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Afternoon all,

A friend has an e6600 based rig and wants to play games.
He has a decent mouse, keyboard and a new 24 inch 1080p screen.

He wants to play games and use the internet.

I am thinking of a sandy bridge i5 rig that could be clocked a bit (he himself is not an OC'er though).
Must have Sata3 and USB3.
Looking for the entire tower.

Looking to spend £700, certainly no more than £800 though.
 
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£766.88 with free delivery
 
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£676.90 with free delivery

You get free delivery on both these builds if you use your account;)

The top build gives an SLI/Crossfire option with a powerful PSU.

The bottom one is a single card setup only.
 
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Thanks for the help so far.

SLI isn't needed.
I am afraid that I don't know of current decent motherboards - At least with the latest sandy bridge motherboards anyway.
An i5 with a 'k' at the end seems like a good shout for the overclocking.

Are ASrock any good now? In 2006 I had one after the other dead ASrock boards (4 in a row iirc).
 
Not a fan of the Lancool case - Are there any cheaper alternatives?
I have the Antec 300 but it is an old design (had mine 4 years) and it was £35 when I bought it too, so I am thinking there must be better cases out there now.
 
The Antec100 is very similar to the 300, I knocked this up for a spec thread a while ago.
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Theres also the ZalmanZ9

Or the CM690MKII
 
First build, definitely. I'm not a fan of the gigabyte motherboard. The asrock on the other hand...

Can swap the case for a Antec 100 or whatever, depending on budget. 6950 should fit the 100 but it's a tight fit.

I would take a Seagate 7200.12 500GB over a F1 750GB, but then depends how much capacity is needed.

750W xfx good for future XFire. Can get an antec 620W now, in the view of selling it later and getting a more powerful PSU when and if you decide on taking another 6950.

I prefer the Gelid Tranquillo for a CPU cooler. Again, probably worth looking at various reviews of the coolers in the £20-£25 bracket.

in pictures...


YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE DIRT3 Game £199.99
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £156.98
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £144.98
1 x Antec High Current Gamer 620W Power Supply £49.99
1 x Antec 100 One Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £41.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £34.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500413AS) £29.99
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £714.90 (includes shipping : £12.50).



The offers end on Wednesday.
 
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Was thinking of a 60gd ssd with a 2tb 2nd drive.

Olivier Renault: That motherboard seems expensive! It needs to be overclockable with USB3 and Sata3. SLI/Xfire aren't needed hes not a big enough gaming enthusiast for that.
 
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Was thinking of a 60gd ssd with a 2tb 2nd drive.

Olivier Renault: That motherboard seems expensive! It needs to be overclockable with USB3 and Sata3. SLI/Xfire aren't needed hes not a big enough gaming enthusiast for that.
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Take spec in post#3 that I did, swap case to suit, done.
 
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