squeeze price without squeezing performance?

ben88

ben88

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Hi all,

I'm speccing up a system at the moment and I have around £900 to play with.
I can't seem to get it down much without dropping down a lot in performance.

Can someone with a bit more knowledge put their eye over it and make a suggestion?

I need (really want) a 1080p Monitor, 4gb memory & combi printer.
Is a 750w psu overkill?
Also I was thinking of dropping to a 4850, is there a large difference in performance?
wanted a 750/1tb hdd but they are out of stock.

Curent spec:

  • LG Flatron W2261V 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor £151.98
  • Intel Core i5 750 2.66Ghz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - OEM £134.99
  • Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £119.99
  • Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £103.98
  • Corsair TX 750W ATX SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750TXUK) £94.99
  • Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31500341AS) £88.99
  • Geil Ultra Series 4GB (2x2GB) PC3-17000 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (GU34GB2133C9DC) - OEM £84.99
  • Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU) £46.99
  • Canon PIXMA MP270 Multi-Function Printer/Scanner/Colour Copier £44.99
  • Logitech Cordless 1500 Rechargeable Desktop - OEM (920-000538) £41.99
  • Akasa AK-968 X4 CPU Cooler (Socket 939/AM2/AM3/775/1156/1366) £21.99
  • LG GH22NS40 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.99

Total : £972.67

Any tips or advise anyone can give woud be greatly appreciated!
 
Well you could drop the ram to some OCZ Obsidian which is on offer atm, Go for a OCZ modxtreem 600w instead of tx750 and also drop the Seagate 1.5tb and just get a Samsung f3 1tb + Samsung f3 500gb if you need 1.5 or if not just get 1tb
 
Swap memory for this.

Swap cooler for this. Only £2 in difference but it is a better cooler.

If you don't need 1.5tb of storage swap out the hd for this.

You could swap that psu out for this as long as you don't plan on running two power hungry graphics cards in the future.

Don't know how much that saves altogether but it's not too bad.
 
Thanks for the replies guys!
The Obsidian looks good and I don't need 1.5tb so that's money off
I've not heard of Be Quiet before, but looking at reviews the E7M looks good.
The keyboard I'm not really bothered about it's just the mouse, so it might be better to split them, get a dirt cheap keyboard and a better mouse.
Will 580 watt be enough to run another hefty hdd in future and maybe a bluray drive?
 
The TX650 would also run that rig fine and is another £10+ quid cheaper than the be quiet.

Also changing to an amd quad (assuming you're just gaming) would give almost identical performance and possibly save 50-100 quid. (esp if you can get a 550 to unlock to a quad)
 
If you ask me, it is worth having a decent-ish keyboard. It's how you interact with the machine, and if you have a horrible one, you'll always be wishing you spent £10 extra on a better one.

That PSU, on the other hand, is overkill. Unless you plan on upgrading to dual graphics cards, a decent ~500W supply would be more than enough.
 
Swap out the PSU for a smaller cheaper wattage maybe this : http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-014-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

Hard drive for this : http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA

Ram for this : http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-181-OC&tool=3

Case : Antec 200 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-125-AN&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=


Saving of £81.

I would certainly swap the hard drive, and PSU, rest is up to you really.
 
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