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Build Advice Rate my potential build?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Zauber, 16 Nov 2010.

  1. Zauber

    Zauber What's a Dremel?

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    Student here, building a rig for gaming.
    Have a budget of roughly £800 including monitor, so basically £690.

    This is the rig my friend suggested for me, can you guys rate it and give opinions?

    Thanks :)

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  2. Bloody_Pete

    Bloody_Pete Technophile

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    Why the second HDD?

    Look at this, drop the SSD and the sound card fron it and your set :)

    Job done:thumb:
     
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  3. zukomonitor

    zukomonitor assumption is the mother of all....

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    That pretty similar to my new rig:thumb:

    personally...... I'd ditch the 500gb hdd and the Gelid tranquillo and get the Thermaltake frio and youd be bang on budget with overclocking room

    just my pennysworth lol
     
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  4. zukomonitor

    zukomonitor assumption is the mother of all....

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    ??? am i missing something lol

    EDIT: have I just been ninja'd
     
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  5. Bloody_Pete

    Bloody_Pete Technophile

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    From what I linked to...
     
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  6. Zauber

    Zauber What's a Dremel?

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    The second HDD was because I plan on recording game play, and he said recording and playing with only one HDD would make it laggy, whatcha think?
     
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  7. zukomonitor

    zukomonitor assumption is the mother of all....

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    doh didnt look at the link :wallbash: :blush:

    assumed the link would have been to enthusiast overclocker as its nearly identical and comes in on budget

    Gaming workhorse without ssd and soundcard not quite in budget.......
     
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  8. Lord-Vale3

    Lord-Vale3 His Tremendousness

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    Ditch the Hitachi that will die in a few months, and replace the Sony DVD burner with something from a company that wont pour their profits into DRM crap.

    Otherwise looks awesome! :rock:
     
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  9. Zauber

    Zauber What's a Dremel?

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    What do you mean the hitachi will die in a few months? Also, If recording & playing video games is it better to have HDDs?
     
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  10. Bloody_Pete

    Bloody_Pete Technophile

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    If you go to the link I posted the total cost of the build is £955, dropping the SSd and sound card is -£145, so this puts it at £5 over budget. The machine you get would be perfect.

    I'd have thought ove HDD would be fine as most games use very little HDD access 90% of the time, only when levels are being loaded will the HDD get used. Even open world games like fallout3 and just cause 2 load the world in blocks, so your HDD will by idle most of the time.
     
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  11. zukomonitor

    zukomonitor assumption is the mother of all....

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    He needs a monitor included in the budget
     
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    Bloody_Pete Technophile

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    Ah, completely skipped over that bit... :p

    The Enthusiast Overclocker is what you want then...
     
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  13. Zauber

    Zauber What's a Dremel?

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    So, what's the overall thoughts? What should I keep/get rid of?!! :p
     
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  14. Lord-Vale3

    Lord-Vale3 His Tremendousness

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    Hitachis are notorious for being bad hard drives. The most trusted drives are WD, Samsung and to a lesser degree Seagate in my experience.

    Keep everything but the Hitachi - if you want an additional 500GB get one from WD or Samsung.
    If you care at all about DRM, and want to protest some with your wallet, ditch the Sony Burner and get an LG or Plextor one. Avoid LiteOn, they are cheap yes but they fail more than most, mine quit after 3 months.
     
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