With £600 budget

Jaypwns09 · 16 Dec 2010 at 16:10

I am needing a recommendation on a mobo + cooler + case. I will be using to play games.

Currently I have listed as possiblitys: This is on a £600-650 budget

Palit SONIC nVIDIA GTX 460 Geforce 1GB Graphics Card
LG GH22NS50.AUAA 22x SATA DVDRW Drive - Bare Black
Corsair CMX8GX3M4A1600C9 8GB (4 x 2GB) DDR3 Memory
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Six-core Processor - 3.20 GHz, 9 MB Cache, Socket AM3, 125W, 45 nm, 3 Year Warranty, Retail Boxed
Seagate OEM 500GB Barracuda 3.5 inch 7200.12 Internal Hard Disk Drive (7200RPM, SATA, 16MB Cache)
Corsair CMPSU-600CX 600W Power Supply

Total is £510.79, can anybody recommend parts needed or better possibilitys

skylineboy · 16 Dec 2010 at 16:41

You will only need 4gigs of ram for gaming. The Corsair Xms3 1600mhz will do. 8 Gigs is overkill.

If it is only for gaming then I don't see the need for a hex core cpu. You would save a few quid with a quad core 965 or even if an i5 or i3.

Jaypwns09 · 16 Dec 2010 at 16:53

In the future everything will need more, no point getting anything worse I want this to last ages.

Redmint · 16 Dec 2010 at 16:54

HIS ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £219.98
(£187.22) £219.98
(£187.22)
Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £140.99
(£119.99) £140.99
(£119.99)
Asus P7P55D-E Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard £103.99
(£88.50) £103.99
(£88.50)
Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £62.99
(£53.61) £62.99
(£53.61)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £46.99
(£39.99) £46.99
(£39.99)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £29.99
(£25.52) £29.99
(£25.52)
Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.98
(£22.11) £25.98
(£22.11)
LiteOn IHAS124 - DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM drive - Serial ATA £11.74
(£9.99) £11.74
(£9.99)
Sub Total : £546.93
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £97.55
Total : £654.98

Upgrade to 8GB RAM later if you need to. This is about the fastest you'll get for £650.

skylineboy · 16 Dec 2010 at 17:26

Everything will need more. But you want a gaming system. A gaming system needs a fairly good balance of parts and 8gb is overkill. It would begin to eat into a part of budget which pretty much changes the frames you get in a game. Plus you can upgrade by adding another stick or two later.

+1 to build above by Redmint

Jaypwns09 · 16 Dec 2010 at 17:35

An i5 would be out-dated in a few years and I want computer for time.

Redmint · 16 Dec 2010 at 18:30

Wait for Sandy Bridge in January and spend more money then if you want a computer to last more than a few years. Most people usually expect to upgrade their GPU every 2-3 years if they want to keep up with the latest games and their CPU every 3-4 years.

skylineboy · 16 Dec 2010 at 20:33

I agree that it would be out dated, comparatively, but for gaming it still would be capable.
How many people are still using their Q6600 chips and keeping up with others on i5s and i7s now?

Sandy Bridge is an option you should look at but for gaming the Hex Core AMD is more than what your needs require.