Spec me!! pretty please!

maverick091 · 11 Jan 2011 at 19:11

Hi, long time lurker first time poster!

My budget is £950, i already have a monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Im looking at purely gaming, flight simulator, total war crysis etc.
Also do a good bit of photoshop and video editing.

Im looking at sandybridge as well.
And possibly having a SSD along side the HDD but im not sure of the pros and cons of that.

Any advice would be great.

cheers!

stulid · 11 Jan 2011 at 19:14

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
OcUK ATI Radeon 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £224.99
(£187.49) £224.99
(£187.49)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Lost Planet 2 PC Game - Retail £191.99
(£159.99) £191.99
(£159.99)
Asus P8P67 PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £147.98
(£123.32) £147.98
(£123.32)
OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G) £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £83.99
(£69.99) £83.99
(£69.99)
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Power Supply £73.99
(£61.66) £73.99
(£61.66)
Silverstone SST-PS03B Precision Midi Tower Case - Black £40.84
(£34.03) £40.84
(£34.03)
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP34GB1600C9DC) £38.99
(£32.49) £38.99
(£32.49)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £29.99
(£24.99) £29.99
(£24.99)
Samsung SH-S223L/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.39
(£11.99) £14.39
(£11.99)
Sub Total : £789.27
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £160.20
Total : £961.22

everything needed.

SSD

Win7

and a crossfire motherboard and a PSU with enough power and 4 PCI-E connectors for two GPU's

RJC · 11 Jan 2011 at 19:16

A little over budge, but you could get a MSI board and claim the VAT back.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
HIS ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £233.99
(£194.99) £233.99
(£194.99)
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Lost Planet 2 PC Game - Retail £191.99
(£159.99) £191.99
(£159.99)
Asus P8P67 PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £147.98
(£123.32) £147.98
(£123.32)
OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G) £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599) £83.99
(£69.99) £83.99
(£69.99)
Antec TruePower New Modular 650W Power Supply £73.99
(£61.66) £73.99
(£61.66)
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP34GB1600C9DC) £38.99
(£32.49) £38.99
(£32.49)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD105SI) £38.80
(£32.33) £38.80
(£32.33)
Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £38.80
(£32.33) £38.80
(£32.33)
Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £26.53
(£22.11) £26.53
(£22.11)
OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.99
(£9.99) £11.99
(£9.99)
Sub Total : £822.52
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 : £166.60
Total : £999.62

maverick091 · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:33

Thanks guys

dont think the vat applies to me as im in ireland!

what are the advantages of a MSI board?

RJC · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:39

The main reason for mentioning the MSI board was they are doing a deal were they give you the vat back, so for £120 ~ you get a pretty good board.