Hello All, This is my first time posting here but I have been reading this forum for several months, this place is a wealth of information. This is my FIRST ever build, so any help would be amazing! Budget: £500, but prepared to go up to £550 if its worth it. Main uses of intended build: General day to day use and playing one game: Flight Sim X Parts required: Case, Mobo, CPU, RAM, Power Supply, GFX Previous build information (list details of parts): I currently run an old AMD Ahtlon 7750, 2.7GHZ, 3 GB DDR2, Nvidia Gerforce 9500GT and one 500GB HDD and 1 x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3. Storage requirements: None, already sorted, reusing existing HDD's. Will you be overclocking: Not sure of the real benefits? I have been looking around Scan tonight and created the following basket, what do you think? http://www.scan.co.uk/savedbasket/c517e0a4b2fe4b77b6a4652210b369d7 Thanks in advance!
Anyone give me some advice please? Will it run FSX pretty well? am I getting value for money with that price?
I feel this would serve you better (let me know if you can't see the link) https://secure.scan.co.uk/aspnet/shop/basket.aspx much better gpu, also I think when your on a budget amd is still the better route to go down, also do you need a copy of windows 7? if so then your looking at more like £600 and get 20 posts on here and you'll get free delivery from scan. edit, also with a discount sunrise has just posted, you can get that xfx 5870 for £130, with this code LYL2X www.xfxshop.co.uk edit ok, try this: Description Scansure Available Ex VAT Inc VAT LN32166 500W Silverstone SST-ST50F-ES Strider, 80 PLUS, 80% Eff', SLI/CrossFire, 34dB, EPS 12V, 120mm Fan £38.93 £46.72 LN32263 Gelid Tranquillo 4 Heatpipe + PWM, Silent 120 Fan S775/1366/1156/1155 & AMD 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3 £19.19 £23.03 LN34240 AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black, Deneb Core, S AM3, 3.2GHz, 8MB Cache, HT 3600MHz, 125W, Retail £82.55 £99.06 LN37493 4GB (2x2GB) Corsair XMS3 Classic DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-24, 1.5V £33.12 £39.74 LN35197 1GB XFX HD 5870, PCI-E 2.1 (x16), 4800MHz GDDR5, GPU 850MHz, 1600 Cores, DP, HDMI, 2 x DL DVI-I £125.58 £150.70 LN35335 Fractal Design Define R3, Titanium Grey, Mid Tower Case with Frontal Door, No PSU £74.89 £89.87 LN38724 Gigabyte GA-870A-USB3 AMD 870, S AM3, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR3, SATA 6Gb/s, RAID ATX, rev.3.0 £58.87 £70.64 Recalculate Basket Save Basket View Saved Baskets Net Total Carriage VAT Net Total £433.13 Carriage £13.98 VAT £89.43 Total£536.54
Not showing up for me anyways mate. I'll do a quick one up. Brb EDIT: Done Now it is a bit more espensive but it would eat the i5 650 for breakfast. You can ditch the cooler it you wish as well As said above the 5870 is now going for 130 from XFX Saving you 40 pounds Here is another case that might tickle you fancy. http://www.scan.co.uk/products/coolermaster-haf-912-plus-black-mid-tower-case-w-o-psu Welcome to bit-Tech.
What he said. I'd gone for a different PSU but you can't argue with this lovely build. Just to qualify, FSX is very CPU intensive and so the Sandy Bridge i5 will be very very lovely indeed.
agree with murraynt's build if you don't need an os as a i5 2500k will eat a i5 560 for breakfast, and the phenom ii 955 for lunch. If you do need an os however I'd go for the phenom and maybe change the case to a cheaper one to save you a bit of money. then you should be able to afford everything for just over your budget
Wow! Thanks for all the advice guys. I will go away and chew on this for a while. ANother question... how important would you say getting an extra fan in addition to the stock case fan is? Thanks guys!
I would agree, if you can stretch your budget or juggle around different components, definately go for the i5-2500K over the i5-650
^ i don't know much about graphics cards tbh, im just using a 8800gt that was second/third hand or something
Only thing to consider it that when you buy that case and fan it's only 4 pounds cheaper than the Antec 100. 4 Pounds isn't much for how long the case will be kept.
