SPEC NEW HARDWARE: £516

ByMRK1 · 3 Sep 2011 at 20:06

Roughly £516 to spend.
Im into gaming (cod4, wow), Video editing (Adobe After effects, Sony Vegas), Photoshop.

Current Specs:
Sumvision 450w PSU,
AMD Athlon II X3 (Unlockable to 4th core),
7GB RAM,
MSI 870-C45,
Silverstone PS05 Chassis,
500GB Hard drive
nVidia 8400GS
Currently using a 22" HDTV as a monitor

tang0 · 3 Sep 2011 at 20:10

Could you stretch to £517?

Hyburnate · 3 Sep 2011 at 20:13

So do you need everything? Or some things? Unclear. :rolleyes:

ByMRK1 · 3 Sep 2011 at 21:11

Yes I could stretch to even £550, And Im looking to see WHAT I need to upgrade, if you kind of get what I mean? Cos Im going to start playing CoD4 competitive and I need a good pc.

tang0 · 3 Sep 2011 at 21:35

I know it's over budget, but you could go for a cheaper CPU, monitor or gfx card, but for gaming you really need a 120hz monitor. I used to play CoD and CoD 2 competitively and the 120hz makes so much difference

ByMRK1 · 3 Sep 2011 at 21:38

tang0 said:
I know it's over budget, but you could go for a cheaper CPU, monitor or gfx card, but for gaming you really need 120hz monitor, the difference is huge

Hmm If I get that ill probally got for an i5-2500k

tang0 · 3 Sep 2011 at 21:40

ByMRK1 said:
Hmm If I get that ill probally got for an i5-2500k

Yeh, it would probably be worth it, then maybe save money by getting a cheaper gfx card

ByMRK1 · 3 Sep 2011 at 22:30

Hmm is 120HZ a MUST if im going to LANs?

Ging3r · 3 Sep 2011 at 22:44

cod4 is dead

tang0 · 3 Sep 2011 at 22:44

ByMRK1 said:
Hmm is 120HZ a MUST if im going to LANs?

Having a low ping doesn't have anything to do with it, it's just playing on a 120hz screen is a lot smoother than a 60hz one

StonedPenguin · 3 Sep 2011 at 22:45

tang0 said:
Could you stretch to £517?

ByMRK1 · 3 Sep 2011 at 22:50

tang0 said:
Having a low ping doesn't have anything to do with it, it's just playing on a 120hz screen is a lot smoother than a 60hz one

:S Is there a noticable difference, because if there isnt theres no point in spending £199 on it when I could be putting the money towards a SSD or something

tang0 · 3 Sep 2011 at 23:09

ByMRK1 said:
:S Is there a noticable difference, because if there isnt theres no point in spending £199 on it when I could be putting the money towards a SSD or something

Well I think there is, definitely. Just save up for an SSD, it's not like you can't play anything without it

ByMRK1 · 3 Sep 2011 at 23:35

MSI P67A-GD55-B3 P67 Socket 1155 8 Channel HD Audio ATX Motherboard £112.39

Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600Mhz CL9 1.5V Non-ECC Unbuffered £49.98

Gigabyte GTX 560 OC Edition 1GB 256bit Dual DVI Mini HDMI PCI-E Graphics Card £150.04

OCZ ZS Series 650W 80+ Bronze PSU £64.98

Intel Core i5 2500K 3.3GHz Socket 1155 6MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor £159.79

OCZ 60GB Vertex 2E SSD 2.5" SATA-II Read = 285MB/s, Write = 275MB/s 50,000 IOPS£74.32

Seagate 1TB 3.5" Barracuda SATA-III 6Gb/s Hard Drive - 7200RPM 32MB Cache £45.05

Be Quiet Dark Rock Advanced £42.99

Cart total inc vat: £699.52

I have £167 and Im getting all of these for a birthday/christmas present combo!

fowler002 · 4 Sep 2011 at 00:01

motherboard http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-368-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990

graphics card this or if you can stretch to it this

the fins on the ram and cpu cooler may not 'play nicely' together, so eiter this or this

ssd this