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This is what I've been thinking of!!

SSD will have to wait for more cash later on!
 
snips86x said:
That's a great suggestion. What could you do on that basis?

I think the MM would be the better choice for the G/card, will bring the budget to £750 to mitigate that.
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To be honest fella the gaming requirement isn't resource heavy is it? I still have a 1GB 460 (they OC well you can easily expect atleast 800Mhz from it), I won't change it till October time. I've had mine upto 900Mhz which has to be trading blows with a 6870, nice that being Nvidia it adds PhysX and CUDA too.

You are welcome to PM me if you want to discuss things in detail :)

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That B grade HDD is false economy really fella, for the sake of another few quid I'd rather have a new one with full warranty. I'd rather have a LED panel too, better blacks and power consumption
 
honosuseri said:
That B grade HDD is false economy really fella, for the sake of another few quid I'd rather have a new one with full warranty. I'd rather have a LED panel too, better blacks and power consumption
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Agreed.

Also the 7850 at that price does not seem great "bang for buck" to me to be honest. If your going to be getting a GPU new I'd go for the B Grade 7950 at the same price or the 7850 1GB at £50 less.
 
honosuseri said:
To be honest fella the gaming requirement isn't resource heavy is it? I still have a 1GB 460 (they OC well you can easily expect atleast 800Mhz from it), I won't change it till October time. I've had mine upto 900Mhz which has to be trading blows with a 6870, nice that being Nvidia it adds PhysX and CUDA too.

You are welcome to PM me if you want to discuss things in detail :)

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That B grade HDD is false economy really fella, for the sake of another few quid I'd rather have a new one with full warranty. I'd rather have a LED panel too, better blacks and power consumption
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Potty27 said:
Agreed.

Also the 7850 at that price does not seem great "bang for buck" to me to be honest. If your going to be getting a GPU new I'd go for the B Grade 7950 at the same price or the 7850 1GB at £50 less.
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Fair point, BUT the money from selling the games can then be pumped into getting an SSD or OS.

Yes, I'll have a look at the Monitor & HDD!

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Had a re-think and came up with this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £155.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4430 3.00GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £149.99
1 x Iiyama Prolite X2377HDS 23" Premium IPS Panel Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £131.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED316GM1600HC11DC01) £89.99
1 x ASRock H87M-ITX Intel H87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ITX Motherboard £89.99
1 x BitFenix Prodigy 'Toxic' Mini-ITX Cube Case - Black/Green £69.95
1 x Thermaltake Smart M550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply £59.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £48.95
Total : £811.82 (includes shipping : £12.50).



Windows 8 trial version for 3 months and trawl through the MM to find a copy of 7/8 as and when they become available.
 
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Looks good, from a personal point of view, I'd go with 8GB ram (49.99) and 500w PSU (49.99), or the XFX 650w (64.99) if you felt the needs for a future proof PSU. Then use the money saved to get the 3.4 ghz CPU.

Another thing, it could be worth waiting to see what next weeks specials are, as there don't seem to be many this week.
 
Since one of my 660's have been RMA's I've even considered selling her the new one on return, and the otherone, then upgrading to a single 7970/770 instead.
 
snips86x said:
Since one of my 660's have been RMA's I've even considered selling her the new one on return, and the otherone, then upgrading to a single 7970/770 instead.
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Thats a great idea. :)

As its new you could say its £150-£160.

Nice new PC for her, great upgrade for you. :)
 
Final Spec:

Case: BitFenix Prodigy
RAM: Patriot Viper 8GB 2133
ODD: OcUK 20x DVD-RW
G/Card: XDX radeon 7870 LE
Mobo: Gigabyte H87N
PSU: Corsair 500w Modular
CPU: Intel i5 4670
HDD: Seagate Barracude 1TB
Monitor: 23" Samsung IPS

£805 (roughly)

OS will be Windows 8 3 month trial and during that time, I can get one from the MM and if she decides she wants an SSD, I can get one of these too!
 
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