£800 Rig - Gaming

[saltynay]

ok psu here are some good brands:

fortron
OCZ
antec
coolermaster

Ram depends on how far your overclocking:

high over clocks the g-skill hz's 2x1gb (black in colour)
average overclocks the g-skill value 2x1gb (I think there red not sure)

motherboard's good makes:

asus the p5b's the p5n's
abit (my personal favourite at the moment the AW9D-max)
gigabyte - ds3
msi - can't think of any off the top of my head
intel - very stable but not the best for overclocking usually I think a good one is the Boxdx2 lol sorry I cant remember the exact name something like that usually about £100

harddrive:
the seagate barracuda is the way to go and the 320gb is the optimum price/gb and price/performance and with a long warranty and it is quite quiet it really is a killer for all other makes.

optical drive needed any will do just use a good major electronics brand like:

sony
lite-on
panasonic
fujitsu
just about any known electronics company and should cost around £20

heat sink fan so you can push that cpu past stock speeds comfortably:
arctic freezer
scythe ninja
zalman 9500/9700
(don't forget thermal paste you will need arctic silver 5 it is the best)

videocard:
maybe you will have enough money left over to buy a 8800gts 320mb which will give you better performance

 

[spartan1121]

70 pounds is probably a little too much for a case, if you need to cut some money you can do it there. I didn't even pay 70 dollars for my case, and it's great. I'd spend around 50-60 on a case, i think 70 pounds is about 140 dollars. And i can say that g skill ram is great value. With 800 pounds you should be able to build a great system. I threw together some stuff on new egg, and you can probably get an e6300, 8800gts, and 2 gigs of g skill hz's(thats what i have, i love em).

 

[aethzor]

Thanks for the feedback I will check up on it again later on when I get some time. Any possibility of getting a link too some RAM?

Thanks again

 

[saltynay]

lol your forgetting the price difference from Us to Uk we pay about 10-20% more for everything as it needs to be shipped in

 

[saltynay]

the hz's :

G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ)

 

[aethzor]

Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 1.86GHz - £114
Radeon 1950XT - £170
Antec 900 - £70
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 (2x1GB) - £160

Update ^

Total at £514 so far

 

[spartan1121]

lol your forgetting the price difference from Us to Uk we pay about 10-20% more for everything as it needs to be shipped in

oh ok, yeah i guess that makes sense.

 

[aethzor]

Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 1.86GHz - £114
Radeon 1950XT - £170
Antec 900 - £70
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 (2x1GB) - £160
Gigabyte 965P-DS3 Socket LGA775/Intel P965 Express/4xDDR2 800/PCI-E x16/SATA II RAID/ATX - £90
Seagate Barracuda 120GB 7200rpm Hard Disk Drive - £31
LiteOn 16x DL DVD±RW/2MB Cache/Bare Drive Black/Internal 5.25"/EIDE Drive - £16
Antec TruePower Trio 650W/Three +12v Rails/Active PFC/120mm fan/ATX12v PSU - £70
or
Hiper 530W Black Type M PSU - £55

Total - £721

Still need a monitor, keyboard and mouse. Something I made up whats youre feedback on that kit?

 

[jonny_uk]

well you cant get a keyboard, mouse and a monitor for £79 lol its going to cost at least £150 for those 3 things! can you afford to break the £800?

 

[aethzor]

well you cant get a keyboard, mouse and a monitor for £79 lol its going to cost at least £150 for those 3 things! can you afford to break the £800?

Yes I shud be able to spend a bit more than that. But is the rig I posted any good? And is it all compatible?