Spec me please!

Method · 17 Aug 2011 at 20:18

Spec me please! UPDATE required!

Evening people. In my few years as member on this site I don't think I've posted a spec me thread. Well, first time for everything.

Combining my birthday monies at the end of the month and some savings I would say I have a budget of around £800 including delivery.

Using it mainly for browsing, gaming (BF3,) and Photoshop for my DSLR pictures.

Don't need a monitor, keyboard and mouse, but will need an OS.

I know you can't predict what will be required to run BF3, but it's been at least 6 years since I got my Dell, and I'm dying to get BF3 for the PC, and get back into FPS on the PC.

I await your collective knowledge to tell me things I will be missing!

Method · 17 Aug 2011 at 21:27

Thanks for the reply Reaper.

Nice selection, I mentioned delivery as I live in Northern Ireland and don't think the OCUK forum offer applies for here?

I forgot to mention an SSD OS drive if possible too?

Method · 17 Aug 2011 at 22:02

Thanks again for more suggestions, would a 30Gb SSD not suffice for a boot drive?

Method · 18 Aug 2011 at 07:39

I like these threads to see what similar things people recommend.

Is here anything on the horizon I should be waiting for?

Method · 18 Aug 2011 at 22:13

Jony27 said:
IIRC, Ivybridge wont be released until Q1 next year.

That's the thing about PC upgrades, the next second your almost always on old tech!

Method · 18 Aug 2011 at 22:26

stulid said:
But at least Ivybridge is socket 1155 too.

Well that's true. Was reading that on the wiki pages and the like. Could buy the system and upgrade to Ivy once they come out and settle next year.

Method · 29 Jul 2012 at 17:21

Didn't want to open a new thread as I never got around to purchasing a system when I opened this original thread.

Have there been many improvements apart from IvyBridge, the continued drop in SSD prices?

For a £1000 would it be possible to factor in a new HDMI monitor?

The uses would more-or-less be the same, most intensive game I'd like to play would be BF3 iirc.

Although, if it makes a difference I want to get more into editting the photos I'm taking with my DSLR with Adobe Elements. So, off the top of my head....more RAM?

All help greatly appreciated again

Method · 5 Aug 2012 at 17:16

Appreciate the reply tamzzy. Opportunity has come up to get an ASUS GTX570, the DirectCU II version.