Gaming PC (£2700)

[Deleted User]

Funny, plenty of games around pre-PCs (does no one remember the Amiga or Atari systems) ?

Anyhoo.. that's crazy money for a PC - considering you could buy the next 7 or 8 top spec PS3, PS4, Wii2 for that kinda dosh

savemoney

Wow that's some money for a gaming pc. I am currently planning on one myself but for £700

[FONT=&quot]CASE[/FONT]
Antec P182 Advanced PERFORMANCE ONE SERIES Super Midi Tower Case, Gun Metal Black (no PSU)
£92.70

[FONT=&quot]PSU[/FONT]
520W Corsair HX Series Modular PSU, ATX, EPS12V, whisper quiet, 5 year warranty
£61.10

[FONT=&quot]PROCESSOR[/FONT]
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 £113.96

[FONT=&quot]FAN[/FONT]
Xigmatek HDT-S1283 CPU Cooler £22.27

[FONT=&quot]MOTHERBOARD[/FONT]
Asus P5Q PRO £88.35

[FONT=&quot]RAM[/FONT]
4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-18 £50.51

[FONT=&quot]VIDEO CARD[/FONT]
896MB Gainward GTX 260 PCI-E 2.0 (x16), Mem 1998MHz, GPU 576MHz, 192 Cores, 2x DL DVI/HDTV £164.37


[FONT=&quot]DVDWRITER[/FONT]
Samsung SH-S223F/BEBE 22x DVD±R £14.09


[FONT=&quot]HARD DRIVE[/FONT]
1TB (1000 GB) Samsung HD103UJ Spinpoint F1, SATA 300, 7200 rpm, 32MB Cache, 8.9 ms, NCQ £85.76

It will be a quiet pc and cpu will be overclocked to 3ghz hopefully

This will be a dual boot pc with xp 32bit and Vista 64bit

Marty_J

x2o wrote: »

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

savemoney

Its a good case and keeps noise down

http://www.xsreviews.co.uk/reviews/cases/antec-p182/

Plus you need a good psu for overclocking

banger9365

rancid-a ccl has a forum,you will get very good help from them and it will not cost £2700 was well ,if your going to spend that sort of money on a pc

[Deleted User]

Me thinks too many people confuse need with want

edit: this is coming from someone who could happily put together a PC before Windows XP came along

I've got a colleague who throws thousands into his games PC. Joke of it is; he barely plays it.

mdbarber

consider throwing in several hdd's in a RAID array rather than ssd's,
very cool if u use the raptors,, but need a decent psu .
also all this bollix bout the superiority of consoles is usually from people who don't know how to build/can't afford a decent gaming PC, its like comparing fords to mercedes.

banger9365

ps3 to high end gamers pc no consest pc wins every time

savemoney

I think that spec is a bit of a overkill tbh

Also heard bad things about nforce chip sets so your best getting Intel. I think Nvidia and pulling out of chipsets anyhow

chopperharris

Your having a laff arent you?You can do it for half that , and most of the stuff is just well bling.

No games will use 8 gig of mem for a differnece in speed , your in diminishing returns after 4 , or even 4 cores with 64 bit vista for the next 18 months.Your building a server or cgi machine with that.

you will only need 4 gig , vista 64 for over 4 gig sure but you wont see any big p2pr, and a quad core at 2.4 on the easy overclocker stuff gives the same bang for less buck on air ...more with a decent water cooler setup.

Use about a 1/3 of any gamers build on graphics card of 1gig gddr single card , or cards plural but i think its money wasted on dual cards , though the psu should be 1000w if your sli.Once again theres water cool for vga cards.

A hundered quid for a pro case is ok.

Forget the bluray burner and just get a bluray reader that burns dvds....thers no need for pc gaming with bluray and no need for copying giveing the price of media.

go for a dual hd setup , one VERY fast one of under 300gig , and one large for storage of media.

Lastly monitor get a low refresh rate one with pure black or glass effect and get some 5.1 gaming headphones instead of a full speaker setup.

You should be able to do this for under 1700 , thats a grand saved to buy a ps3 , 360 , wii , psp and nds....or a life;)