Gaming PC (£2700)

rancid-a

I'm looking to cut a few corners on a PC that I configured online. The total cost for the following is £2700.

CoolerMaster Cosmos S Gaming Tower Case
CoolerMaster Real Power PRO 1000W Modular PSU
Windows Vista 64bit Premium
Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.00GHz
Asus P5N-T Deluxe nForce 780i SLI Mainboard
8GB (4x2GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 (Corsair XMS2 w/Heat Spreader)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX280 1GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX280 1GB

300GB Gaming Western Digital VelociRaptor Sata-II 10,000RPM
64 GB 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk

LG GGW-H20L 6X INTERNAL BLU-RAY DISC REWRITER
LiteOn LH-20A1H 20X DL DISC REWRITER

Creative Labs SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio 24-BIT PCI Sound Card

(no monitor, got one already)

Razer Deathadder Mouse
Razer Mousemat
Razer Tarantula Keyboard

The PC is mainly used for Gaming & I'll be using a 27" Dell TFT (1900x1200).
I could do with saving £200-300.
Anyone got any thoughs on SLI, Solid state memory, what about Casing, has it got to be an expensive case to make the most of all this stuff??

PS Building this myself is a NO NO!

Thanks

x2o

You could try looking at these websites:

http://www.ebuyer.com
http://www.scan.co.uk

fas3robinj

£2700 is a lot of money for a PC IMO. I play online games everyday on a system I built for £800 (still a kid at 60 yo LOL). My PC performs as well as any of the other gamers, and I consistently get high scores.

Unless your system has to be cutting edge I would expect a top notch gaming PC to cost maybe £1200-£1400 max.

banger9365

well if you hell bent on spending money
drop these parts
NVIDIA GeForce GTX280 1GB X2
LG GGW-H20L 6X INTERNAL BLU-RAY DISC REWRITER,
LiteOn LH-20A1H 20X DL DISC REWRITER
Creative Labs SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio 24-BIT PCI Sound Card,
Asus P5N-T Deluxe nForce 780i SLI Mainboard
8GB (4x2GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 (Corsair XMS2 w/Heat Spreader)
64 GB 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk ?? why vista cannot us them right yet if you read about them
now this will hurt
SLI is a waste off money end off
nvidia chip set is only good for SLI
if you want a blueray player just get one not a wrighter have you see the cost of wrightable discs
and if your going to spend all that money build it your self it's easy
Sapphire Radeon HD4870 X2
DFI LANPARTY UT X48-T2R Motherboard and us onboard sound
4GB Corsair Dominator TWIN2X4096-9136C5D X2
LG SATA DVDRW BD/HD DVD-ROM Black Kit

and if you ring them they will build it for you http://www.cclonline.com/product-categories.asp?category_id=271
seen has you have money to burn:D (no offence just a little joke)

Marty_J

loaner wrote: »

It will be out of date next month - use a ps3 instead.

I'd have to agree.

In a few years, unlike your £2700 PC, the PS3 will still be playing the latest games.

aliEnRIK

I agree with spending maybe 1400 quid, (I wouldnt myself mind) but 2500?? In a years time youll be kicking yourself!

rancid-a

Marty the PS3 wasn't even around when I bought the 3 year old pc I'm using at the moment and it CAN play the latest games, just like your/my PS3

Banger9365 Thanks for the links, CCLOnline is one of the companies I've shortlisted, nice to see they will build for you as there's no way I could do that.

x2o Thanks for the Scan link Incidentally all those who think three grand is a lot to spend on a PC should click on the Scan Great White picure link
Still unsure about solid state memory, I guess getting a normal hard drive combined with cheap casing will save me the £300

Thanks everyone

[Deleted User]

That's completely overkill and an absolute shocking amount of money to spend!

GTX 280's aren't the best cards, the 4870's as posted previously are much better cards. Go quadcore, 4GB of RAM, Samsung Spinpoint 1TB hd's and a good case with 120mm yate loon fans.

In the morning I'll post up a spec of a computer that will be no more than £1,700 with a 24" monitor and a good sound system that will blow that computer out of the water.

SLI is good, but a lot of games don't support it. Not to mention the difficulty in cooling it introduces. SSD you can ignore because of their limited lifespan and comparative read/write speeds.

Marty_J

rancid-a wrote: »

Marty the PS3 wasn't even around when I bought the 3 year old pc I'm using at the moment and it CAN play the latest games, just like your/my PS3

Well fair enough.

I'm willing to bet your old PC didn't cost £300 though.

[Deleted User]

Marty_J wrote: »

Well fair enough.

I'm willing to bet your old PC didn't cost £300 though.

Not to mention the PC not being able to display graphics in the detail that the PS3 can..

x2o

LOL I spent a lot of money building my pc and the cooling is another story -45

Just remember if their where no pc's their would be no games hehehehe.