Hi im danny and im new to these forums.. Iv'e jus made my mind up on that i want to build my own gaming pc, I have abt £600 approx at the moment as i believe its much cheaper to build than buy..LOL. I want to build a really quick one: But havnt got a clue where to start i need some help on what to buy... I will also need monitor and keyboard etc.... Mainly i will be using for gaming,work, dvd copy. Basicily i need to knw what to buy??? Any help will be much apprechiated
£600 won't buy you an i7 gaming rig with a monitor, keyboard and mouse. A socket 1366 motherboard, 3gb of budget DDR3 RAM and an i7 920 will set you back about £450 alone. Unless you can raise your budget quite considerably, you will be better off going for a CoreDuo setup. Do you have any parts that you could reuse to save money? like a case or DVD drive etc?
Hi mate thx for the reply..i knw 600 wont get everything ive 600 now i jus need to knw exactly what to buy to build the tower i can always buy monitor and keyboard later. I actually want one which is 3.00GHz + i also get paid in a day or two so could put some extra too... Cheers
Approx. Core i7 pricing: 920 - 2.66Ghz - £240 940 - 2.93Ghz - £470 965 - 3.20Ghz - £780 So yea, lol.. would you be happy to overclock? the 920 can reach 3Ghz without breaking a sweat.
Thx bud 920 looks sweet if can reach 3.00 so if i went for that what else would i need... i dnt knw whether it would be cheaper to buy or build ?? In two minds
Well I could help you spec up a system but it would be a lot easier if you gave us an actual price you want to spend and we can go from there Also, you might want to ask a mod to move this thread to an appropriate board.
Right ok in total i will have abt a grand but thats from scratch like the tower etc... there are some towers of quad core selling on ebay for abt 600 - 1000 but dnt knw if much cop.
ooo switch the motherboard to the X58- UD3R its cheaper and a good overclocker. should be around £150-160. also drop the 1600mhz RAM and get cheaper 1333mhz RAM it will make very little difference on performance unless your planning heavy overclocking. what about the OS ??? that will set you back another £80-£85
That monitor's not much cop either tbh. What's the point in a good system if the graphics look like ass because of a cheap monitor?
+1 that system is design for 22" screen (1680x1050) minimum personally id opt for a better PSU and case as well. Nothing wrong with the case really but would you really put a Ferrari engine in a ford fiesta !!!! a case with better cooling such as the Antec 300 would be better if you wanna keep costs down a bit.
Ok ok.. I wasn't telling him that he should buy that lot right away, I was just giving him a rough spec to compare against factory build PCs and those on ebay that he has been looking at.
Thx guys much apprechiated... Whatn do u thk abt this : all off ebay so prices are approx: all include delivery CPU-Core i7 920 Motherboard-Asus p6t - All this comes as a set on ebay for £500 inc postage Ram-3GB Kingston DDR3 ..................................................... HDD-1 x Western Digital 640GB - £70 GPU- 1GB GTX 285 £250 Case-Coolmaster RC 690 - £70 PSU-Corsair HX-620 (620w) - £130 Optical drive-Asus 20x £50 Monitor- 22" BenQ £140 approx and a keyboard and mouse... So what ya thk? Obviously cant buy all at once but will buy most for now... I knw i will need xp or vista aswel lol.
wouldnt touch ebay with barge pole for 2 reasons 1.NO WARRANTY 2. whos to say the hardware isnt faulty or mislabelled. The normal P6T is average anyway plus: i7 920 - £232.50 (3 year warranty) gigabyte X58 UD3R - £154.30 (3 year warranty) 3GB CORSAIR DDR1333 - £51.87 (lifetime warranty) (6GB would be better though IMO) TOTAL: £438.67 + Del. (around £7-10) pfffft TAKE THAT CRAPBAY all prices from scan.co.uk - may find it cheaper at other etailers as for your other kit: as long as the HDD is the WD BLUE series 640GB not the GREEN series then its fine (green is slow very slow) 285 is a waste of money try a 275 or a 4890 both of which are more than enough for your 22" The PSU is very overpriced by at least £30. try this: 620W CORSAIR HX - £99.61 from scan.co.uk or 650W be quiet - £105.56 from scan.co.uk as for OS get vista 64 XP is a waste to buy now, ok if you already got a copy but dont buy it new
Cheers matey... sounds nice and cheap frm scan.co.uk.. Theres me thking u cant beat ebay prices LOL. If i bought all this and built it would u say this is a sweet computer`?? Oh and if any1 knws anywhere cheaper than scan.co.uk let us knw..
Scan is usually pretty cheap and they're a really good shop too - efficient and reputable. I'd rather spend a few extra quid there than some dodgy ebay shop that may well rip you off.
