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New PC, to build or not to build?
Created 27th January 2011 @ 17:37
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Okay, so for my birthday I gots sum monies, I have around £800 to spend on a new PC, to run TF2 in all it’s glory.
Now, I would like to get as much as I can for as little as I can, for as little effort as I can :D
My dilemma is that it’s rather cheap to build a PC compared to buying it all made etc. etc. etc. The main problem is that I have never built a PC before and nor do I want to fuck it up as I have spent a good amount of money on it.
The main other issue is that I can’t find any good prebuilt systems and prebuilt systems are normally wank or more expensive.
I’m looking at getting a bundle w/processor, ram, mobo + cooler all installed, that leaves me to do the case work, GPU, HDD, Network card, disk drive and other shite.
Do any of you wise people out there have any suggestions/comments/ideas/bargains that could help, naturally I want to spend as little as possible but am concerned with the whole ” UR POOTER WORKING IS IN UR HANDZ MR. PARKER, DONT FUCK THIS UP OR USE A HAMMER NOW!” that comes with building it from scratch.
Any suggestions, comfort words and help is really appreciated.
I really really want to stop playing TF2 on a fucking laptop on 50 fps ffs.
For those that care, this is said build that I’m thinking of:
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Argon Intel Core i3 540 3.06GHz @ 4.00GHz Overclocked Bundle – Gigabyte £229.98
(£191.65) £229.98
(£191.65)
MSI ATI Radeon HD 5850 Twin FrozR II 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £134.99
(£112.49) £134.99
(£112.49)
BenQ G2222HDL 21.5″ Widescreen LED Monitor – Black £107.99
(£89.99) £107.99
(£89.99)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit – OEM (GFC-00599) £81.98
(£68.32) £81.98
(£68.32)
Corsair TX 650W ATX SLi Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-650TXUK) £64.99
(£54.16) £64.99
(£54.16)
Antec 100 One Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case – Black £44.99
(£37.49) £44.99
(£37.49)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache – OEM (ST3500418AS) £30.98
(£25.82) £30.98
(£25.82)
Pioneer 24x Internal S19LBK DVD Rewriter including Labelflash SATA Retail £19.99
(£16.66) £19.99
(£16.66)
OcUK Value 300Mbps Wireless-N PCI Adapter £12.98
(£10.82) £12.98
(£10.82)
Sub Total : £607.40
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £124.23
Total : £745.38
Last edited by WARHURYEAH,
http://techreport.com/articles.x/13671/1 takes you through building a system, lego kits are more complicated nowadays tbh, just dont start rubbing balloons whilst your doing it and you’ll be fine
i dont understand why building a custom pc in britain is so exotic
as long as you follow the guide from jim, it will be fine
Don’t spend too much money on a case tho
Last edited by Cooler,
tbh get an i5, its the best “bang for the buck” atm…. plus it has great OC potential and it will give you good performance in all those games you gonna buy in the future :D
Last edited by Shifty,
sorry, but nobody with nails like that builds pcs!
does this make me sexist??
Shit…might lose my job!
Quoted from Shifty
tbh get an i5, its the best “bang for the buck” atm
+1
Also, the Antec 100 is an awful, awful case. Check out some of the cheaper Coolermaster cases if you’re on a budget. Antec stuff isn’t nice unless you’ve got £70+ to spend.
£82 is a big wedge of your budget on something you can get for free. Just saying.
Courtesy of Cookeh I’m looking at this now:
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor – OEM £177.98
(£148.32) £177.98
(£148.32)
MSI ATI Radeon HD 5850 Twin FrozR II 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £134.99
(£112.49) £134.99
(£112.49)
BenQ G2222HDL 21.5″ Widescreen LED Monitor – Black £107.99
(£89.99) £107.99
(£89.99)
Foxconn P67A-S Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard – (Sandybridge) £99.98
(£83.32) £99.98
(£83.32)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit – OEM (GFC-00599) £81.98
(£68.32) £81.98
(£68.32)
Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case – Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £64.33
(£53.61) £64.33
(£53.61)
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP34GB1600C9DC) £43.99
(£36.66) £43.99
(£36.66)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache – OEM (ST3500418AS) £30.98
(£25.82) £30.98
(£25.82)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1155/ 1156 / 1366) £19.39
(£16.16) £19.39
(£16.16)
OcUK Value 300Mbps Wireless-N PCI Adapter £12.98
(£10.82) £12.98
(£10.82)
Sub Total : £645.51
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : FREE
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £131.60
Total : £777.11
http://www.cmstorm.com/en/products/chassis/scout/ <– Any good?
“StormGuard™ – groundbreaking security system for safeguarding your gaming peripherals.”
Last edited by JackieBoy,
Quoted from Cooler
i dont understand why building a custom pc in britain is so exotic
as long as you follow the guide from jim, it will be fineDon’t spend too much money on a case tho
make case yourself like I did http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1396.snc4/164885_1588831555775_1085411360_31330221_2552888_n.jpg
Not familiar with the psu and case.
but the Cookeh set up looks good, bang for buck I would say
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