twin Frozr III GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **Supplied with Dirt 3 & Deus Ex PC Games** £267.95
(£223.29) £267.95
(£223.29)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £173.99
(£144.99) £173.99
(£144.99)
Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £89.99
(£74.99) £89.99
(£74.99)
XFX Pro 750W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £76.98
(£64.15) £76.98
(£64.15)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £69.98
(£58.32) £69.98
(£58.32)
Cooler Master HAF 912 Case - Black £52.99
(£44.16) £52.99
(£44.16)
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £29.99
(£24.99) £29.99
(£24.99)
Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
(£21.66) £25.99
(£21.66)
Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
(£13.32) £15.98
(£13.32)
* Sub Total : £753.19
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £152.74
** Total : £916.43

with the ocukxmas code it comes to £858 so little over the top end £850 budget you mentioned

the graphics card is 310mm long so you'll need to remove the removable hard disk cage, there is place for 3 hard disks/ssd without the removable hard disk cage so unless you plan on lots of disks you'll be fine. can save like £40 by going 6950 but the 6970 is much quicker especially if you oc it further.

if you prefer nvidia then would say go for the 2gb VRAM version of the 560ti NOT the 1gb specs by stoner or tibbz

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-140-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341

or another option is to get the rest now and use the onboard VGA(or an old card) and wait a couple of weeks as new graphics cards are due in January.
 
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