• Best gaming computer for £1000?
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Hi Facepunch, I plan on buying a new computer tower soon but wondered what was the very best PC I could buy with £1000, give or take £100. - I am looking for an I7 processor - Decent graphics card - At least 4GBs of RAM - I would like to be able to play games such as Crysis on Very High without many games causing me problems Thanks to everyone who helps me out! Could links please be to British websites please.
[url=http://www.facepunch.com/forums/243-PC-Building]PC Building[/url]
If you live anywhere near Manchester; most of the parts from AriaPC are £40 less than most places. [url]www.Aria.co.uk[/url]
I don't want to build it I want it prebuilt :D
[QUOTE=BeardedSponge;25741141]I don't want to build it I want it prebuilt :D[/QUOTE] Bad idea.
Ok well do you know a website that will build it with the parts I choose then?
What country you in? but doesn't matter, here's what you should be looking at: X58 mobo i7 920 6 GB DDR3 tri channel 2x GTX 460 1 GB's OR 6850's OR 6870's, depending on price a corsair 750W PSU, or an XFX and a normal case such as an antec 900 or something
[QUOTE=mfb412;25741447]What country you in? but doesn't matter, here's what you should be looking at: X58 mobo i7 920 6 GB DDR3 tri channel 2x GTX 460 1 GB's OR 6850's OR 6870's, depending on price a corsair 750W PSU, or an XFX and a normal case such as an antec 900 or something[/QUOTE] With something like that would I be able to play any game?
[url]http://www.scan.co.uk/products/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-black-edition-sok-am3-32ghz-8mb-total-cache-125w-retail[/url] (AMD Phenom II X4 955) [94 pounds] (You don't need an i7 CPU unless you're rendering extremely heavy shit, an i7 is not worth the cost if all you do is game). [url]http://www.scan.co.uk/products/gigabyte-ga-ma770t-ud3-amd-770-am3-pci-e-20-%28x16%29-ddr3-1666-1333-sata-3gb-s-raid-atx[/url] (Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3) [57 pounds] [url]http://www.scan.co.uk/products/4gb-%282x2gb%29-corsair-xms3-classic-ddr3-pc3-10666-%281333%29-non-ecc-unbuffered-cas-9-9-9-24-150v[/url] (Corsair Memory XMS3 Classic 4GB DDR3 PC3-1333MHz) [58 pounds] [url]http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1536mb-evga-gtx-480-sc-40nm-3800mhz-gddr5-gpu-726mhz-shader-1451mhz-480-cores-dl-dvi-mhdmi[/url] (EVGA Nvidia Geforce GTX 480) [328 pounds] [url]http://www.scan.co.uk/products/ss1tb-samsung-hd103sj-spinpoint-f3-sata-3gb-s-7200rpm-32mb-cache-89-ms-ncq-oem[/url] (Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB) [41 pounds] [url]http://www.scan.co.uk/products/samsung-sh-d163c-black-48x-cd-rom-16x-dvd-rom-sata-oem[/url] (Samsung DVD reader) [8 pounds] [url]http://www.scan.co.uk/products/650w-xfx-xxx-modular-psu-85-eff-sli-crossfire-eps-12v-135mm-fan-single-rail[/url] (XFX XXX 650 Watt PSU) [70 pounds] [url]http://www.scan.co.uk/products/72antec-900-nine-hundred-ultimate-gamer-case-with-200m-top-fan-w-o-psu[/url] (Antec 900 case) [74 pounds] [url]http://www.scan.co.uk/products/microsoft-windows-7-home-premium-64-bit-operating-system-single-oem[/url] (Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit) [73 pounds] 803 pounds for everything. You'll be able to max anything at 1920x1080 quite easily with this. And build it yourself, it's [i]extremely[/i] simple. Just take a look at these tutorials: [url]http://www.pcityourself.com/building/introduction.php[/url]
Thanks, I do know how to build one its just the hassle. But thanks again! [editline]30th October 2010[/editline] But what about cooling?
[QUOTE=BeardedSponge;25744081]Thanks, I do know how to build one its just the hassle. But thanks again! [editline]30th October 2010[/editline] But what about cooling?[/QUOTE] The stock CPU cooler's fine aslong as you're not planning on doing any overclocking.
Ok well I was planning to do that, I will look into cooling but thanks. Would it be any benefit if I doubled the RAM and had two of those graphics cards at once.
The RAM would make no difference and crossfiring 480s can lead to a whole host of problems. Honestly the 480 is more than adequate for any game even at 1080p. If this really bothers you though I suppose you could wait for the 580
[QUOTE=FINLEY;25767139]The RAM would make no difference and crossfiring 480s can lead to a whole host of problems. Honestly the 480 is more than adequate for any game even at 1080p. If this really bothers you though I suppose you could wait for the 580[/QUOTE] I didn't know you could crossfire Nvidia cards. well shit, That's probably where the problems start from. Now SLI-ing them, I've had no problems with 9800gtx's whatsoever only an increase in FPS from 20 to 40.
[QUOTE=BeardedSponge;25760453]Ok well I was planning to do that, I will look into cooling but thanks. Would it be any benefit if I doubled the RAM and had two of those graphics cards at once.[/QUOTE] You were planning on overclocking but you wanted a prebuild...
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