What's this spec like for Gaming around £800

Modmedia · 8 Sep 2011 at 20:33

Excuse the fact I used another website. Would you change any of this and if so how?

I'm going to be using it primarily for gaming and don't want to spend any more than this really!

Thanks.

fowler002 · 8 Sep 2011 at 20:43

might be an idea to edit the screenshot and remove the name of the site

daveash · 8 Sep 2011 at 20:44

Yeah, no advertising of competitors on the forum. I'd remove that ASAP before any mods see it.

gwobbles · 8 Sep 2011 at 20:45

looks pretty good to me, in fact i just help my mate build a similar rig two days ago

maybe put a bit more into the cpu cooling if you want to overclock the cpu

Modmedia · 8 Sep 2011 at 20:47

Done.

RJC · 8 Sep 2011 at 20:52

Have a look at the motherboard below from Gigabyte:

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

review:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/z68xp-ud3-dz68db,review-32228-19.html

VaderDSL · 8 Sep 2011 at 20:54

I think the SSD will be superfluous tbh, may as well get an F3 and get a better gfx card.

BTW I love SSD

for an everyday machine it's great but for games, I don't think it's worth it when you end up dropping down the GPU ladder.

Modmedia · 8 Sep 2011 at 21:02

RJC said:
Have a look at the motherboard below from Gigabyte:

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

review:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/z68xp-ud3-dz68db,review-32228-19.html

What does it offer me over the motherboard I have selected at the minute? Sorry, I'm a Mac (boooo

) user and new to all this.

And as for the SSD I'm coming from a Mac with it, I don't want to go to a standard drive, this will be my everyday machine too.

VaderDSL · 8 Sep 2011 at 21:05

Fair enough then

the SSD will be worth it in that case.

RJC · 8 Sep 2011 at 21:12

The Gigabye board can utilise the onboard gpu in the CPU If needed and can run 1600mhz memory without overclocking after looking at the MSI spec sheet.

Modmedia · 8 Sep 2011 at 21:15

RJC said:
The Gigabye board can utilise the onboard gpu in the CPU If needed and can run 1600mhz memory without overclocking after looking at the MSI spec sheet.

Thanks RJC, very helpful! :cool:

Agnostic · 8 Sep 2011 at 21:19

You probably will want more than 120gb though, especially since you're going to be using your computer for gaming mostly. So a normal HDD with sufficient space would be better.

fowler002 · 8 Sep 2011 at 21:32

unless you're a nvidia fanboy may want to consider the 6950 2gb

cooler wise upgrade to the gerlid tranquillo, will mean you need to change the ram tho to ones without fins.