*****THE OFFICIAL "SPEC ME" THREAD*****

Budget: £700-800

Processor: yes
Motherboard: yes
Memory: yes(4gb)
Graphics Card(s): yes
TV Card: no
Hard Drive(s): yes(640gb)
Optical Drive(s): yes(normal dvdrw)
Cooling: yes
Water Cooling: no
Cable(s): no
Sound Card: yes
Controller Card(s): no
Case: Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case
Power Supply: yes

Keyboard: no
Mouse: no
Headset: no
Speakers: no
Monitor(s): yes
Operating System:Vista 64-bit

Uses: gaming(would like to run games like age of conan on med-high setting),watching movies,surfing internet
Overclocking: would like to
 
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konky said:
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OC the E7200 to 3.5GHz and you are laughing. age of conan maxed out no problems.
 
Hi guys, this could be incredibly helpful to me. Never built my own PC before, but would love to give it a shot.

BUDGET: £800

Processor: Yes
Motherboard: Yes
Memory: 4Gb if possible, but 2 would do
Graphics Card(s): A good 'un
TV Card: Unsure
Hard Drive(s): 1tb maybe?
Optical Drive(s): No idea what this is.
Cooling: Yep
Water Cooling: If I need it/can afford it
Cable(s): WTF?
Sound Card: Yeah
Controller Card(s): Possibly?!
Case: A nice one, I like pretty things.
Power Supply: Yep

Keyboard: Yes
Mouse: Yes (optical, wireless if poss)
Headset: no
Speakers: Yes
Monitor(s): Yes
Operating System: Vista Home Premium I reckon (64mb)?

Uses: Web Designer, so multimedia, large programs like Photoshop, Flash etc. Also DVDs, I'd like a DVD burning drive, and some memory card slots that will take varying memory cards!
Overclocking: If possible, yes

Thanks! Sorry for the lack of information, I really am new to this, but eager to learn!
 
BUDGET:£400-£450

Processor: Yes
Motherboard: Yes
Memory: Yes
Graphics Card(s): Yes
TV Card: No
Hard Drive(s): No
Optical Drive(s): No
Cooling: Yes
Water Cooling: No
Cable(s): No
Sound Card: No
Controller Card(s): No
Case: Yes
Power Supply: Yes

Keyboard: No
Mouse: No
Headset: No
Speakers: No
Monitor(s): No
Operating System: No

Uses: Gaming mainly
Overclocking: Not fussed

I've tried to spec myself with some help and for £413 i've come up with -


Asus ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail - (£115.14)
Antec NSK 4480 Mini Tower Case (Silver) - 380W Earth Watts PSU - (£54.04)
Asus P5Q Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - (£88.11)
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 2.53GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (£88.11)
2 x GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Black Dragon DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GB22GB8500C5DC) (£68.12)
Which works out at £413.53
 
shaffaaf27 said:
hi

optical drive is a DVD drive :D

Overclocking is very possible, you should be able to take the E5200 to 3.4 EASY.

the onboard sound card is very good already.

and for a memory card reader, go look on the big auction site for soem cheap deals :D
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Hi there, thanks for the spec.

Stupid question now: I'm not going to need anything else for my system aside from what ypu've mentioned am i?

Just checking because as soon as I get the cash together, I'll be ordering!

Thanks again
 
BUDGET:£300 max..lol for a HTPC

Processor: yes - 1080p HD stuff, gaming less important.
Motherboard: yes with 3 sata slots as I have 2 sata drives ready to plug in from my old system

Memory: yes
Graphics Card(s): yes,
TV Card:No
Hard Drive(s): No, already have 600gigs worth of 2 sata drives
Optical Drive(s): No, already have a dvd/rw from old machine
Cooling: yes for new CPU needed?
Water Cooling: no
Cable(s): no
Sound Card: yes with optical out for 5.1/7.1 sound unless onboard is more than adequate???
Controller Card(s): no
Case: no
Power Supply: yes 600w?

Keyboard: no
Mouse: no
Headset: no
Speakers: no
Monitor(s): no, have a 19" wide but it does not have a DVI slot only D-SUB ( I could just buy a gender switcher right?)
Operating System: not sure, vista worth it? will it help with HD streaming or just burden CPU unecessarily otherwise i'll just use XP

Uses: HTPC, occasional gaming,
Overclocking: no


TIA!
 
BUDGET: £500

Processor: Already got one, no
Motherboard: Yes, micro atx
Memory: yes
Graphics Card(s): yes
TV Card: no
Hard Drive(s): Yes
Optical Drive(s): Yes
Cooling: Yes
Water Cooling:No
Cable(s): No
Sound Card: No
Controller Card(s): No
Case: Yes, could you make it micro atx
Power Supply: Yes

Keyboard: yes, preferably gaming
Mouse: yes, preferably gaming
Headset: no
Speakers: No
Monitor(s): No
Operating System: No

Uses: gaming, websurfing
Overclocking: Will overclock my quad to about 3ghz

Cheers :)
 
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Spec/Help Me

hey guys, im new to the forums and like all no0bs, im in need of some much appreciated help.
to cut along story short, what i basically want is a computer (just the tower)that i can play crysis like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPYn3txUG9o

also, can i play the full retail game (as in the single player campaign) with this mod?

thx all.

Budget: £1000

Processor: yes
Motherboard: yes, sli proof
Memory: yes (4GB)
Graphics Card(s): (Nvidia plz, i dont really like ATi) i was thinking the geforce gtx 280, one card will do for now, ill get the 2nd later.
TV Card: no
Hard Drive(s): yes
Optical Drive(s): yes
Cooling: yes
Water Cooling: if its better than fans
Cable(s): yes
Sound Card: yes
Controller Card(s): no
Case: yes
Power Supply: yes

Keyboard: no
Mouse: no
Headset: no
Speakers: no
Monitor(s): no
Operating System: no

Uses: GAMING, future proof for atleast 4-5 yrs
Overclocking: yes

once again thank you all for the help!
 
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