right, my friend has a budget of roughly £750 for this new build and im wondering you lot could help me, help him if you get what i mean lol The parts he has said he already wants are: Case: Coolermaster HAF 912 Plus - £61.18 Processor: Intel Core i5 2500K - £163.38 RAM: 8gb DDR3 (not to sure on make, probably going to be vengance LP RAM) ~£50 he obvisiously still needs to choose: Graphics card SSD (if budget will allow) Cpu Cooler and for this build he already has 1Tb F3 and a 750W Corsair TX750M, Monitors, Keyboard, Mouse, Windows 7 The purpose of the new PC will be very much gaming (battlefield 3) and render of the minecraft servers map that he runs.
I would suggest looking at this. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/buyers-guide/2011/09/01/pc-hardware-buyer-s-guide-september-2011/3 But since he already has some parts you could throw some better stuff in there. Also check that the PSU has the required cables for the graphics card, the 560 TI for example requires 2 4pin connectors if I remember correctly. And after typing this I realized that maybe the reason you are asking is because you are not sure about things like this and that I'm tired so this may not make much sense.
Here's a quick idea of what I'd start considering: CPU: i5 2500k £163.38 Motherboard: Asus P8P67 Pro £119.60 You haven't mentioned a motherboard but I assume you need one! I'd recommend the Asus P8P67 Pro, I have the M-Pro (smaller but almost the same) and am very happy with it so far. It is also very easy to overclock on this board and the BIOS is the best I've seen. RAM: Corsair Memory Vengeance Black 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz £45.36 Could be worth going for lower latencies here, I got the 8-8-8-24 but you can get 7-7-7-18 too. Each gets more expensive of course. Don't bother with higher frequency memory. This is just a guide as RAM prices are pretty low right now and there are some great offers out there. Look at this kind of standard and see what you can get price-wise. GPU: ScanFX HD6950 2GB £200.03 (comes with Deus Ex ) How many monitors is he using? If he's using more than two I'd recommend the 6950 GPU, he's got the budget for it and it will run up to four monitors from one card. nVidia cards only run two monitors max. Case: Coolermaster HAF 912 Plus £61.18 - not my choice but each to their own SSD: 120GB SSD Corsair Force Series 3 £126.14 I'd suggest a 120GB SSD if the budget stretches that far. If not, a 64 should do for windows, some programs and a couple of games. My Win7 Ultimate install with 4-5 installed programs comes to under 12GB, though it has been 'lightened' to remove the parts I don't use and to make it SSD friendly. That leaves around 50GB for games on my 64GB SSD. Don't go without an SSD, it really is worth it. CPU Cooler: ThermalTake Frio £40.58 CPU cooler depends on final choice of case, motherboard, RAM and CPU (obviously). Budget in £30-£40 for a good cooler and make your other choices first. I imagine you could get almost any cooler in that case but in my FT03 I am limited by space. Anyway, this one is very highly rated, only water cooling will do a markedly better job than this. A quick total (in my dyslexic head) gives me roughly £750. Hope this helps.
sounds good huge, i forgot about the motherboard, i was half asleep when i wrote it so forgive me, and i swear yesterday that the motherboard you linked wasnt on scan, because it was the one i was looking at that and then i couldnt find it?
Perhaps they were updating the page something. My list is a guide on what you could get, you could do better with sale prices from different web sites but I will promote using Scan for most things/everything if you can. I got my parts from Scan plus other places to get the cheapest parts, I only saved about a tenner in total but with Scan's free quick postage (free for bit tech users) it is so much better to receive everything in one delivery from one place. They are great with returns and customer service too from my experience. My parts from other websites took ages to arrive!
Only two things I would change with Huge's suggestion: 1. Swap the RAM for this. Same stuff just without the massive heatspreaders. You can get different colours as well in case Cerulean isn't your thing 2. Swap the graphics card for a proper branded option like this. Awesome cooler on that one as well Or if you want nvidia instead of AMD, you wouldn't go wrong with this or this if you can stretch Edit: Oh, and maybe swap the cooler for this. Might not be quite as good cooling wise, but a fair bit quieter.
Your first link is pointing at the cooler instead of the RAM Definitely get the branded GPU, I was tired and up way past my bed time when I posted that so I didn't bother to check specifics. Also, having now read the bit tech review I'd certainly agree that that cooler sounds better. Nothing more annoying than noisy fans!
That's what you get for not using Ctrl + c/v properly Cheers for the heads up Huge, edited accordingly.
you could always get this memory just brought 16gb for myself and it runs lovely at 1866 http://www.ebuyer.com/264750-g-skil...mory-kit-cl9-9-9-9-24-1-5v-f3-12800cl9d-8gbxl
