Suggestions on build?

JTGrime

New member
Hello,
I am in the market for a new computer rig I don't need a monitor and I have a Razer Naga mouse. I would need a Keyboard Pref Razer Lycosa. I wanted your advice on a system build. I am a computing student 2nd year and not great with hardware :s. my Budget is £1,200.00 and I will mostly be playing WoW and SC2 but I would like to get into other online PVP based games. I am interested in some sort of high end network card like the Bigfoot killer NIC as I have the Virgin media XXL broadband package. I would like something serious for these games and it could be quite bare bones as I get another payment of £1789 on Jan 4th, so I could build on it in January.

any suggestions guys for my price range?
 

Phoenix

Prolific Poster
How about something like this:

Case
InWIN DRAGON SLAYER BLACK GAMING CASE (£59)

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-950 (3.06GHz) 4.8GTs/8MB Cache

Motherboard
ASUS® P6X58D-E: DDR3, USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, 3-Way SLI

Memory (RAM)
6GB SAMSUNG DDR3 TRI-DDR3 1333MHz (3 X 2GB)

Graphics Card
1GB ATI RADEON™ HD 5870 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
640GB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD6400AARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT

Power Supply & Case Cooling
CORSAIR 850W PSU (TX850) 80+ ULTRA QUIET (£99)

Processor Cooling
INTEL SOCKET LGA1366 STANDARD CPU COOLER

Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT

USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)

Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL

Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)

Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)

Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 12 working days

Quantity
1

Price: £1,124.00 including VAT and delivery.

This would be able to play any game currently released at max settings and even those in the future. The Bigfoot Killer NIC card doesn't really improve game performance at all so I wouldn't bother with it:

http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forum...ller-2100-gaming-network-card-read-here-first.

I've included a TX850 power supply so that you can add a second 5870 in the future. If you're not interested in having 2 graphics cards then just go with the TX650 and save the money. This build is £76.00 under budget leaving room for a nice gaming keyboard. You could obviously make a cheaper build with AMD or a weaker intel processor but this CPU is very powerful and fits the budget.
 
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Meds

Moderator
Moderator
Hit the nail on the head! You could also up the HDD up to 1TB for very little more.
 

JTGrime

New member
Well TBH its all good I want a super rig and as I said in January I get another 1789 on budget and could buff the system more with I dunno 1TB of SSD :s <--- overkill? and watercooling pff I dunno I didn't look are your spec yet just your comments and it looks good :D.
 

Rakk

The Awesome
Moderator
and could buff the system more with I dunno 1TB of SSD :s <--- overkill? .

That would cost a fortune .... (and not even a small fortune, it'd be a big fortune)

And to be honest you should probably use most of that money for supporting you through your studies, rather than go totally overboard with a PC :)
 

Gorman

Author Level
Im with Rakk on this and in my opinion, if you were to improve anything, change the case! euw!

If you want something with some real grunt:

Case
CORSAIR GRAPHITE SERIES™ 600T GAMING CASE ***NEW***(£130)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-960 (3.20GHz) 4.8GTs/8MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® P6X58D-E: DDR3, USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, 3-Way SLI
Memory (RAM)
6GB SAMSUNG DDR3 TRI-DDR3 1333MHz (3 X 2GB)
Graphics Card
1536MB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX480 GDDR5 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
Free Item
FREE MAFIA II Game (RRP: £34.99) with a qualifying GTX 4xx Series GPU!
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD10EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply & Case Cooling
CORSAIR 850W PSU (TX850) 80+ ULTRA QUIET (£99)
Processor Cooling
SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£19)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 12 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,568.00 including VAT and delivery.
 
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